3D-Daz Daz3d Art - Show Us Your DazSkill

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AlexStone

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Any less than ideal hardware is #PotatoSquad to me. Don't convollute it too much. My old setup was a non-GPU supported system which didn't keep me from some good results. Search for that hashtag in this thread and you'll find several of my posts.
Why, can you forbid me to tag #ZucchiniSquad and tease you about belonging to #PumpkingSquad for your conceit about 'ideal equipment'? No, you can't.

Congratulations on getting a good video card, only a good question remains: what's your virtue here?
So I'll continue to help with friendly advice to those who don't have that option and are still rendering on their old laptops. Because it just doesn't work for everyone your usual answer, "Well, buy yourself a $1000 video card and don't suffer!"
 

Willibrordus

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Why, can you forbid me to tag #ZucchiniSquad and tease you about belonging to #PumpkingSquad for your conceit about 'ideal equipment'? No, you can't.

Congratulations on getting a good video card, only a good question remains: what's your virtue here?
So I'll continue to help with friendly advice to those who don't have that option and are still rendering on their old laptops. Because it just doesn't work for everyone your usual answer, "Well, buy yourself a $1000 video card and don't suffer!"
Thanks but no need to congratulate me on getting new hardware, and I never told anyone to get a new GPU to get better results.
My virtue here is just thesame as yours and I can be as helpful as you since I also have some experience with old hardware.
You seem to be on here more than me so if you can help other creators you're doing a noble thing. We need to stick together.
When we all pool our knowledge we can collectively pretty much tackle any issue that comes up.
I launched that hashtag here and I'll keep supporting it, I can't keep you from launching other hashtags but that won't be helpful much I think. Keep at keeping at it and I'll have your back should you need it.
 

RobertDeadth

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From my upcoming first game :) Didn't fully realize just how long rendering takes with only a mediocre laptop at my disposal, but it's great fun to create anyway, and I'm learning a lot as I go along. The game will be ready in around two weeks' time, writing and everything goes very smoothly but unfortunately, the rendering is a pain and slows the overall process quite a bit.

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atheran

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So..I was trying to emulate a real world camera in Blender. Specifically the Canon EOS 6D Mark II. From the sensor size to the available F/stops and the exposure/EV/shutter speeds and so on. With an already emulated 50mm lens.

This is with F/2.8 at 70 cm distance, with a shutter speed of 1/100s and ISO of 400. Looks a lot more acurate to the real thing compared to iray or even octane, it's a proper 6240 × 4160 resolution for the sensor and it rendered in 90 minutes, which is half of what a 1080p would take me on iray. There's no post work aside from turning it to monochrome (I wish Blender would support monochrome on viewport/render). It only uses one rim light (custom physically accurate spotlight instead of Blender's default).

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PS. Link to photobox, because f95zone as well as ibb, imgur and a couple of others, refused to host a 50mb image. Here I attach a downscaled one. Half the resolution and 1/60th of the size. I wonder what all got lost in the downscale.

PPS. I know. Vellus hair would make it that much better. Problem is, I can't get Daz's vellus to work in Blender/Cycles. But if I switch to that for the better/faster renders, I might create my own with the time I save, long as I stick to Celia/Siobhan for closeups. Making vellus hair for a bunch of characters would take more time than I save.

PPPS. I think I will try LuxCore next and see how that one is, considering it's supposed to be a lot more accurate than Cycles.

Any suggestions/feedback is always appreciated. And yes. I know this was cheating, If that's a problem, I'll stick to posting Iray only renders here.
 
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