"Why would anyone buy 3DSmacks anyway? If you're going to spend moneey, why not get MAYA?" Please. Stop feeding the fire of ignorance. :-( The only purpose this thread has served is to expose how little some people actually know about "high end" renderers, and the applications they are associated with. Give Firefly network rendering capability and perhaps some tweaks to raytrace speed/efficiency, and I'd be happy to show any of you that it CAN be used to produce pro-level video output to rival almost any renderer in most rendering situations. No, it doesn't have "true" GI/HDRI, but, my friends, that's something which is still often avoided in production anyway, and very similar results can be achieved without it. Even Blur Studios, who used the Brazil renderer for the acclaimed cinematics in Warhammer 40K only used a skylight with AO pass (no GI) on the characters, not the environment. Please... everyone... get your facts straight if you're going to argue about renderers and "high end" applications. Firefly is capable of high quality output in most situations. The only thing actually holding it back from being a production-capable renderer is network rendering. For stills, it does as good a job as any, with a little more effort required. Just takes some time, skills, and knowledge in the material room to achieve results.

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Tools :  3dsmax 2015, Daz Studio 4.6, PoserPro 2012, Blender v2.74

System: Pentium QuadCore i7, under Win 8, GeForce GTX 780 / 2GB GPU.