3D-Daz Daz3d Art - Show Us Your DazSkill

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Playing around with Filament(PBR) which you can choose rather than texture or IRAY on your main viewport, but you can ALSO change your main renderer from IRAY to your viewport! Which can be fun. Before you do that, you need to adjust those Filament(PBR) settings as they will wash out your scene. DAZ will add in a Tonemapper and Environment settings to your scene by default, but not Filament, but there is a settings thingee for it. Just go to your "Create" menu, and at the very bottom you'll see "New Filament Draw Options node", select that and it will not be in your scene tab (upper right). Select it and in your Parameters tab you'll now have options to adjust the Filament settings... first thing to do is to turn the "Filament Intensity Scale" down to around 2000 (adjust as needed) and play with the other settings.

This is a great way to just navigate your scene while creating really fast! Much better than the texture renderer. BUT, as I said, you can also render with it if you choose to render with the Viewport (go to Render Settings and select "Viewport" at the top beside "Engine").

Now when you click "Render" it should be INSTANT! No wait... this may just be enough quality for most. Or perhaps throw out some test images to see if they work in your VN before doing a full IRAY render.... anyhow, here's two Filament(PBR) renders, no IRAY... not too bad honestly... considering they're instant. This may even be a nice solution for people who have low end hardware (although I am uncertain as to what Filament requirements are that way)...

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DitaVonTease

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Oyyy, believe me it takes hours to render most of my images (1000 iterations at least) with RTX 2070 and Ryzen 7 3700X. Every single time (even while working in aux viewport) I am trying to optimize my scene, calculating the dedicated memory cost of the meshes in the scene, tweaking here and there, dealing with sudden crashes without an autosave... Well, there is a plenty of difficulties to deal with, however, one tablespoon of patience and a pinch of swearing always save the day :3

I cannot render a scene with more than 3 characters + an average environment together. This is sad. I quit my job around a year ago. Unemployed since then. Trying to survive with freelance jobs and such. Speaking of an upgrade, I also want one, however the only thing I can do now is to wait until my beautiful Coral gets to known very well and becomes a top-model ^^. Maybe then I will be able to enlarge her dream world <3

Thank you so much for your beautiful comment :3

Have you tried Cutaway will allow you to remove everything not in the Camera View, but still have all your lighting. Allowing an extra body, or more detailed 'sets'.
 
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Roxy personally asked me to thank Coral's Mom for sending her the beautiful posters of her virtual daughter and sent me this pic.
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Thank you soooo much <3 Coral's Dream ! Looking forward to doing more stuff with you in the future. Also thank you for giving my lil' Roxy someone to look up to! She is a huge fan of Coral and can't wait to get her autograph and get to know her better one day. Until then, she says she will keep refreshing her twitter page hoping to see something new every day.
 

Coral's Dream

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Roxy personally asked me to thank Coral's Mom for sending her the beautiful posters of her virtual daughter and sent me this pic.
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Thank you soooo much <3 Coral's Dream ! Looking forward to doing more stuff with you in the future. Also thank you for giving my lil' Roxy someone to look up to! She is a huge fan of Coral and can't wait to get her autograph and get to know her better one day. Until then, she says she will keep refreshing her twitter page hoping to see something new every day.
You wouldn't imagine how that means to me.

It's been more or less 3 months since I started playing with DAZ and posting my renders here and there.
Just look at me now I have found a professional to collab with. You are one of the artists here that motivates me to learn and produce more. Every single time you post something the skill level bar increases one step higher and I get jealous, nihihihi.

Jokes aside, I am extremely proud and honored. Thank you for having my beautiful Coral's posters in your work.
Of course Coral would love to sign an autograph (a very special one) for beautiful Roxy!

Love you <3 Thanks for your support!
This is priceless.
 
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