sturkwurk posted at 10:36 AM Sat, 1 April 2023 - #4460341

Richard60 posted at 5:37 PM Fri, 31 March 2023 - #4460242

That 128 Pixel Samples translates into 16,384 runs through the rendering process.  For a quick and dirty test I use 4 and for final around 16.  As far as lights try setting up one of the Startup scenes Mondello beach or Wild Street.  They have a single IBL light over head to provide lighting for working on the scene which does not render in final.  So basically you can now do scenes just using the surrounding HDRI image and have no lights.  You probably will want to add lights to get the effect you want much like Hollywood does in making a movie.  But without those lights it is like you taking your camera and taking a picture.

Also you should use the Progressive Mode to render as it has been found to render faster then the old bucket system.  That shocked me the first time I ran a default render and did not see the little buckets.

ah - that's good to know too - thank you!

Progressive Mode and large bucket sizes worked for me and gave a serious reduction in render times.

 

 

I use Poser 13 on Windows 11 - For Scene set up I use a Geekcom A5 -  Ryzen 9 5900HX, with 64 gig ram and 3 TB  storage, mini PC with final rendering done on normal sized desktop using an AMD Ryzen Threadipper 1950X CPU, Corsair Hydro H100i CPU cooler, 3XS EVGA GTX 1080i SC with 11g Ram, 4 X 16gig Corsair DDR4 Ram and a Corsair RM 100 PSU .   The desktop is in a remote location with rendering done via Queue Manager which gives me a clearer desktop and quieter computer room.