I've been wowed 3 times in Poser's history.

I started on Poser 4 so I don't have the Poser 3 experience but Poser Pro Pack was a huge jump.  Goodbye rsr and BUM, Python support opened up a new world of possibilities, the Setup Room was a new thing.

Poser's 5 features didn't really seem to stabilize until the last SR and while Poser 6 did clean it all up, I felt that Poser 7 was the tightest implementation so had a lot of fun with that one - more specifically Poser Pro (the second coming).  Background rendering, Queue and so on.

Recently, I'd say Poser Pro 2012 (Poser 9) for certain.  Weight Maps = tons of fun.  SSS and IDL (from Poser 8).  Yes, please.  Oh and certainly from my point of view, wxPython - better ways to go, goobye tKinter and XML dialogs (of course Poser 8 introduced but the Poser 9 wx is better implemented).

But... I'm still having a blast and I'm using Poser Pro 2014 and certainly things to be excited about with it, so I'm not looking back to think there was a time what was better than now.  Living in the now and enjoying it.  Yeppers!  And the sky's the limit.  Sorry that I'm disgustingly optimistic ;)

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