Quote - I use Firefly but have also been looking at alternative renderers for Poser content.  I bought Reality though haven't really had the time to explore its ups and downs, so this is an interesting thread for me.  (was anticipating making a HW upgrade at the time)   I've long considered Vue, not just for the ease of integration but for all that it offers for environment creation as well.

Checking out the (free) Shade for Unity recently I noticed they now list Poser 10/Poser 2014 integration (via PoserFusion) for all commercial versions of Shade, including Shade 3D Basic, currently selling for just $49.

Anyone know where Shade3D falls into this discussion?

Shade has a very good renderer. I haven't used it since version 7, and found the interface to be very unintuitive for me (your milage may vary, and the current version may be much easier to grasp easily). Shade's render engine has always had a good reputation, and is supposed to be very fast. Unfortunately, it looks like you need to get the pro version to get SSS, so the lower cost versions may not be a good alternative to Firefly (see the feature comaprison chart here).

Maybe someone with some real experince with shade will chime in and give use some good information. They do have a free trial version here.

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