Excited to start my D5 Journey! šŸš€ Greetings from Bangladesh

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Hello everyone!

I am thrilled to finally join the D5 Render community. Iā€™m an architecture student from Bangladesh with a background in 3D visualization, having recently completed an industrial training at ā€˜The Planners Building Design & Interior Solutionā€™.

While I have experience with other tools, Iā€™ve decided to start my journey with D5 Render from today! My goal is to master this powerful software and push the boundaries of real-time photorealistic rendering in my upcoming projects.

I used to be very active in sharing my work on LinkedIn, and after a short break for my studio projects, I am back and ready to create againā€”this time with D5!

Looking forward to learning from all the experts here and sharing my progress. Any tips for a beginner?

Best, Bishal

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Hi moniruzzamanbishal

Iā€™ve been working in architectural design and visualization for 30 years, from 3D Studio 2 (later renamed Max), through V-Ray, Maya, Revit, and SketchUp. I worked with Lumion for 7 years, tried Twinmotion and Enscape, and Iā€™ve been using D5 render since version 1.2, and I can tell you itā€™s the best 3D visualization tool Iā€™ve ever used.

My advice for getting the most out of D5 render is:

Buy the best graphics card; currently, itā€™s the Nvidia RTX 4090. The 5090 is more expensive and is NOT faster in D5. Check the benchmarks on the forum.

Buy as much RAM as possibleā€”64GB minimum, or 128GB is better. RAM is the bottleneck in large scenes.

Work with Windows 10 64-bit; avoid Windows 11 if you can, itā€™s still having problems. Iā€™ve always used an older version of Windows since the Vista debacle.

Try to have a quality configuration on your workstation. Almost all problems with D5 are due to hardware and software issues, because D5 is very demanding due to real-time work with a lot of geometry pushed to the limit.

If you can, choose a workstation over a laptop; it will be cheaper and youā€™ll have better ventilation for the graphics card. In my case, the maximum demand on my GPU doesnā€™t exceed 60 degrees Celsius.

Regards, and I hope this helps.
JoeLouis

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Hi JoeLouis, thank you so much for the detailed advice! Itā€™s an honor to get suggestions from someone with 30 years of experience.

Regarding my setup, Iā€™m starting with a Ryzen 9 7900X, 32GB DDR5 RAM, and an RTX 4070 Super (12GB) on a Gigabyte B650 board. How do you think this will perform for a beginner-to-intermediate workflow?

Also, I have been using 3ds Max and V-Ray for the last 4 years, but I find the D5 UI much more intuitive and faster compared to traditional engines. As an architecture student, many of my peers use SketchUp. Do you think I should stick with 3ds Max for my modeling or transition to SketchUp for a smoother D5 workflow?

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Hi moniruzzamanbishal

The configuration is correct as long as you keep your projects at a manageable scale.

It would be good to allow space in the RAM slots for future expansion. Try to keep the RAM to no more than 2400 MHz. I have 6000 MHz RAM and I had to lower the speed in the setup to avoid crashes.
I started 3D with 3D Studio, the predecessor to 3D Max. When SketchUp came out, I started using version 1.3, and I never went back to 3D Max. Iā€™m a designer and architect, and SketchUp is the best tool for 3D design.
I also use Revit, but for documenting a project; I havenā€™t found it practical for 3D.

Regards, and I hope this helps.
JoeLouis

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