Quote - OK in a earlier post I suggested those who were unsure might want to wait.  One of my reasons for this was that any scene that was saved with R3 information lost the link to the image map when the scene was reloaded.

Paolo has now worked on this and the problem is fairly specific and would only be seen by a small number of users.  I have all my content in a folder called Poser6 Runtines and then a number of different runtimes are in sub folders.  Ths gives R3 a problem in that R3, quite rightly, is structured so you can move the scene files and they will still work.  R3 however struggles with a path that has 'runtimes' twice in the path.  Paolo explains it much better in the troubleshooting thread at RDNA but I think I have the basics right.

Solotution was to rename my Folder to something without 'runtime' in the title and relink my library in Poser.  Ten minute fix and it all works.

More to the point the support that Paolo has given has been first class and the speed of the fix was unbelieveable.  So if you have concerns regarding Luxrender then try it first with the freebie as recommended.  If you have any concerns over Reality 3 I would say that should not stop you jumping in.  There will be issues, it is less than a week old, but I have no doubt in Paolo's ability and, more importantly, his willingness to fix any issues.

 

But.....doesn't reality work with the finished scene, and not the raw materials sitting in the runtimes?