I want to see Blender be able to hold a candle to this app............... This is Houdini FX.

Houdini FX will blow Blender away in any area you want to talk about, and makes me wish Poser had just some of what it can do. If you hate the Material Room in Poser, don't buy this... Just about everything in this is node based. You can do it other ways, but once you get used the node system it has huge advantages because of the way you can reuse stuff, similar to Posers library.

Anyway......

As far as what the OP asked, I would strongly recommend that you save up for the Poser Pro for a few reasons. First is the 64 bit part, and secondly is because in a 8 days you can be running Windows 10 for free. Windows 10 is leaner than 7 or 8, and things run better in it. (At least for me, and I have run Blender, Houdini, Maya, Poser and a bunch of other 3D programs in Windows 10 and they run better in 10 than 7 or 8.)

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