This discussion got me curious about something slightly sidestep to this thread.

I wonder why it is that various Poser content vendors don't appear to take as much advantage of detailing their models with bumps, displacements and gradient mapping.

I'm making couple of pieces right now, and have a fair amount of detail done as bump maps. (Fine clothing wrinkles, seams and similar minor details). The feedback I'm getting from some people is as if this is some sort of a super novel idea (it's not).

The reason I'm asking is, if I'm overlooking a major disadvantage of bump maping, I'd like to know!  One plausible reason may be that for a lot of vendors, good part of their target audience is not comfortable with bump maps and/or uses the lowest render settings?
Any thoughts?

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