@stumpc: I get only the specular highlight when rendering with GLSL on a 32 bit system, not sure about 64 bits. I’ll file a bug report if nobody has yet.
@stumpc: I get only the specular highlight when rendering with GLSL on a 32 bit system, not sure about 64 bits. I’ll file a bug report if nobody has yet.
Thank you my friend, for some reason the bug reporter will not send me a confirmation to log on so I can’t check or file a report.
That’s really bad Bob. WOW… so that was a previously converted pair or a newly convert using the newest DS?
I’m always logged in at the bug reporting area but hell, maybe that’s changed now. I’m getting hardly ANY notifications right now I’m subscribed to about 20 threads. Store looks great but the forums are a mess again. DS is NOT perfect either. Lag time when starting the program is pretty bad, about 30 second wait. 4.0 was up in a matter of seconds ready to go. If conversions are worse rather than better that’s not good either. I do notice that the ZBrush bridge is a total mess. If I send over Genesis, make some changes and then hit the send back button… nothing happens. Freezes up. Just starting the bridge really lags allot. Not good. So yea, while parts of DS 4.5 seems better like that lighting issue, I guess, never noticed it but other things seems broken or crippled.
Why would something that worked now fail this is crap and how often has submitting a bug report lead to nothing being done DS3A anyone? Its bad enough that a limited amount of shoes / boots convert but lets break what was working just *&^ genius
That’s really bad Bob. WOW… so that was a previously converted pair or a newly convert using the newest DS?
I’m always logged in at the bug reporting area but hell, maybe that’s changed now. I’m getting hardly ANY notifications right now I’m subscribed to about 20 threads. Store looks great but the forums are a mess again. DS is NOT perfect either. Lag time when starting the program is pretty bad, about 30 second wait. 4.0 was up in a matter of seconds ready to go. If conversions are worse rather than better that’s not good either. I do notice that the ZBrush bridge is a total mess. If I send over Genesis, make some changes and then hit the send back button… nothing happens. Freezes up. Just starting the bridge really lags allot. Not good. So yea, while parts of DS 4.5 seems better like that lighting issue, I guess, never noticed it but other things seems broken or crippled.
Startup time will vary depending on where you left your “Content Library” pointing to. If it is to an area with a lot of items (say, Poser Formats->Pose) then DS will stall while it reads, sorts, and displays the contents of that area. If you are at the base root then it’ll be pretty much instant.
Why would something that worked now fail this is crap and how often has submitting a bug report lead to nothing being done DS3A anyone? Its bad enough that a limited amount of shoes / boots convert but lets break what was working just *&^ genius
There was probably an area change on either a calculation or a glitch in the autofit clone. In either case, if the devs are told about it they can revert back to the “working” code. They can’t fix what they don’t know is broken.
The program never stalled at version 4.0 regardless of the directory it was pointed at before dismissing the program last. So I really don’t consider this an improvement.
The program never stalled at version 4.0 regardless of the directory it was pointed at before dismissing the program last. So I really don’t consider this an improvement.
Just explaining the phenomenon, not making a judgment.
Well I’m happy to report that Daz fixed the download issues yesterday and I managed to finally get the Genesis Essentials downloaded. I installed the 4.5.0.137 beta this morning and have had a chance to play with it a bit and I’m relieved to have no problems to report so far. After all of the horror stories I was pretty worried.
I haven’t tried the new autofit yet so I can’t speak to that but other areas show no problems and there are some significant improvements over DS 4.0. The load time for Genesis is much much faster and I notice that things seem to be running in parallel during startup now. I had quite a few newly installed items and by the time metadata was finished importing for them Genesis was already loaded. In 4.0 it didn’t seem as if the default scene even started loading until after any metadat imports were completed.
Rendering seems to be MUCH faster than 4.0 and the quality of the 2 renders I did was very good. So far no issues with duplicate ids or shaders so I’ve got my fingers crossed. I’m sure there are going to be at least a couple of glitches at some point but so far I’m a happy camper.
There is still one big thing that Daz needs to improve however: The first post in this thread points to installation instruction for Mac and Windows. The same thing is in the original 4.5 release thread. The Mac version is still 4.0 specific but does have some info available. The Windows instructions have STILL not been completed. There are 2 screenshots and that’s it! Neither one has any information at all on the upgrade process from 4.0. Is there nobody at all working for Daz that is competent enough to take a couple of hours and do proper tutorials? It would certainly be beneficial to Daz to have fewer confused customers needing support would it not?
I submitted the report I use Reality / Lux i quickly tested a few renders with UE even though they look cleaner still looks like DS3A it never seems to change much..
