Last week I finally decided to get my hands on Max and Vray combo that's been sitting around here unused while I've been tinkering with Poser. Guess what, in a day of reading documentation and tutorials I had renders with much higher quality.... and I'm barely scratching the surface of what Max+vray or max+mental ray can do. <<<

That Cinema render that I posted a link to also used Cinema's version of VRay. Boy, am I tempted! That render engine alone is twice the full version of Poser Pro. But .... WOW