Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=1098936&Start=1&Artist=Jovial&ByArtist=Yes

Hi Karen,

I have never gone huge on the render image size (approx 2000 x 2000 pixels was one of the highest resolutions I did, largely because of texture constraints, render time and because it was only going to be posted at my Rosity Gallery) but I have had a little experience of Poser 5 and Poser 6 (Firefly renderer) being unable to render too many figures (sometimes as low as two or three millenium figures and once as high as 5 millenium figures) in a complex scene.

I have found a workable solution if I use too many figures for Poser then I can export a wavefront scene (.obj and .mtl files), pass the scene through PoseRay (a free wavefront to POV-ray converter by flyerx) and then render in POV-ray (a free renderer). The results are quite good BUT P5/P6 material shaders are not supported.

On the plus side: POV-ray does have some nice pre-defined materials and the lighting options are quite good (including radiosity). See the image in the link for an example of using POV-ray to render a P6 scene from my gallery.

For anyone who is interested,
PoseRay is at:
http://mysite.verizon.net/sfg0000/
and POV-ray is at:
http://www.povray.org/

I have been told that POV-ray can handle massively complex scenes although PoseRay has somewhat lower complexity limits, but still way beyond P5 or P6.

I have tested PoseRay and POV-ray with 8 (nekkid) millenium figures with no problems. See the following link:

(WARNING NUDITY on the following link)
http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=1106009&Start=1&Artist=Jovial&ByArtist=Yes

Happy New Year to you too.
Jovial.