Quote - Note: My specific objection was the following:

a veteran 3DBuzz person dissed the Poser tools. He was trying to disparage VRay over (his favorite) MentalRay by insinuating VRay was "poser-like" since all you did was push a button and the render popped out.

I specifically elucidated the complex tools we now have in Poser7 only for the purpose of disabusing the person of the notion that Poser was a toy with only one button.

By the way, several of the 3DBuzz people correctly understood. While they still probably feel the entire Poser universe is beneath them, at least they now know Poser "needs to be tweaked" in order to achieve something advanced. I showcased and advanced render to illustrate this.

 

The problem I see with the whole thing here is that you are trying to respond to someones crappy emotional response with logic. Doesn't work that way. If someone is determined to look down his nose at something (which is an emotion, rather then fact), there's no fact in the world that will make him say, oh, you're right.
The issue is that some people using higher apps probably don't feel sufficiently appreciated, and get jealous when they see applications that some of them 'think' take less effort get attention.
There's also been many instances where unrefined poser renderings have made their way to more sophisticated galleries, and people who made them got all uipset because of the negative response they got, when they insisted their piece was woreth more then it was.

There are people with bad tempers, void of manners and unrealistic view on things everywhere. Even among artists or highly skilled people. Just because someone is a good artist, soent mean they have pleasant social skills, or just because someone has good technical 3D skills, doesn't mean they are capable of producing a visually pleasing piece.

It's not about the applications nearly as much as it is about personalities. There are bad apples and good apples on both sides.

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