The best way to work is on a minimum of the scene at any one time. I often start with the actual scenery unless I'm using a prebuilt room or something like the DAZ environments. I'll often do the lights at this point, since interior scenes often have the light positions set by whatever internal light fittings are present. The scene is then saved as a PZ3 without lights and the lights saved as a separate file in case I need to alter them later. Once that's done, I save it and work on the characters one at a time, saving them out to a "Custom Figures" folder in the Figures library. Next I'll work on the poses, often one figure at a time, only adding others if there is any interaction between them. The poses are saved to a "Custom Poses" folder. Once I have all the scene elements, I'll then build the whole scene, adding the characters, props and lights, making necessary adjustments on the fly. Next, I'll save the whole scene and do a test render in P4 mode. If that works I'll cross my fingers and hope Firefly doesn't choke on the scene and try a P5 render. Often I have to chop up the scene so P5 can handle it. I've had it happen in P4, too. Once the renders are done I composite them together in Photoshop. I rarely do any other postwork.

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