Quote - So, for me, GC is a colossal waste of time. If it were so wonderful, I suspect that the merchants would have begun to include settings for it in their products, just as they did when AO was the latest, greatest thing. From what I see, they have not.

I would postulate that the reason you're not seeing GC in products is that people A) Don't really understand why it might be a good idea; B) Don't think it's necessary/Don't care; and/or C) Can't be arsed to go through the steps to set up materials to work with Poser's render GC.

Sure, GC may take time to set things up right (like removing the blue tinting from the default V4 material diffuse color, there to compensate for an overly-red texture), but you've always had to do additional work to get a decent render out of Poser. I don't think I've ever seen a picture, rendered in Poser, that looked better than decent when all the person did was load the figure, props, morph, add texture, apply lights, and render.

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