Quote - OMG.. IDL AND SSS together? That would take forever to render.

Do you guys have multiple PC's doing the render? I have a 8 core processor which still takes too long to render. I need to pump out commerical level renders in 8-10 minutes tops.

Yikes.  Not even in Vray. haha.  Well ok, maybe in Vray.  But I've been playing around with SSS and IDL in 2012, and it's reasonably fast on my rig.  Similar results to just about any other engine offering the same feature set.  Granted, haven't gone too far into doing LARGE scenes with lots of props yet, etc.  But one toe at a time.

Running the 64bit version of P2012 on a Core i7, under Win 7, with a Gforce GTX 2gb (card doesn't assist in final render).  Firefly handled a very decent resolution on my last render in just under an hour.  Results similar to what i grew used to in Vray.  Resolution was far larger than I would ever need in animation, unless I was shooting for HD.

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Tools :  3dsmax 2015, Daz Studio 4.6, PoserPro 2012, Blender v2.74

System: Pentium QuadCore i7, under Win 8, GeForce GTX 780 / 2GB GPU.