Quote - For a lot of Poser users, GI is a whole new world. They don't understand it and that's evidenced through dozens of threads like this one. You have people like BB here and pjz99 and a few others trying to help people understand what it's all about, but it doesn't seem to be widely sinking in, and I still see the same comments over and over again... Poser's GI is broken - this SUX!

That's not how the thread started out. The only reason I'm not using it anymore is because of the horrible long rendering times. I'm getting excellent results, but whenever a render takes more then 4 hours, it's not worth it for me. I've got better things then waiting for a render to finish. 7 hours is way too much for me and on top of it a crash. Poser IDL  isn't broken, it just lags a lot.

Most people (even in this thread) who claim it renders fast, have either done small size renders, very basic scenes or a scene with one figure in it, without even a background, so IDL isn't fully utilized. When doing serious work (print ready images) or complex outdoor scenes, for which both IDL should be really used, it's not a valid option. Results are great, but I do not see myself waiting for 24 hours to finish a 4000x4000 render for print (with all the risk of a crash).

Keep in mind that Poser 8 is still mainly geared at the amateur and semi-pro market and in those market the newest pc's and rendering networks aren't too common. I'm sure IDL wil render well on a 8 core or more machine, but that's not the user base that P8 is geared at. most of us have a dual core or perhaps a quad core and I don't want to feed the poser users using a single core still, I'll be bankrupt soon. SM should keep it's market in view and realize most of us aren't too happy with way too long rendering times.

I'm hoping that SR1 will speed up things, but I'm not getting my hopes too high. Since IDL is one of the very few new features in P8, this issue must have come up in testing. It's not that the testers had tons of new features to look at, so this hardly can have been overlooked. Makes one wonder why it wasn't dealt with in the first place. I'm not expecting too much speed up in IDL, but one can never know.

As for Poser and transparency issues.... those have been there for ages also, hopefully they will finally be dealt with, but again, I'm not getting my hopes up too much.

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