Quote - Smith Micro is fail.

Feel free to set your scenes up in Houdini, Blender, Max, or any other 3D app, and you will find that it takes just as long if not longer to set them up. You will have to set up network nodes out the wazzu in Houdini for both the scene, and the textures. If your using a render engine other than Mantra you will have to set the textures up for each additional engine. Blender can be set up for tons of render engines, that require different texture setups for each one. Max can use tons of render engines as well.

I don't think Smith Micro is fail at all. It does an excellent job for pennies on the dollar compared to other applications. Price out a Houdini or Max suite and you will quickly see what I mean.

(Houdini can easily hit 7 figures with just a small render farm. Queue manager that comes with Poser Pro supports 9999 simultanious nodes at no additional cost.)

Show me another application that comes with a full fledged render engine. Before you say Daz, keep in mind that the version of 3Delight it comes with is nerfed compared to the full version you can buy. Blender is the only free program that can hold a candle to Poser in money spent vs what it can do. Blender is free... Cycles (Blenders new render engine) is still in developement, and changes constantly. Scenes set up for earlier releases sometimes need adjustments to work with later versions.

If you want a setup that is click and go, good luck with that. Movie studios don't sell those to the public simply because it takes way to much cpu power to do much of anything in them once you click render.

Quote - See that is confusing. I would expect a directional light instead of a spot light no? You've achieved great results but the methodology is unorthodox isn't it? Letting a ceiling light your scene?  Why can't it be simpler?  Having to go through each item in your scene is too time consuming.

I used a spot light to simulate a light that was right outside of the window. I would use a infinite for daylight.

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