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has anyone upgraded from reality 2.5 to 4?

PostPosted: Fri, 15Mar20 05:13
by lamont Sanford
With Daz studio. If so how are you finding your render times? I upgraded daz and reality recently and although I like how the renders look I need a good 4 or 5 hours for simple renders which is too damn slow. I am knocking around a bit for a future game perhaps but being able to crank out only a few pics a day is going to be a huge pain in the ass.

Re: has anyone upgraded from reality 2.5 to 4?

PostPosted: Sat, 15Mar21 23:45
by JIMMYJOHN
Well, the Reality render engine is a bit special, it HAS NO END, it keeps on passing and improving until you stop it.
Do you mean you need the render to go on and on for 4 to 5 hours before the image is ok?

Re: has anyone upgraded from reality 2.5 to 4?

PostPosted: Mon, 15Mar23 15:16
by lamont Sanford
JIMMYJOHN wrote:Do you mean you need the render to go on and on for 4 to 5 hours before the image is ok?


yes

Re: has anyone upgraded from reality 2.5 to 4?

PostPosted: Tue, 15Apr14 18:05
by JIMMYJOHN
Sorry for the late answer.
I tried REALITY 4 (for Poser), just like for you, impossible to get a good render.
I previously tried Reality 3 with no better results, even after hours of rendering.

Do you mind sending me a couple of renders you made with Reality (v.2 and 4), and if possible the set ups you used?

Take care,
JJ

Re: has anyone upgraded from reality 2.5 to 4?

PostPosted: Tue, 15Apr14 19:38
by lamont Sanford
Did you play my game coffee date? if so the renders were all done with reality 2.5 aprox an hour and change render times. I will render something later on 4, like I said the renders look great it is just unfeasible to use for game pics since each render instead of an hour or so will take 3 or 4 or more.

Re: has anyone upgraded from reality 2.5 to 4?

PostPosted: Sat, 15Apr18 19:28
by JIMMYJOHN
No, I tried to look for it but the only Coffee Date I found was a comic. Where can I find it?

I think we can achieve good renders with DAZ or POSER, but I'm really eager to make great renders with REALITY: some I've seen look awsome!

Re: has anyone upgraded from reality 2.5 to 4?

PostPosted: Sat, 15Apr18 19:48
by JIMMYJOHN
OK, found Coffee Date, Downloading Gargoyle.
Allow me some time and I'll come back to you.

Re: has anyone upgraded from reality 2.5 to 4?

PostPosted: Mon, 15Apr20 20:22
by JIMMYJOHN
Hello!
OK, got everything running but can't advance past the cup of coffee (I tried 25-30 words, not recognized - I'm very bad at playing games :sarcastic: )
Anyway, the important thing is to have a look at the renders. So do you have a tutorial in order for me to advance?

Re: has anyone upgraded from reality 2.5 to 4?

PostPosted: Mon, 15Apr20 20:30
by lamont Sanford
You are asking the wrong guy since I made this thread looking for help myself lol. Re: the game you do not need to type anything in except the number of the menu choice. 1,2,3 etc

Re: has anyone upgraded from reality 2.5 to 4?

PostPosted: Mon, 15Apr20 22:26
by JIMMYJOHN
Well, I had to type "wait" then "leave" before getting to the menu.
So in the end I could check the renders made with REALITY.
They look good but IMHO nothing out of this world: similar or better ones can be made using DAZ or POSER.
Sorry I can't help you more but I don't think REALITY is worth the effort unless you own a very powerful PC and are ready to wait hours for renders.

Re: has anyone upgraded from reality 2.5 to 4?

PostPosted: Tue, 15Apr21 00:24
by lamont Sanford
Yeah the time to render is too prohibitive if you are having a lot of pictures.

Re: has anyone upgraded from reality 2.5 to 4?

PostPosted: Sat, 15May02 19:34
by lamont Sanford
Forgot to post the reality 4 render, here: Image


I let this render overnight as I slept.

Re: has anyone upgraded from reality 2.5 to 4?

PostPosted: Sun, 15May03 00:28
by Squeeky
I won't trangress by double-commentbut my thoughts are over here.

Re: has anyone upgraded from reality 2.5 to 4?

PostPosted: Wed, 15May06 05:49
by JIMMYJOHN
Hey Squeek, why don't you allow yourself to transgress, not sure I got what your thoughts were on the ink you provided ;)

Re: has anyone upgraded from reality 2.5 to 4?

PostPosted: Wed, 15May06 06:16
by Squeeky
Double posting. Not good. :-(
The girl? My thoughts are pure - If she thinks it would be good for her I'm not about to argue! :lol: