Basically, a reasonably good CPU and an extremely powerful GPU card to create those renders, like a RTX3080 of 3090 . You can make do or experiment with a lesser card, but not if you want to push out a long story. If you are really doing this for money, you invest in several computers or you connect to a render farm.
Still. I recently played a game that had 10 or 12 static locations. 5 characters with basic stances. But the dialogue made it all worth it.
I sort of guessed that. I'm not interested in doing it for money at all, but I'm interested in playing with the software and models a bit, 3D models in general. What do you happen to use for software, and why do you like it, if you don't mind the question. I happen to have a RTX 2070 Super, and it suits my non-heavy lifting needs.
I am really only playing around with this stuff, but from what I gathered, the software used is mostly DAZ3D to create the models and Renpy for the scripting. Some use Blender or port the models to Blender. I've installed DAZ3D and it is quite easy to put some models down and get them to take a pose and then render it. If you want to learn more about it, search on Youtube for IT Roy - he has several good videos on this (that I'm reviewing as well :-)
