Obviously everyone is going to be biased in some way. I personally would say Mental Ray (which comes with Maya and I think Softimage XSI) unless of course you can afford 'Renderman' (which I can't :P) But just rendering with a better bit of software won't necesarily improve an image dramatically - you need to know how to take full advantage of the extra features.

Fortunately I have a hardware firewall so unless I'm stupid enough to open a random attachment I should be fine (touch wood :P) I keep all my mails off my computer at yahoo so I don't have issues with attachements I can't remove. This isn't the first time I have noticed this apparent link. After a poser crash I usually end up with a message telling me norton's control centre is not responding, it can't just be a coincidence.

Xantor: If you use the material room a lot for water, reflections and displacment mapping rather than bump mapping then you will end up rendering over night ;P With a serious render in Vue I usually end up waiting 50 hours or so (P4 2.2 Ghz, 1gig ram) I honestly think norton is having a detrimental effect though - I plan to kill it before I load poser from now on just incase.

Yay - I can buy more toys for Aiko :P

You can also disable it directly in render properties in the firefly options if you don't have anything in the scene you want it applying to - is quicker than turning it off on all the props individually.

Can't you download MayaPLE from maya's website as well?

There isn't one for poser - if there was images would be posted all over the place :)

The most hit image in my gallery has...er...a piccy of animedoll's ass as the thumb :D (Just shy of 1000 hits :D) Can't blame people though - she does have a nice ass ^_^

Actually this is getting quite interesting now. When I do an image I usually have an idea and run with it - or more often than not I load something at random, play with it for a couple of hours and see what happens. I don't think at any time I've ever thought 'if I added a naked lady in here I would get lots of hits'. I think most people make an image the same way - if it ends up with a naked lady (or guy for that matter) then thats just how it goes, it's not necessarily a calculated attempt to get lots and lots of hits :)

'Hawke, maybe you are living in the wrong european country? ;-)' :( I live in the UK - no nekkid ladies here :( Maybe I could trade houses with someone in another country who doesn't like nekkid ladies ;D

'Don't think for a minute that Naked Ladies wouldn't be all over the TV screens in the US if the FCC would allow it, they are in Europe and Japan, even in the comercials' I live in Europe but I'm obviously watching the wrong adverts :P

(Reaches for dictionary) - and I quote: 'Art: Creation or works of beauty' I don't see anything in there along the lines of '...unless you created a work of beauty in poser'. Obviously beauty is subjective but if someone considers what you have created beautiful that makes it art - doesn't matter how you created it :)

Can't say I've seen a lasso but if you buy an easypose tentacle (Traveller or Ajax) you should be able to rescale it and wrap the end round on itself to make a lassoo - just need to make a rope texture for it :)

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Vue5 D'espirit is good value and just so easy to use, it renders v v v slowly on the best settings though (and I have full hardware acceleration running), but if you've got the patience it's great :) Bryce would me better if you are using Daz studio as Daz are improving the integration between the two all the time.

Seen it, bought it, love it :D Wonderful work.