Hello, just wanted to see how many others out there find themselves watching poser render.  I am not talking on the default setting, I am talking the absolute final setting, with lots of materials, etc.....  I am a big light experimenter, so all of a sudden when one of my renders starts off at the top looking all good, new and newly exciting, I become mezmerized and will then catch myself after long periods just watching the bucket go.............really slow.  Every time a new piece comes it is like a new piece of candy.  Anyway, I think it wrecks your brain a little.....  anyone else?

Yup.

Yuptoo, I'm doing it right now! That's why I'm installing Poser Pro this week - so I can start on my next one while I'm doing the final render on my last one.

Oh sure, I do.... I also watch the grass grow for entertainment..... most of the time that goes faster.

Shhh... I'm watching the bucket!

I think there's a hole in my bucket.

Yes...I feel your pain.

I wish the bucket would pour out that render faster but alas, it only tilts so far and dribbles them out. sadly.

Fascinating, isn't it?  LOL

Quote - Hello, just wanted to see how many others out there find themselves watching poser render.  I am not talking on the default setting, I am talking the absolute final setting, with lots of materials, etc.....  I am a big light experimenter, so all of a sudden when one of my renders starts off at the top looking all good, new and newly exciting, I become mezmerized and will then catch myself after long periods just watching the bucket go.............really slow.  Every time a new piece comes it is like a new piece of candy.  Anyway, I think it wrecks your brain a little.....  anyone else?

With Poser Pro you might sort of be disappointed.  If you set it to render in with multiple
threads, it starts out looking like a normal render, a block at a time.  But part way
through the render, all of a sudden it just shoots out the complete render.  No more blocks
to watch, it's just there, finished.

What fun is that?!

It's like Microsoft changing the way the system defrag looks between Window's 98 and later versions. I used to love watching the little squares during system defrag with Windows 98.  Now all I see are blocks of colour that move line by line. No fun at all! LOL

I've got a Vue render going now. I don't have blocks, about every 1% a new line of the render appears. I daren't watch it though, this is a multi hour render so I'd have eye strain at the end of it!
It is fasinating though to watch one's render appear stage by stage, like the pieces of a jigsaw being put together.
I bet doing a jigsaw is quicker though.

If its below a 10 min render, yes, if over, mostly not.
Love doing test renders in vue tho, first a very rough version, then a smoother one, and then smoother, and smoother etc etc until its done.

I thought i was the lone crazy guy to do that! Happy to see i'm not alone LOL

I don't render much in Poser these days (modo does a better job) but when I do I'm always amazed that any buckets are getting rendered at all because my CPU is at idle (or very, very little usage) throughout the process. So if the CPU isn't processing the buckets, who is? The little elves? It's a quad core Q6600 running in XP SP2, Poser7. There was a thread about this a while back but there wasn't a clear answer to the question of why the CPU isn't at 100% usage during a render.

Modo is no fun to watch because the completed bucket action zips around the screen so fast it's hard to follow it.  ;-)

A new block rendered is like candy? Oh, not quite. If you're doing some really heavy IBL, raytracing (set for quite a few Raytrace bounces), or volumetric lighting, one new block is like a fillet mignon! :D

Random thought for the edit... Remember the days of old Poser, with the sidestepping figure with the progress bar? Memories!

Acadia

Wow, windows 98. Everytime I defrag these days, I think of the same thing. the squares in windows 98. It didn't defrag any faster, but things were happening, and you felt like it was going faster . It is kid of like the old shot the space aliens out of the sky video games of yesteryear.

I thought I was the only one that liked the old style of defragging.