Not quite Soulhuntre. You see, Poser is a development tool, not a stand alone pro-level app. Features expected at even entry level pro are not present. On top of this, Curious Labs missed the boat completely by excluding export filters TO pro level applications with which they could have marketed Poser to the pro users as a very valid and able plugin. But they didn't. They tried to add pro tools and keep it an amateur app - no doubt with a view to adding another Pro Pack style "extra" later. Losing that export compatibility offered by P4 Pro Pack is going to hurt more than the errors currently inherent in the program. To quote one reviewer. With the Pro Pack, Curious introduced plugins for 3DS Max, Lightwave, Cinema 4D and Maya. None of the plugins (nor Eons Mover 4) work with Poser 5, nor is there an alternative solution at the moment. This is by far and away the greatest impediment to anyone considering upgrading. If you depend on integration with those programs, your best bet is to stick with version four - or at least keep hold of your old copy when you upgrade. True enough, you can export scenes, complete with hair and cloth transformations but procedural textures are lost. There are more than enough fantastic new features to justify buying Poser 5, but it still feels like a work in progress. In six months to a year, when the bugs are ironed out and new plug ins written, it'll be a much better program. It's unfortunately that I can't post the whole review here because of copyright as it makes interesting reading. Summary of that review is Pros: Extensive new feature set, Better rendering - Greatly improved interface. Cons: Worse third party program interaction - Ultra slow rendering - Some features poorly or inadequately implemented. The reviewer tactfully didn't mention the registration process or whether their version was crash prone. Perhaps as an evaluation for review they didn't have to register it and the program wasn't as complete as the release version. I don't know. But essentially, no, Poser is not at the Pro level category or even really at Pro-Am category, it doesn't have the compatibility/export capability to exist at that level. Not even to touch on some of the other things such as OpenGL previewing etc which is much faster than even the Poser 4 render preview settings. and doesn't preclude you working on the figure while waiting for the render and hoping you remember which bit to fix once it's gone through. etc etc etc.... It's still very much an amateur application waiting for pro integration capabilities with some "poorly or inadequately implemented" pro level tools.