*"How easy is it to make a meal?"
"What's the best 3D app?"

loL, it's not a simple question, I'm afraid, it all depends on *what you are planning to do, and what the scene is" etc :)

Vue with Poser import ability (which is most of them now) can load an entire Poser scene in a few seconds or a minute or two.

But...to make it good, yes it will take time and effort, IMHO. I'm a fussy bast*rd, lol, so I go in and edit the hell out of materials etc to get it working the way I like ;)

note that Poser materials have HUGE textures and unless you have an uber PC, it can hammer Vue to the ground...3 or 4 Poser folk with 4000x4000 textures = you better have at least 2 gigs of RAM.

My tutorial on this, note I'm going to update this soon, as I need ot add in stuff about SSS, and saving as .vob for max effciency :)
http://www.silverblades-suitcase.com/tutorials/htm/18.html

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