Wow, so many posts! At first - big thanks to all of you. I value every single feedback and it already helped me a lot. Thanks for making this a great and helpful community.

OK so the Polygon count is not the big problem here, thanks for making that clear. Still it made me curious, so I experimented a bit with the Gnarly subdivision script.

It does indeed make the figure much more high poly, i used "3" as a subdivision level (which seems to be the maximum) and the render in Luxrender already improved really a lot. Ironically it now renders faster in Luxrender. I guess that props are easier to handle than figures by Luxrender. I would not have expected that since the Poser scene file bloated from around 6 MB to like 560 MB (!!!)... So benefit from it - if you wanna speed up stills rendering from Poser characters convert then to a prop.

Next i will try that scenefixer script - is this the latest version?

http://orphans.basicwiz.com/

I don't use firefly besides for preview renders since i discovered LuxRender. I find that my render look much better in LuxRender - even though it is obviously much slower.

I really originally thought it must be the polygon count because Victoria 4 is like nearly 10 years old? I come from Vue where i often render scenes with millions of polygons, so i thought 77,000 is pretty low. Thanks for correcting me there!

I will experiment a bit more and compare different approaches. The subdivision script is "good to know" but it also makes everything slower in poser and turns figures to props. So probably not an option for animations... And it just resulted in a glitch ball for the hair (The hair is not that much of a problem though).

I am also curious how the scene fixer with the 180 degree crease angle will work out - that sounds promising i think.

I also wanna look into "weight mapping", i have heard that term before, but i don't really know what it is. I will search for some info about it only and how it can help me. Definitely a topic that makes me curious.

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