Quote - > Quote - Occasionally you see stunning renders in max or Maya but the people in the Poser forum says, "that is professional tools you cannot expect performance like that from little Poser, a hobbyist tool!" It is soo satisfying to see a Poser user demonstrate that the tool is not at fault.

 

There are definite differences in the rendering engines between Poser/DS and the industrial standards.  This is not to say that good renderings are not possible in Poser/DS, but they require so much more work in the ways of texturing and lighting to achieve.  It's not all a matter of artistic ability, the tools do play a part in the difference.

As someone who has used Daz for a few years now, I have found that using the LuxRender engine via Reality has produced much better results than I could achieve using Daz's rendering engine.  Lux, of course, is free, and Reality is very reasonably priced.  The only caveat is that renders generally require more time in Lux than in Daz's 3Delight.