"If this program gets artists thinking about their light sources, it is worth it. (I am sooooo tired of looking at gallery images with bloated suns and full brightly glowing moons... and no shadows.)" Excellent point. Does anyone know if Shade supports Network Rendering or distributed rendering? That could make a world of difference in rendering high quality GI as far as render times are concerned as well. Instead of having just one processor slaving away on calculations, you can have several.

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Tools :  3dsmax 2015, Daz Studio 4.6, PoserPro 2012, Blender v2.74

System: Pentium QuadCore i7, under Win 8, GeForce GTX 780 / 2GB GPU.