VN Ren'Py Heroes of Celtica [v0.5.5] [Slamjax Games]

[RandomGuy99]

Hello All,
This is going to be a short message to say the next update for Heroes of Celtica is coming out this week and it will be the first of the 'Dark Druid' re-focus for the game. It will also be the first update for the game that will have patron exclusive content. I will explain more in detail when the update drops.
That also means that version 0.5.5 (which has a Warlord and Champion focus) will go out for public release at the same time.

 

[Slamjax]

I saw your post on patreon. You mentioned that DAZ3D does not work with the 50 series yet. As far as I know Nvidia is investing a lot into AI generated frames and upscaling to increase the framerate (i think its called DLSS), but the actual compute power of the cards did not increase as much. They just might be reaching their limit of what they can physically do. I dont know if DLSS helps with using DAZ, but I doubt it. You might be better of with a 40 series.

DLSS and AI doesn't help improve the performance of rendering of Iray images in DAZ3D. There are two things that are important for 3D rendering on a graphics card:

1) The amount of VRAM (how many assets you can fit into one scene)
2) The number of CUDA cores the graphics card has (speeds up how many rendering iterations Iray can do per second)

In benchmarking, a 4080 Super with 10240 CUDA cores is about 30% faster at Iray rendering than my current 4070 Super with 7168 CUDA cores. So an image that would take 2:10 to render on a 4070 Super would take only 1:32 on a 4080 Super (on a 4090 with 16384 CUDA cores, the same image takes 1:09).

I do think that when the 50 series NVidia cards are compatible with DAZ3D, upgrading from a 4070 Super to a card with a higher CUDA core count and more VRAM (I only have 12GB at the moment) would be advantageous. Given how bad the current 50 series uplift is compared to the older 40 series, the sweet spot between value and performance is probably going to be a 5080 Super or a 5070 Ti Super (when they are finally released).

The 5090 or 4090 series cards would be great to have, but just way too expensive for what you get back. These days, a 90 series card can cost more than every other PC part combined in your rig. That's insane. NVidia have jumped hard onto the AI bandwagon and PC enthusiasts wanting a good GPU are the ones that are paying the price (literally).

 

[Melody Is Dead]

amount of VRAM (how many assets you can fit into one scene)
2) The

DLSS and AI doesn't help improve the performance of rendering of Iray images in DAZ3D. There are two things that are important for 3D rendering on a graphics card:

1) The amount of VRAM (how many assets you can fit into one scene)
2) The number of CUDA cores the graphics card has (speeds up how many rendering iterations Iray can do per second)

In benchmarking, a 4080 Super with 10240 CUDA cores is about 30% faster at Iray rendering than my current 4070 Super with 7168 CUDA cores. So an image that would take 2:10 to render on a 4070 Super would take only 1:32 on a 4080 Super (on a 4090 with 16384 CUDA cores, the same image takes 1:09).

I do think that when the 50 series NVidia cards are compatible with DAZ3D, upgrading from a 4070 Super to a card with a higher CUDA core count and more VRAM (I only have 12GB at the moment) would be advantageous. Given how bad the current 50 series uplift is compared to the older 40 series, the sweet spot between value and performance is probably going to be a 5080 Super or a 5070 Ti Super (when they are finally released).

The 5090 or 4090 series cards would be great to have, but just way too expensive for what you get back. These days, a 90 series card can cost more than every other PC part combined in your rig. That's insane. NVidia have jumped hard onto the AI bandwagon and PC enthusiasts wanting a good GPU are the ones that are paying the price (literally).

Ty.... good to know.
Can DAZ make use of multiple graphics cards?

 

[Slamjax]

Ty.... good to know.
Can DAZ make use of multiple graphics cards?

Apparently it can, but there are some conditions. First, the available VRAM for a scene will be set by the card that has the lower VRAM. Second, I believe that the graphics cards render separate sectors of the image independently, instead of combining their CUDA cores into one unified process. However, the result of two separate rendering processes still seems to be a speed gain.

You also need a motherboard with a decent amount of PCIe lanes for a second graphics card. Most modern motherboards have PCIe x16 for the primary graphics card slot but as low as x1, x2 or x4 for secondary card slots. If your were to put two high end cards in such a PC, the second card would probably be bottlenecked from its full performance. However, you could probably get full performance out of a secondary graphics card that was a few years old and you had x4 PCIe lanes on the second card slot.

Anyone more knowledgeable on PCs and DAZ3D correct me if I'm wrong on anything.

 

[V.IV Rusty]

Warlord path is fucking BADASS!!! that's the canon for me can't wait for full on harem for that too

 

[justheretopirate]

There are a lot of people who like warlord, I think its the second most popular path after druid. I personally subscribed to the dev's patron because of warlord path. Imo closest thing we have to conan on a more slightly evil scale. Hopefully the Dev comes back and finish those path after finishing druid.

 

[RandomGuy99]

Still like the Druid path best followed by Warlord

 

[Citymac]

I am missing this scene. Is it the Fande sex scene? I have accepted her offer but it does not seem to be updated in the replay gallery or is the missing scene another one?

 

[Bob69]

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[Slamjax]

I am missing this scene. Is it the Fande sex scene? I have accepted her offer but it does not seem to be updated in the replay gallery or is the missing scene another one? View attachment 4885081

It's the Fande sex scene.
The issue is that you can get to that scene in two ways - from the Eva blowjob scene or from without it. If you get to Fande sex without going through the Eva blowjob scene, it will trigger in the gallery. I'll fix that up in the next update so that both paths will trigger the gallery.

 

[Slamjax]

There are a lot of people who like warlord, I think its the second most popular path after druid. I personally subscribed to the dev's patron because of warlord path. Imo closest thing we have to conan on a more slightly evil scale. Hopefully the Dev comes back and finish those path after finishing druid.

Warlord would be the second priority - Rhiannon and Red Lady are a potent combination.
But personally, I think I enjoy making the Champion route most in terms of just the storytelling aspect.
However, even though it would be a slow start, Bard has the most potential in the mid to late story, based on my storyboard.

 

[Luka32]

Celtic mythology eh? There better be at least one joke about the Salmon of Knowledge because that is the most bizarre mythological story I have ever heard.

 

[Calz]

This game having 5 stars is honestly a joke the writing is so bad and the relationship building is non existent not to mention the art is atrocious and the sex scenes are abysmal like how is this game rated higher than 99% of games on here?.

 

[Slamjax]

Celtic mythology eh? There better be at least one joke about the Salmon of Knowledge because that is the most bizarre mythological story I have ever heard.

The Salmon of Knowledge is one of the tamer stories in mythology. Loki got up to some crazy stuff in the Norse stories.

This game having 5 stars is honestly a joke the writing is so bad and the relationship building is non existent not to mention the art is atrocious and the sex scenes are abysmal like how is this game rated higher than 99% of games on here?.

Thanks for trying out my game.

 

[Luka32]

The Salmon of Knowledge is one of the tamer stories in mythology. Loki got up to some crazy stuff in the Norse stories.



Thanks for trying out my game.

There are definitely more fucked stories, but on pure weirdness Salmon of Knowledge is up there. Finn is the equivalent of Heracles or Achilles, but instead of being dipped in the river styx or a demigod; magic fish scales/oil stuck to his thumb. That is top five for "What the fuck did I just read".

 

[Slamjax]

There are definitely more fucked stories, but on pure weirdness Salmon of Knowledge is up there. Finn is the equivalent of Heracles or Achilles, but instead of being dipped in the river styx or a demigod; magic fish scales/oil stuck to his thumb. That is top five for "What the fuck did I just read".

Cú Chulainn is more of a direct comparison to Hercules or Achilles - he's a demi-god (in some versions of his tale his real father is the god Lugh) and unbeatable on the battlefield. He only dies when he is made to break his geas before going into battle, thus losing his otherworldly protections. Fionn mac Cumhaill is something else - he's more like King Arthur and his Fianna are like the Knights of the Round Table. Fionn can be heroic but he can also be petty and mean, depending on the stories you read. In the great Irish tale The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Grainne, Fionn is definitely the villain.

The salmon swam in a well where the branches of the nine Trees of Knowledge overhung. The hazelnuts that fell from the trees would allow a being to know all of the knowledge of the ancestors from the Celtic Otherworld (i.e. secrets of the universe). The salmon ate these hazelnuts and became the Salmon of Knowledge. Fionn merely ate from the Trees of Knowledge in an indirect way by eating the sizzling fat from the cooking salmon after it was caught. So it's like the forbidden fruit from the Tree of Knowledge in the garden of Eden.

Hazel trees, hazel groves, hazel wood and hazelnuts appear in Celtic myth as having mystic properties. They were an important tree for the druids from what little we know.

 

[RandomGuy99]

I think the game's writing is some of the better ones here. Those saying this game's writing is bad have no idea what he is talking about. Most of the game here is slice of life characters that can bang every LI without much effort or NTR focus games where all LIs get cucked. Basically porn logic slice of life story. At least Celtica have some resemblance of myth building, story arcs and different dimension characters. While i agree, the art is on the weaker side; its still tolerable.

 

[Boopadooparoop]

There are definitely more fucked stories, but on pure weirdness Salmon of Knowledge is up there. Finn is the equivalent of Heracles or Achilles, but instead of being dipped in the river styx or a demigod; magic fish scales/oil stuck to his thumb. That is top five for "What the fuck did I just read".

This version of the story is quite bland compared to the tale of Taliesin, which shares the same motif. Among the Celts anytime a magic cauldron comes up things tend to end up pretty weird. I'd definitely hold the Loki horse story is the weirdest.

 

[Canto Forte]

We are so back to mainstream cinema, movies, comics/games/cartoons - some people grew and others still grow up on Asterix and Obelix and the druid and the potion and the small villages such communities dwell in.

anytime a magic cauldron comes up things tend to end up pretty weird.

Finn merely ate from the Tree of Knowledge in an indirect way by eating the sizzling fat from the cooking salmon.

Where is the Celtic variant? Did Gauls corner the market so thoroughly with heroes of small villages and the druids and the magic potion?

 

[Slamjax]

I'd definitely hold the Loki horse story is the weirdest.

There's a story like this that goes even further in Celtic mythology - the Welsh tale Math Son of Mathonwy.