"Another issue is animation, which isn't part of this thread testing obviously.
The results of global lighting in the Octane unbiased render, in path tracing mode, would not flicker in animation. The 5 minute Vue render most certainly will.  Also, the biased Poser render would flicker terribly."

Agreed, I understand that this thread and it's render time Data is limited to the perspective of poser users who are looking for alternative renders
for rendering indoor lit stills.

But any truly comprehensive comparison of render engines would have to include their performance in rendering animations.

This is where engines like firefly really,truly fail the user.!!

Once you get into animation you quickly realize that you need a "hybrid" render engine that contains within it several modes for approaching GI:

Brute force
photon mapping
Irradiance Mapping
Light cache

These are just terms for how you should direct your engine to compute GI based on what is actually in your scene (fur/hair/water etc)
and wether your camera is the thing moving or the scene objects are moving or both.

For the most part the average poser user does not need this level of complexity
but it is good to see this thread address the General subject for those who are not content with firefly both in terms of speed & Quality.

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