Quote - I think the Poser 2014 is great but iI have now had a couple of renders finish in the normal manner but there are blocks grey blocks in the middle of the render.  I one, in addition to the grey blocks there was a band towards the bottom that did not render at all.  This one just has the missing strip.

 

Ok I traced this problem to the fact I had the skinning method for V4 set to Poser Unimesh.  Turned that back to Poser traditional and the problem went away.  Right, well that was as far as I got but since then I have watched the Poser 10/2014 Webinar and in there they stated that if you use subdivision you should take off smooth polygons in the render settings.   That makes sense, so I set it up again ran the same render with Poser Unimesh set for figure skinning and set subdivision to one and rendered with smooth polygons unchecked.  Not only did it cure the problem but Firefly literally flies, it is like the Firefly in 2012 on Steriods.  It was so fast I did not think it had done the precaulk for the indirect lighting pass so I ran it again to make sure it did.  Admitted that I also switched emitter off on the hair which did speed it up before but nowhere near to this degree.

 

 

I use Poser 13 on Windows 11 - For Scene set up I use a Geekcom A5 -  Ryzen 9 5900HX, with 64 gig ram and 3 TB  storage, mini PC with final rendering done on normal sized desktop using an AMD Ryzen Threadipper 1950X CPU, Corsair Hydro H100i CPU cooler, 3XS EVGA GTX 1080i SC with 11g Ram, 4 X 16gig Corsair DDR4 Ram and a Corsair RM 100 PSU .   The desktop is in a remote location with rendering done via Queue Manager which gives me a clearer desktop and quieter computer room.