Not everyone using DAZ knows how to do this.

Maybe it doesn’t seem like anything special, just another image made and rendered with DAZ... But I swear only a few of us know how to do this. For me, it started as something I had to figure out. Without that "need" I probably wouldn’t know it either.

What you’re seeing is 23 "Genesis 8" characters on screen at the same time. That’s a huge achievement because with an RTX 3060 with 12 gigs you’d normally start having trouble with maybe 10 G8 characters on screen.
A few months ago, I think in March, I showed you a tests with 20 characters on screen. Back then I had less RAM than now (system RAM, the VRAM is the same) and I had some trouble. So that same month I doubled the RAM, just waiting for this day. And it worked... even though I had to start from zero because I lost all that previous work when I had to format everything after the hack I went through shortly after.
The question you might ask is, why bother?... It’s a long job, more than 4 hours building that single image even though I already had another similar scene from yesterday with a slightly smaller number of characters. The start of the competition needs all the participants to be really close to each other at the starting point. And there’s no way to avoid showing as many as possible.
After that they’ll start spreading apart and the scenes will get way lighter and easier to handle, but everything has to be there at the beginning.

There are no composition tricks done in post, everything is actually there. Even the whole tower, which casts its huge shadow in the back of the scene. Sure, there are DAZ games with a lot more characters visible. But I promise you they use way better GPUs and they still do compositing in post.

From closest to the camera all the way to the back... Sally sticking her nose where she shouldn’t, maybe drawn in by the guy’s muscles. Finn and Katherine talking. Casandra showing her back while trying to keep an eye on MC. A Guard basically acting like Josephine’s bodyguard so Finn won’t try anything. Etna sitting on the floor, regretting not staying with Josephine the night before. Josephine next to her and very close by Amber, standing. Behind Amber, Pamela, Asami, Emma and Rachel. A bit farther away against the wall, Kaoru looking a little serious, maybe thinking about the future... Behind Rachel, Miranda and Megan throwing compliments at each other. At the same distance, sitting on the floor not caring about anyone else, Karen... MC and Jordan keeping their distance from the group, talking in private. Also farther away another Guard, different from the others, watching from a distance. He showed up in an earlier scene and he is still there... Even farther back another Guard (yup, 3 androids in total), this one escorting Ronald, Helen and Sophia.
Those are the 23...
The hardest part is done.

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