I have to admit that right now I am pretty disappointed with the prospects for 3.0 advanced. I have not seen any recent changes to make the advanced surfaces more friendly for the average user and they look to me to still be aimed at "making it easier for the RSL user". I suspect that it will still be a plug in based system with the negative addition that we will end up buying a bunch of little "bricks" much like the shaders that were brought over from Bryce for Studio earlier this year. Something that can be tweaked minimally but hardly used as a real creative outlet.

The fact that something as necessary and simple as tiling still has not been made a standard surface feature leads me to believe they still see little value in increasing the ability for content creators to have better cross compatability with Poser (as an example) . Unless I am wrong and they do suddenly unveil easier to use advanced surfaces that include many of the more simple to use surface settings that are standard in Poser there will be no more interest by content creators to include settings for studio or create content especially for Studio.

I hope I am wrong about how all of this is going to go. The fact that surfaces created in 3.0 advanced should be usable in the free version is hopeful, but unless its easy enough for the standard user to handle there will be people who pay money for the advanced version and end up disappointed. Not to mention that the poser content creators will not be inclined to more fully support studio users with their products.

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