To be honest, I think I moved to V4 because she was the latest and greatest at the time.  I paid,  $19.48 as a sale price, the full price was $29.95, for V4 complete and really did not have a clue at the time why she was better than V3.  That was way back in December 2006 according to my records.  I dread to think how much I paid out for the new figure in 2007 and I really do not want to know how much I have paid since.

Point is I am using almost the same figure today for a number of good reasons.  The prime reason for this is that, while others see V4 as outdated, I see V4 and having matured.  I now use V4.2 and the V4WM version of that, developments in Poser such as SSS, have improved her skin textures and people have become skilled at making morphs for her.  Many of the 'problems' have been ironed out with weight mapping and I also use the 'perfect' range of fixes.  What problems may be left are often dealt with using the now, very usable, morph brush

The end result is I have a character I have developed over the last few years, she has even 'aged' in my more recent renders.  I think she is this is her fifth Dr Who style re-incarnation.  I can't model so the character is a mix of some 30 different morphs and about 20 different textures all blended to look like one texture.  Compared with V4 base she is around 90% shorter and has gained a few years, freckles, a few scars and a couple of tattoos, so I have a character that, in a sense I can call my own.

One final plus, I also use M4 which, as other male figures, had a distinct lack of clothes.  As much of my work is Sc-Fi based I am able to convert a good precentage of V4 stuff to M4.

My character is far from perfect and many may find her disproportionate and maybe even downright ugly.  For me though she is a creation I am proud of, have had years of fun building (including some frustration when things did not work), and suits my personal needs for book illustration.  Given all this it would be wrong of me to expect Dawn, Genesis, or any other new figure to work at the level I want straight from the box.  One or two figures may reach that point but for me V4 is still full of life and I do not see that changing 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.