Quote - My render of the chests was 3 and a half hours.

I used 5000 samples. 5 THOUSAND. You can't even get that by setting the IDL Quality slider to 100. It will product only 2024 samples.

You have to use the D3D Render Firefly dialog. You have to take control of the settings. You have to run long renders.

It's still way faster than LuxRender, which would need 12+ hours to do a similar render.

This...lol. Luxrender would take at least a day with some of the stuff I've rendered in Poser with just emitters in less than two hours. BTW BB, what are your render settings in D3Ds Render Firefly dialog? I tend not to use it, but I would if it would give me better results for emitters ;). Laurie