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In the meantime, loads of functionality and content and anything else is developed not by SM but by other people. That's bought, incorporated, or available via separate routes. So I would suggest: when you want things to change, feel free to start up something yourself, get it sold around, offer it to SM and you'll get where you want. Like I'm using PhilC's wardrobe wizard, and D3D render scripts, and Paolo's Reality as well as Face-Off's Poserphysics and his Octane plugin as well. And as I did dive into Cloth and Hair Room for three month and published all my findings for free. And as I'm about to finish my first three months investigation on Material Room, and will publish all tuts on that as well pretty soon.

So that's my opinion on the other issues. Let's stop mourning, let's just kickass ourselves and get something done. Poser is worth it.

 

That's a fair point I love Poser but I would find it more difficult without the Camera Panel and Light, Render and Pose dots from Netherworks, the Library and Figure Manager from Shaderworks and a few others that helps make Poser fun and easy to use.  I have them load at start up so I tend to forget how much I have added from 3rd parties.

 

I also use the Batch Material Convert script, again from Netherworks, that way I can place all the Materials in the right folder instead of hunting MAT files in the Pose folder, where they are still placed by some vendors.

 

 

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.