Can't speak for P5, but here is one of the little design touches in P4 that are so infuriating in their thoughtlessness. There is a menu item for loading in from another Poser document. Good, it often happens that one may want to add a figure from another scene file. Select this option and up comes a file requester box. This will allow you to select a pz3 file, but also a pz2 or pz1 file. Fine, backward compatibility, that's OK. Now, a Windows file requester has a filter field, so that you point it at a directory and you just see files of one or more types (like all bitmap extensions, for example). In this case, there is a choice of behaviour that you can program into the file requester when it's opened. The user can intervene to change the filter, but if it's right first go, that's nice. Here the sensible options: 1) Set filter to all possible formats, .pz1, .pz2 and .pz3 (actually this load function also supports .pp2 etc as well). 2) Set filter to .pz3 by default as this is the most likely thing to be wanted. 3) Set filter to the last extension the user requested, which the program has remembered (clever!). What does Poser 4 do? It chooses a RANDOM extension. What is the purpose of this? It means when you open the directory where all your pz3 files are kept, it appears to be empty, and then you notice the file requester is only showing pz1 files. Now I ask all you here, when did you last want to load a pz1 file? So why prompt for it? It's only a minor irritation, but the essence of good software design is that there shouldn't be minor irritations where these can be avoided, and this one could very easily have been avoided.

Good, it often happens that one may want to add a figure from another scene file I just tried this. It did not load one figure from the scene file, it loaded everything that was on the scene file.

I have Poser 4.0.3 without PPP.

My pet peeve in this area has to do with selection. When I'm trying to work on a body part -- adjust it, or use some tool to morph it -- I have to move the lights and cameras around in various ways, to see things better. Poser counts cameras and lights as entities just like the "real stuff", so moving a camera or light, or switching to a different camera, leaves the Selected Object as the camera or light. I then return to adjusting, only to find that I'm now working on the camera or light! Selection of props or body parts should be more "stable" than cameras or lights; adjusting the view should leave the real thing selected.

Another peeve is the grouping tool palette. The tool itself is powerful; it does a lot of things that most Poser users aren't even aware of. But the palette buttons are arranged and named so oddly that it's very hard to remember which to use. There's no underlying pattern or logic. Delete? Remove? Assign? Spawn?

And the grouping tool is sooooooo slowwwwwwww to use - you make one little change and it takes ages to respond before you can do the next one. Love esther

"It did not load one figure from the scene file, it loaded everything that was on the scene file." That's true, but I store single figures in scene files. You can always load a multiple-figure scene file and delete the extra bits you don't want.