Quote - I find it interesting to see all of the complaints about the rendering engine, Firefly.

Don't get me wrong, I used to loathe Firefly too. But the problem wasn't the render engine, it was me, the operator.

If you've been following Bagginsbill's Material Room tutorials, you know you can get a whole lot more out of Firefly if you learn the Material Room advanced options. He's just unlocking all of the doors for us math-poor folks, and the results are truly amazing.

Poser's powerful material room is because of the Firefly render engine.

The one thing I definately want/need in Poser 8 is Gamma Correction in rendering, like in Poser Pro. A built in Particles system would be nice, too, but there is at least one Wacro available for purchase.

Oh, and anything to help the python scripters out there is a plus in my book.

-- Jeff

the problem with gamma correction in poser pro is that when you use black and white map from nodes they get gamma corrected. 
so for example i use the ''spots'' node for bump it will ge gamma corrected. but this is nto what you want for bump.for example if you have a transparency map for hair then you can make it 1.0. but when using nodes you can not do this. so until this is fixed i will use GC in materials. i use PP GC only for test renders.