I wrote this for my blog and thought you guys might enjoy it :) Some of these are specific to my pet peeves, but I thought they were valuable lessons nonetheless.

Perserverance: You might have to check twelve different websites, but you WILL find that perfect freebie texture set eventually.

Self-Reliance: Renderosity doesn't carry it, neither does DAZ or Content Paradise, and Google is no help at all. Guess who's got to make it?

Acceptance: DAZ's installers are wacky and their file structures are a mess. They can't help it, it's just the way they are.

Time Management: That weekend project will turn into a full month. (But it will look darn awesome when it gets finished.)

Tradition: MAT poses and DAZ figures are the industry standard. Deal with it.

Patience: That render will finish when it finishes, and staring at the progress bar will not make it render faster.

Prioritizing: Your figure's skin might be textured down to the pores on her face, but she'll still look like a robot if you neglect to fix her dead-fish eyes.

And this wasn't exactly a life lesson, but I thought it was useful nontheless:

Poser Operator's Prayer:
God grant me the skills to make the content I can,
The cash to purchase the content I can't,
And the wisdom to know the difference.

lol- Outstanding :D

LOL that last one especially is great!

 'Tis true, Poser is a life-changing experience !

Quote - Tradition: MAT poses and DAZ figures are the industry standard. Deal with it.

MAT poses were a useful hack, they've been superceded by official and properly working mechanisms. Let them fade into history along with rest of the P4 "features" that are obsolete.

Funny, relevant and almost true.  nruddock's post has the correct take on MAT poses.

Are these equatible to the seven deadly sins?

A very observant list of lessons learned.

Loved the lessons, especially the "Time Management" - I'm living it right now!!!  lol.

take care

Quote - > Quote - Tradition: MAT poses and DAZ figures are the industry standard. Deal with it.

MAT poses were a useful hack, they've been superceded by official and properly working mechanisms. Let them fade into history along with rest of the P4 "features" that are obsolete.

I actually feel the same way you do, but apparently much of the Poser world doesn't because there's still lots of MAT pose stuff floating around--hence the lesson in respecting tradition  Most of my content either includes Materials Room materials only, or MR materials along with MAT poses. I'm trying to do my part to fade out MAT poses...

not to mention the five stages of poser:

1. denial: I'm using maya/max/c4d and poser ain't even legit 3d software!
2. anger:  who do these uppity poser users think they are, coming into a serious place like cgforums
3. self-doubt: hmmm... they seem to be doing nice renders now with IDL and lux
4. depression: o.k. I picked up the trial version but I can't even figure out how to use the runtime or library or get good shadows :crying:
5. acceptance:  o.k. I got I to the point where I can do renders, but maybe it just takes more time to learn it than I originally thought

Quote - Poser Operator's Prayer:
God grant me the skills to make the content I can,
The cash to purchase the content I can't,
And the wisdom to know the difference.

I am so using that as my new forum signature.