Quote - Lastly, as a casual user (if $2,000 plus a year is casual) I would like some sort of newsletter on trends, changes and improvements in the Poser world. Most of what I get I glean from this forum and most of what is discussed in this forum is as if you are already in the know. 

Just some thoughts frim the bleachers.

Shorterbus, I like your newsletter idea... I think such a thing should be neutral of marketing motives ideally and community oriented... so perhaps best not produced by SM directly, as it were... or any of the marketplace sites...?

...but still no reason a community produced newsletter couldn't be sponsored or funded to some extent by SM and the commercial interests (even if just through sideline advertising)... what's good for the goose and all that...?

...and kind of extending from that... maybe SM helping by sponsoring / resourcing some of the community development initiatives in some way... if that helped them along, might not be a bad thing? Or maybe it would... I don't know.

EZSkin is great. Its a real time saver and also keeps you on the right track with regard to implementing what are established "best practices" for using the new SSS shader tech.

But its still just a tool, to help achieve a realistic result...

...if you're looking for realism in other materials in your scenes, then, as I 've found, trying to keep up with (and indeed just plain cribbing off) what the likes of Bagginsbill (as a prime example) is up to here, is probably your best plan...

;-)