Quote -
It's not the app, it's the theory.

I agree with that for the most part. Meaning, that works for most programs, but as someone who has spent a whole lot of time trying to get decent lighting out of Poser, I do think it IS the app. ;-)

I know that it's been said Poser 8 has improved on the whole lighting situation, but in Poser versions before that, for me it's been a seriously aggravating struggle to try to get Poser lights to do what I would expect them to do. Especially when you have multiple shadow-casting lights, which more often than not don't seem to play well together. And especially if you want "moody" scenes with lots of lighting subtlety. Poser's lights have very few options, mostly either On or Off.

Again, not to say it can't be done, but overall I think Poser is a pretty poor example of what can be done in 3D as far as lighting is concerned. It's stuck in the 90's.