More money for you at least ;-)

Not so long ago I wrote a PDF viewer control for .Net (just a ghostscript wrapper) because embedding the Acrobat Reader dll wasn't deemed performant enough.

However, fast forward a bit, AcroPDF got an update and suddenly was found to be much faster... we switched the app back to using that.

It was interesting working on the ghostscript viewer though nonetheless... and that provided some other useful code for PDF manipulation.

I guess the moral is, if there's a good framework available, that someone else is investing in maintaining, its generally a good idea to use it! But interesting things can come from rolling your own code too...

Anyway there's far too much good stuff in Poser 2012 already for me to play with using... to even begin thinking much about learning to code plugins for it! Far too much interesting information on these forums to catch up with too... think I'll be a good while just doing that.

All this procedural shader stuff is just fantastic... I love the idea that it seems to be possible now to create realistic looking human skin textures (and indeed any less uniformly patterned textures) without using photographic / painted images.

Where's the best place on these forums to catch up with that sort of thing?

:-)