Also, there was a request for a specific benchmarking-like scene: closed environment, two IDL lights, reflections etc. It surprised me a bit to be honest because that was exactly what the presented scene was offering already. But nevertheless:

closed environment by Reality/Paolo's Studio prop

two meshlights, from Reality/Paolo's meshlight props, with the appropriate ambient, intensities, luminances etc set for Poser, Octane and Vue.

two parallel mirrorring boxes to make nice mirror-in-mirror effects, and the camera in between at a slight angle.

two colored balls, each with reflection and transparency / refraction including fresnel, making the best glasses available in each tool with all settings as similar as possible, to my current understanding.

All renders set to similar quality standards, like 12 bounces in all, etc. Direct / Diffuse tracing for Octane as requested.

Here are the results for Octane and Vue, Poser is still crunching at the moment and will follow later on.

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Usually I'm wrong. But to be effective and efficient, I don't need to be correct or accurate.

visit www.aRtBeeWeb.nl (works) or Missing Manuals (tutorials & reviews) - both need an update though