Okay .. I am new to Poser 5 and 6 and I am trying to render something for some work I am doing and it is taking forever. Part of the problem is that I am rendering pretty large but part of the problems is simply that I don't know what settings I can scale back. I am having to render the freak at 300 dpi and keep the textures pretty solid but he is naked and just has the Mil Dragon lair as the background. Five lights total for the scene in Poser 6. What the heck do all of those firefly render settings do? Basically I want a clear render to draw from and over. I just don't have the time to spend dialing each of the 7 or 8 render controls etc. So will lowering the raytrace bounces help? What does pixel sampling do? Min shading rate? Bucket size? Any help or pointing to a tutorial would help. Thanks

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Big renders take time. I've read in some threads where a render has taken someone all night to do. Have you looked at that Tutorial?

If you are going to draw over the image, why not use the P4 renderer?

Don't really have time to wait all night for something that should take (in P4 terms) 20-30 minutes tops. An hour would work, nothing more than that. The thing isn't THAT big and it is pretty simple. I also just want to know what they heck these things mean, especialyl since most of them appear to be time killers and might not need to be.

Wyrwulf, Because now I would have to reset all the materials :) and there is one thing that uses an ambient texture to some degree. Plus even it is slower in P6, moreso it seems in P5.

Draft, check "remove backfacing polygons", Min Shade Rate 20.00, Max Texture Res 1024 (possibly even 512), bucket size 64. I would render to the screen. Won't be pretty but should be fast enough to tweak and re-tweak you are ready to create the final render.

I must be doing something wrong. :) Because my renders seldom take over 10 or 15 mintutes to do. Here, try this set-up. Try to set all the numbers and checks exactly the same and see how long it takes you to do a render. If you want something fancier later on, increase the pixel sample and decrease the Min shading rate. If you need to do reflections and refractions, increase Raytrace bounces to around 4 to 6. But this is a good place to start.

Thanks . If you aquire them from auto from a higher setting (whcich seems to be needed to get anti-aliasing (where the heck is that controlled?)) it puts everything much higher (6 for raytrace bounces, whatever that means etc). I will try this and see how it works.

I find using the auto setting, and then doing minor tweaking of it gives me my best render speed.

That was taking me forever so tht is why I asked how to solve it here. Fazzel's solution is definately going faster so far.

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Anton posted about OBJ material fragmentization and firefly render speed. It might not be the easiest thing to fix. I haven't tried yet. http://www.renderosity.com/messages.ez?Form.ShowMessage=2228908

Thanks .. I don't think it is that though. It is finished adding objects but just taking forever. The settings that Fazzel did seemed to work in an okay amount of time.

Glad I could be of help.