Some of the points you mention do have a point. I would like to have a fix for crosstalk too, along with a better library system. But I must say i like the software very much and i understand that Courious Labs makes no money with updates. I do not know how much money the pro pack brought in, but I understand that they need to bring out a new product soon, to pay the bills and make some shareholder value. That is the only reason I can imagine why they don't fix the old bugs. Most of the money earned with Poser 4 was not earned by Courious Labs so they probably have to finish Poser 5. I will see how much Poser 5 will cost when it is released. I surely will not be the first to order, since the product will have bugs to start with, since it's overloaded with new features. I hope they will manage to fix them soon. The price mentioned here in the forum was pretty low if you get hairs, physics and working cloth simulation. But we will see. The price will be higher, but the features will justify it. They target a more professional market as well as the actual community. They say that the renderer will be compatible to Pixars Renderman, which is unimportant for the community but makes it easier to integrate Poser models in current movie projecs. The community would be happy with a working PovRay-Interface or a build-in Raytracer. They need the features to find more customers. Poser is still "Power without the price", if I may quote Jack Tramiel. And it will continue to bring a good part of Maya's features for a fraction of the price. Let us hope that it will not be to a fraction of the stability too.

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