Well, all joking aside, what's your plan for Poser's future then ?

With all the joint fixes out there, Vicky 4 has developed into a state that's pretty much "Good enough" for the majority of users as well as content creators.

I mean, if I didn't care about realism and just wanted to use a "nice", "easy to use" figure, I just would use her myself.

Can't beat her support, can't beat her versatility.

So, just to "have fun" and "make pretty pictures", all that newfangled stuff like SSS, IDL, IBL, weightmapping etc is actually not needed.

It's mostly confusing for newbies and hobbyist users anyway, so why bother in the first place ? We had nice lights before, we had great bending figures before, we had great looking skin before. We had great renders made using Poser 4. Some you might even call "art".

So, what's the plan then ?

Having a big Party until we can commemorate the 10.000th Bikini made and the 50.000th Dial Spun Vicky "character" ?

Or should we pushing on, stealin' and lootin' and plunderin' and taking no prisoners, until one fine day we can load our figures into Poser, add some lights and scenery, and out comes a render that looks like a perfect photograph ?

Much to the chagrin of "The Industry", because it will be so easy that everybody can do it in a few minutes.

I don't want to leave people behind. I want Poser to be as easily accessible to everybody as it always was. Maybe even easier than it is now.

But that takes technical progress. And leaving those behind whose artistic ambitions are perfectly satisfied by rendering Vicky's latest mini-skirt.

Is that's why a lot of my postings cause opposition ?

Do I disturb the peace by pointing out that what we have now simply isn't good enough, yet ?

I'm sorry for that, then.

But it's hard to stop caring.