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Hi May I humbly suggest MODO perhaps?
with its FASTpreview window that functions almost as good as those GPU renderer like Octane
I just recoreded this short screen cast for you to consider FEMASUE

Hardware:  Ancient 2007 Macbook with low end intergrated graphics card 2 GIGS of RAM (YMMV)

Figure: Femasue exported from poser after running collect scene python script to gather textures for MODO
Imported to MODO
GI turned on  for preview
the are NOT render but full GI previews
costs less than C4D broadcast.

Cheers

That's really quite impressive, though I doubt my graphics card would cope. It's even lower end. But it's an interesting suggestion. I would never have considered MODO.

With all the choices, it becomes overwhelming. The trial/demos for any given software are usually reduced in function, giving a totally wrong impression of capability, and 30 days is hardly enough time to learn the software well enough to know whether it can do what you want it to do (or whether you, the user, can learn to get it to do what you want it to do). Then, after all that, you probably need to upgrade hardware because what's available for testing is going to the latest iteration of the app.

After all this discussion, I'm beginning to think, in the long run, it would be both faster and cheaper to learn to paint. I may simply lack the patience for CGI. :)

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PoserPro 2014, PS CS5.5 Ext, Nikon D300. Win 8, i7-4770 @ 3.4 GHz, AMD Radeon 8570, 12 GB RAM.