I was a Lux render guy for a while. When Poser made a song and dance about introducing Superfly, I was like so what - already have a PBR render engine. However it was a pain to set things up in Reality and the results were hit and miss. It soon became apparent how easy it was to render in Superfly because the Poser guys had done a great job in changing the Firefly shaders to Superfly. The default for me is Superfly and I haven't used the Firefly engine in years. I was using the CPU for rendering because the graphics card wasn't supported. I bought a basic 1060 graphics card for my old computer and I am happy with the GPU rendering.

Now I know that some of you love to tinker, but I think the vast majority just want to render a reasonable picture as easily as possible. That means automating the boring stuff as much as possible.

1. We don't want to spend time messing with shader trees.
2. We don't want to spend time in the fitting room. Transfer of clothes from one figure to another should be automatic.
3. We don't want to spend time creating morphs to get attractive characters. We expect someone else to have sorted that out, and I will go further to say that trying to create expressions from face chips is going to get tiresome really fast. Turn that expression dial, 3 seconds - render.

What Poser needs to be good at is 'posing'. The ability to quickly set up scenes and move characters. And for the future, lets dream. I want to put a character next to a seat and say "sit". Character sits and interacts with object and bottom compresses automatically. "hold cup". Fingers do not intersect handle. "smile" The program takes into account the skull, teeth and muscle structure of that particular model. Although this is a dream at the moment, we know that this is going to be a reality at some time in the not too distant future. If we are going to have cars that not only can navigate the city without human intervention but also recognise a human talking into a cell phone as a dangerous object, all this is possible. I can dream.