LaurieA opened this issue on Feb 13, 2011 ยท 1102 posts
bagginsbill posted Fri, 28 October 2011 at 3:08 PM
From the LuxRender web site.
Quote - LuxRender is a physically based and unbiased rendering engine. Based on state of the art algorithms, LuxRender simulates the flow of light according to physical equations, thus producing realistic images of photographic quality.
Poser 8 only produces photorealism through strict adherence to physics, which require that you get all the equations right yourself. Poser 8 is a general purpose render engine, and can also do non-photoreal, or stylized, rendering. LuxRender cannot do toons. Poser can. LuxRender cannot do Vargas. Poser can.
However, Poser doesn't do anything you don't tell it to do, so you have to know what you're doing.
Poser 8 is a "biased" rendering engine, meaning that it makes a lot of shortcuts and approximations in the interests of speed. LuxRender is unbiased, meaning that any shortcut that violates physics is not a candidate for inclusion.
Since no tricks are permitted in the interests of speed, LuxRender is really really slow.
24 to 72 hours is totally normal.
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