Though choice.... Poser Pro rocks and is rock stable, but you may not use all of the features it offers, if that's the case, then you can always get Poser Pro base. Shortcoming is that it will not use your multi-cores optimal.

Poser 8 is pretty interesting, lighting has been improved a good deal and rendering is improved a lot. It uses a multi-core completely when rendering and that saves a lot of time. IDL is pretty cool, it's new and needs improvement, but that will come over time. The UI and the library have been changed a lot, but personally I wouldn't call it an improvement, but other love it. Good thing is that Dimension3D's eXtendent Library is a great alternative. For some P8 is unstable, personally most of my problems stopped when getting rid of the new library and leaving the UI alone.  But I guess in future service releases these problems will be ironed out.

Poser comes with a 30 day money back guarentee and I suggest trying Poser 8 first, unless you work a lot with higher end 3D apps and need importing & exporting to those. If for some reason P8 doesn't work out for you, then you can return it and go for Poser Pro instead.

Quote - and I thought other ppl could give their opinions.

guess that was wrong.

But you haven't even given your opinion.... you've only complained and added nothing to the topic at all, as usual.

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