Two more questions: I have 1 gig Ram, P4 2.6 processor and Nvidia FX5900 video card. Not a bad system and everything else works pretty fast. I wonder what "average" render times should be expected in Poser 4. If I have two characters and a room/scene prop loaded, plus clothes, my render times are extremely long. 2-3 minutes. After the render Poser takes ages to revert back to user-control mode, Sometimes over a minute. Is this normal, and if not what should I do to optimise my system to speed things up. Secondly: I notice the above typical scene, saved to a pz3 creates a gigantic file. Some of them are 130 Megabytes! Is this normal and if not, what can I do to cut these enormous files down to a manageable size? Thanks in anticipation. Leonardis

A lot of it depends on what figures are being used etc. If they are V3 with all of the injection morphs it will be around 111MB for one figure.

Im rendering on a 1.13gig PIII cpu at 133mhz bus, 1.5 gigs of 133mhz bus SDRAM, and with anti-alias renders and any kind of lightset other than default poser lighting, a single character render from a 30-60ish MB pz3 scene will take my system anywhere from 5mins to 10-20mins if using a complex global lighting set.

Im relatively new, but it sounds to me like there is nothing unusual in your rendering speeds considering your cpu speed and the DDR RAM you are using :)

Lately, ive found that after a render, my poser NEVER returns to user control mode until I unfocus and refocus the window (clicking show desktop or opening another file or dir, then clicking on the running poser taskbar icon)

Havent decided yet if this is due to my OS getting tired and worked from a year of surfing the net, or bloating of my Poser Runtime :/

Hope this helps,

Logan

Goodness gracious me!! Five to ten, or even twenty minutes? I suppose I should be grateful that my average render takes very much less time.

"Watching paint dry" comes to mind.

Thanks for confirming that my system is reasonably normal then....and I hope you find something stimulating to do while waiting for your render to finish ;)

Leonardis

Message edited on: 11/09/2004 15:04

I turn my chair 90 degrees, and start multi-tasking on another puter ;)

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/gallery.ez?ByArtist=Yes&Artist=logansfury

In the interests of Poser Science, I just opened up and re-rendered the .pz3 for my render "Boundary". Its a 34.5MB file, and on the above mentioned platform it rendered in 7:07 to a 800x600 canvas.

You can see the pic at the Gallery link above to get an idea of the render detail I got in that 7 mins ;)

The two other renders there are A Medieval Bouquet that comes from a 50.0MB .pz3, and The Spies that comes from a 44.7MB .pz3

Render times were over 10 mins for both these pics.

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/messages.ez?Form.ShowMessage=589354

You might take a look at this thread. It's old and it would be interesting to see some updated results with newer processors. The file is still in freestuff so you could start a thread and get folks to post some results. You might want to create a new pz3 with more figures in it to test today's faster systems. Of course, this is just a very basic benchmark but it might give you an idea if your system is decidely slower than something comparable.