Hmmm. DAZ Studio is still an ongoing project, and each new version brings more features.
Current version 1.8 can do many of the things Poser 7 can do, but a few things I still need
Poser 7 for. First, the Face Room. DS has no version of this, and it is no loss to me as I don't
use E-F figures. DS has good shaders, and you can buy excellent shader packages, but DS
doesn't currently have anything like Poser 7 Material Room. There is a third party JAVA program
called Eilir that provides something similar to the Poser MAT Room for DS. It is in the DAZ
Studio Freeposiory Forum on the DAZ site. No Setup Room or joint editing yet, so if you are
of a mind to create new figures or clothes, you will need Poser for that. Dynamic Hair and
cloth have not yet been implimented, but I don't use dynamic hair, and find dynamic cloth to
be a PITA most of the time. Recommendation? If you don't need to create clothing or new
figures, DS will do. It's more stable than Poser and it's render engine is better and faster
than Poser 7's firefly renderer, which crashes, on average, about 2 to 3 times per session,
for me anyway. Maybe Poser just hates me. :)

Greywolf