"It would be nice if Poser had area lights"

Funny. I've been playing quite a bit with the Area Light in DS 3, which is applied as a material to any surface, similar to Poser's Gather node. However, DS seems to have improved it, at least in terms of render speed, and it works very well.

But as for Poser, lighting improvements may not be the big thing all users are waiting for. Personally, I'd prefer to see a lot of other things take precedence over lighting. And I'm sure every other user has their own 'To do' list which is different from mine.

mac