Quote -  Fugazi1968
A question, if I may.
What are the Poser development team doing to improve the rendering opportunities? do you have any idea, 
I have invested quite a lot of time and money in trying to get a handle on animation with Poser ,
The animators that I have made contact with through this forum have been most helpful.
However am I about to be told , " You should have used another program?"
Do you think Poser has a  software future ?
Poser is just starting to produce interesting results for my education human values program.
Many of the render problems I have had seem to be settling down.
However I can see there will be a time for translucent images , glass reflections and lots of other texture formats. Will I be able to render these in Poser when I get more experience?
I would be grateful for any comments.

Hiya

I have no idea what the development team have in mind for improvements to the Poser Render Engine, one or two guys here have links into the Dev team I think, they may know better.

Personally I think Poser will have a future for a long time to come.  The promise of a better render engine is, I am sure enough to get people to cross over, but not in the kind of numbers which would adversely effect Poser.  I don't know if the Lux plugin will be free or not, but if it isn't that willreduce the numbers who cross over even more.

As to your texture requirements I don't see any reason you can't do any of them, translucent effects are probably the most tricky, but I have seen it done.  Glass and other reflective surfaces are pretty easy to set up.  Posers material room is a pretty powerfull place, as I'm sure many would agree.

There are already options for Poser users to render in other applications if they want better/faster results.  I personally use Vue, which can import a Poser Scene easily.  The materials need a bit of tweaking but it is worth it I think.  The lighting and camera options are great :)

John

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