Quote - I suppose this is going out on a limb here...
But does Poser 8 have radiosity disk caching?

I think it does, but not in a way you can control.  One of my renders left a file on disk with a file extension that seemed to relate to irradiance caching but now it's gone (written and removed automatically and silently).  I don't know if this is useful to you.

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