the main new feature is the Raytrace Preview window. It renders either on scene changes (auto) or on manual command. It gets its render settings from the main one, but not all of them are user adjustable, Poser implies standard values for those (and does hardly document which). Progressive Mode greys out the ones which are not user adjustable. You cannot switch off raytracing (as its a RAYTRACING preview) and it does not use Irradiance caching, nor motion blur, and so on.

So this PM feature helps you to set the Raytrace Preview. When used for normal rendering, it helps you to get renders which compare well to this Raytrace Preview as Poser will then use those magical "preview values" as well. Whether that's a good idea is entirely up to you. It does render in background, and as a separate process, but seems to follow a "tiny bucket" strategy in an iterative way, which explains why one cannot adjust the Displacement Bounds.

For final renders, you'd better switch it off and regain and get control over the remaining settings, IMHO.

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Usually I'm wrong. But to be effective and efficient, I don't need to be correct or accurate.

visit www.aRtBeeWeb.nl (works) or Missing Manuals (tutorials & reviews) - both need an update though