Quote - I've downloaded LuxRenderer, but if it's going to take me 5 hours to render a scene that PPro takes 20 minutes to do, I probably won't be buying Reality3 at all. That sort of wait for a render, no matter how good it looks, just isn't worth it for me.

 

I hear ya...BUT...when working with caustics and volumetric caustics, patience is the key for hyper realistic renders.

Working with characters is not so time consuming.

Some things I really appreciate with Reality/Lux is while the rendering process is going on...

The scene is obviously composed in poser. When you get it the way you want, you envoke Reality, make whatever material changes you need or want (thats a whole 'nother topic and a great topic it is!), then send it to Lux for rendering.

While in Lux, You see the entire scene at once unlike poser's top down rendering method. With each 'pass' the image gets clearer and crisper. The longer you let it render, the more depth the image attains.

You think it's too bright, you darken it, or vice-versa, on the fly. You can filter out noise, add lens flare...many, many other choices WHILE it's rendering and see the results on the next pass.

In poser to do the same thing would take many start render, decide something needs to be different, stop render, make your tweaks, start render, still not right, stop render, make your tweaks, start render...well, you get the idea.

i7 6800 (6 core/12 thread), 24 GB RAM, 1 gtx 1080 ti (8GB Vram) + 1 Titan X (12GB Vram), PP11, Octane/Poser plugin, and a partridge in a pear tree.

Oh, and a wiener dog!