The gains of using something like Bryce, Vue, or Carrara are worth it however. You can nearly always tell the difference in renders of Poser versus one of these.

If you are using Poser mostly to give yourself a figure with which to insert into a photoshop file for post render work, all you need is Poser. But if you are using it to get figures for complex 3D scenes, you're going to want one of the above apps in which to build that scene rather than Poser.

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