I appreciate the warning and am realizing it might not be a bed of roses.

You know, I tried going into Carrera with Poser scenes....I didn't end up better off. Especially for dynamic hair, close up, by the time you get the lighting right and ratchet Carrera up to the quality of Poser for skin, hair, closeups, etc.....you either can't get the quality at all or if you do, the render is slower than in Poser.  That was a weeks-long trial with a lot of hard work about a year and a half ago. Maybe things are better now.

I think also jonthecelt brought up a good issue about transfering poser dynamic hair and cloth.  It might be better to use the ones that come with Max, for faster rendering.<<
Possibly...but then I would be into "Max-grief" and might as well plunge all the way! I am hoping that for $179 I can move a Poser scene, with dynamic hair, cloth animation, and procedural shaders into Max and with little/no fuss light/render there with a terrific increase in overall speed. We will see.

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