I've been using Poser since version 4.0 (I think). It's great, but oh man what a learning curve for the simplest of things. If you buy content it helps tremendously because it is already made for you. Even then you pose your model and suddenly, their butt is showing. You scratch your head and search google "oh that's poke through" whatever that is, but you click and find out there are forums like renderosity with people with the same butts hanging out. Then you finally get that you can hide their butts or conform the clothing like it's supposed to be. Suddenly, your model turns into a pretzel. You scratch your head and hit undo and poser crashes. So you start over, and you learn to save often. Then you conform the clothing to the body, not the hand you idiot. And on and on it goes making 1 mistake after another until you somewhat sort of get the hang of things. Then you get to the stage where you are able to compose a scene, but your soldier only has James Casual wear. What to do? You buy a soldier uniform that is for M4. They look similar, that should work. You hit conform and your pretzel army is ready to go. You make adjustments and then you realize you can fix it in the image without too much trouble.

Of course if you know photoshop, at least a little bit, you can mess with the textures, and the final product to get you a better result if you are only making a still photo/piction. Photoshop has it's own learning curve (years). It is no walk in the park as amazing as it is. So you keep learning and it gets better.

Then you want to make a movie. This thing does animation? Wow! Soon your pretzel army is dancing over the battlefield in spasms, with their butts hanging out half the time. Oh that motion file didn't apply to your guy? Who knew.

And as difficult as all this is, it's still fun to do. :) So keep on making stuff vendors (I'll buy it) and keep making it better Smith Micro, but think about making it easier, including more animation files that apply to all characters, clothing that adjusts to all characters with an "adjust the clothing to fit" button. Anything you can do to make it easier will sell more programs.

As I've said before, I'm different than most here. The stuff people can do amazes me especially in the advanced section tabs of the materials room. OMG! I just want my guy's underpants to stay on.

I don't want to understand how the paint is made, I just want to paint a picture.

The Village Idiot