There are several selections when rendering to disk including bitmap all the way to Photoshop .PSD file. Which is fastest and which gives the best quality? How do they rank? Has anyone run through them all and checked? Thanks for your help!

It seems to be the same speed for me; I've used BMP and TIF files,( I don't use Photoshop) Tif only is rendered with an entire mask and is slower to load in the 2d paint program. A normal scene (without extra lighting)with a poser4 imported object with 300 dpi and 2000/1500 pix is rendered in about 2 hours (with an old machine pentium2).I think it can be faster with an athlon 800, or more !

I use the same output as Brasseur (Ive never saw the need for PS output). I like using tiff because of the image quality. Bitmaps dont look very nice IMO. As far as speed goes, they're the same for me also.....if not slower because of the update. Anyway I'd Rand them as follows BMP Tiff PSD Just to add something - If you create a image, you can't rush it's render. Be patient. Expect some to be slow, especially when rendering to Disk for print. -Matt who just finished a 15H render

There are some things I do to fast rendering times (using only render to disk ! ). I try always to use the objects the most simple possible:an exemple, for modelling an house, I export from RDS5.5 a cube with boolean operations to let appear the doors and windows: after exporting, I use UV mapper program, make a template and a nice texture map in Photopaint. The simple object doesn't take much memory in Bryce and his rendering looks fine for a very short time. I only use complexes objects for the very near vision. I also use a complete hard disk drive for Bryce, nothing else on it and close all another programs during rendering. Forget not to close screensavers too. I hope that in the future Bryce.5 will optimize the rendering times. I thing

That's a great idea...Brycetech said with a deticated bryce drive, you're likely to get a 10 percent increase in render times than on your slave drive. I hope they do too.