**"BTW, other renderers like VRay have the same time requirements and VRay is used extensively in the VFX industry. Like with everything, practice helps in finding the fastest workflows."**

Hi I have Vray ,Maxwell and have tried LUX with the free C4D Exporter

I dont quite understand the  above underlined portion of your statement
Do you mean time spent setting up the lighting and shaders etc. of the engine?
It is worth Mentioning that we have Free options for one click set up of lighting environments for Vray much like you have in Vue
and we also have a massive community Donated repository of Vray Shader presets:

http://www.vrayforc4d.net/portal/materials/

and as a poser we have a"convert materials" option in the vray engine that work quite (image based poser textures of course).

Realty is a very well done utility for scene transfer between poser & LUX with textures intact although Snarly's free script achieve the same objective, it is good to have another option for people who want to try other engines for poser content.  

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