Quote - I don't think you can put all that blame on SM. eF are the ones that were promoting and developing all that and then sold to SM. SM are the ones that released the product. I know myself that I cant say what SM is going to do with Poser, they don't let me in on thier plans. I think I will wait and see what happens first. I don't have a good feeling about it all but that is just a feeling and not fact.

I don't but the blame entirely on SM, as I mentioned this has been an ongoing problem since long before they took up development, back since about version 5 in fact - but it isn't a question of "blame".  Poser is becoming less and less adequate for certain tasks every day.  Much of the code is aging, and it becomes more and more evident as other 3d packages continue to update and improve their basic functionality when in truth Posers basic functionality hasn't really been significantly improved since version 5.  Their have been some minor improvements in workflow here and there, and a bell or whistle added, but no real major functionality increase since that time.  The closest they've come is taking a 3rd party program called body studio and "incorporating" it into the new Pro version, but if reading the forums here is any indication it really doesn't work all that well since a ton of people seem to be having problems with it.

They had a lot of time to work on the code between aquiring it from Efrontier and the Poser Pro release, and all in all I'm not tremendously impressed with the direction they decided to take.  There are some real issues with Poser that haven't been addressed since version 5, and I guess I'm not nearly as optimistic as you are concerning future development considering what they've done so far.

-Never fear, RenderDog is near!  Oh wait, is that a chew toy?  Yup. ok, nevermind.. go back to fearing...