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Thursday the 13th. Halloween Pic. PC woes.
🕑 Added 2016-10-13 15:16:13 +0000 UTC Hey guys, just checking in. Still working away on the April sequence and kinda hoping to wrap up "part 1" fairly soon, so I can finish off other commissions, namely A Gift from Afar and the Full Moon Knight series.The past few weeks/days my (t)rusty rig, has been growing more and more unstable, to the point where today, I have spent the last 4 hours, getting the thing to boot and opening the April scene file. Oh, and opening this firefox tab. That wasn't pretty either.
The plan was to start crafting and rendering the fur for her tail, which is done using a different (and much more resource intensive) method than what I've used so far for this particular sequence. I'm going to press on for the rest of the day and see what I can do to wrangle this beast into submission, but it may be I have to resort to plan B.
Plan B will involve me taking a trip to the bank and saying "Yo. Gimmie some cash. Why? Because Catgirls" and buying a fully functional rig built by someone who knows what they're doing, rather than my "if it fits the port, stick it in" approach to building PC's. It makes sense to me to spend out on the tool that benefits my work, and will also mean I can work much faster. The loading/saving and rendering on this projects is now what's holding me back more than anything.
Rather than produce images I feel are missing an important detail, I'd more inclined to put such projects on hold til I have the processing power to handle them. I don't want to stop rendering, but may have to focus on non-furred subjects, with slightly less clutter in the background. Perhaps Hulks, Demonesses, Venom-like Symbiotes etc and whatever else you can suggest. THIS DOES NOT MEAN I INTEND TO DROP QUALITY. Ahem.
Also, think this may be the time for me to switch from AMD to Intel. Thoughts?
Does anyone here have good knowledge of current hardware? I could use some advice/recommendations (I'm UK based btw)
Am happy to piece together a bundle kit, install the rig inside the case etc. I just don't want the headache of choosing ram, finding Ive made a stupid error, making redundant purchases 'cause I liked the look of a the higher number on the packaging.
TL:DR-
PC may be FUBAR, it may keep chugging along. I may have to replace the thing. I may have to pause work on the current projects that involve heavy loading times/fur until I can get a capable rig up in here. Any hardware shopping advice would be brilliant.
ALSO.. Halloween, watcha wanna see? I know I just said no fur, but if I keep the scene simple (as opposed to April's apartment, where the indirect lighting is bouncing off EVERYTHING), I hope to be able to pull something off.
Gonna leave this one to you guys. Give me your suggestions in the comments below.
Til next.
S
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Intel master race. AMDs last hit was the Athalon X2, over 10 years ago. Sorry for the edits, on holiday with the iPad, and really should have created a full coherent comment first.
Love Motel 6. Am also in the U.K. Motel 6 is how I came to hear of you, and fell in love with chamber made. Thanks for getting me on to olddog77's work as well. Would really love to see a digital version of loco furinas (I think) los gatos del channel 6, with your own twist! Although demons and non furred subjects are also bang tidy. Just one more wafer thin mint?
Go in for-armed and pcspecialist.co.uk can build to spec, would be cheaper yourself, it's not difficult, just making sure you choose everything that has the matching connectors, and what kit is required for your particular scenario.
I think ebuyer or saverstore where doing some good deals on Titan cards. The bos of Daz 3D studio (what I think you said you use) said sli titans. Match that with a board probably x99 intel with a nice i7 and 16/32gb ram. You will only get 3 on sli, as processors are 40 channel 2 will run pci x16 and 1 will run pci x8. Might be worth buildig a reliable machine with one titan, and doubling / tripling when suitable. Match it with a Samsung evo 850 ssd or even an intel pci hard drive or m2, and with one titan your looking at a tasty machine aroun 2-2.5k, with 3 titans your on 3.5k. Ram spec is defined by your motherboard, although crucial hyper is generally best. Capital vs performance is your metric, look at performance tables and choose 90% performance at around 75% of cost of bleeding edge. MBNA are also doing 40ish month 0% balance so buy it on a Lloyds or Barclays and transfer to MBNA for 3.5 years free financing before you get stung for percent on the buying card.
Hachnet
love the Motel 6 TF very well made: BTW love all of your work Solo, keep it coming whenever you can =)
The Soloverse
I know what ya mean. I think they can look great without fur. If you haven't seen it, check out the sequence called Motel 6 on my DeviantArt page solone.deviantart.com
I always thought it would be cool to have a cat transformation without fur.
The Soloverse
That's incredibly useful, thanks Monkey.
The Soloverse
A template is what I'm looking for
sam smith
Building a PC isn't that much if headache there are so many templates the hardest part is puting it together
KillerMonkey
As for pic ideas, how about frogs, dragons, lizards? Things like that maybe demonesses? Things that wouldn't use fur at all, so therefore shouldn't need all of the rendering?
KillerMonkey
Sure, one place that I used to build my computer is <a href="http://pcpartpicker.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://pcpartpicker.com/</a> there you can go through and build a PC from the ground up and check for compatibility issues as well as see what others are using their PCs for. It all depends on how much money you want to spend. I know that they have sections for people who do graphic rendering so they can move you down into that area. If you intel, which I did as well, then you want a CPU that's a i7 core. I went with the Devil's Canyon which isn't expensive but gives you the cores for heavy GPU usage.
coolmedina117
Intel Master race
