silverthorne, operaguy: You knew that mental Ray and VRay are production level renderers, and priced as such? It would surely nice to have a bridge to either of them, but most people here think that FireFly is complex - and spending another $1000 just for the render is probably a bit overpriced for most.

A lot of renderers do SSS, because you need it for a lot of stuff. As far as I know, you can even have SSS with PovRay. A good way for poser people would be Vue d'Esprit, which does have SSS. Although that would mean that you would have to construct your skin shader with Vue's material system.

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