If the render engine attached to a $3500 program (or even to an $800 program) wasn't in some ways better than the render engine connected with a $300 program......then I think that the purchasers of the more expensive apps would be the people who were being ripped off.

Poser's renderer is fine -- within the limits of what it's set up to do.  But I believe that those limits should be recognized and admitted to.

I'll add that a Poser render tends to look like a Poser render.  I've seen some Poser images that have definitely stood above the crowd -- and I've also seen Poser renders that have been Photoshopped into being the equal of a render done.......say in Lightwave using FPrime.  Which is a perfectly legitimate thing to do......but which in its own way also serves to point out the limits of Poser's borders.

I'll end this post on my same broken-record note: Poser Pro will probably manage to get beyond these limitations.  Or at least that's what I'm hoping to see happen.

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