ReggieKowalski posted at 10:05 AM Wed, 16 August 2023 - #4472674

Very good points and, quite possibly, the reason why I will stay put with what I've got. I'm just painfully aware that V4.2 is 2008 software and that digital graphics are forever evolving so maybe I'm just expecting the grass to be greener without actually checking to see whether it's fake turf...

I think if I'd had a lot of replies encouraging me to go for newer tech then I might be persuaded but the general feel is that there's nowt wrong with old if it still works so well.

With Poser, you can add all of the latest tech to any legacy figure.  That is Poser's secret sauce - you can use any mesh you want.

The tools and instructions are right there.  It isn't difficult; plan a couple of hours to upgrade a base figure of your choice and save it.  You don't need that much time, but the time put in once pays for itself moving forward.

There are weight mapped M4s & V4s.  Facial chips are easy to add (and can go anywhere), etc.  You can bring the Grey Golum into Poser.  It is some work, but it is doable.

As far as the grass being greener - it is all astro-turf.  To reach rough feature parity with Poser, you are spending around $600USD.  That number was not picked out of a hat - it is what it cost me to attempt to move from Poser to DS and have roughly the same features - minus important ones like multiple GPU support in Opitx.