Miss B posted at 4:50AM Mon, 03 May 2021 - #4418237

Yes SuperFly was based on Blender's Cycles, but only at a "general" stage. Blender's Cycles is more complex, with many more nodes than SuperFly, which I believe is what they're trying to upgrade with Poser 12's SuperFly. Also, the nodes SuperFly has aren't built like the Cycles nodes, such as the in and out connectors, and that makes it difficult to get the same result with SuperFly in Poser, that I can get with Cycles in Blender.

Also Blender 3, which may be out at the end of the summer, will have their latest version, Cycles X, which will be even more involved. I use both SuperFly in Poser, as well as Cycles in Blender, and I wish SuperFly were more like Cycles than it currently is in Poser 11.

Just my 2¢, FWIW.

So if you had to choose between rendering with Superfly or Firefly, you would choose Superfly, if I understand you correct, despite its limitations compared to Blender? I know there are some crazy and in some cases expensive renderers out there, which is why I was specifically asking about Superfly and Firefly :)