My understanding is that Renderosity's and Renderosity Vendor's cash cow of V4 was on the decline and there was nothing new coming out of Smith Micro and Poser that was creating the major crossover that V4 had. Deep sales on V4 were great for customers, and 3.50 Prime was good for customers and vendors but was bringing in no revenue for Rendo for all its management overhead. By going to V6 and Gn characters they would not interest a Poser based clientele.

So they had to try something.

I like Hornet's summary. But where do things need to go from here? Does anybody out there have any thoughts?

One of my beefs, not a direction, is that they seem to have vertically oriented the screen so that no matter how big my laptop or station screen I never see a whole image. I spend so much time mouse scrolling just trying to see properly what they are selling it is ridiculous. I think they should determine where their customer base buys from and hold off on catering to the mobile fad a bit. Sales will eventually come from there but my feeling is that they are killing their core business by catering too early and too heavily to a future business that is not ready for them. If I'm wrong on this, it is a major change and I'd like to be contradicted.

I believe 3D Graphics needs High Horsepower. Tablets and smartphones cater to low horsepower.

If someone is buying on a smartphone or tablet, the implication is that there still has to be a more powerful machine lurking somewhere, and that tablet is an addition not a substitution for where the real activity occurs.