I have been doing renders in Poser 8.  I ran the settings all the way up, the way I used to, with indirect lighting, and the sucker hung.  To use indirect lighting, you need some kind of set around the figure to get bounce from.  Otherwise it hangs.  After I put in a set, the render at highest settings took just about 48 hours.  Not going there.

So I found that if I lowered my settings to final and then imported the setting from auto, I could turn on the indirect lighting and get something decent in an acceptable amount of time.    We're talking three or four hours for a render, which I will take.  I'm used to Vue 7 Infinite taking a day or so to render, so I can live with that. 

Injection poses don't seem to work, which kinda sucks.

As I mentioned elsewhere, WHAT'S WITH THE TINY THUMBNAILS?!  ARGH!!!  I am not 20 anymore!  I can't seeee them!  

Feh.

I will say however, that the inbox people are the UGLIEST human figures I have ever seen in my entire life.  Jeeeez, they make the Poser Dork from P4 look like adonis.  WTF?  Have we just given up on competing with Daz?  Feh.

So far, I'm thinking I like Daz Studio Advanced better by far.  But I'm still playing with it, so we'll see if my mind changes.

Juliekitty