Okay, pardon me for swearing. ;-)

Just curious whether anyone is using both of these. I have used the basic free DS off and on, but not extensively. However, the DS3 Advanced version includes GI, indirect lighting, SSS and full 64 bit support. Even P8 doesn't have the latter two. I'm curious what someone who has used both IDL in P8 and GI in DS3 thinks about the comparative quality of each, as well as render times. (My initial experience with DS was that I wasn't even able to render with the software renderer, a frustration that led me to Poser to begin with. But later on with a new version, I found rendering speeds to be very fast compared to Poser Pro. But now with Poser 8, everything is a different kettle of fish again.)

I'm actually a member of the Platinum Club at DAZ, so I can pay considerably below list price if I want it (though I'd probably wait for another one of their supersales again... I think I could have had it for under $50 when it came out).

I bought Carrara Pro a few months ago, which I regret as the GUI is indecipherable for me, but I can find my way around DS reasonably well. DS3 Advanced probably would have been a much smarter purchase for me, had I waited for it to come out.

Product info for DS 3 Advanced.

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Hardware: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X/MSI MAG570 Tomahawk X570/Zotac Geforce GTX 1650 Super 4GB/32GB OLOy RAM

Software: Windows 10 Professional/Poser Pro 11/Photoshop/Postworkshop 3