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still no definitive idea, rendering goes super slow >_>
I'll get some new hardware soon though.

man I can't wait!!!

Just out of curiosity, how much computing power does rendering take? What kind of specs do you have now and how long does it take to render a scene?

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It depends on the scenes, some scenes take 10 minutes, some take 3 hours. Most of the indoor scenes need at least an hour to finish (usually longer). If I'm lucky and find a HDRi (that's basically just a 360° background image with light information in it) that fits an outdoor scene and there aren't many people in the scene it will take 10 to 20 minutes, but that's very few scenes so far :/

I have a 2080Ti at the moment and since I'm using iray (which is a biased render engine made by nvidia) to render the images, I need an nvidia grafics card, which is also what determines the rendering speed.
I had another card previously which I used in combination with the current card, but it died, so I'm roughly at half the rendering speed I used to have.
It was the third card that died on me since I make these type of renders btw :/

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Damn well i know you got it! Keep us posted when you are close to the done with the update.

Ah, that answers the quiestion I had above about rendering.  I use Afterburner to ramp up my fan curves, and I have a very well-ventilated case full of fans; I've found that keeping the GPUs cool (<70C) gives them a long and happy life.

I've seen a few tutorials on how to create HDRI lighting from regular mesh sets; that might be worthwhile to try out to cut render times...

You do top-notch work; looking forward to seeing more!

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I keep my GPUs <70° as well, sadly that doesn't protect the cards from dying. My 2080 also died recently, funnily enough, after I send it into retirement (in my second pc). Rendering takes it's toll, especially if you do it nearly every day.

Hdri's have a very specific problem: they don't scale properly and tend to look weird in certain angles, so I'd have to make several hdri's for several situations, angles, camera positions, which doesn't really help speeding up the process. Anyway, I'm good on the hardware side by now, rendering time isn't that much of a problem anymore (though it will always be to a degree).

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Rec it does not matter take as much time as you need. Thank you for making this and letting us all play it. Its a really good game. I look forward to the update and check just to see 3-4 times a week. Thank you for making it. Much respect.

Thank you :)