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I hope so too. That 'premium prices 'cuz no competition' stuff gets old. Go Big Navi! Of course, Nvidia is winding down production on the older cards, and I'm noticing that 1080 Ti prices are still a bit steep - still over $1100 in many cases, although Newegg has a couple of card on sale for less than $900 at the moment.
The 1080 Ti is a last gen card, sheesh! Not quite obsolete, but yeah at those prices might as well go for a 2080 Ti... oh wait just looked those up. I'm seeing a bunch of 2080 Ti's over $1800 (a few are on sale for cheaper at least)... SHEESH!
Stuff like this does kind of make you want to do the 3Delight thing instead... At least the 16 core/32 thread Ryzen 3950X is showing at below MSRP at the moment ($699, vs $749 a bit after launch).
I am curious why having "only" a GTX 1070 should hold you back from complex scenes. Obviously what constitutes a complex scene is some what debatable, but I have stuffed 8+ dressed G8s and a full environment into my 8GB card without any problems.
Try doing Sci Fi group scenes. This scene took over 8 hours to render before I shrunk it to publish it. It was originally 1920 x 1920
My eyesight must not be as good as most because honestly I cannot understand why anyone would render anything for 8 hours, I complain if I cannot render more than one frame a second for my animations.
...one part of my block is having to effectively start from square one after the drive crash.
The other is something I need to be very careful about how I mention it. Best to say it involves being a "concerned citizen" and leave it at that.
And food for the wurms too.
My buying has really fallen off. Everything here is great quality of course, but I am still very much drawn to "things" like SF ships and such.
I actually looked back over the year when I got my group certificate the other day and realised I haven't done too badly on a gross income of 14 458AUD
yes that is my entire income for the year, not sure if I actually need to pay tax yet, hope not
think it's well below the threshold
thanks to Covid19 though I am very unsure about the future as I took quite a hit on my capital of my Superannuation which is what I am living on
the government allowed early access to many and they cleaned theirs out and it's a bit of a ponzi scheme really
The Image was extremely noisy and I did not want to soften the image by noise removal because it was supposed to be the cover image for a comic that never got off the ground'
yeah iray and emitters definitely have issues Octane can avoid with the firefly settings
I only had one break, was about 3+ years. Since then, a blip...yep, a good description. My blip is usually a move to another hobby though. In this current blip, a little gaming and learning the guitar. ( though the A3 Medusa cosplay freebie almost gave me a kickstart
) I keep tabs though, in case I can get a nice item 20% or less...it's when my wishlist grows.
I would totally render something for 8+ hours (and have), because I have more patience than I have funds for a good video card.
Yeh, but what sane person would like to live in a Disneyland for an eternity rather than a normal world albeit with all its faults and moral contradictions. That's not life as I see it.
True, but that's not what I was suggesting. I was just implying that it was profitable. Probably because almost everybody likes safe and cuddly for at least a little while.
I imagine that Disney communities are full of Karens.
Lets see, Corona virus, Murder Hornet, Sniper Monkeys, Civil Unreast, and the high probability that SkyNet will go acrtive in August then we will have Terminators to deal with. To heck with Disney, I could use a little Matrix loving right now. Anyone want to be a battery fo a few months/years? After you've rested up, youi can always take the Red Pill head back down the Rabit Hole. I already asked my mom if that offer to slap me clean into next year was still available and she said no.
...'nother 'plaint. Rent increase that originally scheduled for April (which was delayed because of the pandemic) will to go into effect tomorrow.
While it's okay not to like stuff because we all have different taste I personally think it was a great month for new stuff between the lizard men, the bear men, the stuffed bear, Gou Luk bundle, Aura, the alley you mentioned, Alien vs. Trooper bundle stuff, Kpop poses, Render Doctor, and it was just so amazing! The hardest part was choosing what to get since you can only spend so much and there's awesome not new stuff that goes on sale too
The Gou Luk bundle itself has so much great stuff and there are so many amazing skins for the shoes, clothes, makeup, and hair
And you don't have to buy the bundles it's good to have the choice
I've always wondered why core figures are more expensive than others
...particularly as they are Daz Originals rather than PA products as many of the latter have sculpted details..
I find the Pro Bundles to be less interesting than they used to be. Safer? Very middle of the road, and we have so many "middle of the road" outfits. It wears you out.
Even with Kayo being Wrasslin, the unitards were so safe. AND I LIKE WRASSLIN. With the wrasslin ring renders I've been doing, I'm digging into the clothing collection to find interesting clothes rather than the safe choices I got out of the Pro bundle. (Aside from CB's Take Down outfit, which is both functional (with the knee/elbow pads) and sexy.) Unless you LOVE wrasslin, you weren't necessarily going to love those safe Kayo outfits because they didn't push many boundaries.
When someone asked about Tears of the Gods (out of Olympia 7's Pro Bundle)... I just wonder, what happened to outfits like that?
I don't need more Generic Fantasy outfits, and half of Celani's bundle looked like that to me. Suitable for generic fantasy world or generic apocalyptic world. There's nothing really Mad Max about it. Nothing over the top, theatrical, Ayatollah of Rock and Rollah. It's just not there. Where did edgier outfits like Tears of the Gods go? There's also not much Walking Dead about it, like the Wall Ranger outfit (also Genesis 3 era) or the Post-Apoc one that came with Victoria 7. It's just a strange, generic fantasy of an apocalypse there.
I'm rendering Wrasslin, but the thrill comes from mixing in pieces that had nothing to do with Kayo or Kwan's bundles. There are just too many safe releases in Genesis 8, and not enough thrill... and I LIKE Genesis 8 more than the previous ones. It's just that the pro bundles don't grab me like they used to.
...indeed I only have the following Daz G8 characters: Ollie, Floyd, Mabel, Edie,Teen Jane and Vicky (whom I got for free during the last Vicky anniversary on a purple banner deal). The only Pro bundle in the lot that I bought is Edie as I actually liked everything that was included (the only "fantasy related" work I do involves fey and she works great for one of my story characters).
Oh I also have the G8 - G3 character conversion utilities as well as clothing conversion ones as well, as I generally work with G3. For hair I am used to doing manual fits (I still use Gen 4 hairs with G3).
As I mentioned I have been avoiding most new clothing for now as much of it is dForce based and just not into having to run animation sims on old hardware every time I set up a scene or pose/re-pose a character.
I could use another set of fantasty characters along the lines of Ollie and Edie, but maybe little short people? I need more bases for dwaves and smaller creatures ;).
Yeah what I love about Ollie and Edie is out-of-the-box they're such adorable fantasy characters, but the quality of their textures and maps 100% lends to photorealistic renders too. They're real crowd-pleasers in that way. If you're not into the fantasy look you can apply their maps etc to more "real world" figures in your library and they'll look amazing, or you can blend Ollie/Edie's morph with a more real world figure and IMO from what I've seen in the gallery they really take on a realistic look well. It's hard to go wrong with them regardless of your style!
guess i'm not so lucky then.. because i have neither nor...
so i end up rendering a tiny fraction from all the scenes i start - many already crash & burn / freeze and die already in the middle of creating them, when i testrender sth - and i do this "final rendering", which is usually a better test, during my sleep since i use my laptop all the time when i'm awake. short: once a scene has come so far as to be rendered in full, i usually leave it at that. 1 "good" render, and it has to be the one. otherwise i'd spend days/weeks on the same relatively simple scene, and it's no fun...
somehow this pisses me off, cuz what i upload on DA, my "art", is worth 99% crap with the occasional rare success - and it has more to do with my laptop's lack of power than what i would be capable of, if only the lame piece of garbage was more performing. not even mentioning dforce which is still an unattainable dream. also, i occasionally spend $$ i don't really have for environments.. that i can barely use due to lack of resources, and i end up using minimal random background objects or cutting a lot out of beautiful environments just so the scene doesn't die...
this is artistic castration, if you ask me.
it doesn't mean the thrill is gone - but the thrill keeps being showered with cold water :(
Thrill of shopping... These days, I've been looking at Genesis 3 prodcuts that I think have a higher likelihood of getting pulled. Genesis 3 generally had more render-friendly products, no significant use of dForce (no Simulation required), and is extremely compatible with Genesis 8 (often best done with a Scene Identification swap).
I was rendering stuff, and I realized that one of the oot products I was using had been removed from the Daz store. That's another reason I was looking at Genesis 3. Who knows why things get removed?
I suspect (for the oot suit) that it has to do with less-than-entire-boob coverage, but there's a lot of fantasy skimpwear that remains in the store.
So, who knows? These decisions are not transparent to us. Daz won't say and the artists can't say, so we don't know.
I remember a bunch of xtrart-3d's stuff got pulled, and some suspected it was the House of Mouse doing a vigorous legal thing, but now that stuff is back (and apparently without modification?).
It just reminds me that all of this stuff moves in and out of sale categories, and sometimes disappears altogether.
The thrill is not yet gone for me, and I actually have money to spend. But even though I could afford to buy up the entire Gen 8 catalog by suppertime tonight, I'm still gonna be a penny-pinching cheap date.
That means sales, gift cards bought on discount, and store credit. And massive bundle buys when the time comes.
This summer is for home improvements, not sitting around and complaining about stuff. I look forward to resuming my art.
And what's the status on Bryce and Hex? Come on, as long as they are sitting in the corner of the shed getting dry-rot, I'll always hesitate to spend money in the DAZ store. I can still buy clay, glaze, pencils, and paints quite inexpensively!
Seems like when I have the thrill, I have no money, and when I have some money, nothing for sale seems to thrill me.
...a big part of why I stayed with G3.
Another "bother" to me is alls the modern/post modernist architecture sets I've seen. Would love to see some more retro stuff. as a lot of that architecture is still around in the "real world". For example, there are a number of Art Deco era apartment buildings and just simple apartment houses/business storefronts, in the area where I live. Even in Bladerunner and The Matrix, there was a good amount of "old school" architecture.
I'd like to see home interiors that look like something real people would have. Not a kid's bedroom with a pipe organ and a Mercedes in it.
...+1
Or some uber-ultra modern space with stairs that I'd question the safety of and that is much larger than the average flat most people actually live in. Crikey, some of ultra modern the bathrooms I've seen here alone appear to have as much if not more square footage than my entire studio flat.