hi Bim,

Oh My God, No !! Don't !! This is why:

about every renderer on Earth needs it own setup for lighting, camera and materials. Models can be transferred as far as object-geometry is concerned, and animations go well too these days, at least to some extend. But even applications close to Poser, like DAZ Studio or Vue, have to bring in their own lighting and cam setups, and material properties are transferred only partially. 

Poser does support the COLLADA format which helps you out to Photoshop Extended and most other programs, but I have no experience in there. I guess again that lighting, cams and materials form the bottleneck.

Poser is already amazing in its own end by supporting more than one render engine without any settings changes. Note for instance 3DS Max, where you can select V-Ray instead of Mental Ray and other renderers, but you have to make your choice beforehand, and you cannot use V-ray dedicated lights and materials in a MR render, and so on. Plug in the great Octane Renderer (look it up, http://www.refractivesoftware.com), read the features, and find out that it can load any scene. You only have to redo... lights, cams and materials. 

So, instead of rendering 5 days, you end up setting up your scenes anew in 4 days, and render in 2. Hence, before you throw any hardware to this concept, just test it first in small one-machine situations. IMHO, it's the concept which won't work, despite any technology.

Next to all this, please do test transferring Poser scenes to other machines or even directories. You might find missing objects, cloth simulations and textures, as not everything is in the pz3 itself. Test! Try for the PoseRay converter and PovRay renderer (www.povray.org). Free for 15 years now, and still kicking.

This still leaves the question whether you really need a second machine for the second process. I guess not. And why connect them via USB while you have gigabit LAN ports available? But that aside, I doubt rendering Poser scenes in anything else but Poser, and considering it an easy way of living.

BTW: thanks for commenting on my site.
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