I started in 3D with Bryce, as I was more interested in landscape scenes than portraiture, and the Bryce forum here at Renderosity was my first ever 3D forum I visited on a regular basis.

That said, 4 1/2 years later a friend introduced me to Poser 5, DAZ3D and RDNA, and I liked Poser, but my old Win98 SE desktop at the time didn't, so it froze and crashed often. Shortly thereafter I tried DAZStudio 2 on my then new laptop, and liked it, and when my old desktop died, I stuck with DS2 because I was having less issues with it. I then upgraded to DS 3 Advanced, and eventually DS 4.0 Pro with the intro of Genesis 1, as I liked the idea of a unisex figure I could use as I wished. Unfortunately, by then I was tired of DAZ3D's constant "updating" the same old products they had been through each version of Vicky and Mike, so never got into Genesis 2 or Genesis 3.

I'm still a huge fan of the generation 4 characters, though the gals more than the guys, but I got back to Poser with version 9 when HiveWire introduced Dawn about 4 years ago, and then Dusk. I'm still using V4, Steph4 and a few of my older characters, but I haven't upgraded my DS to the current version, and don't see any reason why I need to, as I can use anything in my old DS 3A Runtime in Poser 9, as well as my newer Poser Pro 11. Since PP11 is my first Pro version of Poser, I can't really compare it to older versions like PP2014, so I don't know all the issues that weren't improved, or now seem broken. I'm still learning things I've never had a chance to play with before, and I hope P12/PP12 does improve the couple/three issues I do have but, even though I can use either/both software products, I'm going to be mostly using Poser from now on.

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OK . . . Where's my chocolate?

Butterfly Dezignz