Renderotica

Installed the product today and was amazed to find every single texture was 8192 X 8192 pixels! 

That's insane. That's 24 textures that decompress into 64 megs each in memory. For what?...a freakin' pair of boots!

I don't render at 8192X 8192. I don't know anyone who does. My typical render is 5000X4000, and even then people tell me I render too large. A pair of boots might take up maybe 500X300 at most within the render. All those large textures do is slow down my render times and use up memory. 

First thing I did was run the textures through Fotosizer and cut them down to 20% of their original size before loading them into my runtime. I can already tell you it won't make a difference to the look of my final renders. 

You would think that content creators would know better, but I guess not. 

This is something that bugs the heck out of me too.

There's a few PAs on Daz that make their wearables with 2 sets of mats, one in 4k and one in 2k, I wish more would do that.

I know the 4k crowd is trying to "future-proof" their products, but I'm using their product on hardware from 2018, not 2028 :)

I remember the G2M set from several years ago, I thing it was something like Sci-Fi Smuggler. It looked awesome but it was 8k. That was like 5 years ago when high end consumer cards were still only around 4gb max. I have trouble using it today with 11gb! :o