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That's not how the thread started out. The only reason I'm not using it anymore is because of the horrible long rendering times. I'm getting excellent results, but whenever a render takes more then 4 hours, it's not worth it for me. I've got better things then waiting for a render to finish. 7 hours is way too much for me and on top of it a crash. Poser IDL  isn't broken, it just lags a lot.

Well to be honest, I didn't read the beginning of this thread. I just looked at the car pictures, wondered what that had to do with Poser GI/IDL, and moved on until I found something I wanted to argue with. ;-)

So I didn't mean to imply you were just bitching or something, or not understanding it - I was just speaking in general 3D terms, assuming Poser 8's GI works at least similar to other 3D apps.

But I'd imagine you're right about its long render times. Frankly I'm amazed at how comparatively slow Poser Pro is with things that other apps just fly through like nothing, so I assume that that hasn't changed too much.
And that most definitely IS a very legitimate gripe that they would make a feature that nobody can really use, especially when half the controls are hidden away in an undocumented script somewhere.

Of course I believe what BB says about the SR 1. That's what I'm waiting for and don't see much reason to be interested in it until then.