Quote - luvver, Poser firefly is a raytracer. I am getting not bad results with it under raytrace. However, we have heard the litany so many hundreds of times about how horrible firefly is, slow as anything, etc. etc. etc., that I am going on the assumption that if one can get one's scene into a "big league" platform with "big league" render engines, one would be able to achieve Poser-like results, but at a much greater speed.

I've already had a failure in this, with Carrera. Is it possible all the fuss to go to the "big leagues" ain't worth it?

What say you?

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I'll probably get a lot of people who disagree with me here, but I think the same problems you faced in Carrara you will face in Max, plus a lot more too.  People talk about real sss and all that in 3dsmax, and this is true.  But once you start using stuff like that, any minor speed advantage you did have is gone right out the window, and lots of problems in animation will start to surface, like artifacting.  I'm not saying these high end renderers aren't better.  they are for some things, but once you get into those "things", they are no longer that much faster anyway.