> Quote - I like Poser for modelling characters but as for making renderings ... it's a CRAP. Any best shaders and cosmic inventions won't help. It's rendering engine is 10 years behind the competition. For this purpose I import character as .OBJ into 3DMax and use VRay render. I recommend anybody interested in decent quality renderings using other software than Poser. Amen

Them's fightin' words.

That statement is "a CRAP". That's the stupidest thing I see around here, and far too often. Sorry for being blunt, but that was just a major asshole thing to post here.

Novice CG users produce crap even with VRay. It's not the tool. I agree that some tools are more capable, more sophisticated, more efficient, but there's no reason to claim that Poser is crap.

A proper response would be to suggest how to improve - where to learn. It's not like it has to be hard. Yes writing a shader is hard if you don't know how. But I publish hundreds of free shaders and software that makes it truly easy to produce much better renders, such as this one. Yes it's not photo-realistic, but it is just a couple clicks and it's light years better than 90% of what's in the Poser gallery.

Poser is a hobby for most people. They cannot afford $8000 rendering engines. I can, but I choose not to because this is a hobby, not my job. I do happen to own a car that does 200 miles per hour and cost me over $100,000. Does that give me the right to say your are driving an inferior car, and you need to buy a better one so you can corner faster? Hardly. If you're a novice driver, the super car won't really help you.

I see this is your first post. Not a good start.

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