I did not wade through about all 7 pages of this forum threat, sorry for that, but can someone shine some light on the economics of all this?

The ecomonics all depend on how much your time is worth, and how long you spending working on rendering in Poser.  For many Poser users, we spend days working on a single render - tweaking this, adjusting that....Much of this time is spent waiting for renders to run to see the impact of an adjustment that's been made.  The ability of the Octane plugin to give incredibly quick feedback of the adjustment that's been made means many hours saved per scene.  So the payback (for users like me) is very quick. 

***It does not speed up my development time which is at least 80% of the time required anyway.***For some users, development time is much lower than this.  I can easily spend 2hrs putting a scene together and tweaking in ZB, and then 2 days getting the lighting right and adjusting the skin shaders.

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