Yeah, well the P4 renderer is gone in P8 and PPro 2010, so if that's your cup of tea, don't get those.

Hotdog - You didn't need to say you didn't mean to offend. I was not in any way thinking you intended to nor actually did offend anybody. I was just explaining how product marketing works.

When a phrase somebody uses is along the lines of "new versions of Poser could be better in ways SM seems unaware of", I feel it needs to be made clear that product marketing is never about the individual. It's about the masses. The handful of people who chime in and agree on some issue that seems important, yet appears to be ignored by SM, are often blind to the fact that they are just a handful of users making that claim. The issue was not ignored by SM. They are quite aware of just about everything. They make decisions. Every decision pleases one subgroup and displeases another. Collectively, each release comprises dozens or even hundreds of decisions. The net result is there isn't any important subgroup that is completely satisfied.

All they can do is try to minimize the dissatisfaction. They can never maximize the satisfaction. That takes infinite money.

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Renderosity forum reply notifications are wonky. If I read a follow-up in a thread, but I don't myself reply, then notifications no longer happen AT ALL on that thread. So if I seem to be ignoring a question, that's why. (Updated September 23, 2019)