What I like about Vue's GC render option is that it is actually a post-render option. Well, seems to be...

With Poser you're kind of committed to it pre-render?

Same with the Post-filter (Gaussian or Box filter option)?

Actually, on this point... I'm a bit unclear as to how that Post-filter option differs from applying a gaussion or box blur filter in Photoshop? Does it?

Face_off said in the current IDL thread:

Quote - For my simple test scene, 3 raytrace bounces and IDL quality of 50 took about 5 mins.  Then with DOF on, it took 3hrs.  Then adding post filter 2 gaussian, the render took about 9hrs.

Which puzzles me a bit... because applying a light gaussian blur, even to a substantially high resolution image in Photoshop takes a matter of a few minutes...

...does that mean the post-filter in Poser is applying as each "bucket" is rendering out... or something?

cheers ;-)