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Well its been two years, and nearly eight months since render #100 went up. Not much i think has changed from then other than complete lack of me using luxrender, which btw actually still exists now in its rewritten form as luxcorerender (still in alpha).

I'm sort of surprised at how many people have showed up to see my bad renders, and had the additional curiosity to not leave comments that one using common sense would consider stupid. So i give my thanks.

Honestly its sort of amusing since when i started with the idea of doing them it was at first to demystify how hard rendering actually is, and see how i could compare to some of the other people like xygon back in 2015. Funny considering i don't even know if they actually still make renders of anything today, probably would have had to switched to iray since nvidia finally put mental ray to death not long ago if they still do.

Anyway cough I still think i basically haven't really improved much from my ye olde 2015 days. The additions of PBR, Flimic Blender i feel have done more to improve my renders than my general understanding of rendering techniques. Most of the time i just put lights randomly and it either works or it doesn't, stare at photography examples, or fall back to the HDRI Clutch. Which honestly that is what it is at this point. God help you trying to find people who want to create light via science these days in the time is money graphics industry, then add how cycles lighting system is so unfinished compared to other renders, and you can get easily frustrated at times. Will Eevee's lighting system change this? beats me, but if it doesn't spew tons of noise because one of your lights is smaller than ten hundred meters or if you dared to try using a plane as a light reflector, then i call that easily an improvement.

Speaking on other things, i have noticed lots of people hurling random group invites at me from all over the place. Not sure why though, other than probably the clear signs of insanity beginning. Honestly i would prefer "reasons" to join than a blind invite, but i doubt anyone will actually do that.

On my dreaded end of doa renders, well considering the current full 360 ongoing after alienating all their fans months ago. I guess i can consider that plan to be henceforth rescinded, and i will eventually get Six -after- the international release date because i still don't fully trust things to go so smoothly,

regardless of the latest streams showing the return of certain things, and even the addition of something x3 had to all the models. This is how alienation works folks, it causes distrust and is why you don't go doing stupid things because someone got drunk or thought it was a good idea to lose money.

Also there is of course the problem that my video card died. Now i do hope i already have a new one before 2019 starts, but knowing my luck this might not be the case, and yes this has also put a hamper on me buying SC 6 since well you can't get the game to run on ancient video hardware like an intel hd 4600. Hopefully someone coughripscough Sophitia, Ivy, Taki, etc from it so i have something to do instead of grumbling about Sapphire's lack of video card longevity for their more expensive R9 3xx's from years ago. (yey selfish wish for the day done)

Well i guess i'll keep going on with planning my next render project, which will have to be simplified to heck so i don't get to see a render time of 22 hours and 44 minutes like this one had.

Also i'm not sure how those will turn out since cycles wasn't designed remotely to do renders in the way my mind is imagining them. Its hilarious it can't because it makes no sense what so ever for it not to be able to do a render of that type, but my basic searches have revealed others trying to do the same in past years and getting replies that are basically "nope. cycles can't do that mate" What i'm rambling on about? I'll let the first render reveal for itself, seriously i think most of you who do renders will actually find it pretty funny when you realize what i am talking about.

(Yes i originally planned this to be my Halloween render, but i got to three hundred first.)

Leifang, Helena, Ayane DOAHDM 5.04 by Holden, Harry Palmer, Osiri, Drifter, and Fallingcat among others.

Converted to Rigify (2.79) by me with semi dysfunctional Halloween outfits on top of that.

rendered in Cycles (2.79)

Description

Well its been two years, and nearly eight months since render #100 went up. Not much i think has changed from then other than complete lack of me using luxrender, which btw actually still exists now in its rewritten form as luxcorerender (still in alpha).

I'm sort of surprised at how many people have showed up to see my bad renders, and had the additional curiosity to not leave comments that one using common sense would consider stupid. So i give my thanks.

Honestly its sort of amusing since when i started with the idea of doing them it was at first to demystify how hard rendering actually is, and see how i could compare to some of the other people like xygon back in 2015. Funny considering i don't even know if they actually still make renders of anything today, probably would have had to switched to iray since nvidia finally put mental ray to death not long ago if they still do.

Anyway cough I still think i basically haven't really improved much from my ye olde 2015 days. The additions of PBR, Flimic Blender i feel have done more to improve my renders than my general understanding of rendering techniques. Most of the time i just put lights randomly and it either works or it doesn't, stare at photography examples, or fall back to the HDRI Clutch. Which honestly that is what it is at this point. God help you trying to find people who want to create light via science these days in the time is money graphics industry, then add how cycles lighting system is so unfinished compared to other renders, and you can get easily frustrated at times. Will Eevee's lighting system change this? beats me, but if it doesn't spew tons of noise because one of your lights is smaller than ten hundred meters or if you dared to try using a plane as a light reflector, then i call that easily an improvement.

Speaking on other things, i have noticed lots of people hurling random group invites at me from all over the place. Not sure why though, other than probably the clear signs of insanity beginning. Honestly i would prefer "reasons" to join than a blind invite, but i doubt anyone will actually do that.

On my dreaded end of doa renders, well considering the current full 360 ongoing after alienating all their fans months ago. I guess i can consider that plan to be henceforth rescinded, and i will eventually get Six -after- the international release date because i still don't fully trust things to go so smoothly,

regardless of the latest streams showing the return of certain things, and even the addition of something x3 had to all the models. This is how alienation works folks, it causes distrust and is why you don't go doing stupid things because someone got drunk or thought it was a good idea to lose money.

Also there is of course the problem that my video card died. Now i do hope i already have a new one before 2019 starts, but knowing my luck this might not be the case, and yes this has also put a hamper on me buying SC 6 since well you can't get the game to run on ancient video hardware like an intel hd 4600. Hopefully someone coughripscough Sophitia, Ivy, Taki, etc from it so i have something to do instead of grumbling about Sapphire's lack of video card longevity for their more expensive R9 3xx's from years ago. (yey selfish wish for the day done)

Well i guess i'll keep going on with planning my next render project, which will have to be simplified to heck so i don't get to see a render time of 22 hours and 44 minutes like this one had.

Also i'm not sure how those will turn out since cycles wasn't designed remotely to do renders in the way my mind is imagining them. Its hilarious it can't because it makes no sense what so ever for it not to be able to do a render of that type, but my basic searches have revealed others trying to do the same in past years and getting replies that are basically "nope. cycles can't do that mate" What i'm rambling on about? I'll let the first render reveal for itself, seriously i think most of you who do renders will actually find it pretty funny when you realize what i am talking about.

(Yes i originally planned this to be my Halloween render, but i got to three hundred first.)

Leifang, Helena, Ayane DOAHDM 5.04 by Holden, Harry Palmer, Osiri, Drifter, and Fallingcat among others.

Converted to Rigify (2.79) by me with semi dysfunctional Halloween outfits on top of that.

rendered in Cycles (2.79)