randym77 posted at 1:46PM Fri, 28 June 2019 - #4355131

Afrodite-Ohki posted at 9:58AM Fri, 28 June 2019 - #4355115

When I try rendering in Firefly it takes forever for me. When I render in Superfly it goes much faster - and it seems to be about the same render times with any root, the amount of nodes in the root that makes a difference in my render times, or so it seems. And then it's much much easier to make a good shader with few nodes in Cycles than with the default root (and then Physical Surface I confess I've never tried touching).

And mind you, my computer is kinda beefy, definitely not top of the line but pretty good, BUT my video card is AMD - I don't use GPU rendering, I use CPU. And Firefly keeps taking foreeeeever, Superfly goes super well.

Oh, man, it's definitely the opposite for me. I want to love Superfly, but it takes so long that I often use Firefly instead. I've tried the settings people have recommended here, and either it ends up super grainy, or takes forever compared to Firefly.

My computer is fairly good. 12 core processor, 64 Gb of RAM, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080. But Superfly is slower than molasses flowing uphill in January, while Firefly is blazing fast.

Something is very, very wrong there. D:

Try this benchmark and see what you get: https://www.sharecg.com/v/86389/view/11/Poser/Superfly-render-test-scene

Are you making sure your bucket size is at least 512 and no more than 1024 in your renders? The test scene is already pre-set at 512 which is perfect for a 1080 and with that you should average around 17 - 20 minutes.