It's not terribly fair to compare Poser's cloth simulation to Max - even taken by itself the cloth room is very very painful to work with and I found a big ugly new big (see the end of the thread).  There are no presets.  Everything is trial and error, heavy on the "error".  You can have a lot of folds, but in this example it's a fairly snug dress and gravity naturally pulls the cloth down, so there aren't tons of folds going on, mainly due to the cut of the dress and the pose. 

Frankly this was such an irritating exercise, with the new bug, that I'll be avoiding the cloth room for a while :/  This was supposed to be a fun little project and a useful demonstration, not a prolonged tooth-gnashing angst fest.

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