Got Poser 8 today and loaded it up. Thought I'd do a comparison between Poser 7 and Poser 8 right out of the box. Now admittedly I haven't fiddled with Poser 8 for more than just a few hours at this point, and there's all sorts of tweaking that I need to learn about the new intricate lighting. Lighting is the big improvement, in my book. Particularly light attenuation (fall-off). This render shows how it's handled in Poser 8 and how it's not handled at all in Poser 7. There's only one point light. Both renders are of the exact same scene, one in Poser 8 and one in Poser 7. The only thing that was changed between them is that the Poser 8 version had some light options enabled in the render settings that aren't available in Poser 7. No other lights were added or taken away. The Poser 8 render on the left is a bit washed out, and from what I gather that's an easy problem to make happen if you don't know what you're doing yet. Obviously I need to work some more. Still, it's a pretty big difference in the way things are handled between the two. The final Poser 8 render (which took forever to render out) looks more like what the preview window shows at any given time. And though Poser 8 has some nifty OpenGL stuff to make that happen anyway, I didn't have it turned on and it still ends up looking more like what you expect. So that's a plus. Anyone else make their first render in Poser 8 with all the fancy lights turned on and then freak out when the red dots started showing up? Took me a little while to realize what the deal was with that. (It was pre-calculating the ray traces and what not - it's normal and goes away when it does the final pass). I flipped out. Figured my old computer just couldn't hack it. It's going to take some getting used to.