Quote - Did you first ensure that all AO (Ambient Occlusion) nodes were removed. You do not need them with indirect lighting, they'll just slow the rendering down.

More details at:-
http://www.runtimedna.com/forum/showthread.php?p=470058

I'll give that a try!

Quote - are those trees all geometry?

are you even aware that the good GI engines take hours to render out trees? 

fact is that you have a very complicated scenes.

Not on Vue...... I can do way more complex scenes in Vue rendering in GI and it still takes less then an hour. Besides, that's not a complicated scene..... 2 trees, 1 figure, a landscape and some grass and that's called complicated, I don't think so.

IDL is needlessly slow.

Quote - From what BagginsBill has hinted, you'll love it again after SR1 :) [/quote

Hope so. once it's released I'll try it again, for now I'm done with it.

Quote - One reason its taking you so long is because your using Terradome with a AtmoSphere , the Atmosphere part of Terradome is a large transparent object and transparent things really slow IDL down , Remove the Atmosphere and I bet it renders alot faster :)

I have a Core2Duo 3ghz with 4 Gb ram and I am doing IDL renders in a hour or two depending on whats in the scene , but put afew objects with transparent parts or a Atmosphere ect and It can take 6 hours just for the IDL calcultaions .

Remove the atmosphere will spoil the scene. If transparency is an issue then SM needs to deal with that and resolve the issues, since transparency is used a lot in Poser.

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

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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