hi all,

Q1:

whether GPU is faster than CPU only depends on a lot of things, but only the Hybrid renderer will activate the GPU and it will use the Path integrator, whatever your settings are. And that is not always the fastest routine with the best quality.

That's why I prefer the Sampler renderer and Bidirectional integrator on my (i&-990X CPU, nV560Ti GPU) machine, and not using the GPU. This is a P2L setting.

Q2:

As long as the FLM file is saved, one should be able to start over, and add all FLM results later to a final one. This is how one can perform distributed rendering and/or put the render queue in a loop for incremental image improvement. But I'm not sure to what extent that can be done when switching renderers / integrators though. This is all LuxRender, not P2L.

Q3:

In a recent chat Snarly stated that there was only a very limited interest in the P2L tool in the Poser community, so he had stopped development (given some high prio private issues and other tools which gave more response). I hope I was succesful in convincing him otherwise, and Snarly and I more or less decided to team up for a complete rewrite. He coding, me testing and documenting.

The best thing you can do, is sending messages to him for support and encouragement.

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