Quote - With all due respect to BB, and others who disagree with me...

Much has been written about the Poser native figures. There are many opinions. I will share with you my own.

Get Michael 4 and Victoria 4, plus their morph++ packs from Daz3d and get on with your life.

As to clothing, you BUY it (or search for freebees... which I can assure you, are not going to fulfill all your needs.) This is an incredibly expensive hobby, and (excluding the percious few here who can actually model their own clothing and props) you have to get ready to let go of a lot of bucks to get the materials you need to create the sort of scenes that you really want.

The native Poser characters have NEVER been widely supported except over at Content Paradise, and even the things there are, IMHO, not up to snuff compared to the unbelievable variety available for M4 and V4 here at Rendo, at Daz3d, Poserworld, and at 9mBi. Not to mention all the freebees. We'll not even get into aesthetics, as there have been many mean words and hurt feelings over these characters.

My bottom line: The native Poser characters are a dead end. Move on and make some art.

My $.02

I'll have to respectfully disagree with this UNLESS:

You aren't serious enough about the hobby to care to make your own content for it and are satisfied with what you can find or buy - it's just for fun and you wanna keep it simple (and that's perfectly ok)...

And last, but not least, you want or don't mind that your renders look more or less like every other Poser render. I'm not bashing ANYONE, but I do think there is a glut of the same type of thing in the Poser galleries - same characters, same hair, same clothes and so forth. There is nothing new under the sun ;o). Most of the time it's because of lack of skill that you see only items made by someone else. Some of the time it's sheer laziness. Flame me if you like...lol.

There are other figures out there besides all the Daz Figures, a lot of them also free (but as basicwiz has stated, not as well supported by free and commercial products)... I have a nice listing on my web site of alternative free and commercial figures.

Laurie