money has a lot to do with it ,but money 'for me' isn't the major factor, i have invested more than i could really afford in 'high end' apps.... the draw for me is the fact that Poser has a lot of versatility and even more potential... poser is rapidly catching up with the "high end' apps... i think its only a matter of time before Poser surpasses them... the industry as a whole has forced us to look at things from 'their' perspective for many years , such as the standard rule that we have to stay low poly, ask yourself why do we have to stay low on the polygon count? i can understand it in the past when computing technology was in its infancy...but this isn't the past, most off the shelf computers from walmart can handle everything we can throw at them... surpassing even the highest end workstations of the past... i submit to you that the industry as a whole has put itself in a box, developed a mindset that is self limiting, the old masters are resisting change, preferring to stay with proven theory, daring not to step through the doorway to the future...

 i saw this same thing happening with our beloved Poser for a time, but there's been a shift more recently toward taking the next steps... someone has realized that its in the best interest of Poser to step back and let the community lead, to keep an eye on developing trends and develop tools the user needs to make their ideas reality...

 

we are the community...we are combined intelligence...we make things happen...we are the future!

and this little piggy cried we, we we all the way home....

Y'all have a great day.