"Do you still use Poser? Where can I see your art? :)"

I tend to keep to myself these days art-wise, mostly sharing with family...

I stopped using Poser awhile back, and went exclusively DS awhile ago (disclosure for those who are newer: I was on the dev team that launched DS v1.0, and wrote the entire user manual for it. I still used Poser until around 2013 or so.) That said, I 100% do not hate Poser. Indeed, I'm hoping it makes a comeback, if only to keep DAZ on their toes - it needs it these days. I'll go one further - make a Linux-native version of Poser and a flexible-enough (morphs/topography, not joints) model or two for it, and I'll buy it immediately, in spite of having way over a TB of DS content. After all, I still do use NearMe, V4 (though not near as much these days), and lots of other figures that were made specifically for the old-school Poser. I also don;t really bother with Genesis 9 or with things like dForce, since they eat more time and computing power than I'm willing to spend. Update NearMe with a better-bending mesh atop that, and I'm all in (I know, I know - licensing issues, etc.)

I criticized the crap out of Poser throughout the years, sure - but I did it out of tough love. Well, that and watch the sub-IQ cultists lose it in response, but mostly because of the the love part.

Sorry about whining over folks that have died... just that I remember the long convos in DMs (and even phone calls and physical visits.) I miss the trailbusters - folks who would post outrageous stuff to the galleries, just because. Stuff that forced you to think. Out-of-the-ordinary stuff. Stuff that wasn't yet another NVIATWAS (if you know, you know. example: I once built a DS sample plugin that produced a NVIATWAS scene that was ready-to-render; it was done to show 3rd-party vendors how to use the C++/carbon DS API to build UI elements, but I wanted it to actually do something. Nobody had a sense of humor about the temple background being a pic of the LDS Temple in Salt Lake City, though - so that had to change...)

You know? I just hope Sean Martin is still alive - it'd be rather fun to torque him up at least one more time (evil grin.)