G8 vs G3 render times ... why G8 longer?

daveso

I do not have an Nvidia graphics card .. onboard graphics. Forced to use CPU render. Iray obviously works way better and faster using nvidia card... however
I have noticed that G8 takes a lot longer to render, and often times out. I regreat having sunk money into G8 products at all ... 

Example .. I just decided to time it. Using G8 the render to completeion took 2 hours 15 minutes ... just the bust of G8 with a canned light set ... 
Using the same light set, a G3 render took 42 minutes. 

I will try another character for both, but the only reason I decided to gice it an experiment was that I saw the render times so long, and some would not even render ... just sit there less than 10% complete for a long time, and eventually just timing out. 

What is the difference between G3 and G8 ???

nemesis10

Could it be the dual lobe skin settings?

agent unawares

G8 characters tend to use Chromatic SSS. This hits render time hard. You can switch it off.

G8 itself does not make render times take longer, it has almost the same geometry as G3. The differences come in the settings people use.

daveso

nemesis10 said:

Could it be the dual lobe skin settings?

turned this off for sure ... still slow. 

I'm not sure what settings can be applied.. I'm too9 new to know.

 

j cade

agent unawares said:

G8 characters tend to use Chromatic SSS. This hits render time hard. You can switch it off.

G8 itself does not make render times take longer, it has almost the same geometry as G3. The differences come in the settings people use.

At least as much as the chromatic, it's the default settings translucence at .9. If you stick it down to .5 or so (or use the translucence medium presets that come with the Daz characters) it'll render way, way, faster

glennblackphotos

Check out Iray Turbo in the shop I’m in the same boat as you and find it really helped. 

daveso said:

I do not have an Nvidia graphics card .. onboard graphics. Forced to use CPU render. Iray obviously works way better and faster using nvidia card... however
I have noticed that G8 takes a lot longer to render, and often times out. I regreat having sunk money into G8 products at all ... 

Example .. I just decided to time it. Using G8 the render to completeion took 2 hours 15 minutes ... just the bust of G8 with a canned light set ... 
Using the same light set, a G3 render took 42 minutes. 

I will try another character for both, but the only reason I decided to gice it an experiment was that I saw the render times so long, and some would not even render ... just sit there less than 10% complete for a long time, and eventually just timing out. 

What is the difference between G3 and G8 ???

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