Regarding criticisms: I have no doubt that it must have been hell on earth for the Poser Team to keep up with demands, but from my side, all my collegues and friends who have all switched to DS, things were different, we wanted different things, things that should be kind of obvious, and what bothers me is how the Poser Team somehow missed this. And I'm not talking about erotica, erotica has always been something that adapts to whatever is made available. I'm talking things that are considered normal in CGI.

Like I said before, CGI in its essence kinda has the same theme running throughout it: render something awesome. Now the rendering was dealt with, namely Superfly (although that is also subject to much debate) but the 'something awesome' was not sorted. IMO that kinda trumps the rendering part. Now we can have endless discussions about the subjective idea behind which figure is actually awesome, but there is a reason why many people switched to DS and its not because of DS itself. Several of my friends don't like DS's UI and other aspects of it, they would much rather switch back to Poser. They switched because of Genesis and all its options. Sure its statistically questionable, but I see a fairly consistent argument even outside of my circle of friends. Now I know there are some people that think that DAZ's success was all because of cut-throat business practices, but while that might be partly true (and like that is an excuse really, these days) its kinda insulting to assume that these professional artists cannot decide for themselves what works better for them. I'm a Poser fanatic but even I am feeling the temptation.

The general direction SM should have taken Poser is something they should have picked up from places like CGSociety and Hollywood movies. Complaints in the forum are just for details, workflow and bugs.

But again, I could be wrong, but looking at the world around me, it stumps me how SM could have missed the obvious. DAZ started from scratch, and they nailed it.

So, I say again, I think Rendo might have a standing chance. I hope they succeed, they have my support.

"The fool is not the one that does something foolish, but the one that does nothing at all."