Mark is right, the majority of Poser users don't care about this, or at least about the underlying technology, but obviously I am curious, which is why I posted the original question :)

Incidently, the reference to a 'Renderman compliant raytracer' still doesn't make sense to me. Again this is an import compliance standard that Kupa referred to, not an export standard.

As an aside, my main concern in the previous thread was that CL have probably based the decision to implement a raytracer at least partly on feedback from their customer base, and, for most of those concerned, the term 'raytracing' is probably synonymous with 'high (or better) quality rendering' which is what they really wanted.

So CL may well face some level of dissatisfaction if raytracing performance has a significant impact on rendering times, as I suspect it will for the first generation of a new product.

Personally, I think that for the majority of users, CL would have spent their development budget on improving the scanline rendering technology, and there is plenty of scope for improvement in that technology. Kupa stated that the scanline renderer would be retained, but gave no indication whether there would be any improvements.

Acknowledged, I am making assumptions here on what people really want, but it has been fairly obvious from many of the forum postings that there are a lot of people who don't understand (and for that matter don't care) about the technologies or terminologies so long as they get the results they want.

Beware of what you wish for...