bhoins posted at 8:32PM Tue, 24 November 2015 - #4240710

Not necessarily. Much depends on your experience with Daz Studio. They are both easy to use, but they both require shader conversion for best results.

They both do the same thing. They both connect Daz Studio with the open source Luxrender engine and they both have advantages and disadvantages.

LuxRender is a Physically based render engine and works very much like Maxwell, Octane and Iray. Is there a particular reason that you wanted to use Luxrender, instead of simply using the built in Nvidia Iray render engine?

Yes. I own an upper-end AMD gpu (Sapphire r9 270x 4gb), and would like to take advantage of it, rather than wait for a cpu render in Iray. Imo, it was a mistake to incorporate Iray, since it effectively shuts out half the market from enjoying the speed of gpu rendering, especially since OpenCL is the way everything is going to be going in the next few years. Obviously, I could be wrong about that. It's just how I interpret things.