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Dev Diary, June 11th, 2021
🕑 Added 2021-06-11 12:26:54 +0000 UTCFirst of all some good news, and for those that doesn't know it yet, I was finally able to get a hold of a 3090 GPU this week. That, alongside new PSU, completes my rendering rig for now, making the whole process from posing and pre-rendering a whole lot faster as I don't have to minimize lighting anymore, or compress textures to avoid using more memory than my previous GPU could handle.
This week I've been mostly trying to determine how to proceed visually with the story. LoF has a very simplified visual style that works well with the story I'm trying to tell, so I've been doing a lot of testing. Ideally, I would want to render in 4k from now on and resize to HD and turn off noise reduction for maximum quality. This would increase the visual quality, with the minus of renders taking about the same time to render as now, plus you would notice a difference looking at the images.
Alternatively, I could proceed as now with the same visual style. The images would look the same, but it would render much faster.
Both Lexi at the top and Linda above seems like really easy renders, but they are both renders I could not do on my old card. For Lexi it's the amount of high quality textures (even the clouds are 3d models), and for Linda it's about a whole lot of light setup. But I've included them here in case you're out of wallpapers. :)
I've got a few more tests to do, but should be back to continuing the story this weekend. The render increase is not very flattering this week due to the testing and computer rebuild, but should speed up quite a bit for next week. For now I'm at 411 story renders and 3,598 animated frames.
Anyway, enough babbling from me now. I hope you have a great weekend, and stay safe out there.
Comments
Drifty
I was talking about rescaling, yes. :)
Gh9stRide
Is Renpy really able to cope with 4k images? Either way I would say, go with 1080p as it is faster, unless you'd like to render 4K and then rescale for improved graphics. I have two rtx3090 and I still render in 1080p for my story. It does help with animations, to keep it fast in 1080p instead of 4k. In other words, Keep it 1080p current quality and use the power for more/longer animations. Just my two cents... ;)
Kuke
Do you have an instagram account?
MasterSav
Maybe once the story is finished you could remaster the first episode(s)
Steele76
Might need more cooling fans then, Drifty.
Core Collider
For me it depends on the scenes. Some are faster with GPU only, some are slightly slower. However the CPU not overheating (and practically no fan noise anymore) is realy nice. Plus, if you run two iterations of DAZ, you can render on one iteration with GPU while you set new scenes on the second iteration with CPU.
Drifty
That is very informative. I forgot I'd included CPU (though no fallback) when I replaced my old cpu to speed up rendering times. I did a stress test now with the above Lexi picture and temperatures were a steady 65/80 (GPU/CPU) and 100 iterations in 2:32 minutes. Did the same test with CPU off and got temperatures of 65/65, 100 iterations in 2:35. Not faster for me, but still a lot better temperature wise.
Core Collider
I had a lot of high temperature issues, as long as I had GPU and CPU rendering allowed in the render settings. As soon as I unchecked the CPU tickbox rendertime improved, temperature dropped, CPU was never again needed … even for super complex 4K renders.
Drifty
Most likely I will, unless I run into temperature problems. I see higher temperatures on 4k than HD ofc, and right now I've done all testing with the sidepanel open. Animations though, will remain HD for now.
ITRoy
3090 For the win! Congrats!
Core Collider
Congratz on the 3090. I got mine in the fist week they came out through a very lucky coincidence ... and I just paid 1700 Euros. Looking at the prices now ... it freaks me out. You will love it (or already do, I guess). Increasing the quality of the renders for the future chapters will probably be somewhat of a "break of continuity" ... but I guess after 5 minutes seeing the new quality pictures we won't even notice. If you render over night, you will spend most of your waking time on setting up the scenes anyway. So there will probably not be much of time savings if you go with lower quality images. So I'd say ... go with the new quality. You'll love it.
Drifty
I'm focusing everything on moving forward with the story. It's very easy to get stuck in the "I've got to get everything perfect" mode if I go back and redo earlier renders, and can end up spending way more time than I want with it. And generally I'm pleased with the quality of it, even if there's a few sore thumb ones. Also - unfortunately, I didn't start saving every single scene until sometimes after I started Chapter 4 - otherwise it would have been much easier to revisit and redo the old renders without too much work involved.
Drifty
I've checked the same story every single day for more than half a year now. Suddenly one day I saw a notice that they would get a batch of cards in five minutes. So I kept refreshing that page for 5 minutes and ordered immediately. To my luck, it was the card I wanted, but it took them a good few hours before they sold out. And they had some other cards for a few more days also. Then again, I think this is the first time Norway got a batch of 3090's since the release last year.
tsunamikata
I'm not sure about the render for Linda, but the visual for Lexi render, everything just pops in the background, especially the light reflecting off the water. It looks fantastic. Do you plan on going back and redo the previous episodes as well or move forward with the new quality instead?
Cullen
How on earth did you get a 3090 😭
