I run P11 and P12 at the same time on the same machine. I am not so stupid to think I could render with both at once. However; I have yet to try and render a scene that was saved in P11 and created with 2.x scripts that does not render in P12 with all the advantages that come with using the updated Superfly/Cycles. The shaders may need a tweek or two but isn't that all part of making art?

As to video cards. Except for bleeding edge cards that cost more than 5 times the cost of the software, there are no real apparent issues that do not seem to be in the pipeline for update in the next one or two.

Tim has assured us that there is no intention to kill off the P11 servers despite the fact that I myself pointed out that it is now an unsupported product and could be shut down at a moments notice leaving those with existing installs stuck with wasted hard drive space. I was one of those not convinced to dole out the hard earned and monetary converted to $US almost $200 in local currency for a chance to be screwed twice.

Money's tight and times are hard. It isn't easy for some of us to drop this cash on an if-come maybe it'll survive as seems to be implied by some in this and other threads. I am one of them. I dropped the cash because I got a bonus for risking my life in these trying times. I do not regret it. If you are a Firefly exclusively user. If you do hard surface modeling and don't need SSS for your metal tractor. If you are a diehard Blender user. This release is not for you. If you want to use the latest tools for your art then this is for you. If you are load a figure, add a pose preset or two, and render; then save your cash up and go elsewhere for now.

In short; if you like Poser and use many of it's included features in your art, then this is worth it to get through the teething pains. If you don't use many of Poser's included functionality in the making of your artistic visions, and do indeed rely on third party scripts; then wait for a while. Maybe buy it for Christmas when the kinks are more ironed out and the script writers get their stuff up to date. It is up to you.

This is a site dedicated to artistic vision. It hosts many various groups for the software of your choice. This is different from sites dedicated to particular software or techniques that many of us visit. It should be easy to find something that does suit your personal style of work than to continually denigrate that which you do not or, possibly: will never spend your hard earned ducats upon.

I am not angry that those that wrote scripts I use have yet to update them to Python 3.x. That is for them to deal with. It is not up to Bondware tho they seem to be doing a yeoman's effort in getting as many as possible updated. There are rendering issues and they have yet to be addressed. That is within Bondware's power. That is what I expect to see rectified. Quality of life issues we have had for years. Figure creation problems. That is within Bondware's preview. These things matter way more to me that whither or not I can use the latest DAZ product in software that it was never made to run in or that your workflow using other software is superiour to that of Poser users. I am interested in Poser. If I want to know about DS, Blender, iClone, or whatever, I will peruse the appropriate forum and post my queries there.