"It is MAX that people round here use as a strong render engine, right?"

Well, 3dsmax has several really excellent render engines that can be used with it, but some of them are extra/seperate purchases. I think most people on this site are probably using Bryce or Vue as a render alternative. I use 3dsmax primarily for modeling and animation. You can't really compare Poser's animation tools to what they have in 3ds. ;-P

For most stills, however, I find P6 does the job as good as any. In fact, better than most when it comes to skin shading. Face_Off's skin shader system, I believe, is based on the famous Stahlberg skin shader technique for Maya, which is one of the best (and fastest) skin solutions out there. I'm sure Paul will correct me if I'm wrong about that. ;-P Message edited on: 08/24/2005 20:44

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Tools :  3dsmax 2015, Daz Studio 4.6, PoserPro 2012, Blender v2.74

System: Pentium QuadCore i7, under Win 8, GeForce GTX 780 / 2GB GPU.