It just takes getting used to having worked with M3/V3 for so long. I like the added points of articulation over the default Poser standard (I actually feel a few more wouldn't hurt either).

I have decided to back Dusk/Dawn as my Poser figures. Currently, if I do decide to release figures at some point, or supporting clothing for figures, it will likely be stuff created out of my need for it first (for my projects) that I feel the community may benefit from as well (got a few things kicking around for dusk). I will continue to use and support Poser in some capacity as long as feasible - mainly because of it's ability to either directly or indirectly easily work together with Lightwave, Vue, and other High end Animation programs in my pipeline. I did not know the Beta program was ended. I can't say his observation isn't valid (he is not as in to the 3D scene as I am, and mainly works with me on graphics and modeling for my animation project and real world art projects). On the other hand, in a conversation with my local partner in art it was asked of me if I feel like I have chosen to stay aboard a sinking ship. I want to hope bringing in new blood will be a good move, especially as there are certain features I consider critical for a 3D graphics program I have been requesting since Version 6 and exist in about every other Graphics Program that Poser's dev team has continued to push off. So much this past 2 years that SM has done (or in many cases not done) has really just shot Poser in the foot. I have to say, especially when seeing the responses in the official Poser forums, this move by SM has me worried. They were not responding in that period, but it's understandable. For that meanwhile, the tech support server was down, but I don't know if it's up again by now.

It might be that they are having a server maintenance period, which started last week and would last for several days. One thing I can tell is that SMS has replied promptly every time I have reported critical issues. Reverting back to the previous driver version solved the issue. In the end the cause was NVidia's GeForce driver 381.65, which crashes Poser right at launch.

The lost file was the Poser error log file when I was trying to figure out why it wasn't starting. However, I had a recent issue with Poser SR-6 loosing information because it was storing data at a temp folder, but this time it wasn't related to registration. This should not be happening in the updated versions. I have reported this and SMS changed things to avoid loosing the Poser registration whenever Windows cleans up temp folders. That was caused by SMS storing Poser configuration at a Windows temporary folder that got eventually wiped out. I remember something like this has happened to me when P11 was just released.

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