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Hi Kaylpso. I encourage Wolf to answer, too, but I'll give it a shot. Rendering times in Vue will depend upon the variables you assign to render quality. There's a preview mode that doesn't include antialiasing ... it renders pretty quickly. You also have the option of area rendering, which is very helpful (and much faster than in Poser 6.) There's no quick and dirty answer to your question. However, there's one major bit of advice here:

Always use the layers option! Don't put all your lights, objects, plants, etc. on one layer. Dividing things up into different layers will not only help you keep your scenes organized, but will speed render times trememdously.

On the average, complex scenes in my experience render between 1 and 3 hours at relatively high settings. However, the one at the attached link took 30 hours at the very highest settings. Granted, that was in Vue 4 on an older computer with only 512MB RAM. Vue's render times aren't unreasonable at all. It's faster than Bryce. EDIT: There is mild artistic nudity in the linked image.

Message edited on: 10/14/2005 17:22