I know how you feel, MistyLaraPrincess.

I want real outdoor scenes like the Harpwood County series that is sold over at DAZ for Carrara.

There are two Stonemason "woodland" scenes for Poser that render reasonably well, but anything with a meadow and realistic shrubbery is nearly impossible. I want a real horizon, a real feeling of outdoors.

Displacement grass is only good for lawns, not real grassland scenes. And with lots of layers of transparency, Poser slows down to crawl.

But I simply can't muster up the energy to really learn one of the better progs like Cinema, Vue or Carrara.

I also think I painted myself in a corner with Poser's weightmapping, because, while those progs can import Poser figures, they won't recognize PP-2014 rigging.

So all my elaborate rigging work would be for nought, and I would have to start over again. I could have gotten the exact same results with just JCM fixes, but I was too eager jumping on the weightmapping train.

So, yeah, except for the MorphBrush and a slight speed enhancement, PP-2014 was a big fat letdown. (Positively no use for the "fitting room" or other "features".)

Some things got more convenient, but there is no real difference in the quality of the stuff I make now compared to a few years ago because the tech hasn't really improved.

Anything beyond a single figure cheesecake is still an uphill fight.

I know PP-2014 is cheap compared to other progs, but I'd rather paid more and have the functionality I want.

And then you look at games and see figures even way more realistic than Poser can do as well as truly photorealistic scenery and everything is in realtime and all without having to fix shaders and building lightsets and you think:"Why bother anymore trying to make things work in Poser?"

The problem is, if you want realism, Poser has hardly moved on in the last 6 or 8 years.

And if you lower your expectations and just accept everything "as is", you could have been just as happy by sticking with Poser 6 or 7.