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Has anyone rendered Daz Iray with Google Colab?

bishboschbishbosch Posts: 48
edited July 2021 in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

[Has anyone rendered Daz Iray with Google Colab?] Anybody ever find a workaround for this? Just curious, as right now I'd still quite honestly prefer to render things quickly in Daz than export them to Unreal or even Blender. Getting Daz-to-CC3-to-Unreal hair materials working properly is an absolute nightmare; I wasted hours to guesswork regarding hair opacity and blend mode today and I achieved nothing in the end.

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Post edited by Richard Haseltine on

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  • falkathanofalkathano Posts: 17
    I think someone would have to setup a script for iray. You can use cycles by using the offical daz bridge, export what you what to blender, export that as a .blend and render in cycles with colab.
  • PaintboxPaintbox Posts: 1,633

    What is Google Collab if I may ask?

  • Faeryl WomynFaeryl Womyn Posts: 3,622

    Paintbox said:

    What is Google Collab if I may ask?

    Good question. 

  • bishboschbishbosch Posts: 48

    has a good tutorial about how to use Google Colab to speed up render time in Cycles. I have Colab Pro for reasons unrelated to 3D and I find it very useful.

  • DrunkMonkeyProductionsDrunkMonkeyProductions Posts: 978

    There are three problems that are going to arise with this idea.

    1. you can't run DS directly on it, as collab is linux based. Might be able to run it through wine, but then there's problem two.

    2. DS doesn't(afaik) run "headerless". That is it's setup to run with video output and you'll encounter the same problem bishbosh's video was talking about with EEVEE.

    I've read various threads about, trying, to run DS on various cloud services and they kept running into the "DS requires Opengl 1.3" error message.

    3. Resource availability.

    As this service doesn't allow you, afaik, to set the resources you can use, in "free" mode, you might not be able to render when you need to.

     

    I'd recommend looking into one of the various, paid, render farms, as it's significantly easier to setup and use.

    They can get very expensive, very quickly, though.

    You could easily hit the, currently inflated,  cost of a 3090 in just a few months.

    Jack tomalin(the awesome PA) has a render farm service, not much, but is pretty affordable.

    http://www.jacktomalin.com/iray/

     

    For the Collab option, might want to invest in IRay server, with a floating license, as it can run under linux natively and can run headerless.

    Runs $395/yr.

    Might take some finagling to get it working(well outside my realm of expertise), but i'd say it's possible.

     

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