Relatively few gallery posters used IBL, but in the last year 314 images in the Poser gallery mentioned IBL or AO, which means several thousand actually used it.

Granted, most of them are devotees you and I know, people who also use VSS and the environment sphere and the shadow catcher and so on. These people will use the new feature. They would also use SSS if we had it. But wanting SSS is a figure-centric desire, whereas GI applies to everything. Given I can only have one, I take GI.

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Renderosity forum reply notifications are wonky. If I read a follow-up in a thread, but I don't myself reply, then notifications no longer happen AT ALL on that thread. So if I seem to be ignoring a question, that's why. (Updated September 23, 2019)