saibabameuk opened this issue on Aug 08, 2010 · 8 posts
IsaoShi posted Mon, 09 August 2010 at 1:29 PM
Quote - Yes But I am New boy so ,I misguidedly thought when I purchased my Mac Book Pro a paid £2000 for the machine I thought it could at least render Poser 8 fairly quickly .
With only good intentions, I would just mention that the phrase "... render Poser 8 fairly quickly" is fairly meaningless.
The time a render takes depends much more on the content in the scene, and the render effects and quality settings, than on which render engine you are using. People with much higher spec machines than yours (e.g a top end Mac Pro) are quite used to renders that take many hours.
Your new Macbook Pro is higher spec'd than my first series iMac Core Duo, yet I can render in what I regard as reasonable times for the content, effects, and quality I want. But final renders can take hours, not minutes.
Poser Pro 2010 includes Queue Manager, which runs the Firefly render engine as a separate process (64 bit on your Mac) to Poser itself, and queues saved scene files for rendering in sequence. Poser 8, as mentioned above, can do something similar using third-party Python scripts, or there is the third party software option, which I personally would avoid as an unnecessary complication.
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