MarvellousLunatic

[Episode Canopus] Progress Update IX

Added 2021-10-24 17:29:56 +0000 UTC

Greetings,

I've finished the gym scene and a few other smaller scenes. One particular gave me a few headaches and cost me a lot of time, more on that below. Did some more scripting as well and things come along quite good I think.

Coming week I'll focus on some more fill in scenes but another bigger scene is coming as well. Not sure if I can tackle it next week already, but I hope so. It's a scene I'm looking forward to create as it will feature a bit more vfx shots.

A little technical insight

The scene that was bothering me last weak is playing in the main hallway and I wanted to have some shots along the hallway and not just facing the windows or the walls inside. That doesn't sound much like a problem in the first term, but the environment is quite big detailed and polygon heavy. So it needs a lot of vram. For most scenes I just a segment of this hallway. Therefor most images in the hallway are either facing the windows or the walls/doors on the opposite, but rarely along the hallway because they are a bit more difficult to render. For those shots I need to render the characters and background separate. However, I tried to optimize this workflow but experienced a lot of memory crashes along. Every crash forced me to restart DAZ and reload the scene with the environment which takes a few minutes. So that took a lot of time sadly.

Current status

~ 55% scripting done

~ 460 rendered and edited images