Quote - HEY WAIT!

Before we assume that Poser can't render this scene - and send this poor soul off on a search for other software - What is the scene????

Ok, point taken. Now having said that, my experience is that Poser chokes when rendering otherwise simple scenes at a high size, that other programs on the same system import and render with more complex setting in no time at all, or a fraction of what it takes Poser.  So yeah, I would have to say that in my experience, Poser 6 is ill-suited for big renders (big as in final output size, not just big as in lots-of-polys-and-textures size).

I have tried layering, and depending on the scene, sometimes it works. But when you have a simple two people scene with no clothing, no hair and no background that Poser refuses to render even with 512px textures, citing "out of memory"errors -I've got 1.5G- or simply stopping flat, I do believe Poser itself might be the issue. I've had to resort to making area renders of about 400px square, and then puzzle it all together in Photoshop. Which is most annoying, particularly when you need a 1600x2700 image. Or, as in a previous ocasion, a 4800x2800 px final render. It becomes absolutely insane to do.

Yes, I am getting a new, faster system with hyper threading and even more memory to deal with this, as the time lost babysitting renders and piecing them together is just ridiculous, but in all honestly, I have serious doubts that the new machine will be able to produce these big renders in a single go either with P6. Now how will P7 behave? I'll have to let you know once P7 is released. But anything that improves the memory performance of P6 will be  a step forwards.

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