"Why not some landscape tools. Like real instancing.

Wouldn't the average user rather have a "real" 3D landscape for telling his/her stories instead of "real" SSS that still can't fully match the "big boys" and will still look out of place on non-photorealistic meshes ?"

 

landscape tools in poser?

this is part of the problem - a symptom of which is many people clamoring for subD when most arent clear on what - if any - real immediate benefits it would bring.

Poser was never, and should never, be geared towards generating and rendering landscapes. there is software out there that is oriented and designed from the ground up for that purpose. there are plugins for exporting poser figures into those apps.

Poser is primarily a figure posing, animation and rendering application. most of its recent improvements have been geared towards this.  content creators out there are barely scratching the surface of what can be done with the current toolset, and people are already clamoring for more features?  if there is any gap between poser and 'professional' 3D right now it is due to two things:

1. content creators not innovating and making full use of the tools they have.  in the last ten years the average marketplace product has actually experienced a decline in quality.

2. the fear/unwillingness/laziness of the average poser user to embrace new technologies like dynamic cloth  or other advanced features of Poser - because using it involves more user intervention than simply loading a one-click pose, or takes more than 1 minute to render.