Glitterati3D posted at 9:28AM Fri, 28 June 2019 - #4355114

Not everyone has a beefy, top of the line, expensive video card in their machine that allows them to use the Cycles root materials effectively. I am one of them.

I feel so strange when someone makes such a claim - see, I'm not doubting you, at all, I just don't understand what's happening.

When I try rendering in Firefly it takes forever for me. When I render in Superfly it goes much faster - and it seems to be about the same render times with any root, the amount of nodes in the root that makes a difference in my render times, or so it seems. And then it's much much easier to make a good shader with few nodes in Cycles than with the default root (and then Physical Surface I confess I've never tried touching).

And mind you, my computer is kinda beefy, definitely not top of the line but pretty good, BUT my video card is AMD - I don't use GPU rendering, I use CPU. And Firefly keeps taking foreeeeever, Superfly goes super well.

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Feel free to call me Ohki!

Poser Pro 11, Poser 12 and Poser 13, Windows 10, Superfly junkie. My units are milimeters.

Persephone (the computer): AMD Ryzen 9 5900x, RTX 3070 GPU, 96gb ram.