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Mind your environments! Just as with the skins, some environments are insanely bad when it comes to rendering time.
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Not once I've chosen a skin only because it looked decent enough and was super fast compared with an "ultra" skin that took decades to render. Test the same character with more skins and watch the rendering time go up and down.
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Not all skins are the same, some are super good quality and fast render while some have a ton of shader inputs and a mediocre result. Press the button, wait until the image appears, wait until first preview pixels appears and you hear the cpu fan speeding up. The damn thing does not detect that the system needs more cpu power and if you're alt-tabbing fast it only gives minimum cpu making the renders super slow. Use very few lights and better placement and add all other effects in post.ĭon't alt-tab right after clicking the Render button! Especially if you have a Ryzen type CPU. So you get more shadows that you don't need or use and a "muddier" image (shadow stacking". But Daz does not give us the option to turn off the shadows on each light (if you're using iRay). Many lights don't need shadows, especially back lights, ambient lights, mood lights and so on. Each light has it's own light pass that computes all the photons for global illumination, all the shadows, and so on.Īlso remember that in Daz you cannot stop the lights to cast shadows. Always remember that is 1000 times better to use a custom HDRI environment map than to add lights. Clearer details with far fewer render iterations. Get in Photoshop, scale it down and bingo. This works because all renders take a ton of time "cleaning up" the details while a simple downsize in Photoshop takes couple minutes at best. Sounds counter intuitive but you can render at a HIGHER resolution with LOWER quality then scale down in post. Of course you need to fix the issues with shadow-casting and reflections in post. If you have more characters, hide them except one, render that one, and so on. Use a fixed camera, hide parts of the scene, for example the background and render the characters.
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Here are some general rendering tips that work on all 3d software and some that are particular to Daz: