I meant no disrespect as I am in no way better than anyone else.

mental roy (chuckles) is a twist on mental ray, which some call the most physically accurate photorealistic render engine, until IMHO the introduction of Maxwell. mental ray (always lower case) ships natively with 3DS Max, Maya and Softimage. Interestingly NVIDIA bought mental ray so we'll all be excited to see how this affects future GPUs.

I can understand if Poser is all someone can afford at the moment. What I don't understand is all the complaints that Poser users have regarding the "stability" of the software. Furthermore there are many users that wish Poser had "this or that" feature. Finally everyone seems to think that Poser Pro will somehow change the world. It is clear to me that these users are ready for more than what Poser can offer (I liken it to a 3D gateway drug) but many are afraid to make them jump to something else, something dare I say better. Why?

Content. There's a lot of it and it doesn't translate easily into other packages. The DAZ figures are very addictive because it's satisfying to be able to turn out an image that looks like something in a matter of a few hours. In fairness, Poser's material room is a powerful and welcome addition to the architecture; often it's easier to create scenes using other apps.

Remember that 30 years ago, 3D users were an esoteric group of computer scientists and honestly it's great that 3D has captured the imaginations of such a diverse group of users that visit here. I have been studying my favorite non-Poser app for three years and I'm always discovering something new. I've had to study math to get a better idea on why things work and I read tech manuals and help files in my spare time. I think this level of dedication exists with Poser users too (some here at this forum are God-like in their abilities) but many aren't.

Many "elite" users of the big three do nudes (Steve Stahlberg comes to mind), but their work is so unique and tasteful that to me that there's no comparison. Example from the What's New gallery - why is there a completely nude woman standing in a snowy forest, during what appears to be -40 weather? A dream maybe? Images like this stretch plausibility, which may be why mental roy thinks rendero is a ghetto.

Very respectfully, 
replicand