@Hornet
With respect, you have to remember that Nerd has a position to uphold now, he's not just a member of the community - he's more than that.  To casual users and noobs, what he posted probably looked enticing for one reason or another, who knows.  But seriously, most users are going to look at that initial post from him and think to themselves, is this a joke or something?

As you're one of the level-headed people here, ask yourself this (and be perfectly honest about it); do you honestly think it was a good idea for the Poser Product Manager to post such an uninspiring demonstration for an upcoming release of Poser?  Surely the idea is to wow people, not scare them off, so it's not the replies that are scaring people off into DAZ territory, it's the unprofessional style of post he chose to make, and it's worse when you consider there is already a massive amount of discontent among the Poser community for how far behind the program already is.  Last thing we need to hear is that the upcoming version is already behind by default.

Since you ask, my honest opinion was that they were not the best renders but I also took into account that it was a Sneak Peek and the fact that it had a code name told me it was early days.  A lot depends, I think, on what Nerd was trying to do, if he was trying to show that the new PBR was hot stuff then it was a mistake.  If he was trying to give something back to the users by letting them in on the fact that caustics were in the Poser 11, the Holy Grail for some users, then he was trying his best for his customers and who can fault him on that. While I am on the subject of being honest my first thought was, 'that is interesting' and a very close second was "wrong forum, this can only end in tears."  Which is why I then went to RDNA to follow the thread there and waited to page six for I became involved here.  Why did I become involved, well I recently emailed a mod stating that I thought that the forum had improved recently, just after the new rules were posted.  So my thread came out of the frustration and realisation that nothing really has changed.  It also explains why most of my response had little to do with the title. 

 

 

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.