so i take it Part 2 still hasn't dropped yet? can't find it anywhere; tyia
It's probably time for me to post an update!
So, SU ReImagined is where my creative muse has been for the last few months. This is a rather ambitious community project, and there's a lot of moving parts to implement...
Anyways, I recently decided to finally grab a PNY RTX 3090 24 GB. The PNY card was the right price (new), and indeed looks/feels/smells new. OK, no smell really, but at least it doesn't smell like it's been baking in a mining factory for months/years...
In any case, I've been having a lot of GPU memory full related crashes with Daz Studio lately, as my Daz install quite simply will NOT do any renders as CPU only. There are workarounds for this, but having a program crash regularly means that I have to reload, which takes a number of minutes as I wait for the scene to reload, then I have to try different things to get the scene to render (mulitple passes, etc.).
I recently had two characters that quite simply would not render together. Not sure what was going on there, and I'm not sure if the 24GB of VRAM that I have in my eGPU box now will 'fix' that problem, but yeah regular crashing really kills the joy of trying to make cool renders.
In any case, now that I've spent a bunch of cash on a graphics card, now I feel obligated to put the card to good use of course. I'm pretty happy with what I paid, it was significantly less than the $1500-ish MSRP, for a new card as I need this card to last a while and wanted a warranty, etc. in place and also the peace of mind of not wondering how long said card was baking in a mining farm...
So short form, there are two FmF short stories that
RustyV has written, that I need to add a few of my own renders to, and a few story tweaks. So the plan is to get these out fairly soon, it depends on when my creative muse is ready to shift gears.
So fairly soon. Yeah this is about six months late at this point, but I learned a long time ago that I need to follow my creative muse, wherever it might take me. Otherwise this isn't fun for me, and as I do all of this stuff for free...