Short of it: I'm trying to create sprites with normal maps, and have been using the following method to do so up until now:

I've been sticking with 3Delight, largely because I understand lighting better, and renders are a lot quicker.  I thought about switching to Iray and investing in a new graphics card, but only if I could reproduce similar output with the renderer.  Very brief research and some Youtube tutorials give me the impression that I don't want to use a pitch-black background and a single directional light for the renders, because lowly-lit renders prolong render time.  But is there any way in Iray, to just create a "light-only" render of an object, like those Amphibioid X's in the above example?  Given that Iray materials seem to have exponentially more fields in the shading pane, I wouldn't know where to begin.

Not critical to functionality ... just annoying

Is there any way to restore the response to the 'Enter' Button ?

I am pretty new around here. I'm having issues with importing a .obj garment from clo3d to Daz. Can someone please assist? I've watched videos but can't seem to get it right. Not sure if this is allowed here but  I'm will to pay for assistance, this is for a project. 
 

thank you for your time. 

Is there a faster way to get this done?

But I want to avoid liquid cooling and I don't know if it would be wise with either option. For example, one article stated that the 2080 Super used 254W (hotter than the non-Super version).
So, do you triple the watt rating with 3 cards? At 163W each (from a gaming article I've now lost), 3 2060S's would be less wattage than 2 2080S's.
So maybe the three lower-watt 2060 Supers would be about as easy to cool(?). The question being, having 3 cards vs 2, what does that add to the calculation?

Another idea is to just get two 2060 Supers now & add an RTX 30XX in the future... Is it a certainty that they'd be compatible, and ditto the MB?

The only experience I have is from building my i5-2500K, GTX1060 6GB, 8 GB RAM system. It runs cool and fast with simple Iray scenes, never going to CPU, but even then, some hair items, etc, add too much time to the otherwise quick scene.

Your observations/opinions in these threads have been very helpful for getting the general perspectives people need. Later I'll study your ideas for a Ryzen CPU & MB for quicker 3DL animating, etc. Thanks!!!

I even tried applying !Iray Uber Base to the walls and floor to convert them to Iray shaders, but it made no visible difference in the render.  And it still took 20 minutes.

https://www.daz3d.com/carefree-poses-and-expressions-for-sydney-8-and-genesis-8-female

This is the pose pack. 

Luxury question incoming ;-)

I proudly own a Geforce 1080ti and I was wandering if there would be a benefit in adding another grafic card, for example a GeForce GTX Titan Z, just for the CUDA cores.

Can DAZ use the buddy, or is it a waste of money?

GOAL: Prevent CPU-Fallbacks with complex scenes and quicker render times

Best wishes

Ryselle

Thank You!

 I am using a brand new Mac Pro. As one can imagine it's resourses for Carrera are excelent. Everything is runnung smoothly except, when I try to load a texture in backrounds , backdrops, or shaders the file will not load. Of I try to open a scene through Carrera browser it won't load and will not import objects. . The Carrera directory will acces the drive, loctae the file but wont load it. If I click on a scene on my desktop it loads fine. Please help as it is definitely stalling my work flow.

Thanks

JKZ

there's a mesh part which contains two different area. one is fabric and the other is metal. I duplicated the mesh part and made cutout opacity map for both mesh parts. then applied metal shader on one and fabric shader on the other. when I took a render , it turned out to look like this

Does anyone know why the left and right side of the hair come together, instead of hanging and aiming towards the ground, after the simulation?

The two images in the center are the before.  The image on the bottom is the expected hair result.  The image on the right shows how the left and right of the hair come together instead of falling down with gravity.  Image on the left is the simulation settings.

Guys, I know Genesis 8 female looks messed up, but that's not the original figure. It has the same pose.  I can't show the real G8f, that one is hidden.

If G8F is just standing in a default pose, everything simulates fine.

I need to control the strength of the transmitted color in certain areas, but when I set a map, it seems to have no affect whatsoever. In some places where the skin protrudes out, the skin becomes more red in those areas, but with a Transmitted Color Map map I can control how much of the color shows in that area.

Thanks

Pete

I have a problem with IBL Master. I don't want to use the provided shadow catcher, I want the shadows to fall on the props in my scene. The problem is when I use the shadow catcher shader, it knocks out the diffuse colour, opacity and tiling of the original surface and in the case of the tiling, there is no way to get it back that I can see. A solution would be greatly appreciated as I'm over the month for returning the product and with no tiling it will sit, unwanted and unloved, in my library.

Cheers

Lorraine

Scenarios:

1) Click on either the rShldr or rForearm and execute any Symmetry command R to L, L to R, or Swap -  nothing happens.

2) Click on either the lShldr or lForearm.  All Symmetry commands work.

This has happened occasionally in the past, but I keep forgetting to ask for help.  Can you think of anything I should check?  Thank you for your time.

Is it just coincidenace and I should debug my crashes somewhere else, or is there something about LIE that causes CTD?

i'm new to some of the nuts/bolts of Daz and 3D modeling in general, so please forgive me if I use the wrong terminology. 

What i'm trying to do is take an existing piece of clothing I bought on the Daz store, which has limited choices for textures and surface selections, and make modifications which would allow me to have more surface choices and use some shaders i've bought on those new surface choices.

Using a more simple example of a sphere that has a UV map with a top and bottom section, a surface called 'ball' and has one texture file. What i'd like to do is change it so the ball would instead have equal slices vertically around it, and so that each slice could have it's own new texture applied to it.

So here's where the *assumptions* come in. I started down a path first assuming I needed a new UV map to do this. I used GoZ and pulled the clothing into ZBrush and following various tutorials and youtube vids managed to polygroup the clothing into the new areas and make a new UV map. That map exported back into Daz and I see it on the surfaces UV Map drop down. I verified my UV map imported correctly by changing from Perspecive View to UV Map view as well.

But for some reason I just expected that the import would take each UV 'island' and make a default surface name for it, like 'default1', 'default2', etc. and i'd only need to go somewhere and change that name to something more meaningful. And I also assumed that if I changed the UV on the surface tab back to the original then the original surface names would come back.

So...

1 - Where's the relationship between the figure and the UV and the named surfaces? Can you even change the surfaces in Daz or do I have to use some other tool or do something else in Zbrush when making the UV? Again, I assumed my polygroups to UV in ZBrush would translate to a one to one surface choice after coming back to Daz.

2 - I think I need to save the clothing as a new figure/product and make the new changes there? Assuming again here you can't have one figure with two UVs, and each UV with seperate surface choices...

Finally, I understand that *technically* I could just go use some paint tool and make a new texture with the existing UVs and surfaces - but i'm not trying to learn how to do that. I want something where I can load the figure and using Daz's shaders select which textures to use real time and change them as needed at will.

thanks for any insight and assistance!

I just set aspect ratio 4.0 : 7.0 and pixel size - 960:1680 = final render time of one picture was about 2 hours. I get my daz Studio 4.12 crashing when I want to render about 6 characters and 3 animals in one scene (I set a sky-dome only as a main light). Is there something wrong with my liblary/content/genesis 3 figures loaded into scene??

I managed final render in other app - VUE xStream 2016 R6 (before final render I get this message: THE AVAILABLE SYSTEM RESOURCES HAVE JUST DROOPED BELOW CRITICAL LEVEL. VUE IS NOW ENABLING DEGRADED MODES AND WILL ADAPTIVELY SIMPLIFY THE DISPLAY TO PRESERVE MEMORY(...)). In order to achieve all this (to render all 6 characters and 3 pets in one scene)I had to import all characters one by one as OBJ file and then set final pose for all in Vue. A final render it took me just a few minutes (In DaZ I think it would take a few hours...). Despite all I want to render any kind of scene only in DAZ STUDIO PRO. 4.12, so my final question is: what shell I do with my new PC (I just bought him last year)to render big pictures (from 4-10 characters with simple environment)?? These are my current settings: INTEL(R) CORE(TM) i5-8400 CPU @ 2.80GHz 2.81 GHz, RAM - 16,0 GB; Win 10 64 bit, GRAFIC CARD - NVIDIA Geforce GTX 1060 6GB.

Is it real to achieve this all using only the last version of DAZ Studio?? Or am I just a pooor dreamer??