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Cafe Curls Takes Forever To Render

RiverMissyRiverMissy Posts: 303
in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

Cafe Curls should come with a warning label.  My small renders, say 400 X 400, usually take a few minutes.  I put Cafe Curls on the only girl in the scene and my little render went to 2 hours.  If I turn off Cafe Curls back to minutes.  It is nice looking hair but this is unreasonable.  Any suggestions to cut down the render time with this item?

RiverMissy

Comments

  • kenshaw011267kenshaw011267 Posts: 3,805

    Use Scene Optimizer or the like to reduce the texture sizes of the hair

  • RiverMissyRiverMissy Posts: 303

    I am unfamiliar with Scene Optimizer.  Could you please tell me more.  Thank you.

    RiverMissy

  • MattymanxMattymanx Posts: 6,954

    I have used Cafe Curls several times, even up close, rendering at 720x1080 and did not experiance any major slowness in rendering.

  • kenshaw011267kenshaw011267 Posts: 3,805
    RiverMissy said:

    I am unfamiliar with Scene Optimizer.  Could you please tell me more.  Thank you.

    RiverMissy

    Scene Optimizer is a script sold in teh store here:

    https://www.daz3d.com/scene-optimizer

    It takes a scene and can reduce the textures, and other things if you want, to reduce the memory footprint of the scene which makes a scene faster to render. It can also let you get a scene to fit on a graphic card when the unoptimized scene was too big for the cards VRAM. I find it very useful when doing large scenes.

  • frankrblowfrankrblow Posts: 2,052

    Scene Optimizer is a very useful product as Kenshaw011267 pointed out, but you can get the same effect by resizing the textures manually in a paint programme (PhotoShop/Gimp, etc), which does take longer, but costs no extra money. As for me I use the Optimizer, because so many scenes are too resource intensive, otherwise.

  • RiverMissyRiverMissy Posts: 303

    Thank you. So much to learn.

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