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(I said "People on the Daz Boards" (meaning the official Daz forums) shit on people who do post-work. Not aimed at any one person...)
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I have a whole Strip Club set. Takes forever to render out all the details. The dude put mirrors and shit all over the place. Mirrors mean reflectivity, and that adds complexity to the Light simulation that Iray needs to deal with. This is just an example.
Here's something I worked on. Set up a stripper pole, a simple floor, a simple background (all using primitive objects). Quick render. IMO, turned out better and faster than the overnight render using a whole set.
Here's something I worked on. Set up a stripper pole, a simple floor, a simple background (all using primitive objects). Quick render. IMO, turned out better and faster than the overnight render using a whole set.
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I agree for the most part.
I know my renders sometimes take 10 hours to finish (using a GTX1070) and im sure i can shorten it if i invest more time in optimizing. I render while i sleep so i don't mind that much. But i always do postwork.
Sometimes i just fix some highlighting and contrast and sometimes i go more heavy like here: Linky.
I know there are a few here that have a distinct style. Both in scenes and in postwork.
I dont have a real style in my renders for a number of reasons.
I want to do new stuff, learn new things.
Also post work that works in Scy-Fi scene may not necessarily work in a fantasy setting.
Maybe that is my style
I start learning about DAZ 4 days ago. Here is my first render
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You can't really just go by how many iterations because it differs from image to image heavily. Like you can have a close up on one model and 4000 iterations is more than enough or you can have the model further from camera in same scene and it's gonna need 10000 or more iterations to look as good.
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This one was 188 iterations, I think.
Generally, until it looks good enough for my tools. Depends on the complexity of the environment. Bigger scene needs more time, more resolution.
Generally, until it looks good enough for my tools. Depends on the complexity of the environment. Bigger scene needs more time, more resolution.
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I personally don't use iterations much.
I mostly set it to 15000.
9 out of 10 it either hits my converged ratio (i set it most of the times to 99%) or it hits my time limit. I usually have this at 36000 or even 72000 seconds (which is 10 or 20 hours) And i press render and go to bed or work. When i wake up i check my render. Sometimes its still running and sometimes its finished. If its running i will check if its good enough to my liking or if it needs longer (Or skip it entirely). I have had renders that where at only 16% after 10 hours of rendering and far to noisy to use a denoiser. While i do use them on occasions I'm not a big fan of them on people but they do have a purpose.
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Love where your going with this but the wings seem (to) high on her shoulders. Or maybe its optic deceit....
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No joke. My last one was 1300 iterations in an hour and looked fine, but I had a recent one go the full 15,000 iterations over 14 hours, and i wished i had upped my limit.
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Wow, for a first one it's pretty good. There a few imperfections but you'll definitely gain skills over time.
Actually I'd love to see her in a VN!
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if you're looking to do big scene renders in a shorter time, then i'd highly suggest using an optimizer. It was the only way i could do a bigger render before i got my gpu a couple weeks ago. Lighting is also a huge drain on resources. Limiting the amount of lights in a scene/hdri (and making them brighter) will lower the time taken to get good results.
For reference, even with a decent gpu (2070 Super), there's too many lights with too many dark spots to get decent results from this scene without an excessive amount of rendering time.
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Ye didn't understand the context..
Electricity cuts must be a pain in the ass. I remember windows rebooting after an update in middle of the night while I was asleep when my render finished and I almost lost my shit wondering if I should switch to linux.
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And that is my biggest beef with Iray (or most render engines). I love these atmospheric settings but sometimes it feels like its only achievable (in a decent amount of time) using postwork magic. I think on my machine this would need 3 days of rendering and a denoiser and some photoshop magic to top it off.
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Well for me coronavirus changed nothing as I have no family and no friends so I'm still just chasing my dream to work from home and not have to deal with my social anxiety.
If I couldn't render during day I'd proly just prepare all the characters for bigger project and scenes like people's rooms and such.. take a lot of time to tweak them.
My renders go from 20 minutes to 10 hours too but I just make use of the time rendering longer ones to do post-work on the ones I already have and to write code and learn stuff so I don't mind that much.
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