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This may not be affecting your render times, but maybe it could be a factor. Most renders do not need to have light path lengths set to infinite. In Render Settings >> Optimization >> Max Path Length the default setting is -1 and that will contine to calculate the paths until DAZ thinks there is no more light to bounce. In most cases setting this value to a positive number will only allow the path to be calculated a finite length. I am supposing that when you use ghost lights that there are just too many paths to calculate and that is why your render may be taking so much longer.
In the render you posted, there are only a few reflective surfaces and with matte or flat surfaces light falloff is so significant you could likely get away setting the max path to 8 or even less. That could exponentially lower the render times.
Also note, that DAZ calculates these light paths for the entire scene not just the visible portion. That is a lot of calculating, and all of that is being done on your 3090.
I have used ghost lights in the past and noticed a similar lengthening of the render times. Now I just add more lights or lights with a wider dispersion to accomplish the same thing ghost lights do. Although there are some situations where ghost lights may be the only answer.
Edit: Just to be clear, setting it to infinity does not actually mean DAZ calculates the path to inifinty. It will stop when there is no more light to bounce, in some cases this could be less than if you set it to a specific number. But most of use don't render a single asset in the void of space, so there will be paths to calculate.
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This is my render settings...
Render quality Enable: off (it will turn everything off below)
Max time : 0
Max Samples : 5000-15000 (max is 15000, you will likely never reach this)
What these settings do is basically let the renderer go on forever and you manually cancel the render when you think it is done. I render at 5000x3000 with a 3090. I keep an eye on the samples , usually go to 500 samples...sometimes 1000...and it looks great for me. you can see my work here on various channels. At 5000x3000, you can scale it down and get even more detail afterwards. Don't forget, that you are also using DOF in your renders i assume, so you can dial down the texture details in the background and speed up the render as well.
lastly, as a test, do this same render for 30 minutes then cancel and save.. compare it to your 6 hour render. can you really tell the difference unless you zoom in all the way? personally, its minimal for me. if there are a lot of scene lights (spot, spot,etc) there is a certain time to make the little white flies resolve themselves..thats the nice thing about Hdri lighting. Photoshop/Gimp has a nice filter that removes them if need be.
here’s my work in progress
would love to hear your feedback
working on a visual novel, find more images on my
This is Daz generated and AI enhanced.
Is this something great, is it worth launching?
Find more info about the story here
thank you
would love to hear your feedback
working on a visual novel, find more images on my
You must be registered to see the links
.This is Daz generated and AI enhanced.
Is this something great, is it worth launching?
Find more info about the story here
thank you
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AI's enhancement is too much visible for me, sorry, I have a bias with that !here’s my work in progress
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This is Daz generated and AI enhanced.
Is this something great, is it worth launching?
Find more info about the story here
thank you
Well most AI porn is shit, it sucks and it's pretty stupid, I am trying to build a different type of content, along with an Expert Daz artist. I am trying to make highly detailed and almost realistic porn, it's a complex combination of actions to get from a render to a AI image.
I am trying to test the market and see if people would love the style vs regular 3DCG.
What's your bias against AI work? I hate what's out there today as well, pretty much what AI is good at, a single portrait of a expressionless person
with really bad hands and feet
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I've tried to reproduce the effect you have in your scene, or at least something similar.
There's a setting in daz that reduces the noise, i'm not sure if it works as expected in your case, but it's worth a look.
In the scene there is only the hdri + a spotlight + a ghost light placed in front of the windows
I set it to 500 iterations for the test.
on the left I left the default settings.
on the right I set nominal luminance to 400 and Noise degrain Filtering to 4.
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The first thing I saw, it's the AI enhancement on your work.Well most AI porn is shit, it sucks and it's pretty stupid, I am trying to build a different type of content, along with an Expert Daz artist. I am trying to make highly detailed and almost realistic porn, it's a complex combination of actions to get from a render to a AI image.
I am trying to test the market and see if people would love the style vs regular 3DCG.
What's your bias against AI work? I hate what's out there today as well, pretty much what AI is good at, a single portrait of a expressionless person
I have a little message for everyone who post AI things here to go to right dedicated thread.
After, I read your description, and I've decided not to post my comment to you to going to the right thread...
But for me, your work, as good as it could be, don't have his place in this thread.
I'm not a "thread nazi", so, do what you want indeed.
I'm puting "like" certain post in AI dedicated thread, as I'm puting "like" in posts here.
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I'd like to see the event when he got a success with one of those chicks at least.
it’s the same chick
different hair styles and both scenes will be part of the first release.Will show more previews in the coming weeks, how’s the style? detail? any comments or feedback?
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