I thank you for the reply, Richard60. Much appreciated.

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Well, I just finished weightmapping Michael 2 and he's now able to tie himself into a knot without breaking or bodyparts exploding, just like my other weightmaps.

While I was at it I "re-discovered" D.P.Hoadley's remapped M2 in my runtime, and used it to build a "M3RR head on M2 body" hybrid that can natively take M3 textures overall.

And right now I'm trying to upgrade Poser 5 Don to make him a little bit easier on the eyes.

All this took a lot of hackin' and slashin' and mesh manipulatin' and cr2 editing and morphbrushing and magnet-morphing and none of these ancient meshes were ever welded or "Blender friendly" or "all-quads" or whatever else.

(The morphbrush / weightmapping brush works across bodyparts just fine for a couple of years now)

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So, if the "endgame" isn't full G8 compatibility, to be honest, I don't really see the point in spending so many man-hours to implement this new functionality.

Yes, smoothing Poser meshes in ZBrush (and perhaps blender) caused the seams to split open, but there were easy workarounds.

And since the Morphbrush has gotten so good, I don't even bother with ZBrush anymore.

And if you really, really want high res, elaborate ZBrush / Blender sculpts in Poser, you need to subdivide maybe 3 or 4 times at least to get enough polygons.

Which will massively slow down Poser.

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I'd say they should rather start from scratch and just keep the name "Poser" for whatever brand recognition there is left.

Maybe build a web-app or a smartphone app to "create your own avatar" or something like this.

And release "classic Poser" into the wild so that maybe a few enthusiasts can pick it up and fix bugs and maybe add functionality that is really needed. (Like instancing)

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Anyway, there are still tons of ancient meshes in my runtimes waiting for a little TLC, so I'm going to have have fun with my obsolete tools for the forseable future, whatever happens with Poser or not.

Stone-knives and bearskins, I guess...  ;-)

Happy 4th of July.

:-)