"If you were the head mucky muck and was hiring people for your render engine development project...who would you hire?" Well, actually, they licensed an established renderer 3DeLight) as I understand it. I don't even know if CL wrote FireFly themsleves either. Every CG student seems to has written their own raytracer but I think it takes a special order of the geek priesthood to do it really well. I doubt Daz let's Vicky anywhere near the render engine code.

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