> Quote - Many FireFly deprecators believe that good rendering is heavy raytrace and GI of architecture, cars, planets and environments, creatures, machines and landscapes. They are solid in their conviction that if a render engine does not perform these well, it sucks ipso facto. They are blinded by photo realism as if it is the be all and end all of render style.

The problem is that the performance gap is pretty extreme even with basic features.

Take this simple render for example. 2 lights, 25 apollo max meshes (total 2 million polys) and soft shadows. In XSI this renders in about 80 seconds on a single core system. RAM stays at about 600 MB. Now try this in FF. If it doesn't outright crash i doubt it would render in under an hour. And i didnt even tune it that much in XSI, i could probably get it down to under a minute if i really tried.