Clearly, an artist needs to understand the tools they are using or they will produce nothing at all. However, at times it seems that understanding Poser has become an end in itself eg, how many boxes can be linked together in the materiel room and still get a picture, rather than what it can achieve for an artist.

Poser or any pogram can only ever be a work in progress so we can't expect everything to be included within Poser at this time. Now, while some seem to like playing with shaders they scare me half to death. Procedures such as VSS, GC or IDL should work in the background, with a list of tick boxes - IDL Y/N, VSS Y/N etc, because otherwise people like me just won't use them.

Until they are made to work in the background then such as me will contine to adjust the render (or merely antialaised) in our graphics packages - and as such it means Poser is nothing more than a posing programme - having read LW's introduction in P3 I think that was all it was meant as.