I love the result you get with P8's new Indirect Light, but no more for me. Waiting over 7 hours for the final version of my image to render and then having the FireFly render engine to crash while the image is almost finished, does it for me. The text version (half-size) rendered fine, but I had to wait for ages. The full-size ( 2000x1200 ) crashed when the images was done for about 85%. No more IDL, I'm through with it. Great results, but the absurd long render times and waiting for hours just to experience a crash, isn't what I do call fun.

The non-IDL version renders in less then an hour, IDL version took over 7 hours and wasn't even finished when it crashed. Besides the crashes, the time difference is just too much to even seriously consider using it on a regular basis. It was fun as long as it lasted, but I will not touch this new feature of P8 anymore. I'm sure it works fine with some boxes and spheres or a one figure scene rendered screen size, but when one wants print quality large renders or more complex scenes (and the one I did wasn't even that complex), the render times will be a very serious issue. Computer used: Core2Due P8600 (2.4Ghz) with 4GB RAM.

Shame, another P8 feature going down the drain.

Just had to vent..... not being able to use a pc for a whole day and then ending up with nothing, isn't fun! Image attached was reduced in size to be able to attach it.

Artwork and 3DToons items, create the perfect place for you toon and other figures!

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/index.php?vendor=23722

Due to the childish TOS changes, I'm not allowed to link to my other products outside of Rendo anymore :(

Food for thought.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYZw0dfLmLk