I render in Octane. I find the Poser plugin to work great for 90% of the things I need, and if it doesn't it's not a big deal to jump into the stand alone. I understand Octane's material system, and 20 years of experience with Poser (and a library 20 years deep) make it an easy workflow for me. But this wasn't about why I render things a certain way.

I know there's a 21 day free trial, but after reading around the boards it seems there are several features maybe not quite ready for prime time and I'd prefer to not eat up my trial time waiting for early day patches.

Thanks for the replies.