Yes.  Although Poser's renderer has been beefed up quite alot since Poser 4/ProPack with the help of Firefly, it is also one of the slower renderers around.

Cinema 4D R9.6 (w/Advanced Render module) is one of the faster renderers around.  I wouldn't use anything else, but read on.

Vue 5 has a much improved renderer and is great for atmospherics and landscapes.  It tends to be slow - but one must acknowledge what it's rendering - trees and grass and so on.  I tend to do landscapes and sun effects in Vue.

Don't know about Vue 5, but Vue 5 Infinite and Cinema 4D will render using as many cpus as are available.  That alone puts Poser rendering in the dust.  I can render a scene in C4D with dual processors+HT many times faster than Poser could do a similar but simpler render.  Let's just say that a scene with fully clothed figures might take Poser several hours to render at a good render quality whereas C4D might take a few minutes and achieve much better quality.

Robert

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