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It is a very capable renderer. It supports global illumination, caustics, soft shadows, IES lights, lots of neat stuff in the lighting model. It has a pretty sophisticated material model, too.

I've only played with it a tiny bit. I don't yet know how to import Poser figures and such. I've only played with the built-in primitive shapes. RobynsVeil is way ahead of me on this.

One thing I'm not clear on is how/if it does polygon smoothing. For example, when you load the built-in library sphere, it is very low poly. You can see this on the edges. I'm not sure that it has micro-polygon smoothing built in. Something to think about.

But what is very exciting is how it handles light! This is the number one reason to consider using it instead of Poser's renderer. Check out some of the gallery images on the site. The interiors really show off the sophisticated lighting model.

Strangely, there doesn't seem to be a single human figure rendered in their gallery. Maybe we can correct that? :)

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