Attached Link: http://www.keindesign.de/stefan/poser/poserman.html

**wolf359:** *i havent dug deep into the manual but to claim this is viable alternative renderer for the average poser user is wishful thinking in my opinion.* Not yet, but I am working on an exporter for Poser, that you could try yourself if you had Poser 5 and Windows, see the link. **sithgoblin:** May I remind you of "California Dreaming" and the screenshots in it? I'd be careful to judge an app just by three screenshots. *And I remember reading something about the D|S render engine and Renderman, don't remember what, but Renderman sure is good...* To put things straight: RenderMan is a specification, and API, not a renderer. PRMan is Pixar's implementation of RenderMan, 3Delight is DNASoft's impelementation of RenderMan and Poser 5's FireFly is also a RenderMan implementation to a certain degree. They also have in common that they're micropolygon renderers with procedural shading, giving them an advantage over classic raytracers when it comes to displacements, 3d motion blur or depth of field(*). In contrast, they are usually slower at raytracing. (*) Note how applications like Cinema 4D implement depth of field and motion blur only as post effects and not as render effects and that their displacements are limited by the mesh resolution.