Quote - What it boils down to for me, in my view, is that Poser and D/S are like choosing to use a PC or a Mac. Or choosing to use Windows or Linux. It's PERSONAL preference. Some will like one and not the other, others may be the exact oppossite.

Exactly. > Quote - Compare D/S on the grounds of it being a CG artwork and rendering programme. By all means!! But don't compare it to Poser, or compare Poser to D/S.

Correct - it's better to compare D|S + Carrara vs. Poser if you want a more even comparison. That said, they do compete - there is no escaping that. -- Personally, Poser is in no danger from users leaving it. It's biggest threat is two-fold: 1) that it changes ownership almost every two years (MetaCreations -> Curious Labs -> CL/EGISys -> eFrontier -> Smith Micro )... it stands a good long-term chance of being orphaned that way. 2) that it needs a complete re-write of its codebase to keep it from bogging down as each new version is issued. To be fair, D|S also has some dangers, albeit not as severe: 1) SDK uptake is slow - most prefer to script rather than code. 2) it has become less of a stand-alone program and more of a path to Carrara. 3) There are some features (e.g. IBL) that it could certainly stand to have, but doesn't. /P