> Quote - I'm not sure why the Poser primitives looks so awful

I don't see any problem with Poser's ball, at least Poser4 ball.
The three small balls are Poser4 ball and the big ball is a high poly sphere.
The only problem that Poser ball has is at the border where you can see that is not so round because it has too few polygons, beside this it looks as good as the hi res ball.

Don't ask me why the color of the floor in the mirror is not the same, I don't know.

Stupidity also evolves!