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thought -- and I base this entirely on a post by another user elsewhere -- that one of the major benefits to rendering Poser scenes in C4d was a very substantial increase in speed. Is that not true?"

 

This is quite true Cinema4D is an order magnitude faster and better than poser firefly even with huge multi million polygon scenes and complex lighting.

I have been using C4D to render my poser content& animations for over 10 years but its recent price structure might be burdensome for  most people coming from the general poser user base.

Cheers

Oh, no doubt. It's expensive.

If you've got production deadlines, then the time difference would eventually pay for itself, I'd think.

I'm considering it myself. Not because the final renders take so long (though my patience does not extend to a render that takes longer than 8 hours), but because in the course of any given project, I may do a couple of hundred test renders. Most are at draft quality and small resolution, but if they feature multiple reflective surfaces and transparencies they still often take 10 minutes or more. This gets old very quickly.

So I'm at the stage of wondering whether I want to spend money on a faster renderer or a faster machine.

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PoserPro 2014, PS CS5.5 Ext, Nikon D300. Win 8, i7-4770 @ 3.4 GHz, AMD Radeon 8570, 12 GB RAM.