ssgbryan posted at 2:06 PM Sun, 26 February 2023 - #4457012

Mighty bold of you to think that vendors are willing to learn any new features in Poser, randym77.  Historically, too many are aggressively uninterested in taking the time to learn new features - especially if the end users aren't willing to use them either.

Lighting/rendering has been an issue in Poser since at least Poser 5 that I am personally aware of.  The Poser team in the past worked under the assumption that Poser end users have a photography background.  That hasn't changed, apparently.

Until there is a 1-click firefly-superfly conversion process for ALL materials, superfly is irrelevant for a lot of users.

From my perspective - This isn't Poser 13. 

It is Poser 12.1.

I think part of the problem is that Superfly really isn't that big an improvement, at least with stuff Poser users render (humans).

Firefly was a quantum leap over the Poser 4 renderer. Users may not have known much about it, but they wanted to learn to use it, because the results were so much better. I remember a group of us getting together to make Firefly MATs for products that didn't have them. You'd choose a character, make MATs, and post them as free stuff.

I suppose that may be less necessary now, with scripts like EZskin. But I also think there's less interest. Superfly just doesn't look so much better than Firefly that people want to jump through hoops to use it.