operaguy opened this issue on Dec 20, 2007 · 8 posts
operaguy posted Thu, 20 December 2007 at 9:48 AM
Dynamic Hair with shaders in play
V4 with default shadertree by face_off
SSS shader engaged on skin
AO engaged
4 shadow buffer spots with soft shadows enabled
no GI (except AO)
No postwork except signature and save as .png
Rendertime on modest rig and intermediate res settings: 6 hours 20 min
This is the promise of Carrara. I love this hair engine. Daz please fix (or release fix of) 'Vibration' bug so we can put it in motion with collision.
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Miss Nancy posted Thu, 20 December 2007 at 11:19 AM
looks very nice IMVHO
GKDantas posted Fri, 21 December 2007 at 6:25 AM
operaguy posted Fri, 21 December 2007 at 9:09 AM
GKDantas, here is the link to my exploration to the problem. If you have any insight or help (or anyone), please chime in....
http://forum.daz3d.com/viewtopic.php?t=72135&highlight=hair
links to two prior threads about the problem are given in the first post
basically....with collision on you cannot get hair to stop vibrating, no matter what the settings.
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jt411 posted Fri, 21 December 2007 at 5:57 PM
Damn that looks great! How long did it take to render?
operaguy posted Fri, 21 December 2007 at 6:02 PM
6 hours 20 min
AMD 3500+ (single processor)
2 GIG RAM
Twin Raptors in RAID-0
XPPro
I probably could get the rendertime down without much loss of quality through experimentation.
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dvlenk6 posted Fri, 21 December 2007 at 7:21 PM
6 hrs?...:blink:...1 figure and no GI...
That seems outrageously long time.
Friends don't let friends use booleans.
operaguy posted Fri, 21 December 2007 at 7:35 PM
It's not 1 figure, it is 20,001 figures.
20,000 LONG strands of hair with each with 50 segments, 1-pixel anti-alias, hair casting and receiving shadows from 3 of 4 lights, AO (which is GI actually) on every strand ...that will do it.
I don't care on a still; just render overnight and what the hell.
I am just the opposite on animation. 22 seconds per frame is my limit.
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