Quote - dont get me wrong. i want you to do this. it will be practical

If that remark was with reference to what BagginsBill and Bantha are proposing, I agree. Either proposed script has a valid application. I'd love to have a go at Bantha's script to simplify what I'm doing (and probably show up mistakes I might - probably am - making). For those more pedantic artists, Bantha's script could be a good starting point to get the more obvious stuff out of the way.

Bill's script sounds like a solution for the one-stop, double-click and render crowd. Yes, there IS a market for it... NOW. As time moves on and the economy shifts and improves and people upgrade to Poser Pro that utility will lose marketing appeal. But it is a very valid product now.

My MAIN question has really not been addressed, though. My experience with Poser users has been thus: if they are new to the product, they tend to be overwhelmed by features such as parameter dials and render settings and tend to avoid the material room. If they are seasoned users, they've come up with their own kludgey nuclear-level-lights solutions to the material issue and see this as a too-hard-basket project. What, convert my entire RUNTIME??? No freakin' way! For those users, just even getting them to understand what the problem is and what needs to be done is far beyond their interest level: "I know what I know... don't confuse me with facts!" Getting a buy-in would involve some very aggressive marketing well beyond the scope of a forum, and would also implicate the Poser product itself has having a defect, something an artist would hate to have to acknowledge after having plunked down hard cold cash for the thing.

So, we're facing some challenges on that front. If we could, however, do a before-and-after render shoot with recognized artists endorsing this process we might see a turn in public opinion and an increased interest in obtaining a solution.

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