That's what I meant by shared: both cards have the same content. I believe that to be the correct terminology.

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No, unless you have very high end NVIDIA using NVLink the memory is not shared. You will be limited by the amount of RAM in the GPU with the smallest VRAM footprint. So if you have an 8GB card and a 4GB card, you will be limited to 4GB. Fortunately, you can get GTX 1070's for pretty cheap off of ebaythese days. I picked up a second Titan X Maxwell GPU with 12GB for $300. With two in my PC, my iray renders are pretty quick.

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Iray iclone does not support iclone water, iclone popcorn, light tools and few other iclone features, at 1st it didn't even support speed tree.
in my opinion renderman by Pixar should of been used, its one of the best render engines made on the planet and all the top end software
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this would of brought iclone to a pro level output. Iray was not designed as an animation engine.




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Iray is different from iClone in that it is a scalable renderer: each added GPU increase the speed. An additional card would close to double the render speed. Important: do not use SLI with the cards. 

EDIT: Note that VRAM is shared so you would still effectively have 8 GB for a 1070.

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Hi Ian,

i suppose you are only referring to any of these rendered clips that are put together using a compositing software.
As a simple example, to render a 10 seconds clip in Iray, with your card it would take at least a few hours (depends on settings).
You can imagine then how long it will take to render all the clips.

As for my own experience, the switch from a 1070 to a 1080ti almost doubled the render speeds for me.
I don't know if a second 1070 will do the same (iClone can't render on both cards at the same time to my knowledge).

Best regards,
3dtester

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Hi animagic / Guys,

This is not a problem for me FX can be added in later using Ater Effects (post production editing using AE & Motion Tracking).

I have a question about Animations with NVIDIA

My pc spec:

Intel Core i7 7700K
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700K CPU @ 4.20GHz
RAM 32 GIG
SSD 860 1TB
MAXIMUS IX FORMULA
GeForce GTX 1070 8 GIG
Totla hard drives 6 total space (10TB)

So my question, I saw this demo video on reclusion’s website:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Yhy-YMnQYc

How long would it take my pc to output that video. Is it worth me getting another GeForce GTX 1070 8 GIG (as my motherboard can take 2 graphic cards)? Please advise as this is very confusing.

Best

Ian

In live-action film effects are combined afterwards all the time, so there must be established techniques. I just wish I knew more about compositing, which is a blank area for me right now...:unsure: :blush: :blink:

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Maybe someone else will do the experiment before I get around to it, but I picture how sparks fall and bounce off objects (or people), and some bounce in front of the object and some bounce behind it (and are hidden), so you'd need some sort of "invisible" object to make the particles behave correctly, so that when you composite it you get reasonably correct behavior.  It might be a reasonable workaround for a way to blend PopcornFX with Iray.  *Might*

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I understand what you're getting at Justaviking. If I really have to, I'm prepared to do something like that, but only as a last resort. The thing about iClone's native Renderer is that Popcornfx just works and that's a tremendous timesaver. If I did it, I might be able to accomplish it but how much time do you lose having to setup each scene twice and render twice in order to get the result you're after. You're losing a lot in the process. The thing that keeps iClone a workable solution is that it's fast. With Iray being slower you're already loosing a bit when it comes to speed. It makes it seem like you're erasing your gains when you look at it like that. 

Still, I guess if you can set the scene up and render just the PopcornFX elements I guess you could make an overlay if you rendered an image sequence. I imagine if you used PopVideo 3 you could creatively remove the people if you were to render the people elements as a single color that you can use to make transparent in PopVideo 3 --then you could overlay the effects only on each image sequence. It's one of those things where if you want to take advantage of Iray you're going to have to get really creative to keep using your effects with it. I suppose I'll have to do some serious experimenting and see if it's possible.