Here's a question that I should address:
Q:
"Why so long for the initial release?"
Answer:
I'm rather new to Daz, having worked with it for only a few short months. But even that short amount of time has made me a little ambitious r.e. my artistic tastes. And my current hardware isn't ideally suited to the task, as it doesn't have 'cuda cores. I've developed a taste for Iray renders, which makes this relevant, so I accept for now that renders will take longer (sometimes a LOOOOONG time).
Which is all fine and good, except when you are tying to pull off scenes like this:
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The Paragon Cabaret figures in prominently into my storyline (you don't have to go there, but for those that do...). And it has a LOT of elements going on, which make for very long render times (on my laptop at least). Add to that that I'm experimenting as I go along, trying to get the right textures, etc., and that I'm new to Daz, and well this means setting up locations like this, and dialing them in properly, well it takes a while.
This gets compounded when I'm trying to do stuff like this...
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This is just a partial render, hence the graininess, but I want to draw your attention to the shower booth at the middle right. In this render you'll notice that there are a lot of mirrors in play in the shower booth area. This all results in a very complex render.
I've been planning on building a render station soon, but thanks to the state of the CPU market right now I have reason to hold off for a couple of months until the really high core count CPUs become generally available, so I've been holding off on doing renders in this location, focusing on other areas instead, which require less rendering horsepower.
Then there's the whole 'getting the shower water prop to work' issue I've been having, but that's something I'll figure out eventually, once I get back to working in this location.
This location features prominently to my story, as the Paragon ties in with in several storylines (not all of them, of course!). So I don't want to 'gimp' it in any way, because I want it to be a magical place of sorts.
I'm having similarly long render times for stuff going on at home, due to all of the minor details I'm including in scenes. I REALLY need that faster rendering machine, and am making due with what I have for now.
Like this hot tub scene for instance. It takes a while to render scenes like this, and I still need to dial in the quality a bit better.
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I also have a few areas in the house that I'm building as I go along. Step sis and mom will need their own bedrooms at some point...
So, short form, the Paragon Cabaret and the Stepmom's awesome house are a couple of the reasons why things are taking a while.
Tawny here (one of my supporting cast members) is patiently awaiting the completion of my remodeling job on the Paragon...
Patience! I must have patience...