[EDIT: Added new renders. 1: retouched version, 2: original render, 3: render with volumetric fog]
Making some additions to the set, and I'm floored by how good it looks! It turns out I was able to subdivide the set, which is already 9 million polygons before subdivision. On top of that I also added a model of the full city, so you can see the distant hills, and a bunch of destruction and smoke props... And even with all that, the scene renders in 4K in ten minutes flat! (For comparison, the scene I used in the last chapter of Kaylee usually took close to two hours to render at the same resolution.) And I'm still using my old graphics card, it should render at more than twice that speed with the 3090!
All in all, it opens up a ton of options. I was planning to wait a couple of chapters before Kaylee would grow much bigger, but now I can have her double in size and she'll still have plenty to do. The next few chapters are going to be amazing!

Redfiredog
2022-04-18 21:44:08 +0000 UTCAlexis
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