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 can understand where you are coming from on this and, although I have now purchased Reality 3, I do not see me abandoning Firefly.  However I do see it as another tool and allows me to use Luxrender where I feel it can improve a render or it is for something special.

When I have free time I spend a lot of it playing with 3D and while having something take 5 hours may be a long time, if I am sat there anyway, having run in the background while I play with other software or different scenes does not seem to be a high price to pay. 

 

 

I use Poser 13 on Windows 11 - For Scene set up I use a Geekcom A5 -  Ryzen 9 5900HX, with 64 gig ram and 3 TB  storage, mini PC with final rendering done on normal sized desktop using an AMD Ryzen Threadipper 1950X CPU, Corsair Hydro H100i CPU cooler, 3XS EVGA GTX 1080i SC with 11g Ram, 4 X 16gig Corsair DDR4 Ram and a Corsair RM 100 PSU .   The desktop is in a remote location with rendering done via Queue Manager which gives me a clearer desktop and quieter computer room.