First of all ... Apples and oranges. And by no means do I mean to offend. Poser is NOT a true Ray Tracing engine, whereas Bryce is. I.E. No true reflections or refractions in Poser. As to why your textures in Poser are coming out blury/fuzzy I don't know. I have never had that problem. Poser does not do bumps well (even at 100% Poser's bump is very low) but when it comes to textures it has always shined, giving very good results. So if the dress is relying on a bump map to achive the "mesh" that's more likely why Bryce does a better render on that. Again, it's not really fair to compare the two. I have done some spectacular renders in Poser, but I tend to do my final images in Bryce. But if I had Maya or Lightwave (to name a few) I'd use those. For a low priced program, Poser can't be beat. But IMHO it's not the program to do a final render (Yet -- maybe in Poser 5). It IS however the program to do what it does best ... Pose! And then export to another program. 35 hours?! You must be using Bryce 5 with everything at it's higest render settings and or using volumetrics. It also seems that you need to set Poser at 300 dpi/ppi and 2000 x 1500 to get more detail. The 300 setting makes a difference, if you leave it at the default (around 72 dpi) it will lose detail. Well that's my 2 cents ;-) James