Hi

How large a render and how long are you talking about?

If I set Firefly on the standard "Final" render setting with a clothed character a background cloth pane, a fog plane and render at 1600 by 900 it takes about 2 to 3 minutes to render an image.

Just a clothed full standing figure takes about 45 seconds.

At low settings but with shadows about 10 seconds.

Is that the kind of time you are talking about, or are you seeing times a lot longer then that? 

Mike

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