A Weary Day at Work by LyleAryn

DAZ|Studio • Illustration • posted on Jul 23, 2020

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For this render, I had to turn on the CPU as it wouldn't load to the GPU. I'm not sure why. It isn't the most complicated scene, or even the largest I've done GPU-only. It seems since that last patch that the program has gotten a bit fussy, as my previous scene with the yellow car didn't want to render GPU-only, either, unless I restarted the computer first. And even then I did not dare look at a preview first. I actually did some work on that one, playing with SubD to get the car less chunky, and then it wouldn't load at all. Since it wasn't relevant to the work I need to do for my book, I did a system restart and got to work on this scene. Which also wouldn't load to the GPU. The previous version, titled "Skye Pinup" in my gallery, rendered just fine. FAST, too. Frustrating, but eventually I realized I should try turning on the CPU and just wait for a glacially slow render. I also decided, on a whim, to set iterations to 10,000. Doubling it from default. This render after almost 22 hours hit 90%, and then stopped because it hit 10,000 iterations. It's slightly grainy, especially where the DOF blur is. But I rather like it like this. It makes it feel more like it's night time and that there's a storm about to hit. Oddly enough, the render never ran the post denoiser in its process, which would have taken care of the grainy-ness. Oh well. Further proof, I guess, that building a new system in February is a good idea. I'm even going to save up to get at least a $400 graphics card. Go for the full RTX thing. Want to play Quake II RTX anyway. Might even go as high as a $600 card, though that would mean waiting another month or two. Anyways, I like it. I'm going to call it done. Never could find a bandana for Skye, so I'm just going to say that is an artistic interpretation of the scene described in the book and leave it at that. I went ahead and applied SubD to the corvette, and it doesn't appear to be chunky anywhere, despite the fact that its even older than the 36 coupe, so that makes me happy. With some high-res shaders/textures applied, I think it looks MIGHTY fine. Lenny loves her 'vette, yes she does. My Dad had the '63 with the split window in his youth. He liked to talk about that car. It was one of two cars he ever regretted getting rid of. In the case of the 'vette, it was because he was going into the Navy and had nowhere to store it. He left the title in the glove box, tossed the keys in the window, and left it alongside the road. Break the heart, don't it? I look forward to your feedback. Anybody else have a scene that just gave them fits to get it rendered?