I wish I had kept record of all the fixes, updates and requests for changes that I had sent to Smith Micro over the years. There are a ton of annoying little things in the program that would make life so much easier if they were fixed. Off the top of my head:

• You can rearrange the layout of the screen. Okay. This means you can rip panels off the screen into windows, drag them around and stick them in new places. The problem here is that the layout is not locked down by default, so it's very easy to accidentally rip part of your interface off and very hard to stick it back where it was. The interface should be locked by default, so that a user has to deliberately decide to enable interface changes before things can be moved around.

• The post-render pen-line effect on toon renders isn't applied to the image alpha. So if you render a toon figure and try to export it into something like photoshop or after effects, the outline is always cut off around the outside edge.

• Toon renders with the pen-line effect always seem to come out noisy, covered in little black dots.

I think what has really set Poser back though, is the availability of competing programs that are not only free, but offer far more advanced features. DAZ Studio being one, and Source FilmMaker being another. There is no reason why Poser should not be able to do everything that something like Source FilmMaker can. That includes not just lighting and rendering, real time or not, but also weather effects, particles, water simulation etc...

About the only thing Poser really has going for it is a great interface. If we could get that interface on a modern engine that can compete with something like Source, Poser would be back on top of its game again.