Quote - As long as Octane does not sue him for Cycles, I have no problems with that. As it seems, this isn't much of a problem up to now.

Cycles is not derived from Octane. My personal theory is that Cycles is what Octane could have become had not Brecht been pissed of by Refractive Software "El supremo".

B.t.w. RS (Refractive Software) forum makes another forum look cozy: imagine that people that have been banned from there (quite easy as I read) cannot get the new betas, something that even a certain firm which I shall not name does not do. Whenever you think that you have reached the bottom, somebody gets a spade and shows you that you were wrong.

I think that a Poser to Blender bridge would not be terribly difficult to do if one went for this workflow:

1 - From Poser, export the OBJ and the bitmaps, collected and put into a single directory;

2 - From Blender, run a script which loads the OBJ and parses the PZ3, creating Cycles shaders and Poser compatible lighting.

Another possibility would be a Matmatic for Blender.

Anyway, cosidering that Cycles is still under heavy development it is premature to think about automatic procedures.

Last news about Cycles: as reported here, Cycles should be merged into trunk in a couple of weeks, making it a sure feature for 2.61, due just before Christmas. Santa is busy, isn't he?

GIMP 2.7.4, Inkscape 0.48, Genetica 3.6 Basic, FilterForge 3 Professional, Blender 2.61, SketchUp 8, PoserPro 2012, Vue 10 Infinite, World Machine 2.3, GeoControl 2