Darboshanski opened this issue on Oct 04, 2008 · 12 posts
Darboshanski posted Sat, 04 October 2008 at 2:10 PM
I like it! At first I was apprehensive about getting it but I am glad I did now just for the 64-bit firefly render engine. I watched a scene I had been rendering using the normal P7 firefly that dragged just take off on the 64-bit firefly. It only used 2.69 gigs of the 8 gigs of memory I have installed and used only 50% of the CPUs (Quad-core) and finished in about 8 mins as opposed to the nearly 15 mins in the 32-bit firefly. I know big deal to some but I was impressed BUT I find the older I get the more little things impress me LOL!
In the scene there was one V4.2 with all morphs injected, high rez figure texture, hair, fully clothed and in a full kitchen scene using 4 lights with ray traced shadows and AO. Pixel setting was 8, Min shade was 0.50, irradance caching was 100 and raytrace bounce at 2.