knyghtmare2021 posted at 11:34AM Fri, 07 September 2018 - #4335766

I don't plan on abandoning Poser for DS, just adding another tool to my belt. Please, would you mind telling me more about Iray?

What are the differences between the 2 render engines? Speeds? How do they compare to Firefly in terms of quaility and speed? Does DS support AO? What about effect, such as glowing object and the such? Does DS run a seperate process for subsurface scattering?

3Delight would be the equivalent of Firefly. Iray is similar to Superfly.

It's been a long time since I needed a seperate AO, but I suppose you could get control, if you really need it, when using 3Delight. Glow and emissive materials are easy in either renderer, Subsurface scattering a bit easier in Iray. Not sure what you mean by a separate process for SSS.

Quality wise, you can get amazing results from any renderer when you've learnt its quirks, in terms of speed, simple lighting in 3Delight should be as fast as Firefly. If your scenes have full GI/HDR and an environment things obviously get slow. ...BUT add an nVidia card to Iray and it becomes much, much faster than 3Delight.

regards
prixat