TEW10 Render Thread

[Clarity]

Ouch. Hopefully it's a good one.

Should be.. 9 hours 24 minutes and 23 seconds at 67% so far.

Should start speeding up soon. Its only going so slow because of the hair. Its a portrait view which goes from the head to just below the shoulders. Its at the chin currently but the hair is far less from now on

[Clarity]

13 hours in and only 81%!!!!!!!!!

Gonna leave this rendering while i sleep and see what it looks like in the morning (after 15+ hours render time)

[Clarity]

Checked it this morning and its finally done

[Prophet]

Jimminy Cricket, that's awesome! I love the pooling color effect of her eyes, and am amazed you can count the hairs on her head. lol

Now what you should do is tilt her head up a tad, to give her better lighting, and re-render.


*Runs off before Clarity can mutilate him!*

[Clarity]

Originally Posted by Prophet

Jimminy Cricket, that's awesome! I love the pooling color effect of her eyes, and am amazed you can count the hairs on her head. lol

Now what you should do is tilt her head up a tad, to give her better lighting, and re-render.


*Runs off before Clarity can mutilate him!*

If i changed the lighting, i could re-render that in minutes.. Just the hair would look worse

[Prophet]

Oh no, same lighting, just a different angle of her head. So she'd take another 3 days to come up.

I wouldn't actually, though, `cause she came out looking fantastical.

[Clarity]

Originally Posted by Prophet

Oh no, same lighting, just a different angle of her head. So she'd take another 3 days to come up.

I wouldn't actually, though, `cause she came out looking fantastical.

Im so happy with her, that she has been put up for rating at renderosity.com

[Kobe1724]

Forgot to render it behind something and add a shirt. Just put some mosaics on the chest and popped it on background + drop shadow. Will re-render later.



Clarity, as you can see the skin looks grainy. I'm using uberenvironment2 for lighting, and I dropped max error and shading rate as low as possible. Still, I can't get rid of the graininess entirely. I could fix it with post work easily enough, but if there is something I can tweak in my actual Daz setup I'd prefer to do that.

Any ideas on how I can improve it? Is the texture I'm using here just possibly too low res? I'll try another render out tomorrow with something much more high resolution and see if that cleans it up. This is one of my favorites to render with, but this lighting seems to bring out all of its flaws.

[Clarity]

Originally Posted by Kobe1724

Forgot to render it behind something and add a shirt. Just put some mosaics on the chest and popped it on background + drop shadow. Will re-render later.



Clarity, as you can see the skin looks grainy. I'm using uberenvironment2 for lighting, and I dropped max error and shading rate as low as possible. Still, I can't get rid of the graininess entirely. I could fix it with post work easily enough, but if there is something I can tweak in my actual Daz setup I'd prefer to do that.

Any ideas on how I can improve it? Is the texture I'm using here just possibly too low res? I'll try another render out tomorrow with something much more high resolution and see if that cleans it up. This is one of my favorites to render with, but this lighting seems to bring out all of its flaws.

I think i know whats causing that. If your using DAZ then once you have loaded UberEnvironment you will get that kinda result. You then need to load in the quality preset 'Set Quality 4XL' or even 'Set Quality 3Hi' and that should eliminate the grain. Try it without hair first though although i believe making the hair matte speeds it up a little

But essentially:

Occlusion samples = MAX
Shading rate = 8
Max Error = 0.1

[Clarity]

Just an old render, done in a new light

[Kobe1724]

Originally Posted by Clarity

Just an old render, done in a new light

That's amazing. I honestly didn't even know it was possible to render stuff like that with Daz/Poser. Is that an M4 elite texture or a custom texture? Amazing work either way. The lips and beard are unbelievable. And the red in the eyes is a nice touch. I miss little details like that when rendering.

As for the lighting, your tip did the trick. ^_^



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Hey, what does this mean?

although i believe making the hair matte speeds it up a little

Also, for environment are you using the bounce light? I have no idea how to use it (have been using occlusion with soft shadows) but the best stuff I've seen makes use of the bounce light based on my conversations with other people and how they got their results. ^_^

Indirect lighting (w/ soft and directional shadows) takes much longer to render and doesn't really seem to yield better results (just different), so I've stayed stuck to occlusion based lighting so far.

[Clarity]

Originally Posted by Kobe1724

That's amazing. I honestly didn't even know it was possible to render stuff like that with Daz/Poser. Is that an M4 elite texture or a custom texture? Amazing work either way. The lips and beard are unbelievable. And the red in the eyes is a nice touch. I miss little details like that when rendering.

As for the lighting, your tip did the trick. ^_^



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Hey, what does this mean?



Also, for environment are you using the bounce light? I have no idea how to use it (have been using occlusion with soft shadows) but the best stuff I've seen makes use of the bounce light based on my conversations with other people and how they got their results. ^_^

Indirect lighting (w/ soft and directional shadows) takes much longer to render and doesn't really seem to yield better results (just different), so I've stayed stuck to occlusion based lighting so far.

The texture was a custom one brought from Renderosity.com.

As for this

although i believe making the hair matte speeds it up a little

Im my experience, you can speed up renders by setting the hair to 'matte' instead of 'Skin'. This effectively reduces the light reflecting off it speeding up the render

[Kobe1724]

Originally Posted by Clarity

The texture was a custom one brought from Renderosity.com.

As for this



Im my experience, you can speed up renders by setting the hair to 'matte' instead of 'Skin'. This effectively reduces the light reflecting off it speeding up the render

Cool, thanks. ^_^

[sebsplex]

Originally Posted by Clarity

13 hours in and only 81%!!!!!!!!!

Gonna leave this rendering while i sleep and see what it looks like in the morning (after 15+ hours render time)

Sadly, that sort of rendering would probably kill my laptop. I think the longest I've allowed it to render for was around 45 minutes.

Your results however, were amazing.

Originally Posted by jtlant

I was playing around with transparencies for masks today and came up with this...



Figured I'd post it in case anyone had a use for it.

Ah mask making - I love it and hate it in equal measure. Making transmaps is pretty simple once you've got a base lined up properly. As Clarity posted, use the increasing the size of the trans map and overlaying it for the initial texture is the easiest way to quickly 'border' around the portions that will be transparent.

[jjohnson105]

All these renders are amazing! But can someone put some of them with a face pic in the blue TEW background?