- Thread starter NeonGhosts
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To be more specific, a partial demo is coming soon. Not the full, complete chapter beta. I was going to get it out before the end of August, but I realized that if I'm going to have people test the demo, it'd be better to include the three new scenes I made. There's a lot of variable-dependent scene jumps, and I want to make sure they all work properly. So, with two out of the three scenes finished, I just need to do the last one, and then a couple renders to bridge the jumps, and the demo should be ready.
Unfortunately, I got sick this week, as I alluded to in my Dev Update. A sore throat turned into exhaustion, fever, and a gallon of snot draining out of my head, all of which slowed me down. But, I'm doing much better now, and trying to make up for lost time. To that end, I copied my whole Daz library over onto my laptop, so I can pose renders while I'm away from my desktop. Hoping that'll help me edge out an extra 15-20 renders a day.
- Sep 3, 2020
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Hope you're feeling better soon, and don't work too hard until you do.
- Apr 7, 2020
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Working sick can be exausting. At the beginning of August i had to work a week with a huge conjunctivitis that barely let me keep my eyes open and i couldn't take days off because too much staff was on holyday. I'd recommend you take your time and don't strain yourself if you can. It would be draining.
Guys, please don't cancel me but I just want to ask, does Mason path involve a scenario where Mason accepts us and we Mason but in a hetero-relationship?
I am right now liking him as a friend but just wanted to ask that if there is a opportunity to make Mason wife, and I have no issues if Mason is to be kept as trans/male LI.
I am right now liking him as a friend but just wanted to ask that if there is a opportunity to make Mason wife, and I have no issues if Mason is to be kept as trans/male LI.
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you have the option to treat her as girl if you want (at least during the bj scene, can't say for future updates)
- Aug 5, 2016
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No, you can force her to act like a woman during sex but she is basically Ellen Page.
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I don't see how this question could be ground for deletion but i had a lot of post deleted by admins and i have no clue why, so don't rely on me too much
BTW, so far so good you have the options to respect Mason's gender identity (nice guy option) or behave to them as to a girl (jerk option). I think you can go dark path or nice path in either cases. Of course Mason prefers to be considered a guy.
Since they are a main LI i presume a solo ending with them is on the plate. I don't prersonally see the probleme to marry Mason as a man. I think it's more likely than to have a change of mind from Mason now wanting to be a woman.
As usual, we'll see how NeonGhosts wants to play it, we have no much elements so far.
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We’ll see how manly Mason feels with a bun in the oven
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not sure about Mason, but I need me some Pepper and Viola lovin' that isn't rapeWe’ll see how manly Mason feels with a bun in the oven
But that is pretty pathetic one. So much shaming. I mean if it was softer and down the road Mason would go that despite all the love she is not comfortable with the biological assignment or she sticks with her bio/sex, yeah, I would have chosen that option. But right now, that option stinks
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it would be cool in my opinion to see guy have some crazy evil chick by his side in the dark path...or corrupts a girl (pepper or nicki or ...) enough to be one
No, I mean like an actual remote data center with thousands of most powerful gpu's. I am not sure how good is Daz with remote development and how much faster would it be, but people who do ML or gaming often use such services. Basically, you can have a Chromebook and a shared computer at some huge data center, you pay them monthly, and they render your stuff much faster.
People wrote about it here: reddit.com/r/Daz3D/s/S3WQ8HMlgN
- Apr 7, 2020
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Well. Slow down
First of all even a small datacenter is a company startup level of investment. Usually when you buy from a service dealer you buy virtual machines, like if you buy an Azure service from Microsoft. You buy the specifics at a cost, then how this resources are allocated on the phisical machines it's their problem. They only assure that the setup will work as requested, with the requested stats and sufficient redundancies not to lose your data or stop the service for significant time (and it still stops eventually, luckily for me or i wouldn't have a job). About the cost? I have no the slightest idea, but i daresay it's not cheap, judging on how our clients (which are rather big companies) cry everytime we inform them that we need to allocate more diskspace on a VM, or it needs more ram.What a dev like NeonGhosts need is a few local PCs optimized for rendering, which means, as far a possible, multiple multicore CPUs, dedicated hardware for 3D processing and 32+ gb ram and 2 pretty big SSD disks.
At least, my guess, i have never known much about rendering, apart than it's heavy on the volume of CPU operations and a few bases of numeric calculation optimization from back at university. And a lot or Ram and fast disks are always essentials for a machine to 'work fast'. It's a matter of how often and how quick the operating system goes to read from the disk while executing a program. The more ram you have the less you need to swap pages, the quicker the HD the fastest it recovers the informations.
Also i think a linux system might be quicker (since it has a lot less crap to do and a lot less garbage loaded in ram) but i don't know if there are good linux version of necessary software.
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Yes, the top vn devs have 2 or 3 machines working at the same time. One dedicated to animations, other for static renders and so on.
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As someone who has considered making a game in the past, you really need multiple systems and a proper workflow between writing, coding, render setup, rendering and post processing images.
You need to consider managing your scene size since vram capacity limits you. But as important as it is to have a system that can render things quickly, the true limiter in my opinion is setting up your scenes, animations and clothing etc. That alone can take hours and requires proper story boarding and planning.
As an example, I have a server cluster with 8 GPUs that I use for other purposes, that can spit out a high quality scene in about 5-10 mins but then you need to keep up with setting up scenes and animations to keep the cluster working hard for you.
But anyways, Brittani is best girl.
You need to consider managing your scene size since vram capacity limits you. But as important as it is to have a system that can render things quickly, the true limiter in my opinion is setting up your scenes, animations and clothing etc. That alone can take hours and requires proper story boarding and planning.
As an example, I have a server cluster with 8 GPUs that I use for other purposes, that can spit out a high quality scene in about 5-10 mins but then you need to keep up with setting up scenes and animations to keep the cluster working hard for you.
But anyways, Brittani is best girl.
Always get more rest, than you think you need. If you are not starving it isn't really worth to skip on recovery.