Well I had no problem getting out of the Firefly mindset but then I had a few Firefly renders run over night. I am not a speed demon, Ok I did do a 2 min render earlier but was to try and help someone out.

The difficulty I have is that it appears people are quick to talk about the long render times which could put people off when in fact that is not the full story.  To say long render time to someone who's average render is 30 minutes may be fair but for someone who is used to 6 hours or so they may see the term 'longer render times' and think of days. This may not be the case and, as was pointed out earlier, it also depends very much on the machine in question. 

Luxrender has other benefits but I am certainly not trying to start a Luxrender/Firefly war which would only be as unpreductive as the Mac/PC war that is still carrying on after years.

Each to their own, but I do think it would be good to guard against putting others off from trying Luxrender when they may well be prepared to give up speed for quality.  I certain am, but then, as I have already said I was never a speed merchant.

 

 

 

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.