Optimizing your rendering experience

Boost for Daz is a cloud service, offering a wide range of virtual computers running Iray Server optimized for rendering your Daz projects. Using any cloud service means leaving the safety and surety of your local environment and depending on other elements that might be out of your control. So planning and patience are both useful elements to get the most out of Boost for Daz. The elements that influence your rendering experience with Boost for Daz are:

• Your local machine: Depending on the size of your Daz project you will need the appropriate CPU, GPU, and Disk space to open and create your projects.

• Your Daz Project: The size of the Daz (*.duf) file and the size of the file that is generated just before rendering is very different. For any Daz project - the type of assets, number of instances, textures, geometry’s and shaders used in your project might not affect the size of your *.duf file, but will certainly generate a significant amount of detail in the render package (i.e. the file Daz Studio prepares just before sending to the Iray server for rendering).

• Your ISP’s effective bandwidth: With Boost for Daz, you start from where you are - your current computer - to create your Daz projects, and use Boost for Daz to render them. In order to render with Boost for Daz you will need to upload your render package to the Boost for Daz data centers. Both the size of the final render package as well as the speed of your ISP (upload/download bandwidth) will affect the time it takes to upload your render package for rendering. (Note: that currently, all our data centers are in the US. Some local ISP’s in some cities, throttle traffic to and from international sites.) We recommend at least 20 Mbps (Upload) to optimize your experience with Boost for Daz. The higher the effective bandwidth the better.

• Building your Virtual Computer: Once you pick a virtual computer on Boost for Daz, we immediately start the process of building (hardware plus operating system), configuring (loading Iray Server software), and readiness (booting up your computer and preparing the specific IP address and access details). This can take anywhere from 8 to 10 minutes. Your virtual computer is ready once the IP address and login details are displayed on your Dashboard. Once the machine is ready, you can use that machine for as many renders as you wish.