I thought Poser rendered slow, too. A lot of people SLAM poser for this.

So I tried exporting to Carrera. By the time I was able to get my poser animation, including dynamic hair, to come up to about 90% of poser quality, the times were very similar.

So I tried POSERay/POV-Ray.  At first I was told you can't render strand hair. But digging deeper, I discovered a way to turn "lines" into polys in POV-Ray, thus allowing them to render. That turned POV-Ray into my Aunt Lydia's worst molassas oatmeal. I gave up after fussing with it for two days and turned off a render after a few hours on the hair which rendered in Poser in a few minutes.

I'm going to try Max next. My son is purchasing a seat of Max for his college course in it, I'll probably splurge for BodyStudio and see if I can render in Max.

I'd love to try truespaceWithVRay....but dynamic cloth and hair not supported.

I've also tried P4 engine in Poser 5/6/7. By the time you build back any quality, it is slower than Firefly.

I think Firefly is great and fast.

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