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Reality vs Poser Render Speeds

TimingisEverythingTimingisEverything Posts: 112
edited June 2013 in The Commons

Anybody here use both Poser and Reality?

Was thinking of getting Reality for Daz and I was wondering about the render speeds. I can get some pretty quick raytraced renders from Poser so I'm trying to use that as a benchmark.

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  • Herald of FireHerald of Fire Posts: 3,504
    edited June 2013

    TimingisEverything said:
    Anybody here use both Poser and Reality?

    Was thinking of getting Reality for Daz and I was wondering about the render speeds. I can get some pretty quick raytraced renders from Poser so I'm trying to use that as a benchmark.


    Poser uses Firefly, one of the fastest render engines out there. You're not going to get a similar speed from a Reality render. Reality is a bridge between Poser and Luxrender, with Luxrender being the actual engine that does the rendering. Render times with Luxrender vary widely depending on how much detail you want out of the image, and how the scene is set up.

    Because Luxrender is an unbiased render engine, it never actually stops rendering. Instead, it renders out a very basic image and then fills in the blanks as it goes along. Each pass adds a bit more detail until it's detailed enough that you feel more render cycles wouldn't benefit it. At this point the user can stop the render and save out the image. You can also set it to run for a certain number of samples before automatically exiting, which is necessary if you're making animations and need a consistent look.

    However, because Luxrender uses real world physics in its lighting calculations, the results really do speak for themselves. You're getting staggeringly high quality images for the extra time you invest.

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  • TimingisEverythingTimingisEverything Posts: 112
    edited December 1969

    okay that clears things up.

  • BobvanBobvan Posts: 2,652
    edited December 1969

    Times are really not that bad I have produced thousands of lux renders, another nice feature using a photorealistic render angine is making backgrounds and then collaging real ppl from digital pics or rendering a scene with headless characters then adding edited head shots from ppl I am having fun experimenting

  • TimingisEverythingTimingisEverything Posts: 112
    edited June 2013

    This is good to hear. I was really intrigued by Reality but after doing a little research and hearing people talk of render speeds that take days I was frightened to say the least. Because even on a low-end rig the longest render times I have gotten was 1-2 hours but that was with only 2 figures in a scene and on posers firefly,

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  • BobvanBobvan Posts: 2,652
    edited December 1969

    It comes with experience I am now lost when trying to use 3delight

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