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Attention, Ladies and Gentlenerds. Do not be alarmed. That sound you hear is only the copious amounts of drool splatting to the floor over the new lighting abilities. The ship is not sinking. No one has opened the cargo bay and freed the toddlers to run amuck and gleefully upchuck. Any whimpering you hear is due to poor souls girding their loins to do battle with their SO's and/or accountants, and should not affect the smooth performance of the machine. There is no spoon.
That is all.

It's looking more and more as if P8 will be able to generate image quality high enough to be useable in tandem with other apps renderers. 

other apps renders? names please.

thank you

In my case, I'm thinking specifically about Vue Infinite. The lighting models were sufficiently different that it was next to impossible to composite or matchmove output from the two together in any kind of inobvious way. Now its looking as if Poser will have enough options that a successful composite won't be betrayed by misaligned hotspots, differences in GI granularity, and other assorted issues. With the network rendering P7Pro has, when the features of 8 get folded in there, a little careful setup work should allow you to green screen a Poser render into a Vue render.....