I've read the poser 8 review, good stuff, very helpful. One question though.....

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Improvement #2: Faster Rendering TimeThis is one of Poser 8's biggest improvements. In our opinion it's even bigger than the new content management system. We were able render images as quickly as 1 minute rendering times for default rendering settings. Even the Final rendering time is incredible at 10 minutes. These times are based on a computer that has 2.5 GB RAM so new computer will have faster rendering times. The 10 minute rendering time is a big improvement in two ways; 1. st's faster and 2. Poser 8 now has better and more complex lighting capabilities.

Sounds great, but it's pretty much worthless without giving the render times on Poser 7 or Poser Pro. If something renders in 10 minutes on Poser 8, how long did that same scene take on Poser 7? 11 minutes? 12 minutes? 20 minutes? 60 minutes?

Secondly what did you render? One figure? One Prop? A complete figure with clothes, textures and hair? A complete scenes with figures, props and background?

I'd love to know to be able to really judge if Poser 8 is that much faster in rendering compared to Poser 7 or Poser Pro.

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Due to the childish TOS changes, I'm not allowed to link to my other products outside of Rendo anymore :(

Food for thought.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYZw0dfLmLk