Quote - My main issue / point of concern is probably material setup time, as opposed to render time.

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Your best approach for scenes is to avoid fancy shaders and scripts that take advantage of Firefly. That's what they are designed for: to use some of the most esotheric and advanced features of Firefly. If you use a different renderer they are out of place.

When you use Reality and LuxRender you gain many of the same benefits for free; just use the standard materials that are associated with the models. If it's a figure that you set up then just use the standard mat files of Poser without SSS. Reality sets its own SSS for there is no need to have complex shaders at the source. In fact you will get excellent results out-of-the-box using the standard Poser shaders.

If you need glass there is no simpler approach than right-clicking on the material in Reality and selecting "Glass". The same is for Metal, Velvet or Cloth.

Start with a new scene and keep it simple. There is much less need to tweak shaders with Reality when you use the approach described above.

Hope this helps.

Paolo

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