homeriscool opened this issue on Jan 11, 2009 · 54 posts
Earthjade posted Sun, 11 January 2009 at 4:00 PM
I use a very similar setting to vxg139.
The only actual differences are that:
On my Pentium 4, 1200 x 1200 images took a few minutes to render.
I have a quad core now, things are about twice as fast.
What kills you and takes up time is the Raytracing and Shadows.
I personally feel that they make the render look worse anyway.
What I think really improves renders is lighting: that is...make it BRIGHT.
Have the same settings for everything and use dark lighting for the render.
Then render it again with brighter lighting.
Depending on the mood you want to convey, I feel the brighter lighting brings out more detail to the renders. You can get away with removing some of the spiffy Firefly features if you make sure your lighting is good. Since you're probably using Poser as a hobby and not as an industrial tool, not having Raytracing isn't going to affect you too much for most renders, although there will be times that you'll want some shadows.