I always smile with the idea that V4 will retire at some point.  I truth it will only happen when something comes along that is so much better that is is worth making the jump, so really more like a redundancy than a retirement.

I have a V4 character that has 'grown up ' with me over the last six years.  In that time the figure has aged, gained an few wrinkles, tattoos and scars and has had more than one face lift.  Her skin tone is better but older, her nose is a slightly different shape and her body has toned up a little but she is still the five foot nothing heroine I started to create all those years ago.  I am a no good at modelling and only recently got my head around the basic nodes of the material room so she is a really mixture of other peoples textures (played with in Paint Shop Pro) and other peoples morphs, both in the face and body.  Many of the changes were a result of BBs suggestions here at Rendo, better SSS, more realistic eye reflection and so on. 

Does this mean I will always use V4, maybe not but I need a reason to change.  Newer is not always better.  High tech maybe the goal of some but each time another warning light appears on the dashboard of my aging car and wish for the days of low tech.

V4 has been with me long enough to see me into retirement and there is a good chance she will be going strong when I take my next big journey.  Yes I am still looking but I have seen nothing yet to suggest V4 will vacate my renders for a long while yet.

 

 

 

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.