Quote - Guess you missed the announcement of network rendering....

 

Since Poser's renderer is frankly in the "very poor" category, I don't have any interest in stapling network rendering on top of that.   Will the boneheaded division of labor for multi-threaded rendering be distributed across many nodes, so you can waste 3/4 of your CPU power on multiple boxes at the same time?  Super!

Will you get occasional inexplicable crashes when Smooth Polygons is enabled on multiple render servers?  Whee, fabulous!

Grid-like artifacts in AO shading on flat surfaces distributed across a render farm?  Woo, I'm so excited! http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2697196 

People don't generally stick with Poser because it's a great renderer, they use it because it's a cheap alternative and there's a lot of easy-to-use cheap content.  Raising the price tag without really improving the renderer's quality doesn't excite me.  Any supposed speed improvement by spreading the work across multiple servers is also going to be countered by the cost of the extra render servers, and the cost of buying the "Pro" version of poser.

By the way any folks who already own and use P7, you can take it for granted you will be getting low priority support for the next year or two, while the business is focused on delivering and supporting this new Pro version.

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