The past few weeks I have really been wondering why they keep beating the dead horse called poser.  When I first came upon it, it was my introduction to 3D and I was quite excited, but that has really gone the complete other way now as I see how much of my life poser has wasted with slow render times, crashes, bugs, and the like. 

Does anyone really test this stuff before release?  It really does not seem like it.  When I can render in 1/16th the time (or even complete a render for that matter) in 3ds max using GI and Final gather there is really something wrong. True, Max is in another category of program, and is obviously engineered to another level, but the way I see it a more consumer based program should be lighter on resources than a pro level program.  Poser has eaten a lot of my life, and more often than not in an unproductive and frustrating way, why do they keep making this program, to torment us?

IDL- something I think all poser users have been chomping at the bit for- was this even tested?  For such a big feature it really seems almost an afterthought, they had to know that is what we were all waiting for.  On one hand I have had a couple of renders, though small, that I did using IDL that did look pretty good,  it seems not even worth using because of the artifacts and the memory leaks or whatever makes it tick, or should I say untick- I am not an expert in programming, but there is something very wrong with this aspect of firefly. 

The attraction for me and poser is the fairly priced readily available content, but when the program used to directly open and render that content is frankly junk it does not seem worth it anymore.  I have been learning Max, and it really seems like it would be faster with all of the poser bugs to just use max and fix all the materials, though that is a pain too, but I think a lesser one when you factor in the poser life waste.  I know Max and Poser are on completely different levels, but I guess thats my 10 cents.  I am kind of speechless that this was put out before further development and refinement.

So, I ordered an new quad core laptop with more memory, which should help some, but whatever poser is junky and I am realizing it more than ever now.

Will they fix things somewhat with a service release, probably, but this is a horrible initial program release.