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When you say render it in another program.  How would I do that from a Poser 6 scene?  Are there other programs that can handle Poser 6 content?  Thanks in advance.
Adrian

Vue. Bryce. Carrara. Studio. Cinema 4D. Take your pick.

With each you will have the learning curve, and obviously some issues translating some settings; each "reads" Poser content differently, and as far as I know, all of them require some tweaking when importing. Special poser nodes will probably not work, except maybe the Vue 6 family; I'm waiting for my standard copy, but people that have V6I might be able to let you know how well that works -or not-. Just don't expect to have a figure set up with one of face-off's real skin shaders in poser to import and render exactly like that in any of the other programs, and keep in mind that usually you will find ways of obtaining similar effects, even if the methods are slightly different.

But, being sick of Poser 6's bad scene management myself, I've started to migrate to C4D, where I've also started modelling. InterPoser Pro is a great way of doing this, but I know the whole solution is pricey. And I am a LOT happier about the lighting management in C4D, even though I'm still getting to grips with it. Let's put it like this: for my last piece, C4D rendered a 2800px high copy of the base image in all of 18 minutes (no background, sky or fire, that's all postworked), but with a not so simple lighting set up, shadows, and with bump maps and displacements maps, and extra work with the shaders to get skin, flesh and latex working. Just for kicks I started a poser render at the same size and render settings, but with much less shader/material and lighting complexity, when I started reading this thread. It is still halfway through after half an hour, and the results are not nearly as good, particularly on the critter's skin. That has finished selling me, and I will mostly try to keep to C4D, unless I really need something that has to be done in Poser -like using Olivier's shaders, at least until I can afford Sketch & Toon.

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