Hpdrag, good luck on your project. Is it going to be a full fledged renderer ala 3DLight, POVRay, etc. If so, take a look at the Poser->POVRay features of PoseRay. Steve has done a great job. If you can create a quality render engine that is fast and has a good way to integrate with Poser output, you will be a very popular person. You're right. Until CL rewrites the core of Poser and abandons the old codebase, problems will always be there. I suspect there is still some code in there from the original Mac version :-) Going with a 3rd party render engine wasn't a bad idea, Daz did the same thing, but trying to integrate it with Poser's creaking foundation is asking a lot.

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