Quote - Keep in mind that if speed is a top priority, you do not HAVE TO render with GI every single time.  This should be obvious, but I keep hearing fretting about "gosh will it take longer to render with GI huh willit huh???"  If you want to render without shadows, without polygon smoothing, without any kind of quality options whatsoever, I'm sure your renders will be really fast.  They will look like, well, what they are (renders with zero quality options) but they will surely be fast, at least compared to max quality options.  This isn't specific to Poser, it's true of all CG - quality costs time, and max quality may not always be the priority (e.g. in animation).

I know quality takes time. Speed is not a huge priority for me although I don't think I could do super high settiings and have it render overnight or my old pc would probably die. I skimmed this thread after coming home from a night out with friends ( note to self :reading and comprehension are not your friends when alcohol comes into play )

About halfway or a little above settings would be fine for me and I don't think that would increase the time too much.  

Does anybody have anything to say about the new rigging? Did you notice a huge difference in the way these new figures bend compared to ealier figures? Im curious about how much of a difference these new features will add.