Gaston.inventory.gold = 9999
store.Gaston.hunting = 200
store.Gaston.knowledge = 200
Gaston.hp_max = 5000
store.Gaston.hp = 5000
store.Gaston.ga_authority = 100
store.Gaston.to_authority = 100

store.Belle.sex = 200
store.Belle.exz = 100
store.Belle.corruption = 200
store.Belle.gardening = 100
store.Belle.dominance = -50
store.Belle.ga_relations = 100
store.Belle.to_relations = 100

store.Betsy.loyalty = 100
store.Betsy.corruption = 100

Dog.hp_max = 5000
store.Dog.hp = 5000"

The final beta for the update should be coming early next week with the Patreon release being the week after, assuming all goes to plan and I get things finished.

The firefly filter is there to remove or clamp down on fireflies, these are very bright spots that sometimes occur in renders. A kind of noise, they can sometimes appear because of overly reflective surfaces or bright lights in a dark scene. Either way the firefly filter tries to put a limit of how bright a pixel can get. I'd always leave this on.

For nominal luminance I'll quote nvidia. "The nominal luminance is a hint to Iray on what is considered a “reasonable” luminance level when viewing the scene. This luminance level is used internally to tune the firefly filter and error estimate. When the nominal luminance value is set to 0, Iray Photoreal will estimate the nominal luminance value from the tonemapper settings."

So most of the time I leave it 0, but if I start having problems with fireflies I'll adjust the nominal luminance. Depending on the scene I might set it as low as 0.1 and up to 500. If it's set too low it can dull things in the scene that are supposed to be bright. You have to experiment a bit to find the right balance.

Post denoiser is Iray's AI denoise filter. I don't use it as it uses vram during the render process and if I need to denoise I'll do it in post myself. I've just made it available above to expose the settings.

Post denoiser enable - Obvious really.
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Start iteration. This how many iterations/samples Iray will do before the denoising kicks in. As the denoiser is a post process if has no effect on the rendering. If you render an image for 500 iterations, the final denoised image will be the same if you started denoising at 1 iteration or 499.

Denoise alpha, I guess this is if you have transparent areas in your render.

Bloom filter. I like to use this as it adds a nice effect but I try to keep it subtle. Daz actually has some decent documentation on this.

"Bloom Filter uses three categories to create the bloom effect: Threshold, Radius, and Brightness Scale. Threshold controls how much energy hits a specific portion of an object, which will create the bloom effect. Radius controls what size radius a pixel's bloom will cover, the larger the radius the larger and more blurred the bloom effect will be. Brightness Scale controls how bright the bloom effect appears. Altering one category can significantly change the bloom effect's look."

With a handy image guide.
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Pixel filter I leave as default. Not much worth tweaking here.

And that's that.

So I'm still working my way down my list of top supporters, offering them the chance for a custom render. I would say only about 1 in 3 responded so far, so check you messages guys! Though I understand if people don't wish to take part.

That wasn't the case this week though. Outrider had about 5 ideas for me.

He mainly wanted to see some "interaction" between Nikki and Karen so here's what I came up with.
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I hope you all enjoy and that's all I have this week.

Thank you all as always and take care out there.






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