Quote - shante, just buy a copy of Poser 8... It averages about $40. Then you'll have IDL too which will have a dramatic effect on your renders (have to admit the render times can be a little tedious occasionally, depending on the settings and what kind of effects you're trying to achieve). I only recently switched from Poser 7 to Poser 8, still do a lot of messing around with the standard firefly render... But, IDL is remarkably easy to use and many times doesn't require more than 1 or 2 lights in the scene for really nice results (no more fiddling with IBL and AO). would love to get Poser 10 but I'm using an older PPC PowerMac (which I really like) so until I can Purchase an Intel Mac (or "shudder" a Windows machine) Poser 8 it is...
_OT Confession, I only been using computers for about 8 years, sporadically, and have only ever owned a Mac... it's what I started with when a graphic designer friend of a former girlfriend gave me a G3 (ominously equipped with photoshop and Poser 3). I eventually smashed the bejesus out of it with some steel toe jump boots during an argument. Fast forward 2 years when yet another artist friend gave me a G4 and I got into Poser 6 and 7. That box was destroyed when I relocated from San Francisco to the east coast. Fast forward 2 more years and I got myself the G5 I'm using now. So I guess you could say I'm in a marginalized computing time warp of sorts... and there's the long and short of my transformation from pastoral cave painter to simulacrum in an obsolete spaceship. :)

idl iirc firefly and all that stuff confuses the shakta out of me. just want to set my lights up like i did in the studio in the real world and take the damn picture. i usde to be great at lighting if i had to get hired to light a virtual poser set now i would freaking starve.