"wolf359: My views on Vray come from my own line of work. I run a small company; a couple of employees, a couple of workstations and a 32-core render farm. Our typical job is 5000-10000 frames of character animation with a delivery time of 3-4 weeks. There's no way we'd be able to take advantage of Vray's biggest selling features (IDL, environment lighting, etc.) and still make our deadlines. I think it's one of the best engines on the market, but for my situation Vray just isn't something we'd get our money's worth from.
That's a great render by the way; I'd give more credit to your skill than what you rendered it with!"

Thanks I understand. Yes GI animation is a huge undertaking .

I have never actually rendered any of my animations with GI for obvious reasons (see my previously mentioned hardware specs)
I was Confused by your statement about only being able to output the occasional gallery still with Vray&Poser.
I tend to agree with you about  LUX for poser frankly Alot of the Demand is the need for some to always compete with Daz studio IMHO and so far I have not seen ANY render over in those Daz threads for the "Reality "plugin that could not have been achieved with Vue in a fraction of the time. Just check out the work of  "Vince Bagna"(sp?)

But The  Realtiy plugin's creator made the D/S to LUX work flow ,very,very seamless so people apparently will Endure 17-26 hour rendering times just to get (still grainy)V-chick images just to be part of the newest trend.

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