Quote - > Quote - > Quote - This is my first Reality render! 21 hours of rendering to get 1k s/p, without graphic card support, hoping I figure a way to trim that time down some, but for now I'm quite happy with the results. 

And a very nice ~first~ it is!

21 hours at this size isn't bad. Good things are worth waiting for :)  You also choose the most 'difficult' light: 'Sun'. Love the schadowplay it created.

Speaking of difficult lights.. to improve my render speed until I get my new puter built in ~counts on fingers~ 36 or so days.. I've been leaning heavily on ibl.  Playing around a few nights ago.. I loaded the daz studio environment sphere because I wanted to use an hdri image that I didn't have lights for.  Was going to use a separate ibl light with this new image.. well.. it seems it don't work that way.

So... I just turned that daz environment sphere into a light within reality.. cranked the gain to 6 on it and came out with this:

 

Ordinarily, with mesh lights, on a render like this I'd get a 30k s/s max render speed.  Using that environment sphere as a light I was tripling to quadrupling that speed.  I'd love to see if one of you guys(or gals) would/could do a quick test render using that environment sphere as a light to see what kind of performance you got.

Never thought of that, I'll give it a try next render, AFTER the long weekend! ;)