Attached Link: http://www.hdm-stuttgart.de/~sw19/files/nocompromise.zip

Considering that regular poses are stripped pz3 files and mat poses are stripped pz3 files, such are lights and cameras - what else is there to strip? Render settings! So here it is, my first renderpose for Poser 5: "No compromise"! In this one, Draft means fast and production means quality. As a special bonus, the depth of field focal distance has a more meaningful default, the distance from Main Camera to Don in the default Poser 5 document. What does this mean for you? Download the file, decompress it and copy the pz2 and png files to you favorite poses place. Inside Poser, just double-click the nocomp pose and voila - instant fast rendering! Note: Both the Draft and Production setting have significantly increased bucket sizes for increased rendering speeds. In case you are low on RAM and/or have a very complex scene, rendering may become super-slow or stop halfways. To correct this, just decrease the bucket size again.

Speed gain using my new Draft setting: (rendering the the Poser 5 default Don scene at 640x480 on a 800 MHz G3) Poser 5 default: 46 seconds my draft: 15 seconds Considering that the "loading textures" and "adding objects" steps remain unchanged at ~11 secs, the pure render time decreases from 35 seconds to 4 seconds. So these are speedups in the magnitude of 4x to 8x.

You da man Stewer! Am going to go try this out.

Excellent idea. If a set of these, with samples of the effects, had been bundled with P5 at the start, there would have been MUCH less dispute and disappointment.

I think Poser 5 should have shipped with better render setting defaults in the first place. The standard draft settings does 3x3 oversampling, it's no surprise that people are complaining FireFly were slow.

Great idea. There is a lot of innovation coming from you this days. Finally a way to store more than two render presets.

Thanks stewer... i increased my bucket size from 32 to 200.. render time went from 1.20 sec to about 45 seconds... wow... that also with no decrease in quality... thanks again... u saved me a few bucks... for a new cpu

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Great idea. There is a lot of innovation coming from you this days. Now if I only were able to make money from that...

Nice one Stewer, cheers!