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Render Update - Sammy X Mino
🕑 Added 2023-08-06 21:05:20 +0000 UTCHeya guys, sorry for the few updates lately. I'll leave why at the bottom of the post
Renders have been going slow, but managed to fix an issue this morning before heading to irl work. The size of the scene is extremely large and my PC could not handle the memory issues, causing the scene to persistently crash and fail overnight renders with VRAM issues
This is mostly due to the issue that there are multiple NPC's in the scene, and I've never worked with so many characters in a single scene. A 3D scene usually becomes laggy at 1gb, however my NPC character file, Beast character file and Train scene each surpass that level. And I had used around 10 referenced files in total so you can imagine what that lead to!
Unfortunately it didn't end there causing a hard disk scare, and data loss scare (Somehow pushing the limits of memory drives causes issues with the windows OS, and it couldn't detect my second hard disk until I manually reset the wiring in my PC). The scene was almost lost but thankfully I managed to save it, the workaround however was splitting the scene into two where I will be doing Sammy X Mino renders separately with the train scene, where the NPC's will be added from a secondary render layer
On a good note, the render is currently 250/920 frames in (Each frame taking around 15m to render on full optimization). I just wish I could use the game engine method I mentioned in the previous posts!
On a more personal note, I have only bad news which I wished to spare you guys from as long as I could, so you don't have to read this part if you don't want to.
It's was hard for me to notice, but I think I've become a bit depressed lately because of general worldwide problems and harassment at work. I'm not telling you guys because I want sympathy or to try and get more money or something like that.
Just thought it's important to say as depression can affect how much artists are able to work. I still love what I do and will never stop, but some days I am a bit slower than others.
I have overcome depression before so it's nothing I can't handle, will be seeing fam again after a year for a few days next week so that should lift my spirits
