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Daz Studio 5 development update

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  • wsterdanwsterdan Posts: 2,383
    edited February 7

    Richard Haseltine said:

    wsterdan said:

    Richard Haseltine said:

    a_gus said:

    Mac support would it mean also the support of Metal graphic engine? it would be very helpfull to increase speed interface and, maybe, acceleration of renderings.
    With this update, I hope all the next versions will be synchonized (same features) between both Windows and Mac versions.

    Yes, Metal is used - to achieve parity between platforms is the desire, so don't expect a great deal of stuff that is possible only in Metal (so the acceleration of rendering may perhaps not be doable).

    I'm just a tad confused; if they offered some Metal-only acceleration features, wouldn't that bring it closer to parity with the Nvidia users? The Mac users are already four years behind in Filament parity, and if we *got* Filament we'd still have hundreds of times slower rendering than an Nvidia machine (not to mention other PC-only features or plug-ins), wouldn't adding some Metal-only features just brings us a little closer to parity?

    I am trying to avoid people getting their hopes up. There was some over-optimistic talk in relation to Metal in an earlier  round, I do not know what represents reasonable expectations though.

    That's fair. Yeah, I think the best we can hope for is that the UI and possibly previews are sped up. I would imagine that Filament will use Metal too, so Filament renders and animations should be great, though Nvidia renders most likely be no faster (though if it's also Apple Silicon-native I think we can rightly expect a 10-15% speed up there, too, just from by-passing Rosetta 2).

    Still, it's probaby years away. so who knows what will be happening by then? wink 

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  • wsterdanwsterdan Posts: 2,383
    edited February 7

    inquire said:

    OrangeFalcon said:

    Richard-I'm requesting when we load up Daz Studio 5, there's a 5 second laser show accompanied with a cat dancing to club music.  An energetic orange cat.

    There is no DS 5 yet, is there?

    No, also no word on when it *might* be coming nor what the features might be when it does arrive nor, it appears, if it will even still be called "DAZ Studio 5".

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  • rcallicottercallicotte Posts: 28

    ainm.sloinneadh said:

    And here's the source: https://www.maketafi.com/ai

    No longer seem to be allowing more BETA testers. Tried without success.

  • OrangeFalconOrangeFalcon Posts: 384

    inquire said:

    OrangeFalcon said:

    Richard-I'm requesting when we load up Daz Studio 5, there's a 5 second laser show accompanied with a cat dancing to club music.  An energetic orange cat.

    There is no DS 5 yet, is there?

    Nah, we are ways away from it still, probably years still.  At this point we'd need something flashy to celebrate it!

  • murgatroyd314murgatroyd314 Posts: 1,542

    OrangeFalcon said:

    inquire said:

    OrangeFalcon said:

    Richard-I'm requesting when we load up Daz Studio 5, there's a 5 second laser show accompanied with a cat dancing to club music.  An energetic orange cat.

    There is no DS 5 yet, is there?

    Nah, we are ways away from it still, probably years still.  At this point we'd need something flashy to celebrate it!

    The pressure for them to make it happen soon is increasing. For one thing, it looks like it won't be possible to make the newest generation of Nvidia cards compatible with iRay without making changes on a new-major-version level.

  • inquireinquire Posts: 2,238

    So what does That bode For Iray, at least the GPU rendering version (As distinct from the Apple CPU rendering version)? Is this gloomy News for Nvidia Iray Enthusiasts?

     

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,344

    inquire said:

    So what does That bode For Iray, at least the GPU rendering version (As distinct from the Apple CPU rendering version)? Is this gloomy News for Nvidia Iray Enthusiasts?

    On Macs? There is no GPU rendering, and hasn't been for some time.

  • wsterdanwsterdan Posts: 2,383

    inquire said:

    So what does That bode For Iray, at least the GPU rendering version (As distinct from the Apple CPU rendering version)? Is this gloomy News for Nvidia Iray Enthusiasts?

    If a new generation of Nvidia cards breaks DAZ Studio's iRay implementaton, I have no doubt DAZ will move fairly quicklly to fix it, either with newer drivers and DAZ Studio code or -- if we're lucky -- a new version that will fix it and give Mac users an actual upgrade. Their main customers are iRay users, I don't see them leaving them in the lurch for any length of time. 

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