What are your specs, then? If you refer to computer system, I use Dynamic hair frequently in animations on a 2MHz system with 384MB of RAM. Works fine. And you sidestep your very point into a new one -- no backing off. You said: "Other than micropolygon displacement, what has Poser 5 really offered that is so much better than Poser 4, Poser 3?" I responded with those features. You did not, in your original post, meniton "specs" or Other software, you specifically asked about Poser 4 and Poser 3. The point still stands. What is IBL? IBL is Image Based Lighting, which is a sort of subset of GI and HDRI and all that other fun stuff -- IBL is exposed, but the rest is not. The rendering engine is quite capable of them -- the features haven't been exposed yet. "...Poser doesn't have anything near a realistic rendering engine (and slow at that) or a realistic lighting/shadowing model." You must be dwelling in Poser 4, sir -- Poser 5 uses Firefly, a hybrid Reyes renderer that's renderman complaint and posesses several advanced features you obviously haven't researched adequately. In point of fact, it's often considered a superior rendering engine to 3Delight -- the full features of which D|S ALSO hasn't exposed yet. Further, you mentioned you use Vue, yet you say you can't import these features to other apps when Reiss Studios has plugins available and continues to develop more of them and you yourself own Vue, which has Mover 5, which is capable of transferring the dynamics (hair and cloth) into what you obviously consider a better source (Vue). Perhaps if you learned to use the software properly, you might actually be able to hold an argument of substance. As it is thus far, you do not.

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