Quote - FWIW I am still using the GC work around of the Artistic Lens in P8.

I truly am not impressed with the rendering speeds if you use Indirect Lighting.
Without it's faster.
With?
Ferget it. Start the render off and walk away for a couple of hours.

Hours? Sorry that doesn't sound to good to me. I've bought a brand new system a few months ago. With my old system renders took hours, with the new system it's minutes, even my largest scenes render with 30 minutes now. I'm not prepared to go back to hours, I've got better things to do then wait for a render to finish. Indirect lightning sounds cool, but for me that price is way too high.

Non IL scenes render faster, are we talking a few % or a lot %?

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The check out the last 10-20 pages of this thread:

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2774766&page=50

Bagginsbill began some timed tests and has numbers (min/sec) under various set-ups.

-- Jeff

I've seen that thread, but most of them aren't real scenes, no good material for comparisment. Figures with clothes, textures and hair behave a lot different in rendering, then the balls and tanks shown.

Artwork and 3DToons items, create the perfect place for you toon and other figures!

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/index.php?vendor=23722

Due to the childish TOS changes, I'm not allowed to link to my other products outside of Rendo anymore :(

Food for thought.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYZw0dfLmLk