"Kitbashing, on the other hand, is a whole lot of fun. So, while I don't model, I will happy tear other people's models into pieces, re-texture them, morph them, scale them, cut out polys, and reassemble them to be wholly different, and I can do all that within Poser."

 

I agree and that is another reason for buying content.  Some fourteen years ago when I started with Poser I quickly discovered there was a lot to learn in Poser and today I still feel I have only scratched the surface.  While I do use Paint Shop Pro to build some images and some post work and Silo to adapt other people models I can go a month or more without opening either program.  Poser on the other hand I use practically daily and I am always trying new things.  I will never use Poser to its full potential but it seems learning one complex program as best you can seems better than spreading time over a lot of other programs.

I now feel at home in the material room rather then totally lost and overwhelmed, very few of my renders are completed with out some material work, even if it is using a purchased texture on another vendors item.  I also understand a lot better how lights change the way materials look when rendered. One character I use I have built over the years has materials that would have appeared magic to me when I first started and had to be adapted when SSS came along.   A lot of the items are heavily based on materials that BB has created and shared.  The more I play with Poser the better I get and I am having fun on the way and I would rather spend the time I have free somewhere along the Poser learning curve than at the start of a curve with another program.

 

 

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.