Caribbean Vignette
alienarea
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It looks nice, but how am I supposed to render it?
I had to get a new computer in November 2025 and now have a RTX5060 with 8 GB VRAM. I have the latest public beta build, updated the Nvidia Studio Driver, and cannot render a vignette picture with 2 G8F characters. Not enough memory. One character works fine.
I like the set, but if I cannot render the promo picture on GPU using a new computer, something is wrong.
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8 GB of VRAM is pretty much bare minimum these days. RTX 5060 is latest generation, but not a high end card, so its 8 GB will limit what you can render. Scene Optimizer might help you be reducing the size of texture files to better fit in your VRAM. You might also have unnecessarily high subdivision set on your characters for the distance you are viewing them at. There are so many options for optimizing. It sounds like you need to utilize some of them. I have an RTX 3080 with 10 GB, so I often have to use these tools and techniques to render what I want in a scene.
I had a RTX 3060 with 12 GB Vram before, but it died. I could render scenes with for example Stonemason's Wonderworld and eight (8) G8 characters with it, so a vignette with two (2) characters should run on 8 GB Vram?
This is lazy scene design.
vignette seems to have a different meaning to some DAZ PAs to what I at least think of
a pared down scene used as a 3D background a concept based on
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vignette
however, DAZ PA's think it's How many polygons and textures can we cram into a small scene
New computers are build for AI and cloud storage. SSD main disk, no addtional drives out of the box. If you install Daz on a SSD the SSD dies faster than a HDD because of the many read/write tasks. Combine this with sets heavy on GPU needing more storage ...
Stonemason makes a consistently high quality product. I see way too many scene models here showing poor modeling and texturing techniques. I've got multiple PAs on my no buy list because of this. That Caribbean street looks nice, but I passed. I returned the PAs swimming pool set as it would drop my 4070 to CPU if I tried to add more than 1 G9 figure. I'm curious to know what the system specs were used for the promos.
I’m a hobbyist who dabbles more at this stuff since retiring. As @barbult advises, use optimizing tools to help. Scene Optimizer is great. Another optimization tool that I have bought is Camera View Optimizer (https://www.daz3d.com/camera-view-optimizer). There are others tools to help with the memory use of the viewport in Iray preview mode. I’ve been using Daz Studio 4.24 on a Windows 10 laptop for several years; it has 16 Gb of VRAM and a 2060 card with 6Gb of VRAM, so as store content became more memory hungry over the years, I needed ways to help my laptop along. Last summer, I bought a desktop running Windows 11 with 32 Gb of RAM (I expanded that to 64 GB shortly after purchase.) and a 4070 Super card (by choice) with 16 Gb of VRAM. I have Daz Studio 4.24 and 2026 Beta installed on it. While the desktop can handle a lot more than my laptop can, there is some content that can cause it to struggle without using some optimization tool(s).
It works with Scene Optimizer.
I have many Linday items, good quality, but this feels a bit hushed. No cameras, no render settings and the bundled poses have no go tos.
issues aside..it's a gorgeous looking environment!
It is.
Waiting for Urban Future 9. ;)
I posted a picture of it at my DeviantArt account alien-area.
To make it work I had to leave out some clothing ;)
Some nice renders there.
This is the main reason I turned to AI instead of 3D. Got tired of poorly modeled/optimized products that are impossible to render when you add figures, hair, clothing, etc to the scene.
Thank you.