Let's make one thing clear..... I'm not a realistic figure renderer at all. Still I figured I might give Vue a try and set up a little 'studio' render. The result is attached as an image. The render took 12 seconds on my laptop.... i5 (2 cores 2.5Ghz, 6Gb RAM), settings to final and on superior it took 3 minutes. The superior looks a bit better, that's the one posted here.

The figure is Spartacos (from the marketplace here), I used poser shaders to get the displacement maps into Vue also. I did not alter any of the materials, just left everything as is. For rendering I used Portrait Studio for Vue. It has 1 main light and 6 fill lights. I adjusted the strength and colors of some of the light slightly, as well as some of the atmosphere settings.

All in all it didn't take to long and I like the result. It's not something I usually do, it's quite different from my usual work. If someone who has more knowledge about figure rendering then me would spent some more time, they could get very nice results in Vue.

I don't have a Poser render, since my render looked very poorly, but it sure didn't render in 3 minutes, let alone 12 seconds. To get close to 3 minutes, I really had to lower the poser rendering settings.

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http://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/index.php?vendor=23722

Due to the childish TOS changes, I'm not allowed to link to my other products outside of Rendo anymore :(

Food for thought.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYZw0dfLmLk