That's a thing that is in-the-works for iClone 6! There will be a non-realtime software renderer available (prepare to pay), and there will be an updated realtime engine. So far, we know it have some sort of global illumination, and "100 or so" lights.

RL's next "teaser" video will be on "dynamic textures".

I still maintain that people who know what they are doing, and there are those, can get very good rendering results with iClone. Maybe not for the "toon" look, but that is a specific look and not related to the quality of the end result. The MMD background looks actually pretty bad in the example given.

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A non-realtime renderer will work, but without realtime rendering, iClone will be just as painful as DAZ3D and Cinema4D. Think about taking 1.5 minutes per frame on rendering. A 5 minutes animation in 30 fps will take 225 hours!!! Which is about 9.4 full days!!

Will you accept that? Check out some DAZ animations from internet, they are all very very short!

A updated realtime engine, if you mean update to Directx 11, it's not what people thought would lead to a better rendering result. What it does is making your realtime renderer even faster!

Lets say, you have a scene running in 60fps for now, and with Directx 11, it will be 120-140 fps. But if the renderering result will look better? No, it will look as the same as it is now.

About GI, if it works in the way as the lights in iClone now, it won't help. If it works in the way as the GI in DAZ, 3DMax, C4D, it won't be realtime.

But, Directx 11 has Shader Model 5.0 with HLSL language, which is the way MMD using to make these shader effects. If iClone team works on that, we will have exactly the same function as MMD has now.

how can I download this figure for testing in iClone ?

For me at the moment it looks not spectacular , but maybe I change my mind if I can see it In a direct comparison in iClone


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Ah, I'll offer a model for testing and a comparison about "with shaders VS without shaders".

This takes time, it'll be done in next hours.

Vidi, if you search for mikumikudance in forum you will find a thread where I asked about it and Hirospot provided some very detailed tutorials on getting the figures into iclone.
I find their licensing restrictions too confusing and finding ones you can use hard as all the sites in Japanese.
they are very lowpoly and not so special on their own, it is the physics engine on the extra bones as well as these apparenty wow factor shaders that do the magic.
Spring bones in iClone look pretty good though too but of course mesh intersects which it does not in MMD.

I never really understood the appeal of the toony shader thing myself
is it trying to look like hand painted cell animation or 3D?
IMO Daz figures in iClone with selfcast shadows look far superior to any MMD animation but then that is maybe my misunderstanding of the art form.

Wendy,
Is that really Aiko6 in the videos? So we can use pretty much anything from DAZ in iClone thru 3DX?
Thanks,
TS

I had to remove all her and clothing bump abd displacement maps to load but yes
that hood had displacement too I had to kill.
have to hand do all the visemes and expressions too and have a saved tpose with fingers unbent I use.

Ok, so it is possible, just a lot of extra work. But that is good to know that it can be done.
Thanks,
TS