ockham posted at 6:12PM Sun, 29 March 2020 - #4384561

The discussion about the Material Room (obviously!) got me thinking... You have to use the Material Room all the time, so it's not really a feature or 'option'. BUT: Some people use shaders creatively to do most of the work in a scene, including animation. Others just set colors and images. The former group is treating the Material Room as a feature.

Poser's Material Room is definitely a feature to me b/c of all the nifty things you can do with various nodes. I've spent a lot of time studying its features (courtesy of resources by ArtBee, D3D, BB, and others), and even though I have access to other apps with faster/better render engines, I stick with Poser (and Firefly) because I'm not interested in investing that kind of time into learning a different material system!

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