getting this thread off me and back on topic....

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and i completely forgot about using DM shadows with brighter lights.in the last months  i did some tests. and the results were pathetic. and please dont tell me that i didnt use a big enough shadow map. i used 1024 on a figure. only a figure(without the ground).
www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php

of course i think i was the only one who noticed this. so i am not expecting a fix for this since SM doesnt even know that they have bad shadows.

i dont want this to look like i am a ''basher''. i really am not. but when i saw those bad shadows i was in a big shock. i was really shocked

No, you don't look like a "basher". I'm sure there will be some who see it that way, but I think it's safe to say I'm not one of them. ;-)

Firefly made rendering in Poser better than it had been, but still has a long way to go. IMO, it's pretty much at the bottom of all 3D rendering I've ever seen, at least as far as modern apps are concerned.
it definitely needs to be brought up to date. People think I complain about Poser too much, but I'm still kind of pissed off that S-M Poser Pro didn't show any improvement in rendering, really, aside from gamma correction and the ability to 64 bit render in the background. But the lights and shadows still seem to be pretty much the same they've been for the past 4 or 5 or more  years since Firefly first was introduced.
And that's just pathetic. Smith Micro should have been trying to impress us, but instead delivered more or less the same old program with a new splash screen and title bar and only a few minor and relatively insignificant improvements