Hello,
I welcome the availability of Normal maps in Poser 8. I'm just wondering why Gamma Correction is not available in Poser 8. AFAIK that is the only feature missing in P8 compared to PoserPro.

My guess about SmithMicro's strategy was that Poser 8 is mainly for building scenes and finetuning while PoserPro is used for rendering animations and bigger scenes (network render, 64 bit), or, to export scenes to other 3D apps (COLLADA, PoserFusion).
By this split, gamma correction definitely would belong to Poser 8. In case I use Pro because I want to export scenes, I don't need it in Pro anyway, and if I use Pro for the bigger throughput, I still want to see a sample frame during development.
Given the effort it takes to do gamma correction manually in the material nodes, and the importance of it (see bagginsbill's frequent posts ;-) ), it is definitely a must-have in P8.

Was it left out intentionally for some reason I don't grasp, or was it just not yet ready due to required adaptions for IDL, or has it been made redundant by the new tone mapping feature?
(I think I read in some post that it was planned for PoserPro 2).

Best regards,
    Michael