As with lights, cameras, and content materials, content providers will soon supple sets of prefab lights or pre-textured/bumped/displaced/normaled/whatever figures. Python programmers will put out some things to help with conforming cloths, moving objects ect.. I eagerly await the books and tutorials that will follow in the wake of Poser 8's release.

I think Poser will still have a broad appeal to new users. It comes with a lot of content. It has a huge number of items available that will still work. There are more computer savy people than ever before and Poser does have some elements in its UI common to other programs.

People still use Microsoft Word XXX, Photoshop, and Quickbooks even though all of these programs continue to evolve and are more complex than when they ran in Windows 3.1.

There are billions of people on this planet and at least three of them have not heard of Poser yet. I think Poser will continue to interest a new audience.

LMK

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