Hi.

Reality is written by Pret-a-3D, myself, not Hivewire. Hivewire is one of our distributor and they are good friends.

If you have a 64-bit processor then LuxRender, the renderer used by Reality will be able to see all the memory that you have. That has nothing to do with rendering speed though.
LuxRender is a physics-based renderer. It is used to get the most accurate, realistic renders possible. Speed is not its strong point since it runs absolutely accurate physics simulations, something not available with standard Poser.
The speed of rendering with Lux is directly related to the number of CPU cores that you have. With a modern machine, 8 cores or more, it will run at a very nice speed. In addition it allows you to render while using Poser. Also, Lux can use as many render nodes as you have, since it's Open Source and has no licensing limits.

Lastly, Lux can stop and resume a render at any point.

Keep in mind that Lux renders the whole image and it refines the result in successive passes. This mode of working allows you to see the whole picture instead of waiting for the render to happen from top to bottom. In many cases this workflow is very beneficial and it can cut the delivery time of the final artwork.

You can see Reality and Lux in action in our YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/PretA3D

Hope this helps.

Paolo

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