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I have been coming to an interesting conclusion that a LOT of background and scenery renders could be done with 3D GAME software...

If you have Microsoft's Flight Simulator 2004 and go out and download the TONS of incredibly good scenery and rendering enhancements, you can have stunningly realistic skies, water and landscapes as you zoom around in your stunningly realistic aircraft.

I have already experimented with substituting this scenery for Bryce, Vue and even Terragen scenery (just experiments- no commercial projects) and the look is incredibly good.
Best of all, the scenery is nearly INSTANTLY accessable from
any camera angle and render time is as fast as pushing your
print screen button.

Since you can already use GMAX (MAX-lite) to import OBJ's,
including a free script apparently written by DAZ, it would seem that rendering POSER or DAZ files in your favorite 3D Game engine would be a real option.

Throw in a 64 bit machine and high-end graphics card and you can even have HUGE screen renders- as large as your card-monitor can support. INTERESTING!

Message edited on: 07/03/2004 19:03