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fixmypcmike - 11 September 2012 09:53 PM

RKane_1 - 11 September 2012 09:23 PM

Also I have notived that in boith the directories for 32 and 64 bit, there are two plugins that state they failed and I was wondering if anyone knew what they were for.

One is called FreeImage and Morphtools…

Anyone know exactly what both do?

ISRT FreeImage is part of Reality—it needs to be in the plugin folder even though DS reports it as a failed plugin.  Morphtools might be a free plugin from an earlier version—DeltaX15 maybe?

That’s weird. I did a fresh install of 4.5. I guess it is still therein the plugins file in 4.5 OR the file wasn’t taken out when I uninstalled DAZ 4a and just mingled with the new ones.

Huh.

Yes, uninstalling only uninstalls the things that were installed by the DS4 installer—any plugins are left.

fixmypcmike - 11 September 2012 10:14 PM

Yes, uninstalling only uninstalls the things that were installed by the DS4 installer—any plugins are left.

Gotcha… do I really need it? I mean, does it do anything for me or should I just not mess with it?

Also, would you know anything about why 32-bit render in 3Delight is causing that runtime error from the earlier post with pic I made?

No idea what’s going on with the render engine, I’m afraid.  Are the 32-bit and 64-bit .dll’s identical?  I would assume they shouldn’t be, but other than that I have no clue.

Okay, weirdness time.

I had problems with the very first scene I rendered so I went back to basics.

I made a sphere in 32-bit and rendered and it worked fine.

Hmmm…

so I then uploaded a Genesis without anything on it and rendered it…. and IT worked fine.

Huh.

Uploaded scene again and rendered…CRASH!

So I have a question.

If I want to go into the scene and just make certain things invisible, aren’t invisible items not even considered by the renderer so that would be an easy way to find the culprit OR will i have to actually remove the items in question from the file to find what is going on?

At least I know now it is not all of 32 bit on my machine but something not kosher in the scene.

i have this problem with it saying no rendering engine available.

I’m Ruing win XP 32 with 3 gig of ram.

is there a solution for this yet?

Have you tried reinstalling?

Not yet I’ll give that a go and see what happens.

Have you tried going to “Render Settings”, selecting the “Advanced” tab, clicking the “Render Engine” drop down near the bottom, and selecting “Hardware Assisted Render”?  It works for me, Even with my old Dell Optiplex GX200 from 2001 with 512MB of ram and no video hardware but the onboard chipset.

Jray196 - 11 January 2013 03:42 PM

Have you tried going to “Render Settings”, selecting the “Advanced” tab, clicking the “Render Engine” drop down near the bottom, and selecting “Hardware Assisted Render”?  It works for me, Even with my old Dell Optiplex GX200 from 2001 with 512MB of ram and no video hardware but the onboard chipset.

What you are using is the OpenGL render, and not the 3Delight render engine, so shaders wont work, or shader based lights like Uber etc.  It is the same as using option ‘3’ in the Quality vs Speed section.

Well, it’s better than an error message.