I'll admit, I'm no coder and I don't know the ins and outs, but I get the impression it would be quite painless to integrate Unreal Engine into Poser.

SM's job would probably be quite simple, a simple 'Mapping' job, something like this:

• Get the ready-made Unreal Engine viewport to display where the current Poser viewport is normally displayed.
• Get the ready-made Unreal Engine Material Node system to display where the current Poser nodes are normally displayed.
• Map any relevant controls to the Poser dials etc.
• Add an option in the preferences that allows either the standard Poser or Unreal Engine viewport to run on bootup.
• Take Posers navigation controls and simply map them to UInreal Engine so that it controls the viewport, just like Poser normally does.
• Do the same with objects and body parts, simply map them to the Unreal Engine equivalent.

I suppose technically, what i'm getting at is something like when you import an FBX, you get to assign bones to where you want them.  Basically, all SM need to do is a bit of hard-wired coding that maps Poser's behaviour to UE's behavior, or rather, UE's behaviour to Poser's behaviour.

Regards the licence, that should not be a problem, they could effectively make "Poser UE Edition" the Pro version of Poser, and you never have to concern yourself with the licence unless you use the Unreal Engine renderer option commercially and make more money than their threshold.  Using it for what most people use Poser for, that licence threshold isn't going to effect them anyway.

And remember, even with a threshold, it's still better that the realtime engine is there than not there, you don't have to use it, you could just set it to Firefly in preferences and it would be exactly as it is now.

In Poser's Preferences Options:

• Selecting Firefly = Poser Viewport, Firefly renderer, and the Firefly node system in the Material Room (basically, Poser as it is right now).
• Selecting Unreal Engine = Realtime Unreal Engine and Rendering in the viewport, and the Unreal Engine node system in the Material Room.

Of course I could be wrong, and probably am, but it really does seem to me like it would be case of mapping, the hard work is done by Unreal Engine.

@Heddheld
Yup, saw it, pretty damn neat, and need I say it, another indication that SM need to hurry-up and get a realtime renderer into Poser!