I think I agree with the idea of having either one or a small set of white lighting setups that are standard for at least one promo render, something everyone can download. On the rest of the images, knock yourself out with a Times Square lightshow if you want. Peng is right. Poser is not just somethig for artists/geeks, excuse me dedicated hobbyists anymore. You can't just assume a level of knowledge or tenacity at trial and error equivalent to your own. Sure some people will graduate to the manual SLR mode but many of them would just be content with decent snapshots. I like the photography anology because that's a field where you can choose between the disposable cardboard camera at one end, the pimped out Nikon at the other and in between, a range of cameras with enough smarts to help even a klutz take pretty good quality pictures. There really is no in between in 3D. Even Poser is more akin to a basic manual SLR. I've said before in several threads, the market is there. The technology is there to make things like lighting much easier than it is. We can do wizards, we can provide realworld referenced presets. Let those who want to tweak tweak away. Give the masses something they can achieve pleasing results with and not have to spend countless hours of ritualistic sacrifice. Whoever does that will become rich.

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