Good point.

I have only the standard Poser5 stuff. So I tested with the dog. The texture is blured, not sharp (but in DirectX or OpenGL, the textures are perfect).

So, even if GPU real-time display render is not there (yet), in this point Curious Lab is not helping.

I still wonder if Curious Lab is doing all the real-time display render 100% software based ("flat" as you say). It seems (for me) they pass something to the GPU.

In parallel, I read DirectX 10 will NOT be available for at least the next 2 years. The reason is because Vendor implementations of current capabilities of DirectX 9 is far from the edge.

Maybe nVidia, introducing GELATO, is trying to push Microsoft and also see how much developers support that.

We face a paradigm: "Today's real-time renders is not good enough for photorealism in complex scenes".

It's a chicken-egg circle (Application Render Developers versus "Real-time GPU-aided" Render Vendors)

It's nice to see Curious Lab providing the feature to generate AVI from the "display" render, but unfortunately they are not stressing the "display" quality as it is possible today.

Marcio