Quote - I think, as respectfully as possible LMcLean, that e-on has made Vue extremely fast.  It's among the fastest around, given it's functionality.  Much faster than most of "the Big Dogs", in many cases, and especially when dealing with hundreds of millions and even billions of polys.

The fastest around, Not by any chance. I am rendering out 400 frames at high quality in another 3D application in about 1.5 hrs. I tried the same scene in Vue and it took 2 days so I don't know where you are getting your information from > Quote - Vue has many optimizations that other renderers lack, but also lacks a few itself.  As far as I know, it doesn't have per-object render overrides, which is something you get used to in more expensive studio applications.  It also lacks the GI and radiosity optimizations you'd see in mental ray or Vray, but also costs far less than either, and I daresay mental ray is incapable of rendering billions of polys short of having 64GB of RAM or more.  On my 2GB home machine, I can't even get 1 million polys out of mental ray / Maya.  But Vue's still ruthlessly fast when rendering spectral and volumetric scenes, especially considering

Trying to compare mental ray to Vues renderer is an unfair comparison. Remember Vue is not actually rendering billions of polygons, but it is rendering out "instances" so it's not fair to say Vue can render out billions of polygons and mental ray cannot, because the billions of polygons aren't real physical polys but instances. > Quote - IIt's one thing to wish for something irrational, but entirely different to expect something impossible.  To put it bluntly : get a faster computer.  Or invest in some cheap AMD boxes and use them for network rendering, where AMD's really shine.  Another option is to study up on Vue's current optimizations and try to utilize them more.

Well I disagree with you that wishing for a faster Vue render engine is "irrational" or impossible. I'm hoping it wil be a "REALITY" in Vue 7. I've heard a lot of people say that Vue's render engine could use some improvement and you point about getting a faster computer is not making a lot of sense, when as I explained above I rendered the same scene on the same computer using Vue and then another 3D application and there was a "Huge" difference in render times so although a faster computer woud be nice it still doesn't mean that Vue's render is fast by any means. Don't get me wrong I think Vue is an excellent application but IMO the render engine needs the most attention at this point before adding other improvements. Thanks