Filament
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Is there any advantage for someone who does only still renders (single frame) to use Filament rendering?
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Is there any advantage for someone who does only still renders (single frame) to use Filament rendering?
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Speed.
Filament is not for photorealistic rendering, it's a near real-time renderer. So if you can make a style work for you in Filament, there is nothing stopping you using it. Don't expect iray quality photorealism, that won't be possible (at least in the near future)
Its great for prepping a scene and then rendering in IRAY. I like to render it then work it over in corel painter post work though.
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For me this is one of those head scratchers from DAZ. People don't render animation in DAZ because both IRAY and 3dl take too long. My understanding is Filament doesn't fix that. But it does do a really good job of showing you what you still can't do in DAZ.
This is like that time they bought RuntimeDNA ..... then watched it die.
You can render an animation in mere minutes, how doesn't it fix that? [assuming you mean making an animation viable to render]
Filament is prety hard to use along with iray because switching between them often causes Daz crashing or if you attempt to use filament viewport it will eat too much GPU memory and iray will fail to launch.
But I think there is one good use for filament which is to render very complex scenery which usually takes too much memory for iray and does not work. Or for people who cannot use GPU rendering at all and have to use CPU iray
So for that purpose, you can render the environment and characters separately which will greatly reduce memory requirement and increase rendering speed many times.
if you combine CPU-based iRay, some AI denoiser and filament entered environment you can produce a reasonable picture even on the crappy laptop.
Filament does a great job of rendering environments, just the problem is that for some reason Daz developers did not fully implemented all its features so if can't handle refraction (transparent objects like glass wor water)
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