Heh. You're understating how impressed we should be with Octane. It's not that Poser is so crappy, although it is at the bottom of the scale if we stack up renders. It is that Octane is totally state of the art - unique - not merely decent, but mind-blowing.

"Octane Render is the world's first GPU based, un-biased, physically based renderer. "

First, and only as far as I'm aware. Could be wrong. This is not the norm yet.

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