Quote - though if you are considering buying a figure, you might find p9 at an affordable price.  that would get you in on all the weightmapping goodness that the current/upcoming generation of figures uses to bend more realistically.

I agree.

While I agree that V4 is the current way to go for support, there is a new figure (Dawn) on the horizon that promises to be the "V5" that we in  Poserdom had hoped for in Genesis but was never delivered. You might want to wait a couple of weeks and see what she amounts to. (Release is set for Aug 9 if memory serves.) The only catch is, she is designed to take advantage of the technical advances in Poser 9 or later. Add to the mix the incredible advances to the morph brush and other tools in Poser Pro 2014 and there is just no contest of productivity by the software itself.

If you really want to take your Posering to a new level, you're going to need to update the program in tandem with adopting a better figure.

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