The Big Picture Thread for 2019 AND 2020

[SimonJM]

Let me do some checking, and I'll get back to you with some fresh ideas on how to proceed. Given that you and I seem to have similar problems with social media, I can understand your caution. And with the fact that you asked for permission to upload it here from your friend, I would not ask you to betray his trust. Now if you think it will be OK to send the .mp4 to me personally, you and I will need to engage in a PM conversation. Let me know how you feel about it.

Small point, but fairly important, for them at least ... Sam is a female 

[SimonJM]

Just for the fun of it ...

[Agent0013]

Awesome render, Simon! The expression of surprise, the up close detail, The flecks in her eye color, and the multi-color of her hair, all work well for this thread!

[SimonJM]

As requested by Agent, a render I posted elsewhere (and re-did to make it a bit bigger to better fit the 'BIG Picture' theme :)

[Llola Lane]

<--looks at Simon's artwork and sighs.... Wishing I could include bigger art to this thread, but the fact that it takes soooo long to render anything bigger than my 1024x1024 stops me... Oh well.  Thanks for sharing Simon.  I'll be jealous in silence... shhhhh   

[Agent0013]

Llola, if you use 3Delight for DAZ renders, or whatever the Poser original render engine is for Poser renders, the render times will usually be greatly reduced. Iray and Superfly are respectively render engines that require nVidea Graphics hardware in your computer. Basically they need a Gaming Computer setup to work well. I suggest you try the low end render engines for the art app you use, which I think is DAZ Studio?


Simon, thank you for posting the image here in this thread. It is awesome that you re-rendered it to a larger size, but the one in the other thread does fit the requirements of this thread. I thank you for going even larger with it. It will let viewers see even more detail.
 

[SimonJM]

<--looks at Simon's artwork and sighs.... Wishing I could include bigger art to this thread, but the fact that it takes soooo long to render anything bigger than my 1024x1024 stops me... Oh well.  Thanks for sharing Simon.  I'll be jealous in silence... shhhhh   

Just to wind up Llola:

2020-07-25 03:46:25.654 Total Rendering Time: 2 hours 8 minutes 15.1 seconds

[SimonJM]

Llola, if you use 3Delight for DAZ renders, or whatever the Poser original render engine is for Poser renders, the render times will usually be greatly reduced. Iray and Superfly are respectively render engines that require nVidea Graphics hardware in your computer. Basically they need a Gaming Computer setup to work well. I suggest you try the low end render engines for the art app you use, which I think is DAZ Studio?


Simon, thank you for posting the image here in this thread. It is awesome that you re-rendered it to a larger size, but the one in the other thread does fit the requirements of this thread. I thank you for going even larger with it. It will let viewers see even more detail.

I kicked it off overnight, so no real issue :)

[Llola Lane]

Just to wind up Llola:

That's not too bad Simon... With hair in the render my 3Delight can take that long with my 1024x1024!  If I don't put hair... I may be able to get something bigger... I'm gonna try this weekend...  if only to join this thread and give Agent something of mine to smile at ;) .. giggles.

[SimonJM]

That's not too bad Simon... With hair in the render my 3Delight can take that long with my 1024x1024!  If I don't put hair... I may be able to get something bigger... I'm gonna try this weekend...  if only to join this thread and give Agent something of mine to smile at ;) .. giggles.

If hair is dragging you down in 3Delight consider converting the Shader to Uber Hair and turning off the settings for occlusion and ray tracing.  That should help speed things along with little loss of quality.