I only got Poser Pro for the 64bit Firefly render engine and the render speed is really much better. I switched to Vista 64 recently and saw already a huge improvement regarding render speed in P7 compared to XP 32 and with the 64bit Firefly it's even faster. One scene that took about 3 hours to render in P7 takes only about 15 minutes in PPro with the 64bit Firefly thingie. Of course you need to render to background, hitting the render button only starts the 32bit Firefly.

The displacement is much stronger as in P7. When using face_off's skin shader I have to either remove the displacement map or set it to a very small value. Otherwise I'm getting very funny patterns on the skin LOL

I noticed the differences because I wanted to render some scenes at a size and resolution that made P7 crash. I wanted to get some poster prints of some of my renders and needed bigger size and resolution. But I am not happy about the differences iand it's not funny to tweak the lights or the skin shaders or whatever to get similar results. And the Gamma thingie doesn't help much either.

And just to repeat it all over again: they did not fix the transparency bug in Poser Pro - it's still there.

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