Quote - > Quote - Poser8 seams to have had the least done to it... as soon as a new company buys out the Poser franchise they a minor update and release a new version

I can't agree with these two points.

Let's start with the fact that Poser is cheap. It's not going to be 'as good as' Vue, Maya, Lightwave, C4D or any of those apps that costs several times more. It's a $199 package which is very good value for money.

Poser 8 has a new GUI which is a huge advance over previous versions. It has a greatly improved - I suspect heavily re-written - Firefly renderer. In an ideal world both of these features would have been working perfectly straight out of the box. Personally, I'm a little disappointed that the renderer wasn't worked on a bit more before release, but I can live with it. There are many more new features which are poorly documented and/or confusingly implemented.

You can moan at SmithMicro for these shortcomings, but their reaction to the feedback here and on other sites has been positive and informative - this is very encouraging, and suggests a more helpful mindset than that of CuriousLabs and e-frontier.

When it was announced that SM had bought Poser, I thought, "oh no." I thought that they would be milk-it-for-a-quick-buck owners, but it's starting to look like that reaction was wrong. I can only speak for myself, but I get the impression that Poser has a better future now than it has for several years.

Yep, I agree. SM did good in my book as well. SR1 will make it even better. FOR THE MONEY, Poser is a fantastic value!!

i7 6800 (6 core/12 thread), 24 GB RAM, 1 gtx 1080 ti (8GB Vram) + 1 Titan X (12GB Vram), PP11, Octane/Poser plugin, and a partridge in a pear tree.

Oh, and a wiener dog!