willdial posted at 11:24PM Sun, 27 November 2016 - #4291098

Like I said in the original post, the render settings were probably not equivalent and that affected the render time.

Many people reported that Superfly gives a grainy image when not rendering without Branch Path Tracing and that seems to be the case here.

Besides render time, I wanted to see how well the applications can handle materials of props and sets that were not designed for the rendering engines.

Look at the light poles in the background, look at the phone she is holding, look at the dock she is standing on. There are differences on how the applications read the same material settings.

Hi there

You shouldn't render with Branch path tracing,if yes this will result in longer renders or unresponsive Poser etc,if you render try both,render in separate process or with ticked separate process,in some cases rendering in separate process will result in longer renders and in some will cause hard lock and only hard reset will resolve that,its limitation of current NVIDIA drivers,I've reported that to NVIDIA

Branch Path tracing is best to use with CPU,not GPU,that's my opinion and my view

Comparing both renders,you can't there,both renderers handle materials differently and translate materials

Plus I would add,settings plays big part in render times,I usually not using Progressive rendering and pump bucket size to 512 where my render speed is better than with 128 or 256,but this all depends on render size etc

I've done comparing renders like with new DS Beta which supports finally PASCAL" when Poser supported Pascal from last update and Poser with latest update on my rig with GTX1080 and Titan X

But here is my comparison,in both cases I've used same HDR(Apartment),same V4,same materials and same clothing plus hair,only difference on skin in Poser I've used EZSkin 3

DS 4.9 Pro latest beta

Render time: 1 minute and 35 seconds

Poser Pro 11 with SuperFly

Render time: 135 seconds(which is 2 minutes and 25 seconds)

Now if I would use in DS Architectural or Caustic sampler then renders will be lot longer,with Architectural sampler rendering at 3 minutes and 45 seconds has been in 63% and image has been noisy and grainy,with caustic enabled at 3 minutes and 45 seconds,rendering sits in 1% after that time

Hope this helps

Thanks,Jura