don't give up hope yet on FFRender, and keep any of these suggestions in mind, if they aren't already in poser 8 and when the time comes to post the poser 9 wishlist.  in re: interfacing to other renderers, what they sometimes do is export pz3 files and open 'em in carrara, or they access poser runtimes and open cr2 files in carrara. 

p.s. it must drive the coders crazy to toil over FFRender nite and day, only to look on poser websites and see nostril-glow renders in banners, ads, gallery and marketplace.  working their butts off to make a 21st-century renderer, only to find it used to create boob shots of dead-doll zombies, and all the ads in mags and on tellyvision are using posette and dork with p4 renderer. :crying: