So some days now since venturing into the nightmare that appears to be Poser and my knowledge is growing along with my conviction that this is just about the worse example I have ever seen of something that should, considering its not free, be intuitive and user friendly. During my hunt for info I have discovered that Poser is now owned by Bondware and that Renderosity is minding the shop since Smith Micro left the scene. It seems to me that looking at the really early versions of this thing the actual interface remains pretty much the same. Not to say that some stuff has not been done, attempts to add creative options and improve some aspects have been made, overall it seems to me those have only succeeded in making the thing even more difficult to understand. Its possibly ok if your a CG expert or someone with technological skills, but if, like me your a hobbyist with little in that respect, your in for a rough ride! One of the videos I watched the narrator mentions that this programme is not without glitches, in what world is it okay for the producers of instructional material for their own programme to admit its got glitches and years later to still be taking money and not having cured those faults. Renderosity is a commercial undertaking I think, and this may well be the best thing that has happened to Poser for years. The new owners may see the commercial potential from a drastic rethink in terms of user appeal. If you want to see the content that people create you need to make things easy to use to encourage sales. I will continue to try and fathom this thing out and hope that soon there will be a dramatic evolution in what is an over complicated and difficult to learn programme... Right now its definitely not worth the money...

You got to remember. It was only a few months ago that Renderosity aka Bondware had acquired the said software, warts, glitches and all. They are endeavoring to first flush out all the bugs and work out all the glitches (well, some of them) in a timely manner. The said software is a mess of patches and whatnot from the early days of Poser from the Lab company to Smith Micro. So it will be awhile before it is polished to perfection that you can expect in a spanking brand-new software that has been around since the early days of computing.

Sit back and hold on tight. The ride is just beginning.

Thanks for the reply. I think your right about the fact that the ride is just beginning, and I think that, maybe hope is a better word because my knowledge is minimal, Renderosity being primarily interested in the marketing of the software and content will be keen to sort out this mess and build a solid profitable business. It needs a total rebuild as far as user interface and friendliness is concerned but any half way intelligent person could tell that, and I have no doubt that the new guys and gals are probably capable of doing the job. I paid my money, and I have no choice but to go along for the ride, its going to be interesting and I hope results will not be long in arriving....

The learning curve is not bad, try the freeware DAZStudio without any formal documentation and then re-evaluate your assessment of Poser. ThunderStone is right on with the state of affairs on Poser development. Users have complained about specific features without success. And whatever gets fixed, something else gets broken. Consider this, compared to other 3d programs, Poser is inexpensive and has backward compatibility with older models and materials. Totally revamp the program, not only will you set back productivity for everyone, you will pay more for those features. This type of major compromise will bury the software. And also take into account, the major figure that keeps Poser running is Victoria 4, a DAZ product.

I can honestly say as an ordinary user, someone who doesn't create content or modify it in extreme ways, that I have found it very, very rare to come across "glitches", and those that I have come across usually seem to be caused by third party content.

As to the ui, many poser users have stuck with the program because of the ui. Whether something is intuitive really depends on past experience. Someone who has always used windows pc's will find somethings on a Mac counterintuitive that to Mac users are completely intuitive.

Sometimes watching lots of tutorials can be counter productive. To an extent it will really help if you just try things.

For example, in other posts you have said about posing and how LaFemme doesn't work as per the tutorial. Just clicking on a body part, such as the abdomen you will see dials in the parameters window labelled twist, side to side and bend. Just moving the dials will do exactly what they say.

Yes there are things that are not intuitive, for example the difference between adding clothing to a seen by double clicking or drag and dropping, but once you find out they rapidly become second nature.

So I would advise just play, stick to the pose room and the content library, and just ask when you have questions, to get a basic scene with provided content is much easier than you might now believe. .