I don't know if she would want the job, but sure she could do a better one....ok <* steps away from the soapbox*>

"And if I am elected... a copy of Poser in every household...with True GI...& all max quality renders now take only 30 seconds... EVEN ON A COMODORE 64!!.  This I promise you"

...... guess my job as speechwriter is done huh?....

back to the track

I've been noticing a few nice things with the HDRI myself :-) A great addition. One question, Is there an advantage to using true HDRI lat maps on our environment sphere, VS a jpeg of the same image? I can see the benefit of HDRI for textures that interact with the HDR IBL light, but the background photo or environment sphere is not (or should not be) affected by the light ( turn the diffuse value down to zero in the main shader tree). so other than for reflection, is there a gain? since the light is actually coming from the HDRI BL, & the environment is there to match light & any reflections.  Please correct me if I'm on the wrong foot here