Ultimo Paradiso Question
Joe Cotter
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From what I can tell, it does not support instancing, is that correct?
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Thanks Cridgit, that's a beautiful render. Instancing the plants (or other props) is what I was referring to. Did you instance them in the plugin or separately in DS, ie... how did you do it?
Do you mean Infinito? Ultimo Pardiso is content, it's too old to use instances itself but there's nothing to stop you reworking it to use them.
Thank you, yes I meant Infinito. How would one rework it to use instancing?
On a related but separate thread, I was thinking Paradiso required Infinito, but it looks like it doesn't, is that correct?
The Paradiso add-on looks great too. Do the sky domes effect lighting or are they purely textural? Would one combine these with UberEnvironment for lighting for instance?
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Well your image definitely sold me on Paradiso :)
Ok, so I purchased the Ultimo Paradiso and I don't understand the download. It has 12 parts... 6 are per OS so that's ok.. but then there's p1/p2 without a year and p1/p2 for 2010 and 2012... what is going on with that?
I purchased the set earlier and I too was not sure what's with all the files, but now that I see it in writing, I'm pretty sure it's referencing installers for Poser Pro version 2010 or 2012. I had installed the 2012 set in DS 4.5 thinking 2012 meant it was the most latest and I did have issues with the Camera's not working when I selected them. Also, when I loaded the bare island and then the full set of vegetation, my computer came to a screeching halt and I couldn't move the view or do much of anything within DS. Like I was low on memory. Rebooted/reloaded and didn't make a difference. I have 8 gigs of memory on Win8 64 bit OS.
I just uninstalled the 2012 installation and installed the first set of installers without the 2010/2012 and things are much improved. The cameras are working and I can move the viewport now, though it's not "snappy".
The readme says:
You can find new icons for this product in the following DAZ Studio Categories:
“Cameras”
“Environments:Landscape”
“Lights:Exterior”
“Materials:Landscape”
“Utilities:Scripts”
but I dont see any DS files in the DAZ Studio Formats>My Library. I will file a service ticket and see what DAZ's says about the missing DS files.
Hi, Ultimo Paradiso installers have been updated just a few days ago with updated scripts for Poser Pro 2012.
Odd that this little modification might bring so many issues. Please open a support ticket, probably DAZ made an error producing the installers.
As a note, prior loading the full vegetation script (which loads a huge amount of geomtry) it's advisable, in both Poser and Studio, to switch drawing mode to bunding boxes, so that the interface will be responsive.
Thanks, this helps.. I'm curious about that second part also.
Thanks for chiming in, Alessandro. Due to my ignorance in working with scenes with a huge (and I mean HUGE!) amounts of geometry with the fully loaded island vegetation, it didn't occur to me to change the drawing mode to bounding boxes... and it made a HUGE difference in moving around within the viewport.
I'm notorious for not reading documentation if provided. I've read through your manual and you do address issues that I've come across and the rendering tips are very helpful. In particular I wasn't aware of external 3D Delight rendering and will definately take a look at that thread mentioned in the manual. ( Here's a updated link to the thread in the forum archive http://forumarchive.daz3d.com/viewtopic.php?p=1744671 ). I'll also try Reality rendering with the setup instructions provided, thanks for including that in the manual.
As far as DS4 presets, I filed a service ticket to see if a DS installer was inadvertently excluded from the downloads. In particular, I'd like to have optimized DS material presets if they are available.
A super shallow reason, but I can'get get over how silly the name sounds to buy it
Meaning what exactly?
Thanks for chiming in, Alessandro. Due to my ignorance in working with scenes with a huge (and I mean HUGE!) amounts of geometry with the fully loaded island vegetation, it didn't occur to me to change the drawing mode to bounding boxes... and it made a HUGE difference in moving around within the viewport.
I'm notorious for not reading documentation if provided. I've read through your manual and you do address issues that I've come across and the rendering tips are very helpful. In particular I wasn't aware of external 3D Delight rendering and will definately take a look at that thread mentioned in the manual. ( Here's a updated link to the thread in the forum archive http://forumarchive.daz3d.com/viewtopic.php?p=1744671 ). I'll also try Reality rendering with the setup instructions provided, thanks for including that in the manual.
As far as DS4 presets, I filed a service ticket to see if a DS installer was inadvertently excluded from the downloads. In particular, I'd like to have optimized DS material presets if they are available.
Hi Lindsey, yes indeed switching to bounding boxes is good "common practice" to use with huge scenes. I remember at the time I developed UP I had bounding boxes on all the time, so that I could easily pan and rotate the camera, position it where I wanted and finally hit the render button.
About the "deferred" render, that's something that really a few use but is a very powerful feature that allows to avoid potential crashes upon rendering within Studio.
I don't understand what's the exact nature of the issue with latest UP version. I mean, every prop has an associated .dsa file that will load automatically within the prop and set the materials. So what's going wrong exactly? Can you make an example?
Hi Lindsey, yes indeed switching to bounding boxes is good "common practice" to use with huge scenes. I remember at the time I developed UP I had bounding boxes on all the time, so that I could easily pan and rotate the camera, position it where I wanted and finally hit the render button.
About the "deferred" render, that's something that really a few use but is a very powerful feature that allows to avoid potential crashes upon rendering within Studio.
I don't understand what's the exact nature of the issue with latest UP version. I mean, every prop has an associated .dsa file that will load automatically within the prop and set the materials. So what's going wrong exactly? Can you make an example?
I think there may be some terminology confusion going on here. When Readme files talk about "Daz Studio Categories", they don't generally mean that there should be files installed into Daz Studio Folders/My Library or into the equivalent folders under "Content". That term in a Readme generally refers to where you can find the items either in Smart Content or in the Categories section that sits alongside the Content Library, not to the "physical" locations of the files themselves. It gets confusing because sometimes "Daz Studio Categories" in a Readme actually does mean "Daz Studio DIRECTORIES", and it's left to the user to dig through directories to figure out which one was meant.
In the case of Ultimo Paradiso, the Daz files are installed alongside the Poser files in the Poser directories. For this product, if you look at the Ultimo Paradiso files in the Poser format directories through the Content Library, they all have the little orange scroll in the upper left corner that indicates that they have "sidecar" files containing DAZ material settings. If you go to Windows and look inside the AM directories (or left-click on the AM directories in the appropriate section and pick "browse to folder location"), you can see the DSA files.
All that said, there's something borked with the metadata with these installers, if they even have metadata. (I didn't get the thing from Studio on startup telling me that it had new metadata to import after I installed Ultimo Paradiso.) Ultimo Paradiso doesn't appear in Smart Content or the Categories, at least not where the Readme says it should be, and I can't find it anywhere else. I don't care, myself, but anyone who uses Smart Content or the Categories is going to be very confused.
vwrangler thank you very much for the clarification on the terms, that will surely be helpful for lot of users. I am one of those that don't use Smart Content, so I was not aware that there was an issue with the metadata. I'll contact DAZ to ask if they can fix this issue and produce new installers.
Just sent an enquiry to DAZ, as I get a response I'll post here...
I know it's the proper word for it, I just find the name silly. I'm not implying anything beyond I chuckle at the name. It's gorgeous from the renders I've seen.
I don't know if anything is "missing". Perhaps you can enlighten me. The readme states there should be DS presets in the DAZ Content Library folders.
You can find new icons for this product in the following DAZ Studio Categories:
“Cameras”
“Environments:Landscape”
“Lights:Exterior”
“Materials:Landscape”
“Utilities:Scripts”
These "icons" are missing from DAZ Studio Formats>My Library. I know these are not Smart Content presets. Normally there is a specific DS installer with these presets and there isn't one. I know that there are DS .dsa files in the Poser format library and the .dsa file is supposed to be invoked when the product is used in DS.
I do have a question on the scripts for loading the island, vegetation or loading an individual plant or prop for that matter. The message box that pops up says "importing .pp2". Shouldn't I be seeing .dsa files being loaded by the script? I've never paid attention to the message box when loading items and don't know how the DS script switching works if DS files are found in the Poser format libraries.
I assume that sentence in the readme "DS presets in the DAZ Content Library folders." it's a common phrase used in several products. Nonetheless, there are no DS presets in UP. As was explained by vwrangles, each prop has a companion .dsa file that runs automatically and applies DS specific materials to it. Also, I don't have a clue what those new icons are and where they are. I asked DAZ clarifications on this...
No that's ok. When you load a vegetation script, that's actually a .pp2 with a "companion" .dsa file that is responsible for loading props. So it's correct to see the message "importing .pp2", because the code will load and place all the various plant props and itemps around...
In DAZ studio if you go to the Smart Content Panel you will find the product pieces under that. You can filter either by files or by Product. Look under Environments/Landscape and you should see the items for Ultimo Paradiso.
This is the areas under the smart content panel where you can expect to find pieces of this product.
If you need screenshots or a better explanation please let me know
Thanks.
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Is always going to be the categories in your Smart content panel, and doesn't always mean that there will be DS files inside of it.
I hope this helps explain a bit more clearly, but feel free to ask if you don't understand something :)
I am very sure. Which version did you install? And did you install it with Studio open or closed? You can also re-import metadata by going to the arrow beside your content library panel, choosing Content DB Maintenence and on the pop up window choose re-import metadata find the product you want to re import and click ok.
This is the areas under the smart content panel where you can expect to find pieces of this product.
If you need screenshots or a better explanation please let me know
Thanks.
Hum.. so it is Smart Content, my bad. I don't see any of these categories my Smart Content. Can you show one screen shot of one of the categories of what I should be seeing? Thanks..
Edited: Issue resolved by manually re-importing the product's Metadata file.
Thanks.. That explains a lot. I thought the .dsa was like a .dsf that would load the item and materials. I just examined one and it does say it's a DS material file script.
I am very sure. Which version did you install? And did you install it with Studio open or closed? You can also re-import metadata by going to the arrow beside your content library panel, choosing Content DB Maintenence and on the pop up window choose re-import metadata find the product you want to re import and click ok.
AAAHHHhhh! I manually re-imported the UP metadata file and all of the items show up in Smart Content.. !! thanks JGreenlees for suggesting that. I'll close out my Service Ticket..
Glad you got it working!.