I bought Poser a year ago with very ambitious ideas in mind. I didn't know anyone else who had it, so I based my purchase decision on the publicity material. These are the things I learned during the past year:

1.  It is not easy. No matter how often they say it in the advertisements, it is not easy. With dedicated effort it has taken me a year to acquire a modicum of skill.

2.  The computer specs in the promotional material are not enough to give you a trouble-free Poser experience. You are going to have to upgrade your computer, probably again and again.

3.  It "kind of" works. The pictures you see in promotional renders are not what you will be producing Not for a very long time.. The program falls over a lot, and you won't understand why.. Conforming clothes have poke-throughts and if your computer is not up to it, forget about fixing them with the morphing tool. The morphing tool needs a really fast computer. Dynamic clothes need lots and lots of patience, because finding the right parameters settings for a given simulation is largely a matter of trial and error.

4.  Having bought Poser and committed some time to it, you are going to find that there are a number of other things you desperately want. PhilC's OBJ2CR2 utility saved my relationship with Poser for me. I even use it to fix stuff I bought. I don't even want to think about the money I have spent on clothes, and skins, and objects. Thank heaven for ShareCG and the free stuff section here.

5.  Having acquired the content, you are going to need storage, lots of it. External hard drives to the rescue.

6.  The documentation that came with the program is only starting to make sense now. Written by experts for experts, it went over my head.

So here I am. I had no idea what I was letting myself in for when I bought the program. My ambitious plans have been scaled down, and scaled down again. But I am still at it, and still learning.

Poser 11 Pro, Windows 10

Auxiliary Apps: Blender 2.79, Vue Complete 2016, Genetica 4 Pro, Gliftex 11 Pro, CorelDraw Suite X6, Comic Life 2, Project Dogwaffle Howler 8, Stitch Witch