1- use your game card
2 - use the dsr hack for ultra hd resolution on 1080p monitor
3 - before start your render put final quality (without supersampling ) and put full screeen or the most big viewport you can in a 4k resolution monitor.
4 - render.

i will upload in few minutes the presentation on my last post with DSR hack using 4k resolution ( desktop ) and results are amazing
 

One thing I noticed when testing the hack is that DOF is less effective compared to regular rendering. I could not really get the background blurry enough to put the emphasis on a character in close up. Still, it's an interesting discovery and it's amazing that it actually works.

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76% of original size (was 661x19) - Click to enlarge

use the hack with "final quality" without supersampling

I actually found that, for one specific scene, that kept getting flickering on hair, that no matter what setting or res via DSR x4, it did not give me the proper anti-aliasing that I could get at SS-High (3x3).
This was likely one unique instance I since ran into, just means I found a situation where the Super Sampling was the feature I wanted.  
(FYI - Not the scene I linked to below)

But when it comes to DOF, I have since found that if you can get all you want from 'Preview', then go with that because it will zip through the frames seemingly no matter what res you are throwing at it.  And it will in fact render at that resolution.

Here was my first test render where I got a good gradient from blur to sharp without jaggies.  See chairs in back.  
It was 1000 frames, each frame took .96 Seconds to render (!!!), for a total render time of 16 minutes @3500 x 1969, w/DOF.  (Down-rezd to 1080p for the upload here) 

for objects or characters with opacity maps or any material with transparency the only way its using the fog tip, iclone cant deal with DOF and opacity or transparency maps at same time so if you have a scene with transparency maps and you want dof in this scene the only way is using the FOG trick

Didn't that glass table of yours in the final scene use transparency, Wildstar?  Or are you just saying it's *maps* that cause the problem, not opaciy settings?

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Alienware Aurora R16, Win 11, i9-149000KF, 3.20GHz CPU, 64GB RAM, RTX 4090 (24GB), Samsung 870 Pro 8TB, Gen3 MVNe M-2 SSD, 4TBx2, 39" Alienware Widescreen Monitor
Mike "ex-genius" Kelley

Lmao Wildstar and TonyDPrime must be trolling some of the BS they come out  is mind blowing

I agree, Mind is Blown wide open now!
YEAAAAAH BABY!!!!!
WOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

Thank you all  for sharing your findings. Please be assured this will all be reviewed and tested by the iClone team to see how we can improve the rendering process. 

                                                                

Peter
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