Quote - The difference between Poser 8 and Poser 9 (IMHO) comes down to these issues:

1. Faster, faster, faster.

2. MUCH improved previews, incl actual cast shadows.

3. Sub-Surface Scattering for more realistic skin rendering

4. Better handling of IDL, many of the artificats have been squashed.

5. Availability of 64-bit version of both Poser and Firefly, which akllows Poser to use more than 2Gb of RAM.

6. Weight mapping. You have to see it to really appreciate the difference it makes in posing. A weighmapped version of V4 is out now for free.

7. If you go with Poser Pro 2012, MUCH improved Gamma Control support.

My $.02

Correct, but I think the 64bit rendering engine is only for Poser Pro, EDIT: I just checked, Poser 9 has no 64bit, only Pro. You have to keep in mind a few thinks. P9 being faster comes at a huge cost.... memory. To be faster P9 uses about 25% of your memory for chaching. If you don't have a lot of Ram, that will be noticed very soon. Secondly the preview improvement isn't noticable on older graphics cards. Mine isn't that old, but I couldn't see a difference at all. If you look at the short list the only thing you have to ask is will I even use these few improvements? No? Then don't do it, you're going to be disappointed. Yes? Fairly new system to run Poser on? Go for it. Older system? Be carefull.... I ran into out of memory with the first scene I opened. I cannot render any of my larger scenes with P9, I have to do so in P9, so gone are all the benefits. In the end I returned P9 and use my good old memory efficient P9.

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