Does the color blue make your DS renders longer?

daveso

I can open DS one day and do a portrait render,, even with hair, using the same lighting, will take an hour. Another day,, like right now..it has taken 12 minhutes for 4 % , with no hair... i am using G8 now..and had been using G3 ... is it that, or perhaps the texture? it doesn;t make sense, or do the render settings change every time the program is opened? I have seen this happen quite a bit actually from one day to the next.

DustRider

It's probably the shaders you are using. The new shaders used with most (all?) G8 figures are more complex, and take longer to render. HD characters will also thake longer to render, as will hair or clothing that uses displacement.  Other items that are in the scene, but not seen by the camera will also slow redering, so more complex scenes will take longer the render even if 90% of it can't be seen in the camera.

daveso

I think i will go back to G3 ... see how that works again. Luckily I'm not too heavily invested in G8 stuff. by the time i can afford a new computer, the G8 stuff will be given away like the V4 now