I played with Poser and BMRT back when it was available so the .rib export does work on some level. The priblem with any of these things is that you need a CS degree to use them. POVRay can produce great results and with PoseRay, the basics are easy. Go beyond that and I'd have to learn another programming language. Nice little GUIs like Poser 6 are cute but you're still left to IMO needlessly complex manipulation. Give me a library of real world lights, materials and environments and a render button. I'll gladly leave the tinkering to those who enjoy it. I think that if 3D is ever going to emerge from a niche, someone will have to create that type of rendering functionality.

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