Hi some things ,Computer technology related, are complex
because the function we demand from them .Military
fighter planes for example

But many things,Computer technology related, are overly complex simply because of BAD initial Design,or in the case of software , designed by technocratic engineers
who dont know or even care about the end user experience.

Here is a quote from another thread where some user were reporting  48-96 hour render times for one frame with the new IDL:
***"Plus for IDL, the Diffuse_Value should not ever be 1 - it should be around .8, but only for materials that are opaque. Water is completely transparent, and has NO diffuse reflection at all.
Remove the image that goes to Diffuse_Color altogether. 
Set Diffuse_Value = 0.
Remove the Reflect node.
Disconnect the other image from the Refract_Color channel.
Connect a Fresnel node to Refract_Color, and set Refract_Value = .9
Set the IOR on the Fresnel to 1.333.
Render without IDL and see how that looks.
Then if the bump map is not a JPEG or is huge, I'd open it in Photoshop, and save it as JPEG, no more than 1K in dimension.
Your render settings show Min Shading Rate = 0. That's really aggressive. Try test render with it at 1. If things look blotchy, try .5.
On the water prop, I'd set the water Min Shading Rate to 1, even if you need a better rate on the rest of the scene.
Render without IDL, and see how it looks. Then try with IDL again."

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With all well deserved respect to this person(Bagginsbill) he is truly a master of his field
But this just makes my head hurt
Posers is still largely an application for "lay people"
and to a "lay person" this may as well be the formula
for grinding a custom lense for the hubble telescope.

On the matter of DAZ figures/ installers/powerloaders???
it has gotten a bit ridiculous.
the Fourth generation figure have almost become complete programs in and of themselves.

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