- Nov 27, 2019
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Well, it's getting insane now. The prologue sets up the backstory and the "justifications" for the actions that happen in the world, such as demon attacks, village/city services (bars, bathouses, farms and stables, etc), and magic. The story itself can be as rich as you want it to be. Beautiful histories, deeply involved stories, white-knuckle action.
The problem comes down to size. Alot of my story involves large set pieces. And as such, can be impossible to render in the time needed. For example: My opening battlefield shot only needs a "dolly" shot, i.e. fly-through camera. At 30 frames per second for 15 seconds, it would take 6.9 days to render 450 frames @ FullHD 1920x1080 with my current rig (which is still an excellent rig though). I dropped to 10 seconds for 300 frames @ HD 720, but the render time was still 2.6 days. All of this was AFTER scene optimization processes. I simply had too many assets in the scene. 30 G8M in battle worn (w/ blood overlays) and bellowtalon armor sets, large medieval lands environment, ground mist, HDRI skies, and spurting blood effects. I had to "settle" for still image renders, which took almost 2 hours of rendering each (I've rendered 10 shots from this opening scene).
The next set piece I'm working on now is the "hellgate" portal scene. Using the Highlands environment w/ HDRI render settings, props from the High Mountain Portal, and more HDRI ground mist. I wanted to make the mist appear from the portal, but there is a hard border around it. So I used it to my advantage and just scale the Y axis to appear as a light-beam/spotlight and gave it a red hue. I like how it turned out. But now the other problem comes from distance. The set was designed for panoramic and landscape shots, not for extreme close-ups. And any G8M asset merged into the scene is really, really small. (example below) I added some grass (but not very well) to give it some texture. I need to learn how to use materials and shaders now. And find a way to show a lava explosion aftermath. (Edit: The red portal image has a scaled-up Behemoth character stepping out of it. That's how big I made it.)
Set pieces that still need to be made:
Hometown completion, castle and capitol city, training camp, demon camp/fortress (ch 3/4), about a dozen or so interiors, and another battlefield that will be used around ch 3. After that, I can start actually making the characters. I need to remake pretty much all of them.
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The problem comes down to size. Alot of my story involves large set pieces. And as such, can be impossible to render in the time needed. For example: My opening battlefield shot only needs a "dolly" shot, i.e. fly-through camera. At 30 frames per second for 15 seconds, it would take 6.9 days to render 450 frames @ FullHD 1920x1080 with my current rig (which is still an excellent rig though). I dropped to 10 seconds for 300 frames @ HD 720, but the render time was still 2.6 days. All of this was AFTER scene optimization processes. I simply had too many assets in the scene. 30 G8M in battle worn (w/ blood overlays) and bellowtalon armor sets, large medieval lands environment, ground mist, HDRI skies, and spurting blood effects. I had to "settle" for still image renders, which took almost 2 hours of rendering each (I've rendered 10 shots from this opening scene).
The next set piece I'm working on now is the "hellgate" portal scene. Using the Highlands environment w/ HDRI render settings, props from the High Mountain Portal, and more HDRI ground mist. I wanted to make the mist appear from the portal, but there is a hard border around it. So I used it to my advantage and just scale the Y axis to appear as a light-beam/spotlight and gave it a red hue. I like how it turned out. But now the other problem comes from distance. The set was designed for panoramic and landscape shots, not for extreme close-ups. And any G8M asset merged into the scene is really, really small. (example below) I added some grass (but not very well) to give it some texture. I need to learn how to use materials and shaders now. And find a way to show a lava explosion aftermath. (Edit: The red portal image has a scaled-up Behemoth character stepping out of it. That's how big I made it.)
Set pieces that still need to be made:
Hometown completion, castle and capitol city, training camp, demon camp/fortress (ch 3/4), about a dozen or so interiors, and another battlefield that will be used around ch 3. After that, I can start actually making the characters. I need to remake pretty much all of them.
GrayTShirt
