Quote - They are reading this. I had an amusing conversation with them about this thread on Friday.

Every word guys - every word.

Reading isn't the point, it's acting and listening. We all know by now that Smith Micro takes strange actions and doesn't really listen to their customers. I've completely lost faith in them and expect Poser 8 to be everything I haven't asked for. After all that's what they showed to me in their latest move...... giving us something nobody wants and then telling us it's what we've asked for.

Quote - And I don't agree that nothing Poser adds will change that. For some, yes, but the addition of gamma correction changes things a lot, for very little effort.

There are quite a few users who now have "decent lighting" without changing their lights at all, and it is because of GC. DPHoadley is an example - his renders before GC were 25% realistic, and now they are 55% realistic. There is still more to do, and the effort to get the next 30% improvement will be 10 times as much, but that's a big improvement just from upgrading and learning to flick a switch.

That's great if you're after that, but not all of us want realistic stuff. The more Poser will be geared towards that, the less likely I will upgrade. Let's not forget there's a large portion of users who are very heavy into anime and toons and rather see things like the toon rendering and lighting site improved over realistic light and render achievements.

Besides, I do find all this talk about how much % realistic a render is or not, kind of unrealistic. Who determines the percentage anyway? who determines what's decent lighting anyway?

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Food for thought.....
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