Strange. My last render was using stock Apollo materials. Here I loaded him up with VSS, expecting it to be slower. It was faster, instead - 3 minutes 20 seconds.

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Renderosity forum reply notifications are wonky. If I read a follow-up in a thread, but I don't myself reply, then notifications no longer happen AT ALL on that thread. So if I seem to be ignoring a question, that's why. (Updated September 23, 2019)