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Glitterati3D
Dances with Bees
Love it Glitterati, just saw it over at Facebook.Can't believe you rendered a superfly so quickly.
Love this set, such a nice way to extend Dawn's usability!
I've managed to get my render settings and lights to a point that a Superfly render takes no longer than an SSS/IDL render in Firefly, with better results in Superfly. I use SF almost exclusively now for renders.
Glitterati3D
Dances with Bees
Yeah, you just need to change the settings. The default ones will take forever.
I finally got a nVidia card in my machine this week and was all excited to do some GPU rendering, but I won't use it anymore. GPU takes twice as long as CPU rendering and you end up with the same image.
Glitterati3D
Dances with Bees
Most of my Superfly renders are done with 10 samples. That one of Polly was.
Short version of my SF/GPU performance notes:
1. Main! The sweet spot of the Bucket size setting is HEAVY scene-dependent (GPU memory-dependent I suppose). Render FireFly script is your friend for the tests before the final render.
2. Critical! (Drivers-dependent?) Sometimes your render just crawls.
If the first number (after Sample, not after Path tracing sample) does not increase at least at 10 in a second, than probably something is wrong. Try decrease the Bucket size, even to 20px for GPU sometimes works and can give your better speed than CPU. (Or not. Test!) It can also helps with GPU/BPT combination.
Switch from OpenGL to SreeD for the time of the render.
Reload Poser also could help. (Some drivers glitches I suppose.)
Basic optimisations:
smaller HDRI, blurred HDRI, blurred HDRI on the object larger than the Yon of the camera (gives you transparent background) with different render with the crisp/larger HDRI as a background;
render size = Bucket Size * integer;
hide/delete or make diffuse all unnecesarry...
1. Main! The sweet spot of the Bucket size setting is HEAVY scene-dependent (GPU memory-dependent I suppose). Render FireFly script is your friend for the tests before the final render.
2. Critical! (Drivers-dependent?) Sometimes your render just crawls.
If the first number (after Sample, not after Path tracing sample) does not increase at least at 10 in a second, than probably something is wrong. Try decrease the Bucket size, even to 20px for GPU sometimes works and can give your better speed than CPU. (Or not. Test!) It can also helps with GPU/BPT combination.
Switch from OpenGL to SreeD for the time of the render.
Reload Poser also could help. (Some drivers glitches I suppose.)
Basic optimisations:
smaller HDRI, blurred HDRI, blurred HDRI on the object larger than the Yon of the camera (gives you transparent background) with different render with the crisp/larger HDRI as a background;
render size = Bucket Size * integer;
hide/delete or make diffuse all unnecesarry...
I don't have a GPU, but I think the final render only took me about 3 hours, because I unchecked BTP. If I have that AND PR both checked, it seems to take much longer. I used to use 64 for my Bucket size, but raised it to 256 recently. Maybe I'll try rendering it again with a smaller Bucket size and see how that works.
Glitterati3D
Dances with Bees
Emma morph. Poser 11 Superfly.
Glitterati3D
Dances with Bees
Thanks, MissB. I'm loving these morphs.
The hair is HR170 by Ali and comes with a Dawn fit.
The hair is HR170 by Ali and comes with a Dawn fit.
Yes, I have quite a few of Ali's hairs. So far I've only had to fit to Dawn an older hair he created before he got into working with Dawn.
Oh, I just checked, and I have Hr-170. Kewl. I don't think I've played with it yet, but it really frames Emma's face nicely.
Oh, I just checked, and I have Hr-170. Kewl. I don't think I've played with it yet, but it really frames Emma's face nicely.
Congrats on your new release!
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Dynamics 26 for Dawn - Flamenco Outfit
Three items in the pack, to bolero, pantsuit and the combined pair for quicker draping in the cloth room.
Dynamics 26 for Dawn - Flamenco Outfit
Three items in the pack, to bolero, pantsuit and the combined pair for quicker draping in the cloth room.
