one thing people never do is setup per object shading rates, this will make or break complex renders.

basically, every object has a shading rate. I think the default is 0.10 or something like that. anyway...

if you have an object with a high res texture, 0.2-0.5 will show it without any loss. if you have an object with extremely detailed shaders 0.1-0.2 will do them, but I go 0.05 for V4 and my skin shader.

objects that are basic colors, or have relatively low resolution textures on them can be upped to 1 or higher without them rendering any different.

my render setting for a final render are as follows :

Min Shading Rate - 0.0
Raytracing ON
Shadows ON
Max Reflections - 8
Max Tex Size 4096
Pixel Samples 7
Sync post on 1
Smoothing ON
Depth Of Field ON (I always use DOF)

oh, dont ever set an object with a material with complex shaders to a min shading rate of 0.0. although poser isnt guarenteed to crash, it will seem like it, as it will take an eternity to render the image.

Sure thing Ariana

TemplarGFX
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