Just a remark:

As someone else already stated, Poser Pro was planned before SM aquired Poser. So all the talk about "don't know who the customers are" or "left their niche" should be targetet at EF IMHO. We ´know nothing about SM's plans for Posers development at this time.

Renderdog, good luck to you. I will look into the application when it is ready. The hard part could be implementing Posers rigging system, which isn't well documented to my knowledge. A better rigging system would be great, but that also would mean that no figure would be usable without reworking the rig. Same for the materials, same for the lights. The hard part, aside from choosing the right libraries and make them play together will be Poser compatibility.

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