Quote - > Quote - > Quote - I got a better idea: Name a new feature in the past five years that a newbie can actually use without having to download a preset first, like most do. Name the features  in the past 10 years that the majority of Poserdom actually uses on a regular basis and can construct on their own, again w/o resorting to presets.

The subjective "newbie" troll-trap set aside

Call it "typical user" then. Say, someone who doesn't post to forums.

 

Either way, the point still stands, and you know it. ;)

New users using a preset is a red-herring.  It doesn't matter.  Lots of new users use canned poses, and couldn't make a convincing one of their own in a year.  Should we get rid of preset poses or the ability to make them?

Without most of those features, we might as well use the other software.  It's those very features that, including the UI that you dislike, which make Poser users use Poser.  Not the figures.  But the render engine, the materials, the cloth room, the morph brush

Quote - how about multiple undo/redo, multithreaded rendering, high dynamic range imaging, brush morphing, animation layers, cross body morph tool, global illumination, improved HW OpenGL, tone mapping/exposure tool, normal mapping, gamma correction, dependent parameters tool, improved joint rigging system, and 64-bit rendering.

...and there are perhaps three of those, tops, used by most users without resorting to a preset supplied by someone else. As I've already said.

You've demanded proof of others' quantifiable statements.  Where's your proof that "most users" don't use these features?

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