Holy cow, 3 weeks for the original! Wow! I don't know if I'd have the patience for that! I've had a hard time waiting 3 days pre-Iray. XD It looks nice though and the new one is even better!This is going to be a test as to whether I'll be able to upload any images to this post. As of last week, Safari no longer let me upload files over in the DAZ forums. As of today *none* of the browsers I have access to will allow me to upload over there.
I didn't have a problem here, however, so let's see if this is still the case.
It's the Christmas break, and most of the students have all gone home for the holiday. The Weasleys, however have not. Their parents are abroad, so Percy, the twins and Ron are at Hogwarts. As much as Harry likes his hidden room at the Dursleys, he didn't particularly want to go "home" either.
I've posted the 2011 version of this illo in various forums more than once, since it's the appalling image that took something like 3 weeks to render the five Christmas trees. (The rest of the room took maybe a couple of hours.) I was still working in DS3 at that point.
I am delighted to never have to do that again. The 2020 redo took at most overnight. And I think not even that.
Christmas Break, Breakfast with Weasleys. In 2011 and 220.
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The remake:
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The peacocks turned out beautifully though, so I'd say worth the wait.DS3 was 32-bit on Macs, so it never properly accessed the RAM that was available. Plus, nine years ago, the computer was slower too. I don't think that anything is going to ever be that bad again. I couldn't render the whole scene. So I did it in pieces, and rendered each tree separately. The one in the middle with the red baubles took something like 10.5 24-hour days alone.
I do still occasionally hit a render that turns into a 100-hour marathon (like the one with the peacocks), but I can't believe anything is ever going to be as bad as those awful Christmas trees.
Interesting, as DS3 Advanced was my favorite version of DS, and it ran fine on my old Win7 Pro 64-bit laptop. I'm sure I was using the 32-bit version on my even older WinXP Pro laptop.I has DS3 Advanced it was 64 bit and would not run on my 64 bit computer. Kept crashing the whole thing, that was when I switched to using Poser and now I am back using DS4 lol