I still use V4WM and the main reason for still using her is that i have yet to see anything significantly better for my needs.  I would like the figure to have better expressions but I have not seen anything so far, with the exception of Project E, that gives a WOW factor.  I do not do nudes so bending is not a major factor for me and V4WM bends well enough for me.

The other reason is a have characters that I have developed over the years with some realistic eyes and real reflections.  All of the figures/characters I have seen so far are a step backwards for me with burnt in reflections.  

As to moving on, yes I am prepared to, although I do not think that will bring my use of V4 to a dead stop.   The extra expense is a concern but not a show stopper, and fitting clothes is not a major sticking point but, if I am going to have to put in extra work and flash my credit cards I need to have a good reason.  

I do not treat 3D any differently to real life.  I have a car that is 14 years old and low milage, there may well be better cars around with loads of new gadgets like parking assist but at the end of the day my old car does the same as a new one does, it gets me from A to B.  A figure is no different, I have not seen anything yet that does anything I cannot do with V4WM.  I will not include Genesis 3 because it is too new but nothing I saw of Genesis 1 or 2 made me reach for my credit card.

I did buy Scarlet, as it was cheap enough to have a play and I did not have to jump through hoops to use the figure.  After the slating the figure got I doubt it will get much support but I will still use her but only for the odd time I want a variation on V4 or some background figure.

 

 

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.