Any company's interest in Poser's survival can only be a good thing. The alternative would be Poser dying a slow death or put on some bizarre life support by the Poser community. Not much could be worse than MetaC.

Here's a link to other Meta news released today: http://www.maccentral.com/news/0004/10.carrara.shtml

I, too, e-mailed Zygote about the whereabouts of Millennium Man, a while ago. Their response was that he was next up on their list of things to do. My feeling, and comment to them, was that some part of the reason why more Poser users are primarily interested in the female figure is that the male figure is so poor. Whether intentionally or not, they've created a dirth of decent male figures and accessories. I think Zygote will be pleasantly surprised at how well Millenium Man sells. I also think it's ironic, what with all the work and hype surrounding the development and release of Millie - the ultimate Poser female - that she looks so masculine. Maybe she's Millennium man too...

Do these shoulder problems only show up in the presence of a large brown penis?

What we need is a decent male figure. With clothes that aren't ridiculous, a variety of realistic texture maps, and a good number of believable hair props. With the utter glut of female figure morphs, clothes, props, maps etc., I can wait for yet another P woman, while the Poser male problem is addressed.

You can get both Mac and Windows versions of P4 at MacWarehouse: www.macwarehouse.com. $239 plus shipping.

How much RAM of your 256 have you assigned to Poser?

What's the point of a numeric rating system? What's the pay-off? What's the goal? Are people including these numbers in some resume? What is a "score" supposed to do for an artist? Get him into Poser college? One will choose to take a closer look at a thumbnail based on one's interest not some digital average. These numbers literally serve no purpose. And are way less useful than a worded critique.

I agree with Crescent. Any ratings system is fundamentally insulting. Quantifying one's work is useful for contests or sporting events, but not art. Even sports that have an artistic component, like figure skating, have a built in fail-safe for extreme "high-low" scores: either are automatically eliminated. It's true that members might rate according to personal political, religious or sexual tastes and ignore the artistic merit of a piece. They do it all the time. There's nothing more valuable to an artist who requests feedback that the good-old-fashioned written word.

And we who love your stuff, FastTraxx, at the Props Guild and elsewhere, salute you:) Both for your talent and generosity. It does not go unnoticed.

I agree with poserxposure. What about us Mac users?

kalirage, Re: the boots: after importing each as a 3ds, save each to your props library. As props, they can now be selected from the library and positioned on your figure. This will then allow you to re-save each to your library as a "smart prop" - one that remembers its parent position every time it's imported, the same way a hair prop does. Chapter 6, of the user guide, under "Adding props to the library" will talk you through it. It's easy. Good luck...

Yep, all true. There's a wrestling ring at the Props Guild as well. After all, a squared circle is a squared circle.

Kali, You'll find a decent pair of boxing gloves at the Props Guild, under downloads/sports. There's a link to the Guild at the right under "Web Resources."

Tribe, You can find an American football in the Poser Free Stuff. Click on the link to the right and do a search. There's a good soccer ball at the Props Guild (look for it under downloads/sports), also in the list at the right under "Web Resources." Good luck.