I don't find Poser lights/shadows stunted, unless you mean radiosity/GI. I am getting wonderful results and control using raytrace shadows, both hard-edged and completely soft with beautiful gradations. Sometimes I use the provided lights, others high-quality HDRI probes.

I'm rendering out openEXR and editing in PS.

But sure, would love true radiosity. But why bother even implementing GI unelss FireFly can either 'get way faster all of a sudden" or the aforementioned VRay comes on board.

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