Veritas777 opened this issue on Jan 16, 2004 ยท 64 posts
fido13 posted Sat, 24 January 2004 at 1:28 AM
My question is, where does Bryce's renderer stand in the grand scheme of things? It seems like the average Poser user turns to Bryce for their renders because it's so easy to use and does some pretty realistic images, but it's so DANG SLOOOOOWWW. And it doesn't seem flexible at all. Forget about getting GI with Bryce, you have to use a light dome and that only adds to the slow render times. But how will it compare to Daz's forthcoming renderer in terms of speed and quality? Personally, I think Firefly is a great renderer IF you can get the hang of it, but very few people want to play endlessly with confusing wire connectors and complex setup schemes just to ALMOST match what can be done in the higher-end software in minutes. Seems counter-productive to me. Why doesn't DAZ (and Poser for that matter) just adopt the use of high end raytrace software like 3dsMax and all the rest are capable of? Is it just too expensive?