Well, I just tried P6 firefly for the first time on a closeup on M3's face with some shader nodes. I couldn't render with shadows on at all. (No, I don't have a fancy-smacy machine either.) I gave up on the render after an hour. Couldn't even make a tiny area scan. So I turned off displacement, and shadows, and I got a whopping 3 renders before crashing (the last one I couldn't save because I crashed). :(

render 1: 500x500 close up face, no clothes, no hair
render 2: 500x500 close up face, dynamic hair
render 3: 500x500 close up face, no clothes, no hair

Looks I'll be using PP, unless DS can render advanced features like displacement and materials without eating up system resouces.

sigh

bB

Message edited on: 09/19/2005 05:03