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Just expanding on this one. Tossed in fangtastic, smile delight, and lil flame's not so perfect nails (rendo). Pose is from lunchlady's haute monde and the eyes are pointed at a null behind the camera. This one uses an EXR file as the environment map.
Streets of asian2
a second attempt at rendering in 4.8 trying to get rid of the mesh lines in the sky dome.
I turned off the stonemaoson sky domes under display . that was included with the streets of asia set and i used the Iray default environment and just added blue for the sky. no other changes
this was the results my render time was also decreased by turn the sky dome of and using the default environment
this is much better Rendered time 1 minute . 11 seconds
best viewed full size 1920 x 1080
The dome needs to be subdivided and the lines will go away. select the dome, then:
Edit > Object > Geometry >Convert to SubD
You can then adjust the level of the Render SubD in the properties for the dome.....to at least 2. :)
Doing what you did, delete and use the Iray environment is the better way. :)
Kat
Huh, just a new card and more RAM? Well, THAT would save me a metric arseload of money... I'll look into that, thanks. ;)
The dome needs to be subdivided and the lines will go away. select the dome, then:
Edit > Object > Geometry >Convert to SubD
You can then adjust the level of the Render SubD in the properties for the dome.....to at least 2. :)
Doing what you did, delete and use the Iray environment is the better way. :)
Kat
Thank you Kat
its just a matter working with it to see what I can do
thanks for telling me about the subD I forgot all a about trying that one the sky-dome.
I'll have more time to play with it after work tonight .. have a great day
Great renders. I'm especially intrigued with the render times people are getting. I was playing with this last night and my render times weren't great.
I loaded a simple scene with one G2 Female (plus clothes and hair) and a couple of props (small plane as a floor, a desk, a chair). That's it. Rendering in 3Delight with a couple of AoA ambient lights plus a spot for a rim light and distant light for shadows would take in the order of between 1 and 2 minutes.
Same scene in iRay using several different lighting setups (a mesh light in one, HDR in another, sundial in another, etc). Still lots to learn, for example the emissive shader on a mesh lit the scene like a small candle from across the room (really dark, yellow tint) so the default settings are really yellow and weak. Need to figure out how to use that better. Would help if anything was documented, I don't get all the settings.
Anyway I let the iRay renders run twice as long as 3Delight before I stopped them, so in the 3-4 minute range for comparison sake. At that point they were still pretty rough. Certainly the quality with this render time was nothing like what I'm seeing from you all in much shorter times with much more complex scenes. I selected GPU+CPU rendering, as well as CPU only and GPU only but really this seems quite a bit slower to me than 3Delight. Probably weak hardware on my end but operator error is always a strong possibility too.
I'll keep experimenting.
Some things may be a bit slower. One thing to keep in mind is the lighting in the 3Delight scenes. Scenes with full Uberenvironment, AO, Shadows etc will be more inline with the comparison times than say just a couple spotlights or pointlight mixes....Just like 3delight renders slower with UE2 than just the headlamp. But, you base what you want on the result..... :) Then find the happy medium that works for you.
Kat
Test render #2
Custom G2F character and skin texture using the Iray optimized G2F shaders with several tweaks, I used the "Base" Iray shader for the hair with a couple of tweaks. The rest of the scene (clothes and props) are not modified. Lit with the sunlight, and rendered for 1hr 55min. on a GTX 670M (about the same as a GTX 560 on a desktop).
Rendered at 1800x1600 - so be sure to click on the image and zoom into full resolution to see the awesome details in the outfit!!
Anything special about how AoA area lights work with Iray?
You don't need them with Iray.
These are shader based lights and will not work with Iray. You won't need them as Iray has it's own lighting features. They are still perfectly good when you use 3Delight to render. :) My fav lights and he did a fantastic job on them. :)
Kat
I hear ya. I'd feel the same way too. But with that machine you'll fly through the CPU renders. I have an nVidia but it's older and only has 1 gig. In fact I'm not even sure it has that much. So I'll be going the CPU route anyway. And from what I've read if your scene has any heft to it at all 2 gigs on the video card is nowhere near enough. It looks to me like a minimum of 4 gigs.
So I look at it this way, there's probably more users of nVidia with Studio than users of other cards. But of those nVidia users some cards are a bit too old, and of those not too old they may still not have enough memory to do much more than basic things with the GPU only. The users will catch up eventually, some faster than others.....always something better to shoot for in this technology game.
IRay rocks on cars ;-)
Awesome work people. But Totte, you can try to sneak that beemer photo in with the renders! LOL... Seriously, I have to look really hard at that render to see that it is a render.
OK, here's one that has no artistic value at all. It would score below 0. It was a test using a few prisms and caustics. :) I have wanted this ability forever!
Will there be a point in using 3Delight rendering once Iray is live?
3DL is still faster if you have moderate render settings, and it is still better for "arty and fantasy renders", while IRay in my humble opinion rocks on hard and shiny things. I plan to make a render using background rendered in 3DL and foreground i IRay, just hide layers and render and then mix then, will be interesting, och just overlay the 3Delight one with the IRay one for closeup, not decided which technique will be best. I feel like a kid who just got "The Little Chemist" for xmas present.
Absolutely.
You probably wouldn't want to use Iray if you are going to do a toon, cartoon or manga render. You might not want to use it if you are going to do extensive post-work.
It's a tool, a just like every other tool, there is a reason and time to use each. This just gives more options.
(And for the record, there have been many times when I have render an image with Reality / Lux then rendered the exact same image with 3Delight. Take both renders into Photoshop and layer them together.)
Will Emitter shader work in 3delight or is it specific to the renderer?
That might be one reason to do Iray a lot... I like having emitting stuff, and it's been a bear to try to work up in 3delight.
Here is another picture I just finished completed in about 16 minutes in CPU/GPU Mode on a Core I7 2700K, 8gig ram Nvidia 1.2gig 570 GTX based system, and it came out alright I think.. :D
Ghost, how DID you achieve that DOF effect? That's really a magical looking render! I LIKE!
The Emitter is specific to the renderer
Thank you glad you like it.. :D That is actually the bloom setting that did that.. :) No DOF settings, I just turned on Bloom and Noise settings in the filter area and then let rip.. :)
Yes, there are just some things you will not do in Iray. Toon rendering for example. Iray is real world and will not render she toon shaded renders ....there are other things and times you may want to swap over to 3Delight. The beauty is, you now have a choice depending on your needs.
Kat
Iray doesn't like my old video card. I had to use the CPU render engine instead of the GPU render engine.
A quick test/first render with iray
- Mei ling HD with the Iray optimized G2F mat and some minor tweaks
- lighting: only the Skydome (with a hdr enviroment map)
- Necklace with Iray silver and diamond shaders
Rendered with 2 x Geforce GTX 760
The Emitter is specific to the renderer
You can use uberArea in 3delight (it's included with DS), though it doesn't have the same options so getting a match will be approximate (but that would be true generally)
My first test run with Iray. Just character, hair, clothes, orb; two Yweebs, and a pair of black planes for floor and backdrop. Lit with a point light and a distant light, both set over 100%, but the scene still came out very dim. I turned off the dome feature, which may have had a lot to do with it...it will take some practice.
First pic is the raw render, second was touched up in Paintshop with some sharpening and brightess/contrast adjustments. Both renders have kind of a grainy effect that wasn't intended.
One I did last night. Didn't finish because of a system crash lol.
I was using a Dell T7400 I custom ordered; I decided to upgrade the video and got a GT 740 (followed Spooky's guidelines). It killed the T7400. So I looked at the Dell site - and came up dry; no customization options.
I researched what I wanted, bought the components, and had my local service shop do the assembly. (I'd had two other systems repaired there last year). Total assembly charge was $369.00 - including a copy of Windows 8.1 pro OEM downgraded and instaled as Windows 7 pro.
Look around - there might be a service/repair shop willing to do assembly (and burn-in, in my case) for a fee.
Certainly. Iray is a photo-realistic render engine. There are things it just won't do in the way of special effects that 3Delight does nicely.