Render requirements
- Thread starter Bishmoy Banik
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You can, but rendering time will be your worst enemy, your system is on a verry low end when it comes to rendering.
There are tricks you can use to speed up the rendering. using fake lights/lightmaps, billboards etc.
But you should considering a upgrade/new pc, to be honest if you want to pump out renders/animations.
- Jul 4, 2017
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Turning your idea into a good written story, and then making it into a game implementation also will take a long time, and you can do that using placeholder images. It can be argued that many good games do not have high quality graphics - a good story and gameplay can be more enjoyable than a badly written story with perfect images.
Consider starting to work on the other parts of the project first while you work towards a better render rig.
Consider starting to work on the other parts of the project first while you work towards a better render rig.
I'm currently looking for a renderer who will help our group make my idea come true.. Since the plot is fire, hope it'd attract many people.
I will pay him accordingly and even want him to work with us in future projects.
Please do let me know if u have anyone who can work in this regards. Would appreciate that.
Life is a constant learning process
Forgot to say , If you want to use your current rig for rendering until you get a better..
You should invest some time into how 3D games "cheat" to make things look realistic. i mentioned some tricks used.
You would benefit a lot from that. + if you ever want to do realtime 3D(unreal etc), its knowledge worth having with you.
If you want to "simulate" a lot of real lights and shadows with gi/ao etc. you're going to spend a lot of time rendering with current setup.
But basically any PC today can do renders. only difference is how fast its done.
In general. When there is no more vram left. it will use system ram.. and when the system is out of ram. it will fall to the swap.
so along as you have a ram and swap available, it will always be able to fall back to software render.
but it will be slower than a dead turtle.
For about 15+ years ago, my pc broke down, i had a water coolant leakage and blew up my cpu, and mobo.
I was left with my laptop which was an EEE Asus Pc .. "worst thing i ever had".. I Installed my 3D program on it and did a model of a glass coffee cup on a table. It took 10 days to render a single image at 1920x1080.. lol..
when i got my new pc(14 days later) i rendered the same scene.. it took about 30 seconds
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I've got the same machine, but with even less RAM (just 8 GB). So far, I am also learning how to render. As others have mentioned, you won't be able to make complex renders. For me it's almost impossible to have more than 3 figures at the same time. I like to try new things and settings to try to maximize the output with a limited laptop. And I agree with osanaiko: a good story is more enjoyable than perfect renders in a game. My recommendation is to stay with g3 or g8 models and minimize the environment. I am also trying to develop a small VN with my limited computer
Good luck with your game!