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Is there any advantage to downloading 4.8 now if I don't have plans to use Iray

cdemeritcdemerit Posts: 505
edited December 1969 in The Commons

Basically, my computer is old and tired. It doesn't much like rendering in Iray from the handful of trials. It screams in pain and cries when I try a couple G1 characters with some background lights as it is with 3delight at low "draft" settings... So for the moment, I don't plan on switching to Iray. (Maybe in the future...) However, I was wondering if there was anything in the released version that was not in the "beta" that would make it worth downloading?

p.s. Have the beta installed, for testing purposes.

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,841
    edited December 1969

    4.8 has an updated, faster, version of 3Delight too, among other non-Iray updates. See http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/new_features/start

  • cdemeritcdemerit Posts: 505
    edited December 1969

    Richard Haseltine said:
    4.8 has an updated, faster, version of 3Delight too, among other non-Iray updates. See http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/new_features/start


    A faster 3Delight, that's all I needed to hear.....

  • algovincianalgovincian Posts: 2,636
    edited December 1969

    cdemerit said:
    Basically, my computer is old and tired. It doesn't much like rendering in Iray from the handful of trials. It screams in pain and cries when I try a couple G1 characters with some background lights as it is with 3delight at low "draft" settings... So for the moment, I don't plan on switching to Iray. (Maybe in the future...) However, I was wondering if there was anything in the released version that was not in the "beta" that would make it worth downloading?

    p.s. Have the beta installed, for testing purposes.

    I've got a scene with Noodle the Toon Cat and my first attempt at hair created with Look At My Hair (tons of fun, btw). The scene was created in 4.6, and the hair was exported from LAMH as Renderman curves. Then, I saved the scene.

    After a clean reboot, I launched 4.6, loaded the scene, exported the hair as OBJ (I need actual geometry for my NPR algos) and rendered the scene. Below are the times these operations took and memory usage for the DAZStudio process in ():

    Export Hair as OBJ: 3m55s (3,728MB)

    Render in 3DL: 20m24s (6093MB)

    I then rebooted again, launched 4.8.0.53 (this is the last beta I installed - I haven't installed the release 4.8 yet), and performed the same operations:

    Export Hair as OBJ: 2m4s (3463MB)

    Render in 3DL: 9m07s (5237MB)

    Huge increase in speed and less memory usage. I'll definitely be installing 4.8 when I have the time this weekend!

    - Greg

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