Agreed. Comparing this thread to the identical RDNA thread is just embarrassing...

I think the idea of cycles is a good one. CPU limited is fine by me, although I did have to upgrade cards recently and now have an Nvidea card (my ATI 7970 was overheating, so while I was waiting for the new thermal materials to arrive ($3 worth) I couldn't stand the down time and bought a GTX970 for $400). The idea of CPU base so that as much of the existing materials nodes still work is brilliant IMHO, especially given the number of Poser users who have still to venture in to the material room... and, as has been said, there is no preclusion to GPU rendering either in the Pro version, or as an SR.

Cycles supports instancing (hint hint)

Also, if the new Poser version is to 'celebrate' 'content as king', could we get a better search function... deeper into metadata than just the title? DS HAS to have it, because of their inane library structure (which if you meddle with might cause issues with your entire OS, according to the DAZ documentation), but their smart content does work pretty well. It'd be nice to be able to search a dozen runtimes and actually find something like a pose for M4 that has the entirely useless name of '12'.

Nice renders Teyon! Really showed what was possible... very impressive mask!