Pic 71: Inside Lizard's Lounge
Added 2022-07-07 21:00:05 +0000 UTC
Part of the fun of doing all updated images is remembering the making of the original pictures. This picture is an update of this picture from the original game which I spent a ton of time on. Rendering the original image using the ray tracer on Poser 9 that I was using at the time took forever. I literally started the render on the computer, went to bed, woke up hours later, and my computer was still chugging along. If a mistake was found and I couldn't fix it easily with a photo editor, I had to do it again.
The big time killer was all the reflections. The table reflects all the bottles and glasses reflect each other. I had to limit the reflections to 3 deep or it would have taken days instead of hours.
Now with "cycles" rendering on an RTX card, the above image took about a minute to render. Now it is not just as simple as open an old file and create a new render, doing that looks awful. I had to retexture every glass and bottle using materials that cycles understands, that takes a couple of hours all by itself. But as you can see the results are stunning.
Here is another image that took a couple of hours to retexture everything. Especially the guitars and drum kit shiny parts.
Below are the full resolution PNG files of these two, plus a closeup of Rachel, Wendy, and Ariane and Lydia backstage.
