oops!! forgot to say, i also want Poser to be stable... that's critical for me.

and finally, as i'm in the dark regarding cycles, if it can rival what i see coming out in the Daz gallery, then colour me all sorts of happy, as i do find myself mentally ooo-ing and ahhh-ing more over Daz renders than i do Poser.  i've never used DS, not sure i ever will, but lighting and effects [which i think were part of this initial post] and the translation thereof via a render engine are so bloody important.  and maybe DS just makes it simplier for users, and a fair number of Poser folks just aren't taking as much time to learn all the ins/outs of Poser's abilities & utilise them, or at least some who post in the galleries here at Rendo aren't...  i've no idea if that's the case or not...