{"id":11767,"date":"2019-10-21T08:58:05","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T08:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/?p=11767"},"modified":"2019-10-21T08:58:05","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T08:58:05","slug":"the-latest-daz-studio-fast-and-furry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/2019\/10\/21\/the-latest-daz-studio-fast-and-furry\/","title":{"rendered":"The latest DAZ Studio &#8211; fast and furry!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently finally got around to installing the latest DAZ Studio version 4.12.0.8x beta.<\/p>\n<p>iRay is definitely significantly faster.  I use the Scene Optimizer plugin + the CPU, for iRay renders to screen-size (1200px tall).  Contrary to popular belief, you don&#8217;t actually need a Nvidia graphics card to run iRay.  The latest DAZ Studio makes this approach significantly easier, integrating iRay RTX 2019.1.3 &mdash; which the Nvidia developers have stated on their dev-blog runs fine on non-RTX cards and should also give a 2x speedup of CPU-only rendering of iRay.  In my tests, it&#8217;s definitely faster.<\/p>\n<p>The very-very latest 4.12.1.16 (15th October) even integrates &#8220;iRay RTX 2019.1.4&#8221;.  No speed-improvements there though, just bug-fixes, according to the iRay 1.4 release notes.<\/p>\n<p>Also interesting, in the most recent releases of DAZ Studio, is the Strand-Based Hair. This seems to be production-ready now, judging by this Store product preview of the just-released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.daz3d.com\/scamp-the-fox--plushies-20\">Plushies 2.0: Scamp The Fox<\/a> from Lady Littlefox&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/oldimages\/plusihes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/oldimages\/plusihes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11768\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;ll be interesting to see what sort of render-time hit this fur type makes, if any, and if render-time increases with strand-length \/ curliness or not. Also how it compares on render-time with a Look At My Hair preset, and with Poser&#8217;s Hair Room fur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently finally got around to installing the latest DAZ Studio version 4.12.0.8x beta. iRay is definitely significantly faster. I use the Scene Optimizer plugin + the CPU, for iRay renders to screen-size (1200px tall). Contrary to popular belief, you don&#8217;t actually need a Nvidia graphics card to run iRay. The latest DAZ Studio makes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daz-studio","category-spotted-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}