moogal >>I don't understand what you mean by missing out on materials and lighting effects<<

I meant cast shadows and bump maps and certain shader effects, which are not actuated in the viewport at this time. Sorry I didn't explain that more accurately.

Connie, I am not talking about reducing settings on Firefly in an attempt to get the time down to seconds....I am literally speaking of NOT rendering Firefly at all: just rendering Preview.

Rendering out to lossless image sequence with Preview gives me a rendertime per frame between 1 and 5 seconds (the higher time is with anti-alias turned on.) Since I am going for realism (stylized), I want as much quality in the viewport (preview) as I can get. You can't have cast shadows in the viewport in Poser at this time (3DSMax v2008 just got it). But since I am also going for 'stylized' realism as opposed to the more demanding photorealism, the preview result is sufficient, since I can apply filters and effects in AfterEffects, which might add another 5 seconds or so per frame there.

If I can get a look that works...hey, these are great and necessary render times for the small studio/artist/filmmaker.

moogal >> There's already an option to use the GPU to more closely approximate transparent and procedural materials.  <<<
What option is this please?

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