hoplaa,

As I said, I wasn't going to post the image because I'm using Beta software and there's a problem at the moment, causing artifacts around object and image boundaries. I was responding to the point raised that render time without DOF might be wildly different than with DOF. As far as I can see, the DOF rendering has been re-implemented, resulting in a huge performance increase. However, it isn't finished, and is producing artifacts.  I think the information I have to offer about performance of a DOF+IDL render is still relevant, even though the artifacts have to be fixed. Most of the time, artifacts like this have been simple arithmetic errors that, once corrected, do not substantially change the render times one can expect.

If anything, as SM finds and fixes problems, we are able to use lower values on render settings and at the same time get better results than before. That is the point I'm trying to convey here. In the initial release of P8, it was not possible to get such a clean render (the one without DOF) in so little time. Now IDL is rendering very nicely at ridiculously low settings for Indirect Light Quality - I used 6 out of 100 here.

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