Yes I understand fortunately my marketplace product is For animation and not dependent on ultra hi res single frames certainly NOT GI renders For me personally any new version of poser became MOOT after P6 and the advent of Interposer pro for C4D I can Imagine your pain in having to go from the Ease of AR3  to this "Young" GI engine for poser 8 but maybe it will get sorted with a few service pack releases.

Oh and as far getting Away from poser rigs altogether, its something I am consider as well for Character animation especially for the Hair and softbody dynamics.

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