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🕑 Added 2020-07-01 22:16:13 +0000 UTCHi everyone, I hope you're all still well.
Still chugging along here, progress is fine. Should be looking to start working on my next batch of animations soon.
The Dr. Williams and Officer Juru poll is now closed. I've opened it up so you guys can go check out the winners if you wish. I'll have an render of them in their outfits for next week.
A few people appreciated what I had to say about Daz/Iray's settings the past couple of weeks so I'll continue. This week will be the filtering tab, below are the settings I used for the above render.
The firefly filter is there to remove or clamp down on fireflies, these are very bright spots that sometimes occur in renders. A kind of noise, they can sometimes appear because of overly reflective surfaces or bright lights in a dark scene. Either way the firefly filter tries to put a limit of how bright a pixel can get. I'd always leave this on.
For nominal luminance I'll quote nvidia. "The nominal luminance is a hint to Iray on what is considered a โreasonableโ luminance level when viewing the scene. This luminance level is used internally to tune the firefly filter and error estimate. When the nominal luminance value is set to 0, Iray Photoreal will estimate the nominal luminance value from the tonemapper settings."
So most of the time I leave it 0, but if I start having problems with fireflies I'll adjust the nominal luminance. Depending on the scene I might set it as low as 0.1 and up to 500. If it's set too low it can dull things in the scene that are supposed to be bright. You have to experiment a bit to find the right balance.
Post denoiser is Iray's AI denoise filter. I don't use it as it uses vram during the render process and if I need to denoise I'll do it in post myself. I've just made it available above to expose the settings.
Post denoiser enable - Obvious really.
Start iteration. This how many iterations/samples Iray will do before the denoising kicks in. As the denoiser is a post process if has no effect on the rendering. If you render an image for 500 iterations, the final denoised image will be the same if you started denoising at 1 iteration or 499.
Denoise alpha, I guess this is if you have transparent areas in your render.
Bloom filter. I like to use this as it adds a nice effect but I try to keep it subtle. Daz actually has some decent documentation on this.
"Bloom Filter uses three categories to create the bloom effect: Threshold, Radius, and Brightness Scale. Threshold controls how much energy hits a specific portion of an object, which will create the bloom effect. Radius controls what size radius a pixel's bloom will cover, the larger the radius the larger and more blurred the bloom effect will be. Brightness Scale controls how bright the bloom effect appears. Altering one category can significantly change the bloom effect's look."
With a handy image guide.
Pixel filter I leave as default. Not much worth tweaking here.
And that's that.
So I'm still working my way down my list of top supporters, offering them the chance for a custom render. I would say only about 1 in 3 responded so far, so check you messages guys! Though I understand if people don't wish to take part.
That wasn't the case this week though. Outrider had about 5 ideas for me.
He mainly wanted to see some "interaction" between Nikki and Karen so here's what I came up with.
I hope you all enjoy and that's all I have this week.
Thank you all as always and take care out there.
Comments
I am burning with passion for ........๐
Stiglet
all in one
CellStudios
The 1st Nikki image, did you render the character seperate from the background or all in one?
OZ
Hmm ... question to the dev. Is there any special reason why there is no discord channel wheren fans of the game can meet and talk together? :sadface:
Joshua Sloane
I only get one ending
JV
It has already said multiple times that Nikki only -ending will come after this
NikoMariko
Hi and nice work Stiglet! I have a question/wish which is if we can get a Nikki only ending. In my opinion she is the "face" of your game+ we started with her and we should be able to end with her.
Toridan
Karen and Nikki kiss each other beautifully and sexually:)
Hun73rdk
I just want a game just with the 2 milfs and the doctor :D
same. i hope she gets her own specific ending. she's too hot not to imho.
Hun73rdk
omg cant wait for next release. haha and everyone is using the same picture for bloom in iray i got that one from a artist when i started out long ago
Penn
Appreciate the rendering, I wish there is a sequal to this game, I really like to see more nikki to be honest :D
YES, I can't believe you did it Stig! I LOVE IT!
