Quote - Quick question about writing the SM CS team: would it do anything?  I know for a number of companies working with CS is a herculian effort just to get noticed, much less get something done.

Anyways, at the least P8 will need:
-Better lighting (glowing objects without gather, area lighting, gamma correction, etc)
-A better rigging system
-To stop hanging everytime I try to do anything
-A little faster rendering
-Less crashing or file corruption
-Hair room improvements
-Cloth room improvements

Just wanted to let you know that they do listen. I offered a solution a couple of days ago which would address all your (and my) issues mentioned. They responded within a couple of hours promising to pass it on to the software engineers. I am still willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. Now as to whether they will do something about it remains to be seen, but willing to hold on to that faint glimmer of hope i guess :)

Don't know about anyone else but getting tired of the whingers here (sorry Mike but staring at you). Yes we all know about the stresses we've all had with poser but at the very least SM is actually willing to listen to our thoughts. Sure there's a bunch of things which do annoy us ( i was recently working on an animation for 6 hours straight and Poser decided to crash without a save). But at the end of the day all I want to say is let's give them a chance to make things right. Don't just rip shreds off them for the way they did the survey or the probs we have with Poser at the moment, It's counter productive.
All I'm saying is give them a reason to make it a better product. If you've got a problem with a certain area give them a reason and a solution to make it right, simple cause and effect. Get behind them, don't attack them. Give them something they can take back to their superiors and say "hey we've got this problem, but if we do this, this and that we can solve it". We're all working for the same goal here people. They want to make money by making a good product, we just want a good product which works well, we all want the same thing.
We know Poser is the hot potato of the 3d animation world but it doesn't have to be. All I'm asking is we stop attacking the very people who are here to potentially solve our problems, give them a chance to prove themselves with productive solutions, to help us and them to make a better product.

Just my two cents worth :0

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Definately looking forward to poser 7 if only for dual core support