Anonymous at Sun, 4 Jul 2021 16:16:03 UTC No. 837000

>>836999
>I've been wanting to incorporate 3d work for a while now; but something about the lighting and materials always looks shitty
I am 140% certain you just don't know how to set them up properly. Switching to another renderer and wasting money on a more powerful card won't automagically make your 3D work look good.

Anonymous at Sun, 4 Jul 2021 16:24:16 UTC No. 837004

I am wondering if op thinks you need an rtx card to do raytracing

Anonymous at Sun, 4 Jul 2021 16:32:50 UTC No. 837006

>>837000

I think you're right, I'm not good at setting these things up properly. I do need more practice, but most of the learning materials out there are for Octane, and a lot of the jobs out there are asking for people with Octane experience, even if it's for 2d work. I'm going to have to make the change to Octane at some point.

Anonymous at Sun, 4 Jul 2021 16:49:58 UTC No. 837009

>>837004

I'll need to buy a new Nvidia card to use Octane; I know it doesn't technically have to be RTX; but even the regular ones are overpriced; $699 vs $899.

Anonymous at Sun, 4 Jul 2021 17:04:29 UTC No. 837014

FE cards always drop at msrp and that's your best shot. best buy handles them in the states. yuropean countries got their own retailers.
there are discord servers that will have drop notifications and it's very viable to grab one in time if you've got it running on your desktop.

if the retailer in the uk wasn't super anal about 1/per customer i probably would have had 3 by now.

also >>837000
physical is an okay renderer, but you can pirate and test out arnold for the time being.
arnold's standard surface is basically the same (just a little nicer imo) as RS and octane's respective ubershaders. optimization and displacement workflows are slightly different per engine, but that takes about and hour to learn.

Anonymous at Sun, 4 Jul 2021 17:08:40 UTC No. 837018

>>837014
also, octane's documentation is utter dogshit plus the last time i checked they were still being cunts about not having spread controls on area lights (i don't take if it breaks physicality (it doesn't) muh spectralgods). meanwhile arnold's docs are amazing.

Anonymous at Mon, 5 Jul 2021 22:17:17 UTC No. 837237

you can find a used 2080 ti for about less than or equal to it's original msrp if you search hard enough on ebay or something.

Anonymous at Mon, 5 Jul 2021 22:38:01 UTC No. 837241

So the cards were coming back in stock due to the China crackdown, but now the bitcoin jews have made it easier to mine which will make them sell out again. Really gets the noggin joggin.