*"To be honest it still has a way to go, as I haven't seen any really nice metals out of Poser yet still..."*

I think these metals look pretty good. I made the materials myself out of a few nodes. It took me far longer to find a few freebie objects that make sense as metals for an indoor still life image. Maybe we don't see metal renders in Poser because everybody is doing skin and hair and clothes. I was really surprised I couldn't find at least 10 sets of silverware. All I found that was decent was that one spoon.

Poser is perfectly capable of doing metals, but I will say this: Compared to other renderers, it is excruciatingly slow. This simple render took 97 minutes.

This was done with 2 raytrace bounces, so we get reflections of reflections. In addition to the metals, I also used reflection on the glass in the picture frame, and on the wood table.

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