> ***Quote - Now that I do find a very odd statement.... first of all, you should be able to do very high quality renders with Poser, just as good as with Octane and secondly everyone else confirms it takes time to get a good render from Octane, unless you sacrifice quality.***

mrp2284 is using a GTX Titan. With a cuda supercomputer in your box (2,688 cuda cores, 6Gb VRAM), 4 min. high quality renders are no problem at all. Sure, the combination of Octane Render and a GTX Titan isn't cheap, but if you want/need renders "now", it's pretty hard to beat without investing in a small render farm, and the electricity to run it. Plus, if you want caustics or architectural glass, Firefly still isn't an option.

For us mere mortals, Octane is still pretty darn impressive. The attached image took around 15-16 min. on my laptop with a 670M (think 560 in a desktop) with render priority set to medium so I could work on the computer while the render was going (disclaimer - this was done with the DS beta plugin - it doesn't use the newer 1.2 dll's yet, the Poser plugin does). I'm just learning Octane, and was just playing with new stuff, so it's not the best render (no changes to the materials at all). But it does give you a good idea regarding speed for a very affordable video card to use with Octane. This was done using only an HDR image for lighting, rendered at 2000x2600 pixels.

Here is a link to another image originally rendered at 2000x3000 pixels (was croped and reduced for posting), HDR lighting, I let it cook for about 30 min., but could have stopped it at around 20 min. (Warning - nudity).

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=2488025

Here is a link to a video done in Octane with volumetrics - about 3.5 min. per frame.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Pr9f78JwRU&noredirect=1

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