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Zilvergraphix, lovely. Lux?
Here a little render of Monique.
Luxrender at 3.89 kS/p (over night)
This is a render I did with Octane, Redspec SSS, Aircraft Spidi, and some Stonemason backgrounds.
Its odd, but I like it.
...if I am not correct, I believe he uses Maxwell.
...if I am not correct, I believe he uses Maxwell.
It's Luxrender
http://zilvergrafix.deviantart.com/art/Overnight-Rendering-518313294
...wow, he used to always use Maxwell. Wonder why the switch as Maxwell has been around much longer and thus seen more refinement,
I'm 99.99% sure jonstark's guess was right (http://zilvergrafix.deviantart.com/art/Overnight-Rendering-518313294)
EDIT: As usual - late to the party and cross posting :red:
Great render, I like it too! Many of the renders with the Redspec SSS shaders have outstanding skin, as does this one. I may have to break down and get them.
Beautiful render, the lace is outstanding. I just wish I could easily get an overnight render as nice as this from Lux. Mine take a bit longer, especially when I send them to my old desktop (just a quadcore AMD Phenom). The plus with doing using the desktop is I can work on other projects with my laptop and just let Lux cook until it's done.
Hey Bob!! Glad to see your still around. I really like the render with the cake an chocolates. Thanks for stopping by!!
First picture - Reality render.
Second picture - My first render in Octane. I had trouble rendering the scene in reality so I thought I´d finally give Octane a try since I had that demo downloaded for a while.
Stumbled across it on somebody's blog today....
And in just under 47 minutes, 2500 spp.
It's an amazing little thing...look at the annotated version I just put up. It's got all the bells and whistles you'd expect in a physical/unbiased renderer.
Great find!! Too bad it looks like the project has gone dormant, it looks like it had real potential.
Fantastic character! She has .... well .... a lot of ... character! Very well done!
Great first renders!! Lux can take quite a long time to clean up the image. A lot of it depends on your materials, lighting and type of renderer used. The Bidirectional type/kernel will typically take a lot longer (and more samples) to clear up than Monodirectional, especially with SSS in the skin mats/shade (the default in Reality 4 sets SSS in the skin shaders). It's been my experience that using Bidirectional with SSS will usually result in the need for a lot more samples per pixel for the image to resolve (clear up) than with mono directional (sometimes significantly more). Having not enough light in the scene will also result in the image taking a long time to clear-up. Shaders with specular values that are too high can also increase render times, or in some cases cause the render to never clear up.
I usually run my renders to at least 1200-1500 s/p, though sometimes I can get away with less, but depending on materials used, I've also let some renders cook to over 3,000 samples (like the image I posted here: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/50021/P152). The image in the link took longer due to the SSS shaders used for the larger dragon figure on the staff. I do get the impression however that I may let/need my renders run longer than people who are very skilled with Reality/Lux as I've seen many post with great images where the s/p were under 1,000 (but alos many posts where they sere well in excess of 3,000 as well).
Hope this helps a bit.
Great Reality/Lux render! I'm a big fan of The Girl.
Low light renders are difficult in Reality, but are possible. I'm guessing that you are lighting the scene with only indirect light coming through the windows? If so, sometimes setting up portals can help to "get the light through the windows" (Lux Portals - http://www.luxrender.net/wiki/Portals Octane Portals - https://render.otoy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=7210). It's been my experience that low light scenes are much easier to set-up and render in Octane than with Lux. if you don't want to set-up protals, another easy way to help with the ambient lighting in the second image would be to add 2-4 very low intensity fill lights to the scene.
Thanks again Kamion! Great example of using Blender's hair in Cycles. It would be great if someone would build a plugin for Blender that would enable the native use of DAZ content and Genesis in Blender.
Your skin shaders are outstanding!!!
Thanks!! Great explanation, now I'm going to have to give this a try!
Wow Rashad, these are simply amazing!!
I've been slowly working on your question about haze/fog. It's pretty easy to get increasing density of haze/fog with greater dsitance if you are looking directly through the object with the fog shader, but if at oblique angles to the fog object (i.e. say an aerial view of a landscape with near the surface fog), the fog effect does not increase or get denser with increasing distance from the camera. In testing, by adding more fog objects with increasing distance I've been able to get very close to the desired effect.
Agreed! Makes me want to get back into Octane even more (maybe a third job will do it, LOL)
Since this is an unbiased render thread, here is one I was playing around with in Luxrender last night, no postwork.
Great skin shaders, and the leather for the holster is especially good!!!
the answer is: Luxrender, yep
I've used a ton of unbiased renders in the past, Kerkythea, ,Vray, Maxwell, Modo, Keyshot, Luxus, now Luxrender, my actual choice because is more easier port from dazstudio, the others need so much preparation and assembling the obj making groups and setting materials.
below, some screenshots of my previous render engines used:
the answer is: Luxrender, yep
I've used a ton of unbiased renders in the past, Kerkythea, ,Vray, Maxwell, Modo, Keyshot, Luxus, now Luxrender, my actual choice because is more easier port from dazstudio, the others need so much preparation and assembling the obj making groups and setting materials.
below, some screenshots of my previous render engines used:
Wait, Modo's native renderer is unbiased now? I knew it had a good render engine, but I thought it was biased, I didn't realize they'd moved to unbiased.
3Delight renderer...
ah, nop, my mistake, it is an hybrid render, maybe the correct sentence should be "I´ve used a ton of EXTERNAL render engines", yep.
For all this talk about Octane vs Lux, can I just say that Lux (Reality) is really quite friendly to use for the quality of renders you get.
However I personally believe that once you start contemplating a super expensive PC, (24 cores?) or adding a small render farm, that Octane immediately shines.
One GTX980 ($500US) can replace dozens of Xeon blade servers running Lux. I have two of those video cards. Since its fast, it saves time and money. Running a PC constantly is hard on it. The price of Octane is cheap cheap cheap compared to any souped up Lux farm, hands down. Period.
The Octane guys limited to small video cards do struggle to manage memory if the render is entirely in the video card, but its not hard to deal with, the plugin handles that for you if you want. (Eye irises in many renders don't need to be 4k, make them small). Perhaps with a smaller card you'd be hard pressed to do 1080 renders. What ever.
Now just consider what you can do with a smaller card, this was 1.5 GB, I have 2.5GB to spare;
http://fluffybush.deviantart.com/art/Arcade-518694769
I ran this excessively long to 24000 samples/s pixel in 2 hours. It was actually show-able in 20 minutes. I just wanted to clear up the reflections in the glass.
...yeah, as I understand the, Out of Core rendering (basically Octane's "hybrid" rendering) is still pretty fast and gives excellent results especially compared to Lux which only gets high quality through pure CPU rendering.
No more needing an expensive Quadro GPU with a lot of VRAM. .
Quadros arent worth the extra money. I "downgraded from quadro to geforce and I'm not regretting it so far. I got a much better card with a lot more cores for a lot less money than the quadro route. And FYI, I run a workstation and I was told that only a quadro would do which is why I went hat route when I built the system, but that isnt entirely true.
Quadros arent worth the extra money. I "downgraded from quadro to geforce and I'm not regretting it so far. I got a much better card with a lot more cores for a lot less money than the quadro route. And FYI, I run a workstation and I was told that only a quadro would do which is why I went hat route when I built the system, but that isn't entirely true.You never really needed Quadros. My largest render in Reality was 12GB. It used about 3GB in Octane. You'd have to have some super special rendering requirements to need it. They also tend to be rather slow. There are large RAM Geforces and they are cheaper.
...the most VRAM a GeForce GPU has is 6 GB. The TitanX is actually a dual GPU so even though it advertises 12GB, for rendering purposes only 6 GB applies. After reading though this thread, A 3 - 4 GB GPU is more than sufficient when using the Out of Core rendering option.
I get by on a 2GB GPU with Octane for Carrara (on a laptop). Although it would be nice to have the extra elbow room, I don't often come up against the limits, and now with the Out Of Core facility, it gives even more renderability! (Yes, I just made that word up...)