**templargfx, 

that is an excellent image, one of the best I have ever seen out of Poser.  But stop and think how much time and effort that took to achive and never mind the render time.  If you take the girl out even and just had the scene and car that would still take a long while to make all your adjustments.  But if you did that in Lux through Reality then it would be load set, load car, position car, lauch Reality, make your adjustments there and trust me it doesnt take much once you learn the basics, then hit render button and its off to Lux. 

See this post by Paolo about Lux, times and my 1 hour version of the same car render from lux:  http://forum.daz3d.com/viewtopic.php?p=2443046#2443046

I mentioned this over at the Daz forums as well:

**I was setting up a pwS2 version of the car pic and gave up cause of all the work involved in getting it to look good. Before I used Reality/LuxRender I had no issues with sitting there for hours messing with surfaces in pwS2 but now, there is no comparison. Its not worth your time to mess with HSS or pwS2 or any other shader like them.

When you go to use Reality, my best advice is to forget what you know about setting up surfaces in DS. **

****odf,

Are you using VirtualBox for your windows system?  If so you can give the guest OS direct access to any folder on the host machine and move all your scenes there.  Then you can render in Lux thats installed on your Linux OS.****

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