Quote - Calculations liek that aren't much faster on higher end software then what you see in Poser.. they have more/different features, but when you add massive physics calculations, that just takes time to compute. Studios use render farms of a LOT o networed systems woring together, and each one is typically loaded for bear.

 

Amen to that!
Actually, the standard MO with intensive calculations for simulations and for renderings is to run them overnight. An example where I work right now is... during the day I have 2 people and a total of 4 copmputers available to me.
At night, when our cad department people are at home, 10 or so of their high end cad stations become a render farm. I never had to use them all.
When you are familiar with how things work, it's pretty easy to plan ahead.
Another company where I worked, we had 60 cad stations available as networking render nodes at night.

Nice thing about high end software is that it lets you do these kinds of things, and it also lets you start and stop and restart simulations and renderings mid way.

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