I don't think that anyone posted anything especially mean spirited about the PBR...if someone in charge of a piece of software says "we've added a PBR" to a bunch who have used Luxrender, Cycles with Blender and Iray, the very FIRST question you're going to get is "is gpu rendering enabled?". And that is pretty much how it's gone. If you don't want people to ask questions, speculate or comment either favorably or negatively, then don't post anything. We all would have been none the wiser. But if you're going to post stuff early on, be prepared for the barrage of questions and opinions which are sure to follow. I don't know anymore if we're lucky to have seen an early peek or unlucky to be honest. Seems ppl want either total gushing praise and give complete lack of respect and spite or they want ya to just shut up, neither of which I find palatable.

if SM wants to add a PBR I think that's fine, but I also think it should be finished by the time we PURCHASE it, meaning every option should be either taken care of and implemented properly at purchase time or not included at all. I'm not keen on buying software I think is only half finished. Why buy software only to have to wait for a feature? That doesn't even seem like good business to me. Number one, the promised feature may never come or show up in a subsequent version that we need to shell out money for again. And much as I like being friendly and all and like a lot of the ppl involved in the production of Poser, SM is not my family. It's a company I give money to to give me a piece of software to use. We're not kin or married. And I owe them nothing but the money I give them when I buy Poser and they owe me nothing more than to produce that software. But they need to know what it is I'm looking for in the software in order to get me to buy it. If I don't tell them, they won't know. Sure I'll wait and see what's in it when all the features come out, and I'll keep an open mind, but if I think something is "off" I'm gonna say so. I want so much for SM to put out something awesome. I'm hoping they will. Even still.

Laurie