The introduction of Iray is when I really sat up and took notice of Studio. I was already starting to use Studio for M4 clothing conversions to use with M5 in Poser, and I was slowly putting some effort into actually working with the program. Iray just clicked with me, and my old first-gen i7 can handle it even just rendering in CPU mode (I'm at the point I basically can no longer use Reality/Lux on my machine). I bought in the March sales all of the conversion tools to leverage my V4/M4 collection with Gen2, and I found a new spark and joy with this hobby.

I'd put a lot of hope into Poser 11, but as mentioned by other posters above, there were no images of Paul, Pauline, or Superfly that made me feel that "I had to have this". In fact, it was quite the opposite. Add another 35% for the dollar exchange rate at the time (it's now 45%), and the cost isn't worth the upgrade to me. PP2014 will be my last version of Poser for the foreseeable future. I'm glad some people are very happy with P11 and enjoy solving the challenges it presents. I'm just no longer up for that challenge.

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