Quote - > Quote - "We've been able to render outside Poser for years, Bryce still renders Poser content quite nicely if you can get past the Daz Studio interface."

Yes of course, I've seen many nice renders using Poser content in Vue, Bryce (Bryce actually has a Kai interface more than a DS one), and higher-end programs. I was referring to the recent desire to render in a separate rendering engine.

"What are you smoking? Or are you just so biased that you read that into posts?"

LOL, well let's see, Reality comes out and not only do people start with the "DAZ Cult" rants, but a community project immediately springs up to create a free alternative for Poser.

I don't come here for my health, nor am I representing or speaking for DAZ when I involve myself in threads like this. I personally just don't like seeing DAZ-bashing when there's no obvious justification, and that seems to happen a lot here.

If you'd like the "real" poop on the whole LuxPose thing:

Pret-A-3D announces Reality. Some of us Poser users says "Oh, nice. Will it be available for Poser?" Nope, says Paolo. "Not possible with Python". Now, I don't know about you, but there's just some folks around here (coders mainly) that you just can't say "impossible" to without the obligatory "We'll just have to prove you wrong then". And so LuxPose was born. More of an exercise to prove that it can be done more than a "we've just gotta have it" mentality.

But that could just be the monkeys flying out of my ass again...

Laurie

Not wanting to fan the flames, but I think i want to clear one bit up.  First, I do like Reality, the plugin.  It has it's faults as all software does.  Anyway, to the point.  Back in February of this year, the subject was brought up between BB and kaibach anyway about a Poser to Lux exporter.  So it isn't as if the coders only thought about it when Paulo announced his plugin.  That was a catalyst though, of that I'm sure.