I was back in the Setup Room, in Poser 7, trying to create bones for another figure. Things were going really well until I tried to save the delicate work on the foot bone. Poser 7 vanished and the work was lost. After redoing the work and watching this happened a second time, I switched to Poser 5’s Setup Room. It’s interesting to compare the differences between Poser 5 and Poser 7. Each has its advantages. Each is screwed up in its own unique way. For example, sometimes in Poser 5, you just aren’t allowed to name your bone. Type in any name you like and watch it revert back to a generic number. This is almost certainly a deliberate attempt to drive the user mad...right? After working in Poser 5 and saving several times without crashing, I tried to get past the name bug by bringing the file back into Poser 7. There was just one problem. Although I could see the model once the file opened, Poser 7 insisted there was no figure or prop. When I tried to open the file in Poser 5, I couldn’t even see the figure. All of my work was lost. Rigging would only be half as difficult if Poser's Setup Room was dependable. Maybe E-frontier and Daz have a special edition of Poser that actually functions while the masses are provided with a version intended to curtail competition? I don’t really believe that, of course. Any company that names the front view “front front” (as opposed to front back???) couldn’t possibly be that calculating.

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