I would like to have better joints, and I really would like to feed Firefly high order surfaces, NURBS as well as Subdivision Surfaces. GI/Radiosity would be great too.

Poser 7 is not a bad application. I did not ran in a lot of bugs, most features work as designed. But then, I usually don't render scenes close to the memory limit. It's surely nice to have a 64-bit version, especially for big scenes, but I don't see me buying this - because I rarely do big scenes.

Firefly is the render engine I am most familiar with. It has it quirks, some more annoying than others, but it's not THAT slow, the pictures are not THAT bad. IBL isn't radiosity, but it works for me in many, many cases - and it's much faster to render too.

Let's not forget that more advanced features tend to be complicated, and that's not always something the typical Poser user want. We still don't see that much dynamic cloth here, same with strand based hair. If it weren't for BagginsBill, Olivier, face_off and some others, the material room would still be wasted on us - but we can use it, tweak it, works with it. New features would still need other peoples who unlock these features for us.

Would I pay a lot for a new poser? Maybe, if I can use it. But it still needs to be an application made for normal people. They don't should try to catch Maya, at least not before they can make the powerfull features work for people like us. So, no, I don't want a professional Poser. Real Pros will not come down from Maya, Max, XSI and the other full feature products. Firefly cannot really compete with Renderman and Mental Ray. - not in render speed, not in quality - but not in complexity either.

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