I agree 100% that they can't rest on their laurels or let their technology languish. I don't follow Quidam much but DS has already begun to come up with some more innovative ways of doing things. My whole point is that in incorporating advances - it'll be interesting to see how their cloth solution works, they should not lose sight of the ease of use and accesibility that has enabled their success.  Bolting on more gee whiz stuff that the majority of the user-base will find overwhelming will mean that they will defect to DS and I doubt that the gains among more sophisticated users will make up the difference. If they can manage to add complexity under the hood while enabling people to accessa good portion of it without a steep learning curve then everyone will be happy and they will sell beaucoup uints to boot.

As an example, everybody and his brother it seems had written a renderer. They all seem to take it for granted that you have to endure learning the ins and outs of irradiance chaches, photons and who knows what to get a decent render. I'm a programmer but I couldn't write line one of a raytracer so perhaps I'm naieve but I have to believe that there's a better way - it's simply that heretofore, noone has seen the need to create a more accessible solution.  If Poser wants to continue to serve its mainstream audience while advancing with 3D, they need to be the ones to make that leap IMO.  It's a win-winproposition but it will take the resources and commitment that none of Poser's owners has yet shown. Now maybe if SM and Daz cooperated. . . 

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