Okay, I installed the daily build of beta. I am using the scene from Alpha 3. Latest daily build of beta is rendering incredibly slower than last alpha. Is it normal?
Was working on an image with 6.3 which was rendered with pass limit set to 500 on an 80 cores machine in 36 mins 40 secs. Same image, same settings, same machine 1hr, 6 mins, 10 sec when using latest daily build (first one I tried). I'm still satisfied, I'm getting an incredible photorealistic interior images (which is very hard to get, even in newest Arnold 5, which is solid update). Corona image editor is a plus as are additions to the corona VFB. Good job guys. Oh, question here (apologies if this was mentioned elsewhere) - there is no image editor upon installing latest daily build on OSX as on Win OS? As for the speed change in latest daily build (have to repeat myself here - it is the only daily build I installed), I guess they will sort that out in the future.
Edit: Just a thought, I didn't try this (will do when I have time) - perhaps if I set time limit in latest daily build to about 36 mins (time in which I got an excellent image quality with 6.3), there is a chance to get comparable image quality? What I'm saying is that they maybe optimized it in a way to get good image quality with lower time/pass limits? Didn't try that (installed latest daily build yesterday), just thinking out loud here.
Edit 2: "here is no image editor upon installing latest daily build on OSX as on Win OS?" - went through all written in this thread and found an answer to this question. So, still no, Nikola yet has to port it to OSX.