Gunizz
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I never used Sanchomod, but does it also create new variables like Scrappy? Do the saves need fixing too?Sancho is not on F95 anymore anyway, so using his mods on past versions will mean you have to remove it and fix your saves with the next update. Unless he returns, it wouldn't be smart to use them now.
DPC still poses and renders statics with a single 4090. Because you cannot Nvlink two 4090s. If you have two on a PC there is no real benefit. Also he doesn't use RT heavy scenes, his scenes still have basic lighting setup compared to what you can see around. He doesn't look for cinema photography and his priority is to produce fast a lot of images.I mean that he can create and render a scene with complex geometry and large number of polygons, while others can't afford it because of limited budget. Can developer A afford to create a scene like large as the voting scene for best costume in Ep9?
He can also enhance the image quality in various ways. Increase the number of samples, place more light sources which will affect noise, increase resolution, increase the level of subdivision which will increase the number of polygons, etc.
If I want to develop a game, I will not be able to create the same large-scale scenes with all my desire. I will be forced to create chamber games with a small number of characters and thus compensate for the lack of performance.
Setting up a scene takes almost the same time with a 4070 or 4090 (4090 is faster at previews and has more VRAM that helps a lot in complex scenes, as you wrote).
Many developers have got a single 4090, so they are not at real disadvantage for static renderings.
You are right to say that he's facilitated a lot overall, because he can fully do animation rendering with his other PCs. That's his unmatched hardware strength.
I also think his success is not for CGI but for the writing and the ideas he got (he's also good at coding). And he's really among the best at project management.
For the voting scene (ep 9) DPC fused a few separate renderings because he was using a 3090 at that time (I have not checked the timing). Even a 4090 24GB I doubt would fit that much.
I just don't want people to be discouraged into thinking you need DPC's setup to obtain very good renderings because as we can see in the fan art threads there are people with limited hardware that are doing marvellous stuff. I also browse some CGI communities once in a while and there are so many talented and unknown artists with cheaper graphic cards.