eviluser

Spicing up my rendering machine

Added 2019-03-06 13:32:46 +0000 UTC

Hey all!

I've been working hard on rendering images for the other game and I'm almost done (95% done).

I've bought 2 additional video cards. Before I started working on MA40, I had only 1 old video card GTX 1050ti, now I have 2 additional video cards (GTX 970 and GTX 1070ti) and I can say that the times needed for rendering dropped significantly.

For comparison my old video card is 4GB VRAM which means I wasn't been able to render scenes with more than 2 characters and that card has only 768 CUDA shaders (the more shaders the GPU has = the less time is needed for rendering). My new cards boosted the CUDA shaders with 1664 (GTX 970) + 2432 (GTX 1070ti) and now the total count is 4864 CUDA shaders. That means I can provide more images per update and I can improve the image quality.

Also my new 1070ti has 8GB of VRAM which means now I can render images with more than 2-3 characters in one scene.

Long story, short: There will be more images per update and those images will be with better quality.

I won't remove the goal for upgrading my rendering machine because I kept my promise without meeting the goal, so I think it's only fair if we try to hit that goal.

I'll post a v0.10 progress update as soon as I finish rendering images for MA40 (2 or 3 days max from now).

And as I'm always saying,
I really appreciate your support and your trust in my work.

I wish you all have a good day!