Quote - You don't need the Pro package to run genesis. Advanced is going to cost you around the same price as Poser 9. The OP hasn't bought Morphs++ for the M4 or V4, so he will need to buy that or just the Evolution morphs for genesis... so it's about the same in cost. The $500 part comes in if you want the content developer kit with the rigging tools and zbrush and photoshop bridges.

Advanced is gonna run you $229.95 And P9 will run you about $150 at Amazon. The cost for the V4/M4 morphs will run you almost $30 But that is a moot point, because the author already owns P8, and V/M4, something I found out after I posted! (Yeah, brain fart, so sue me!)

You're right, you don't need the Pro package to run Genesis, you don't even need Advanced, all you need is $46.47 for the G5/Gen4 morphs...Oh, and a computing device! ;^)   

 

Quote - I don't think it's wise to give advice to buy something now on the hope that the thing you may want to use is eventually supported. That's like buying 4 tires for a car that you hope you can drive... the tires may not even be the right size, but you told someone to just buy it.

But it all comes down with what you want to work with and go from there.

Not really, because unlike tires, they are dependent on having a vehicle to put them on, whereas The genesis figure and D|S can be purchased seperately from Poser and V4. So my point was, to simply wait til the overall price came down on Genesis/D|S before they made a purchase with the condition that they did not have the money. Because it was much more expensive to purchase a Genesis/ D|S combo.

Which is moot anyways because I already realized that the OP, has V/M4 and poser 8 already, I was actually responsing to a poster rather than the OP, A brain-fart, and a misunderstanding on my part. Meh, there are worse things.

As it now stands, it's not much more expensive to go the Genesis/D|S @ $46 route vs the V/M 4 @ $29+ change, but that's up to the OP.