DustRider posted at 4:22AM Sun, 17 January 2016 - #4249594

For me though, the total lack of great user renders coming for Superfly was a huge red flag. You implement a new render engine which is one of your biggest selling points, yet none of your beta testers are flooding the forums and galleries with renders that make this a must have upgrade??? Seriously? Finally, almost two months later, renders that show off what superfly can do are showing up in more frequency.

Aside from the shader gurus, it's never seemed to me that the Poser community that frequents the forums -- particularly in the last few years -- was ever much about renders at all, but far more into figures and their creation. Some long time and very active users have admitted to never doing renders except to show off their figures or rigging or morphs. So it wouldn't surprise me to find that the beta testers were taken from such a group. Unfortunately, users who don't spend most of their time on rendering probably also won't collect a lot of content, and as a result, the library bugs weren't noticed. Not getting a whole lot of renders out to the community would be another side effect.

It's not necessarily a bad thing, since it seems to me that P11 was largely filled with content creation features and upgrades. So naturally you'd want a beta group of content creators. But Superfly did not get the attention that perhaps it needed.

I have P11, but I don't use it because of the library issues. I also wouldn't use Superfly at all because it's just too slow. How many people have concluded that they might as well use their current Poser version with Lux rather than shell out more money for yet another super slow renderer? Many of us aren't using robust enough hardware to really use SF ; it kills my lowly i7 and I don't have an Nvidia vcard. Should I ever get an Nvidia card, I'm definitely going to go with Octane, though, because I don't have the patience to wait an entire day for a little web sized render.

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