This is what my current Poser 11 preview looks like:

I maxxed out preview shadows and preview texture size. And use some "preview friendly" lights. (Once you found a basic set-up that works, it's easy to build on that)

Basically the final render adds better, more complete shadows, multi layer transparency for the hair, subsurface scattering, (real) displacement, some (subtle) skin-shader "magic", and of course subdivision / HD-Morphing if necessary.

(The preview can display subdivision, too, but it can quickly slow down your machine. Especially if you need to to do lots of subdivision because the render engine of your choice can't do "proper" displacement)  ;-)

I only use well designed meshes, so I have not much need for subdivision, anyway.

(Thats 21 year old Stephanie 1, AKA "The Mystery Mesh", BTW: Mesh from my mesh)

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Seriously, I would be pleasantly surprised if Poser 14 could do better, but somehow I doubt it. They probably try to improve the horrible, horrible Superfly preview, while probably messing up the current Firefly preview.

And they'll probably find some other legacy functionality they can mess up or disable while doing so.

My conclusion:

I treat Poser 12 and 13 (and Poser 14) like Ghostbusters (2016) or Star Trek's Kelvin Timeline.

Just pretend it was a bad dream and never really happened.  ;-P

I went back to Poser 11, back to simple but well designed meshes, and back to making the most of what I have and what I spent 23 years to learn inside and out.

KI already has made any "hand-crafted" computer graphics completely obsolete.

Rendo's Marketplace is 99,9% Genesis, but DAZ will very soon feel the repercussions, too.

Who in their right mind would want to mess with rigging and sculpting and shaders and hour long render times if he can directly animate a photograph of an actual human being?

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Anyway, have fun getting all exited over "new and improved" Poser 14.

I'm too busy playing with Vicky 1 and Posette.

:-)