POV-ray's biggest strength over poser is that it lights up 6-sided architectural sets much better. If you just render Poser figs in front of an image map or a simple floor/wall set, Poser rendering is fine. I've also never had a render crash in POV-ray regardless of how many figs I have in the scene. svdl, I have seen sss scripts for skin for POVray. The apps' great masters do toy with Poser figs a bit, Gilles Tran most notably, with very good results.