thedude3dx

Little bit of preview :D

Added 2018-12-11 21:06:59 +0000 UTC

Will probably post some more later, but for now I at least wanted to get this one up.

So, the new PC isn't working out terribly well. I am, however, meanwhile rendering on my old rig where I've made significant gains in render speed thanks to AI denoising. The above image is one such example. Would you believe me if I told you that this only took 5 minutes? Well, it did. It's crazy, actually, how smart denoising AI's have gotten. They fill in details that I would never expect them to, but somehow still manage to maintain the details of bump and normal maps instead of blurring them out.

Now I usually have skin bump dialed down pretty low anyway, so that difference, insofar as it even exists, is hardly noticable in my renders to begin with.

So it's a bit of good and a bit of bad. The new rendering rig's problems might stem from a lack of RAM, so I'm currently waiting for word from Corsair before moving forward. It could just be as simple as faulty cards but I kind of doubt that. I might've just made a noob move by trying to render on 16GB of DDR4 with two RTX 2080 Ti's. The way the system behaves during rendering certainly suggests a lack of memory, since before things inevitably crash and Daz Studio just shuts down, I get serious input lag and a very jittery mouse.

I kind of need Corsair's input to make sure my RAM is even properly compatible with my mobo, and if it turns out to be I'm going to order another 16 GB of the same type and hope that will resolve my situation.

Meanwhile, work resumes!