I have both Poser 14 pro and poser 11. I have been trying to use DAZ for nearly 5 years. I have always found that the render times to be very slow compared to the Poser render times. for example I like to do animations. For a plain set up in Poser no background just hair and naked it takes about 30 to 60 seconds tops to render a HQ V4 model with fairly detailed lighting. for DAZ a relatively simple render with Vict 8 takes about an hour. Am I doing something wrong?? I have not plans at this time to ever try Daz again, but I hope I am wrong as all the hype tells me how swell DAZ is?!
please reply I would love to animate in DAZ the same way I do in Poser, but I need to be able to do so an the same efficient pace as with Poser :( here is a sexy one done with DAz for V8 by an associate but it took 60 minutes for the render. ! and I really donot see much of an improvement over a Poser render .. Am I wrong??? Please help ... southern_hospitality__bonus__by_p0w3r_up-dc1k4a0.jpg

I would say yes you are doing something wrong. As you haven't said anything about how you set up either scene and you have no intention of using DS, posting this here seems like it's an app war post rather than seeking actual information. Please don't do that in this forum. And what you posted isn't a 30-60 second render, not with that hair. You know some of us used to render in Poser as well ;)

Hmmm ..... maybe you should show us a couple of your 30-60 sec. HQ Poser renders so we can show similar quality DS samples with their render times (I checked your gallery, but the renders didn't seem to be of the same high quality as the one you posted above). It would also help if you were to share what your hardware is, since render times in Iray can be dramatically different depending on hardware used. Would also help to know if you are using Firefly or Superfly in Poser and Iray or 3Delight in DS?

Of course if you have really already decided to use Poser and never try DS again, then what is the real reason for posting?? Just for the record, I've been using Poser since version 3, but haven't upgraded from PP 2014 to P11. I just find DS to be a better fit for me, but I don't do many animations.

I have been using poser since about 2001 maybe longer, and only just started to dabble in Daz, and I'm not really seeing this issue, Iray much like Reality although just not exsternal and a lot better and nicer to use, can safely say there are things in poser that are good and things in Daz that are good, although I cant seam to find an area render in Daz as yet.

Thought I'd do a quick and dirty render of G8F in case the OP is interested. It's not the best render ever (or even close), but I wanted to see how fast a basic render should be (haven't done one in a while). This is a dial-spun G8F with the textures/shaders for Kallisto (only mod was to the translucency color) with a stock pose. the lighting is the default DS HDRI only. The render took a little under 8 min. on a laptop with a GTX 970M, so 1+ long simple renders are definitely a bit too long (unless your CPU bound).

@shedofjoy

This is the icon for the area render, highlighted in red lines and yellow :). Just click that icon (upper right of DS window) and drag across the area you want to render.

Laurie

This is dumb same old BS. just use what you really want to use and let it go already.Your post doesn't sound like someone who actually wants to learn how its done but more of a Poser can do it also so that is why I will never use studio. do you know how much crap I would get if i go into the poser forums posting stuff done in Studio and basically saying thats why I dont use Poser ? (which i still do and other things as well because im an artist and not a fanboy) that thread would last for months with everyone coming out the wood works with their opinions. just be an artist if your questions are legit ask someone who you know or see in the galleries who actually does very good renders for tips on how they got there and how to optimize the render times but this isn't the way to do it.

If you want to render using iray, you have to use Nvidia GPU. With Nvidia GPU the render should take less than 5 minutes. Using CPU is super slow usually, up to hours.