"Unless you're rendering a black screen, pretty much everyone uses all of those features all the time.  Pretending that improving these features has no value is dumb."

Well, then good luck with your weightmapped V4 or Antonia or whatever, rendered using GC, IDL and SSS that will still look only half as good as the PRO stuff over at CG-Talk and even if it did you'd still be laughed at by the REAL CG Artists because you didn't build it by yourself.

Is THIS the direction you want for Poser ?

 

I rather want a Poser that, yes, is the best it can be, but does so in a way it's fun and inclusive.

Playing with Genesis in Studio is just that.  Fun.

Because all the features are fully integrated.

Weightmapping is just a functionality of Genesis.

It's not a "pro" feature that just sits there by itself until you might use it some day or not to rig your own figures.

Sorry but yes, features that can't be easily used by the average user are pretty much useless.

DAZ obviously understood this a lot better than SM.