Thanks for the reply ghonma, I absolutely would want to drop a scene into the third party app to render, I dont mind paying for a plugin but I dont have the time or experience to start faffing around with redoing textures and lighting etc, it must import to the application I want to use without any drama.

My goal is to create realistic scenes that I can set up and render within poser and then take the whole scene and render it with a suitable high quality renderer for the final image. I am not planning on any animations yet, just still scenes. I dont mind using multiple third party products if some are more suitable say for darkly lit moody internal scenes or perhaps another renderer for bright wide open landscapes, I just dont know whats good, whats crap, whats fantastic and whats easy...

cheers.