ghostship2 posted at 6:09AM Fri, 13 November 2015 - #4238382

So....this is one of those render engines that does not tell you when it's done rendering? It lets you decide when the image is done to your satisfaction? Which means that you can't really compare render speeds with PP2014.

P11Pro still has the Firefly render engine, albeit with some modifications. Yous can run the Python script Render Firefly and select time and it will "ding!" when finished and leave a little popup with the elapsed time. The only comparison I did was a massive scene in low lighting, which makes it hard on the render engine. Pro2014GD took 3hr51m and P11Pro finished in 3hr31m.

As for the Superfly render engine, you can render progressively, but you also have the option to render bucket by bucket, which takes less time to reach a given level of quality. You set a total samples/bounces when rendering progressive, so it does have a defined halt condition. There is now a very handy message log in Poser, and if you open that it will tell you when the render started and the total elapsed render time.

Wandering off topic, but the grey message log icon turns orange if you make a bad material node connection; open the message log and it will tell you which prop/figure, which material zone, and exactly which connection between which two nodes! Message log is your friend.

This scene was lit by hundreds of paper lanterns and glass biolumenescent globes, plus the flame mesh in the candle. The only Poser light is a 3% point light in the candle flame. Superfly makes nice glass and nice metals, and the materials to do so are very simple.

This wasn't intended as a finished art piece; it's a render engine torture test; the Poser lights are dialed down to 3-7%, there are a myriad of light emitting mesh areas, and lots of geometry. Paul and Pauline. as Jedi, sparring the night away on Stonemason's Urban Future 2 city set.

Poser 12, in feet.  

OSes:  Win7Prox64, Win7Ultx64

Silo Pro 2.5.6 64bit, Vue Infinite 2014.7, Genetica 4.0 Studio, UV Mapper Pro, UV Layout Pro, PhotoImpact X3, GIF Animator 5