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So, too, there are other, specialized, more expensive renderers that can do soft speculars with environment maps. Poser doesn't have this but it's actually easy to do. If they would let me work on the source code for the renderer, I'm sure I could fix it. That's not what I'm working on. :)

What a waste of your talents. I'm sure whatever you are doing for them is quite brilliant, but everyone here knows you for your shader work and analytical approach to materials and rendering. It just seems insane that you're not helping to improve Poser in these fields by getting under the hood of the coding.
But I see you've discussed this already. If this is what SM's market research and development suggest is right for Poser I can see why they steer that way, but I can't help thinking that for an app whose main function is to render that this would seem somewhat short-sighted.
Oh well.

 

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