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Render Engine Comparison — Description
Every so often I see folks on DA ask the big question: Reality or 3Delight? Some seek to attack others I seek to illustrate and allow my renders to speak for themselves. In this context I will say there are pros and cons to both.

I will begin this by stating plainly I am a 3Delight enthusiast. I appreciate it for what it is. Possibly the single most widely use render engine in popular entertainment today. Nuff said on that.

So onto the comparison. Yes I'm going to be honest and forthright with little in the way of trying to skew the results. Again - gonna let the render speak for itself.

Setting the Scene

Scene Created in Daz Studio 4.6 Pro 64-bit for MAC, OSX Maverick
Model used for both characters was Dawn for Daz from ~HiveWire3D
Morphs used were P3D Madison for Dawn DS and SAV Maraki for Dawn DS, both with their default MAT files
Hair used was Fashionista for Dawn with default black material and 3DUniverse Alexis for Dawn hair with it's base material.

On the left is my render using the %Reality-plug-in

Reality softbox light and meshlight plane
Skin surfaces are set to Glossy and 8000
Rendered to 850 S/p
On the right is my render using the native 3Delight render engine that comes with Daz Studio

InaneGlory's Falloff Studio
No skin adjustment
Rendered to a PNG for later composite in Photoshop.
Judge for yourself.