Buying an upgrade is, in most cases, always going to be less bang for you bucks than buying new software purely on the basis that you will normally be buying a lot of the program up already have with an upgrade.  So you are buying just new features and only the person buying can decide if the features are value for money.

As to Poser doing that same as Vue, well I dread to think what the price would be looking at the cost of Vue 2014.  Poser is the only program I keep updated with every update all other programs I tend to skip a number of upgrades or just stick at a particular issue.  The problem I have now is that, so far, I have stuck at Vue 8 and Vue 2014 looks as though it may be a big enough jump to justify the price.  If I do I will also look at the option of paying a subscription each month to get future updates free as this appears to be a valid option.

To further complicate the issue I often find that is my imagination reaches it limit long before I reach any shortfalls in Poser. Add to that the likes of Bagginsbill shows on a regular basis that realistic outside scenes are indeed possible with Poser.  Maybe not all up to the standard of Vue but far exceeding anything I have produced to date. All of which means my efforts are limited by my knowledge and not the software.

For those pushing the limits of Poser I can understand the frustration but I don't expect anything we say here is going to turn Poser into a landscape creator of choice any time soon.

 

 

 

I use Poser 13 on Windows 11 - For Scene set up I use a Geekcom A5 -  Ryzen 9 5900HX, with 64 gig ram and 3 TB  storage, mini PC with final rendering done on normal sized desktop using an AMD Ryzen Threadipper 1950X CPU, Corsair Hydro H100i CPU cooler, 3XS EVGA GTX 1080i SC with 11g Ram, 4 X 16gig Corsair DDR4 Ram and a Corsair RM 100 PSU .   The desktop is in a remote location with rendering done via Queue Manager which gives me a clearer desktop and quieter computer room.