I am curious..is there a program that will let you import a scene made in Poser and render it? I am tired of my Poser 5 rendering always freezing up on me, and am looking to try something new :-) Sarah

Vue, Shade, PoseRay, TransPoser, ...

and Cinema4DXL

Don't forget Bryce5

Somebody has to say it. Poser 6. (It isn't Poser 5 anyway)

On a serious side, there is also truePose for trueSpace.

Just to expand a little on Stewers post,

transposer is used in Carrara, and PoseRay uses POV-Ray for rendering.

Message edited on: 05/23/2005 12:40

Message edited on: 05/23/2005 12:40

Depends on what you have in your Poser scene. Dynamic cloth and hair: only Vue with Mover (and maybe 3DS Max with the Reiss Body studio plugin) Dynamic cloth, no dynamic hair: Vue with Mover, Shade, 3DS Max Animations without dynamic cloth or hair: the above, plus PoseRay, TransPoser (probably they have to be scripted). Stills: Vue without Mover, and everything that can handle .OBJ or .3DS files. In just about any renderer you loose the P5 shader nodes. Vue and Shade tend to be the best in keeping material settings as they should be (and maybe Reiss BodyStudio too, I don't know, it's too expensive for me).

DAZ|Studio.

Just a quick correction on Carrara, and my 2 cents worth.

Carrara Studio 4 (CS4) and Transposer2 let you "import" full animations from the Poser .pz3 file, including dynamic cloth and dynamic hair. If you want to speed your render times up a bit, CS4 Pro and Transposer2 will let you use up to 5 additional machines for render nodes. CS4 has GI and HDRI for great lighting with minimal setup. The render engine in P6 is better than P5, but I still prefer the CS4 render engine.

I believe that Vue5 also supports dynamic hair.

I'll throw in a vote for Carrara 4 Pro, too. Excellent renderer and a lot faster than Poser in most cases. I don't do stills generally. The extra time needed to render animations in Poser would make me crazy.

P5 shouldn't lock-up! Are you running SR4? It's often the case that hair props do the damage. Maybe try using some of Koz' hair and see if that helps.