guess putting the "confetti" in the shredder is a bit OT

 

Cool render.  Was this rendered in Poser?  I'm assuming the long, thin shreds in this scene are single-sided?  Not sure if this was posted in reference to what I was talking about in my previous post about proper modelling for Poser, but this isn't exactly what I meant by long, unsupported polygons anyway.  If they are single-sided objects, then they would render properly in Firefly.  But take a long cylinder, with 16 to 18 sides, no edge loops through the center at all, and no bevelled edges at the top.  Make sure the Cylinder is closed at both ends however you wish, then try rendering with Smooth Polygons in Poser.  I'd be interested to see how that turns out.  Here's an example of the "blow up" effect of Smooth Polygons on some low poly books.  In this video, they fixed it by turning off the smoothing for each book.  On the other hand, had these books been modelled properly, with some extra geometry to reinforce the edges, they would have rendered just fine, with no inflated sides.

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Tools :  3dsmax 2015, Daz Studio 4.6, PoserPro 2012, Blender v2.74

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