Each time I go from Poser to Carrara I think to myself of whether or not aome simple Modeler's Tools would go over in Poser. I think a tool to move mesh vertexes along the X, Y and Z axis' would work wonderfully with Poser's Smooth Lined Document Style, and maybe even Full Tracking. I'd also like to see some brycian feature evolve into Poser, like infinite slabs! A Terrain Modeler would be overboard either, nor an atmosphere generator, or organics/plant Labs. And finally, and most importantly, I'd like to see Poser come into a really nice render engine, at least that as nice as Bryce. I'm a big Bryce fan. It's render engine is super! A RayTracer I think. Without spending thousands of $$$ on an engine I think Bryce is the best deal. In comparison I think Poser could stand to inheret a similar engine. The new Firefly looks different, but is definately a Poser class renderer. Bryce is a very definately a sharper engine, especially with global illumination, and generous output file size. Not that I really mind jumping between these three applications, for the money it saves me in Discreet, Alias, and Newtek products, but Poser is a super tool! It is simple and straight forward, very WYSIWYG. Having become familiar with it I expect many of it's functions in, as I learn, Carrara. As far as Poser and Bryce's competitiveness go, I think the two will be in tie, for first place, for sometime to come. Unless of course one were to assimilate the other... = )

I'm still a modeling newbie, but Poser tools to add and delete vertexes could also come in handy! = )

I'd like Bezier-based spline curves in the Graph Editor.

Maybe by the time version 8 comes around, in 2027, computing technology will have advanced far enough that Curious Labs can find some wild, fantastic, currently unimaginable way to fix the File:Open bug.

Curious Labs will be lucky to make it to Christmas in the current economic climate. So don't hold your breath waiting for Poser 6, 7, and 8

1. Scroll center mouse button support in the library. 2. Up arrow icon at the bottom of the library just like it currently is at the top. 3. face room support for Will and Penny. 4. Use of paint can in the basic interface like P4. 5. Revamp of lighting to allow more options such as the light lab in Bryce 5. 6. Random texture button in face room. 7. Smoother transition from body texture to face texture (have to post work the neck line all the time.) 8. Content room that works. 9. Preference setting that remembers element and figure style setting. Have to set texture shaded each time I open Poser. 10. UI dots that work. 11. Stronger shadows when putting a figure on an imported terrain. 12. Mesh room with primitives and some morphing/modeling capability. 13. Terrain/Lattice/Sky rooms so we can ditch Bryce. 14. Interface that doesn't spin after 10 Crown Royal Private Resever's.

There are only two things I really want in any future release of Poser. 1. Better lights and easier to use lighting tools (I want to be able to click on the light in the DISPLAY window and drag it, size it, rotate it so that I can actually SEE where it is and where it's pointing instead of GUESSING the way it has to be done now. 2. The same abilities for the camera controls. I HATE THAT FREAKIN' USELESS TRACKBALL!!! I want PRECISION. I want to SEE my camera! These two items are the reason I will never EVER use poser as a final production tool, no matter if it has the best rendering engine ever created.

MOTION CAPTURE !!!!!!!

HeHeHe...good one tasmanet...if they actually had any competition, we would have never seen P5. Lets see, here are a few Dual Processor Support A Render Spray Can (like in Bryce, for quick checks) TheRooms to work with other Poser figures Other's covered the rest...

Multiple processor support. Its tough doing an animation unless you can set up a render farm. Ron

To heck with Poser 6,7 & 8 just give me Poser5 before christmas this year.

I want a menu item called 'The Masters' added.. With Sub Menus that allow you to add the Master of Choice Plugin. When invoked you can't help but turn out works equal to those of the chosen master... Oh and a talent button... That would be good.. ;) Helen

Could have sworn I saw most of the above on Poser5 wishlists Does Poser 5 have right clicking and unlimited Undo and Redo ?? Not wrong asrai

Motion Capture!!! There it is all summed up for Poser 9(I figure one of my addition ideas per upgrade..;) That is a really usefull idea! I'm about to go ahead and spend $600 on an academic Kinecapture, and another $200 on a second video cam! At that the software could still use another two cameras. Dual Processor Support, I could use that too, nice idea! A Poser spray can would be good also! There are my votes for Poser 10, and 11! I can see where Poser Lightening would come in handy, thanks Ron! OK that's 12... A History function for 13, that's is nice! As I say I'm not very serious about holding off untill Poser13 for all of these functions, but realistically I'm not sure what kind of capital all this would require, nor am I aware of what Curious Labs Stock Market Prospectus is worth...I just think Poser, with all of these additions us former MC fans notice, would make way for heavy competition from Alias, Newtek, Discreet, etc. Of course the price tag could easily get hiked up to the $1,000 marker if we were to see them implimented anytime soon! I wonder if anyone from CL will make it in here and express which functions have, or maybe will, be aired by the development team!!! It would be nice not to ned to leave Poser, for many of these ideas! = )

The Consumers Demand Accelerated Software Evolution! I guess that demonstrates that we're normal.

PLUG-INs for poser 5.5 or poser 6 about: motion capture plug-in "tracking 3D from footage", facesync plug-in "as lipsync + face expression from footage" render batch plug-in, "for render-list" render CEL "toons" plug-in, radiosity plug-in, texture UV editor plug-in, etc. etc. ;)

Instead of listing what I want for a poser upgrade which may be another three years off I'll take another tack which may be more immediate, Bryce 6 wishlist. import of strand based hair inport of shader trees (or complete adoption of the shader tree system which seems far more versitile then Bryces) a combo of that and poser 5 would make me happy for years to come and I wouldn't realy need another upgrade of poser(except the much needed bug fixes)

How about a proper native Poser import for Bryce...even Vue does a decent job with this...

Please, please keep posting wishlists for any features you'd like to see in desktop modeling apps, be it Poser specific or in general. Developers such as myself check the forums for user requests and complaints such as those above. My morph mapping scripts, the "Tailor", "UVMapper", "CR2Edit" and the other apps out there did not evolve in a vacuum. User complaints and requests are the basis for starting new development.

I've long wondered why Poser, Bryce and Carrara's application files are'nt used by one another. I wonder what Metacreation's sale of these programs, has done for this notion? = )