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Yeah, I guess people don't take responsibility for their words anymore.
The thing is, why should you write an answer to people who clearly don't read?
I mean, they only have to go a couple of pages back, to my post about the roadmap (April 17th, I think).
It's there in the second line.
I would just write the estimated date again, if not for the accusations thrown at other members here.
There are things that can piss me off, I guess.
Because of my old age, probably.
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You answered that yourself, but I'm loving the fact we can continue discussing this without actually giving the answer!
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There are a lot of ill behaved posters here, fortunately the ignore list goes up to like 10k.
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Tomorrow: Major News
Some big changes are happening in our game's pipeline, which will deeply affect game's look and feel, and especially it's update rate.
All will be explained - and shown - tomorrow.
Stay tuned,
Team XTZ
Some big changes are happening in our game's pipeline, which will deeply affect game's look and feel, and especially it's update rate.
All will be explained - and shown - tomorrow.
Stay tuned,
Team XTZ
- Sep 11, 2020
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So, What's The Big Deal?
Well, basically, I finally did it. Or, rather, I'm finally doing it: The above image, as well as yesterday's, is Paula as rendered in RenderMan, inside Maya.
That's right: no more DAZ and it's horrible limitations and extreme slowness; no more iRay and it's... well, horrible limitations and extreme slowness.
I decided to do this after beginning to work on Paula's bath masturbation animation, in which I found myself reaching murderous levels of annoyance, thinking about killing myself - or killing someone, at least.
The process was painstakingly slow, with me not managing to pose the character intuitively, and then produced horrible animation because, well, I couldn't watch what I was doing in real time.
And then there was the render time... Seriously? 20-30 minutes per frame on my machine?!
So I've had it, and decided to make the move to Maya - which I always promised, anyway - much sooner than planned.
And after trying the Maya native Arnold renderer, I've decided to stick with RenderMan.
The process does take time for each character, and I know that there are many assets of DAZ that I'll miss and will have to create by myself, but here are just three benefits that I've already noticed:
1) The images look freaking awesome!
2) My work, especially regarding animation and posing, is faster and more accurate in orders of magnitude - not to mention fun!
3) The renders are FAST. How fast? Well, the basic single-layered TIFF images from iRay in the last update, which was more or less the highest quality it could give, took me 20-30 minutes.
The above original multi-layered EXR took the same machine 1:46. Yap, that's less than two minutes.
On average, renders are 10-20 times (!!!) faster.
And they rock!
So, now the updates will be quicker.
And will look much better, and with tons of animation.
Cheers,
Mark,
Team XTZ
Well, basically, I finally did it. Or, rather, I'm finally doing it: The above image, as well as yesterday's, is Paula as rendered in RenderMan, inside Maya.
That's right: no more DAZ and it's horrible limitations and extreme slowness; no more iRay and it's... well, horrible limitations and extreme slowness.
I decided to do this after beginning to work on Paula's bath masturbation animation, in which I found myself reaching murderous levels of annoyance, thinking about killing myself - or killing someone, at least.
The process was painstakingly slow, with me not managing to pose the character intuitively, and then produced horrible animation because, well, I couldn't watch what I was doing in real time.
And then there was the render time... Seriously? 20-30 minutes per frame on my machine?!
So I've had it, and decided to make the move to Maya - which I always promised, anyway - much sooner than planned.
And after trying the Maya native Arnold renderer, I've decided to stick with RenderMan.
The process does take time for each character, and I know that there are many assets of DAZ that I'll miss and will have to create by myself, but here are just three benefits that I've already noticed:
1) The images look freaking awesome!
2) My work, especially regarding animation and posing, is faster and more accurate in orders of magnitude - not to mention fun!
3) The renders are FAST. How fast? Well, the basic single-layered TIFF images from iRay in the last update, which was more or less the highest quality it could give, took me 20-30 minutes.
The above original multi-layered EXR took the same machine 1:46. Yap, that's less than two minutes.
On average, renders are 10-20 times (!!!) faster.
And they rock!
So, now the updates will be quicker.
And will look much better, and with tons of animation.
Cheers,
Mark,
Team XTZ
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It's been a while since your update, but I'm so excited to hear what you want to do.