Quote - > Quote - if ya hafta turn off shadows, turn off ray-tracing, turn off most of the rendering features just to churn out an image, then my suggestion is not to bother rendering it in poser. those are exactly the reasons why 3D snobs hate poser renders (that and not bothering to add facial expressions, set up proper lighting, fix deformed joints and fix bad bends because it would take too much time and effort). if poser is too slow and hard to use for renders, then use something else (maya, lightwave, carrara etc. ad infinitum) that was programmed for better renders, long before poser had any advanced rendering capabilities.

 

I say just use the P4 rendering engine if ya want to go that far.

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True. But the question was how to do faster renders, not how to do renders
equivalent of the quality of Maya, Lightwave, Carrara.  If you want that kind
of quality, it will take longer.  If you want faster renders, use the P4 engine,
if you want better renders, use Firefly. If you want more expensive renders,
use Maya.  Faster, better, cheaper, take your pick.