**"Then Poser users would not need VUE for nature scenes. This is the primary aspect of 3d that is holding Poser down."**

It is not just the instancing in vue it is the easy to create outdoor daylight& GI renders,in vue ,that dont require some silly "envirodome" prop etc.

"Since Posette and Miki2, all your Poser people have sucked..."

Well that is subjective,P6 James and particularly jessi had great potential.
However much of the user base here IMHO,felt so secure that the latest DAZ Figures would work in poser for eternity,that they largely dismissed the P6 figures and some took much joy in deriding them thus they were never fully realized.

For the first time since its advent I Just spent the last few days experimenting in the poser faceroom with jessi , James and Miki2.
The poser faceroom is  truly the "undiscovered country" IMHO.
It is unfortunate that a "BODY ROOM "of similar capabilities was never developed for the native poser figures but  Oh well another misstep by the owners of poser.

"hey, not bad!  SM can add instancing that easy?  "

I honestly dont see much of a demand in this community
for the ability to render render 400 identical copies
of the that same tree,rock or figure ( see attached)

Even the instancing feature we have in C4D
is somewhat limited.
A "replicator" function like I have in MODO is better better as I can at least VARY the scale and  rotation of the Duplicates for variety.

 

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