"i think the poser community are doing bad renders because poser is nto able to do better. so now SM is not changing it because they are doing bad renders? "

I doubt it. Poser can already do better renders than 90% of the ones in the galleries. But just because Poser can do better, doesn't mean that people's renders will improve. Improving a render takes some work on the part of the user and a lot of people either don't know how or don't want to learn how to do it. The most common failing of the average render is lighting. Most people just don't understand how to do decent lighting, and nothing Poser adds will change that. (For example IBL hasn't improved the general standard of renders very much, although in theory it should have).

Now, if you offer people fasterrenders in Poser, they'll jump on it like a shot. Because that's what a lot of people want - to do the same thing in less time. Whether it's better or not, is beside the point.

I may sound cynical, but in 12 years of using Poser and Daz Studio, the main improvements I see in the actual output have come from improved figures and textures, not from amazing new technologies in the programs. Of course, I'm talking very generally here. There are some people who push the limits of software to great lengths, but for every one of them, there are 10 other people who do fairly average renders which could be improved by knowing more about lighting or the software they're using.

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