catharina, i admire your work and it would be really a loss for poser community if you stop producing. :-) but, as i said earlier, why not use poser as a posing platform and make your final scenes somewhere else? i'm working with p4&ppp and max3.1 and the results are really good. good enough to sell those illustrations. so i'd say, stick to what you can do best, i.e. poser for posing and max for rendering. i'd hate to shell out another bucks-pack for a professional renderer for poser.