... But I've been following the thread about Poser 8 and have been blown away by the pictures posted there, it really looks like the new global illumination/lights thing is seriously good.

But then I got to thinking (because that's my only attraction for upgrading really), what about simply rendering poser in Vue instead of upgrading?  Doesn't it have all the same capabilities, plus lots more, plus lots and lots faster, then anything that the upgrade to Poser 8 will offer?  If the upgrade costs $100 (and it may be more, I'm just throwing out there as a what if) and Vue Esprit only costs $200, and render times are way faster for Vue, does it make more sense for me to just buy Vue Esprit and do all my rendering in it instead?

Or am I being a total idiot here and misunderstanding how it all works?  The only 3d program I've ever used (and only amateurishly) has been Poser (started on 5 and upgraded to 7 cause I wanted point lights).  So I may very well be misunderstanding how this works together.  I've just been thinking that maybe if I picked up Vue (or maybe something else) just for the renders that I could both vastly improve quality  and also not spend days waiting for renders.

So my question is basically this:  is this a good idea, or a bad one?  Are there unforeseen issues that I'm not thinking of that would cause me problems, or mess up the quality of renders from using Vue as the renderer rather than the firefly renderer with Poser?  And I'm thinking of using Vue, but maybe there's a different renderer that would be better for this approach, and I was wondering if there are any suggestions?

Anyway, sorry if this is a dumb question, and thanks in advance for any advice anyone can impart.