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Using DAZ3D

Started by Will, January 30, 2015, 12:41:02 PM

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Will

#15
January 31, 2015, 01:27:42 PM
The point of digital stuff is not having to manage things like file backups or remember where I put disks.

I guess I'll buy a physical copy, then! :)


Looking at Poser, I think I may go with the Reality add-on, and see how I like Poser rendering. Most of the library of stuff I have from Daz is also Poser (other than some specific shader packages)

I'm a little annoyed at Poser's free trial setup, but whatever.

(FluidRay is WAAAY outside my budget, though)
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Will

#16
January 31, 2015, 10:07:01 PM
Yeah, I finally swung back to sticking with Daz3d, since Reality render thing is available for Daz, too.
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Will

#17
February 01, 2015, 12:55:01 AM
Trying out Reality and the Luxrender thing... ... ok, one important thing:
DAZ3D (and I assume Poser's render engine) aren't as good as other options. But you get a big trade-off on speed.

Luxrender, holy cow. Even simple scenes are taking 10-50x as long, or more. Now, granted, it 'should' because it's rendering MUCH more accurately. (Of course, I also have to figure out how to convert lots of materials to the new render engine)

So it's a trade-off.
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#18
February 01, 2015, 01:13:05 AM
Example: a scene goes from 30 seconds (in DAZ3D) to 3+ hours. Mmph
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Lynn

#19
February 02, 2015, 01:52:29 AM
Quote from: Will;813474The point of digital stuff is not having to manage things like file backups or remember where I put disks.

I guess I'll buy a physical copy, then! :)

It wouldn't surprise me if physical disks don't contain it all - maybe they do.

Quote from: Will;813474Looking at Poser, I think I may go with the Reality add-on, and see how I like Poser rendering. Most of the library of stuff I have from Daz is also Poser (other than some specific shader packages)

Reality is pretty good, though its not very fast. I think you'll be surprised what you can do with just Poser's renderer. A few environmental set ups from RuntimeDNA take a lot of the pain away.

Quote from: Will;813474(FluidRay is WAAAY outside my budget, though)

Its really outside of the Poser market price wise. If you start getting into modeling, and feel $500+ isn't so bad for a modeler, Fluidray won't look so expensive ;-)
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Lynn

#20
February 02, 2015, 01:57:56 AM
Quote from: Will;813570Example: a scene goes from 30 seconds (in DAZ3D) to 3+ hours. Mmph

That sounds about right.

Renderers all offer different features; some are highly accurate or support really nice features like subsurface scattering, etc. Some renderers are highly optimized for speed. The ones that harness various open source renderers (like the ones you see in the Poser / DS market) aren't going to be super fast.
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