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Published: 2018-04-11 16:38:48 +0000 UTC; Views: 5047; Favourites: 91; Downloads: 67
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What you hold in your hands right now is not just another magazine. This, dear friend, is the ONLY in-depth interview with the famous Commander Shepard you'll ever find.In honour of The Emily Wong Foundation helping youngsters get into journalism Rue Shepard is flashing abs, biceps and a lot of sexy smiles, in hopes to raise money for the
foundation honouring the late Emily Wong who gave her life to warn humanity when the Reaper Invasion started.
Zirca magazine prides itself on being the most popular high society magazine throughout the galaxies.
Readers are treated to exclusive interviews with famous people no other journalists have been able to interview before
and Zirca also provides its readers with a variety of articles raging from grooming those tentacles of yours to upgrading you frigate.
All of this for a mere 20 credits per issue.
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Alison Wong
Editor in-chief
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You're very welcome
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Javik therapist for krogans, that's a great idea! His bluntness will fit right in!
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Haha! That's what I thought as well. Plus i always wanted a therapist to tell me to below things out the air lock. 
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Love your Zirca issues, we need more! But I'm sure Rue would totally approve of a birthday special! And can I just say how smoking hot Rue is, I rarely perv over a Shepard, but daaayyyum!
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Heh heh heh!
Älskar dig pruttis.
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Oh, look! A new issue of Zirca! 
Rue pretty much steals the whole scene here... 
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Haha! Hope you found those credits!
I'm so glad you got the Kasumi reference. LOL
Was hoping that one wasn't too obscure.
It's ALWAYS the coming up with articles that take the longest time.
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Ops, looks like the credit chip was left in the pockets of a different pair of trousers... 
Well, I tend to like "obscure" references, but I'm pretty sure most ME fans will figure out the Kasumi reference. And it just occurred to me that the next time I'm rendering something in Cycles I might use the time to think about some clever article titles... Not that Dragon Age related renders make much use of those, but you never know when some good titles might come in handy, lol.
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Hey, they might have a newspaper called "Wonders of Thedas" featuring cool articles about the different heroes. Totally believable!
Does your renders take a long time in Blender? Have you tried the tricks to speed it up? This one took...maybe 6 mins at a 3000x3000. Granted that was a bit of an overkill on res, but I wanted it big so I could rescale without compromising the quality.
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Isn't "Wonders of Thedas" also the name of a shop in DAO? 
And yeah, my renders take a pretty long time in Blender Cycles, compared to your 6 minutes. If there's any further tricks to speed up rendering time that you can recommend and that I haven't already implemented, then I'm more than happy to give those a try. To give you an idea, this scene here was rendered @ 2560x1920 using about 2000 samples and took around 3,5 hours to render (everything in the scene is a model, I did not use a background picture). The hardware is most likely not the culprit (got pretty high end CPU and GPU), so I "blame" some computationally heavy shaders (the skin shader uses SSS which tends to increase rendering time as far as I can tell). I'm inclined to believe there's not much else I can do to shorten render time (unless I switch to less computationally heavy shaders), but I'm open to suggestions.
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Go for it! Thedas needs a good magazine as well.
Oh wow...that's A LOT of samples. I rarely use more than 800. This one is 500. You usually can't tell the difference between 2000 and say 1000. Also check your light bounces. You honestly don't need them set to the default which is max: 12 and min: 3. Set them to something like max: 4 or slightly higher if you wish, but keep min: 0. All of my uses 4 and 0.
Under the tab where you have colour management there should be a section called simplify. Check that and set AO bounces to 2 on both the AO values. Some people state up to a third of their render time cut. Mine is usually cut by a few mins.
I have all these settings (and obviously render using gpu) and denoising. Build a really heavy scene with lots of sss and other shader plus a lot of geometry (faces) in it. With these settings it took only 17 mins to render at 1920*1080.
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Hey, thank you very much for the additional tips about improving render speed in Cycles! 
Let's see if I can come up with some interesting scene to render now...
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Sweet! Yeah it does quite the difference for big renders to change the AO. I have my tiles set to 120/67. But I'm gonna try yours and see if I can get mine down a bit more. Was trying to render volume scatter the other day and it would take me nearly 3 hours för just 1000 samples. Eeeeeeeek!!!
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Apparently a larger tile size works best to improve speed when rendering using GPU, w hile a smaller tile size is faster if rendering using your CPU. Also, I seem to remember that as a general rule of thumb using numbers that are a power of 8 for the tile size seems to make Cycles happier, but admittedly I've never tested this. And wow, that's a pretty large increase of rendering time due to volume scatter! 
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Lol but THREE hours! Ok, maybe I'll put it on over night when I don't need the computer for other stuff as well. It's odd tho, because I did render an environment render with volume scatter and it didn't take that long. Granted not as many samples because the scene was a day scene so had better lights and needed less denoising...and thanks for the advice on the tiles! Actually didn't know that.
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Yeah, 3 hours is a lot of time when you know a regular render can take much less. Guess that I got too used to my renders taking too long if I'm ok with the idea of keeping my computer busy rendering for 3 hours. 
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