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Description
An IRay render to compare with the Reality renders I have been doing.

Likes: With models that come with IRay materials, I can produce a decent image with minimal time to compose.

Dislikes: This fairly small image took 22 hours to render and when IRay is running, I literally can't do anything else on my computer (7 year old laptop with an NVIDIA 9600M graphics card). With Reality, once LuxRender kicks off, I can close Reality and DAZ, and still use my computer for other things.

Random thoughts: I have a hard time wrapping my head around how some of the key technical items (materials, shaders, lighting) work together to create the fantastic photo-realistic images I see others producing. I know between Reality and IRay I can get there, I'm just not sure which road to take.

Description
An IRay render to compare with the Reality renders I have been doing.

Likes: With models that come with IRay materials, I can produce a decent image with minimal time to compose.

Dislikes: This fairly small image took 22 hours to render and when IRay is running, I literally can't do anything else on my computer (7 year old laptop with an NVIDIA 9600M graphics card). With Reality, once LuxRender kicks off, I can close Reality and DAZ, and still use my computer for other things.

Random thoughts: I have a hard time wrapping my head around how some of the key technical items (materials, shaders, lighting) work together to create the fantastic photo-realistic images I see others producing. I know between Reality and IRay I can get there, I'm just not sure which road to take.