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Absolutely. I own Maxwell -- purchased for $495 if memory serves. Maxwell's got plugins for all sorts of applications . . . but not for Poser. Hell, I even forked out money for Poser Fusion to be able to host scenes in other applications (too bad it works so poorly). There's a big market here, and Smith (or Daz) needs to wake up.

If Smith Micro wanted to do something for users, they'd strike a deal with one of the many quality 3rd party renderers. You should remember that the pricing you cited is for professional installations with renderfarm support-- one of the many applications would presumably be available to a consumer application at a reduced price-- the educational pricing should give you a sense of what they'd be willing to sell to a non-professional (and very large) market (eg $100 to $200).

Bottom line for me: Smith Micro wants to sell me something that's worth paying for an upgrade, Global Illumination -- which is five year old technology-- ain't it.

To take one very common capability that would dramatically change the experience of using Poser for most people: Instancing. Poser cries out for instancing, which is a feature in every modern render engine.

But you must remember that most of the third party render engine use their Own shader Language.
try telling poser users they have to Dump ALL of their many texture Sets for V-Chick and redo everything from scratch using Vray or mental ray shaders and watch the reaction.

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