" About the P4 Vs the P5 renderer.. yeah Firefly's slower.. know what? Lightwave's renderer is slower too.. and so is Maya's.... know why? they do more, and work harder."

Oh god, no. Maya, 3dsMax, and (I think) Ligtwave all employ "hybrid" renderers, and are much faster than the P4 or P5 renderer (as well as being more powerful), even with raytracing. Lightwave aside, these other apps also have plugin support for "3rd party" renderers as well, like Mental Ray and Vray, which can render a scene even with true GI as fast or sometimes faster than P4 or Firefly can render the same scene with "fake" GI (depending on many lights you have casting shadows in Poser).

I posted benchmark tests here before using V3 in 3dsMax under the Vray engine, and rendered a 640x480 image using GI and glossy reflections in under 4 minutes. High quality glossy reflections alone in Firefly would take twice as long with just 3 standard lights.

I think the nail was hit on the head earlier when someone said that everyone here seems to demand pro-level speed and quality at hobbyist prices. In the case of P5, I think we're getting MORE than our money's worth already.

:-) Message edited on: 08/10/2004 22:04

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