Oh, yes, shadow maps sometime take a long time too.

At least you made it to the rendering phase. Sometimes, before SR3, Poser 6 would stall on creating the shadowmaps/adding objects/textures. I waited nearly 12 hours before it actually began to render, and then it quit, saying it ran out of memory/couldn't find texture, etc. Now THAT was painful :)

If a render takes too long, I usually stop it, and then go back and lower the texture sizes again, and reduce the size of shadow maps, delete more morphs, etc until Poser actually works.

I've found that if I need to do heavy reflections, or use lots of spotlights, D|S is faster. You just have to tweak things again that D|s had trouble importing. But it renders like a dream, and very quickly.

-- Jeff