In fact there are no new rooms at all, though the Material room has at least been reworked with a new Simple tab designed to protect users from the underlying node-based shader system (still available via the Advanced tab). So looking around the interface what else is new? Version 5 raised expectations with its introduction of no less than six new 'rooms' - Material, Face, Hair, Cloth, Setup and Content - but the changes in version 6 are much more limited. The leap in realism involved is less than that between version 4 and 5 but it's still a big improvement - if you can get over the similarities to Victoria Adams and Michael Owen! Perhaps the biggest change is in terms of the default clothes with the all-white Raelian cult look replaced by much more realistic - if slightly fantasized - bulging jeans and long-sleeved top based on scanned texture maps of real clothes. Don has done his duty and been replaced by James while Judy, the default female model, has been replaced by Jessi. The most obvious change when you load up the new version is the new default customizable model. This means that realism is crucial to the success of Poser and each new release has seen major leaps forward. In particular its aim is no longer simply to help visualize a pose it's job now is to produce the end result itself, either as a rendered image or animation, or as a 3D model for export. In the decade since that first crude release, Poser has changed out of all recognition. To help get their geometry right, traditional artists use a posable wooden mannequin as a model and this was the inspiration for Larry Weinberg, Poser's original developer, back in 1995. Producing realistic people is the most difficult task for traditional artists to achieve and it's the same for today's 3D artists.

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