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Artemis DevLog CH7

Added 2025-11-11 10:44:07 +0000 UTC

Happy Mon-er...Tuesday!

Sorry for the late post. After setting up several shots to be rendered, I threw them in my easy bake oven to render. So I thought it'd be a good time to install the new GPU on my work PC. No idea why swapping out the GPU suddenly made my PC just nosedive. Didn't do anything other than wipe the driver and install a fresh updated nvidia driver. But my PC just became unusable, anyways. Long story short, it's 2AM and I just got done reformatting my PC and it's running fine again. Didn't do anything special, just one of those really annoying technology quirks that come swinging once in a great while.

Earlier last week I had to optimize one of my custom locations. It was a very high-poly model, one of those sets that takes a while to load, move the camera in, and even saving. I was checking out the render queue and it took 14 minutes to load the scene but only 4 minutes to actually render it. This scene was about 70 shots, so if my math is right...combatively 17ish hours of this batch was just loading the scene. The way my DAZ library is setup, average load times is barely 30 seconds. So, optimizing my custom assets helps the load bloat. Another reason why I'm working on transitioning to Blender. I can utilize LOD, or level of detail. DAZ has something similar, but Blender can let me do so much more with it.

Thanks for the feedback with Paige's hair. I kept going back and forth on it. I'll throw a poll up shortly after this post just to get a bigger sample size. Short hair is just easier to work with. Less clipping to adjust, animation is a little easier. But at the same time it does change a person's look dramatically. So, just a comparison. Here's a side by side of Paige with her normal hair and the short hair.

Also, there've been no adjustments made to her morph. Literally impossible with how I create my models. The shorter hairstyle makes her face look fuller compared to her long hair.