I've gone through many youtube videos and topic on render speeds.

I did some test last sunday, the whole day and see where/how i can speed up my renders but still get HD quality. Anything between 1920x1080/4000x2950 for instance. I had a coffee mug on a table and viewed close and far with different resolutions settings and Render Quality settings from 2.5 to 3.0. The Render times varied but were pretty low. From 2min to 55s etc..

Then i had a model sit on a chair and repeated same thing. This type render's longest time took 15min and the quality was high and what i wanted.

What else can one do to speed things up. I have several scenarios inside a kithcen/bathroom/living room with good to adeqaute lighting but these all take over 4hrs and more.

Would it help playing with optimising or shadows etc...?

What have you guys found that speed up render times but gave you very good quality. I am mainly looking for a view of a room type of rendering, not close ups as these i have managed to render pretty quickly.

Daz's log doesn't give me anything useful.

Computer is (at the moment) not overclocked, as I thought that could have been an issue, and running fully updated drivers on Win10 with 16Gb Ram.

Rendering on the graphics-card (Gainward Nvidia 1070) does not crash the computer rendering the same scene.

Any tips to what this could be, or is it simply that the Ryzen is "too new" so that Daz Studio isn't properly compatible yet?

"2018-01-14 18:01:55.934 WARNING: /src/pluginsource/DzIrayRender/dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray ERROR - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend error: CUDA device 0: cannot get memory statistics (unknown error)
2018-01-14 18:01:55.934 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : iray photoreal CPU fallback is enabled."

"2018-01-14 18:03:43.090 WARNING: /src/pluginsource/DzIrayRender/dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray WARNING - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend warn : The 'progressive_rendering_filtering' scene option is no longer supported."

UPDATE: The last render I tried to run also had this:

"2018-01-14 20:45:25.140 WARNING: /src/pluginsource/DzIrayRender/dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray ERROR - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend error: CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti): device cannot be used as it does not support mapped memory (canMapHostMemory)"

An interesting issue I just ran into: When I open a new scene file and click on Keymate, I see a list of all my objects populated in Keymate. However, when I click from TR to TRSV in keymate, half my objects disappear from the keymate list (including all my cameras and lights). If I try to click back to TR, nothing happens; the objects are still missing.

Any ideas what the issue may be here?

Interestingly, if I just move the head (or the target) just a bit, the eyes aim back to their intended target.

This is a big problem when using batch rendering.

Thanks so much!  :)

is there a technique that avoids this?

my workflow now is to unparent geografts, then export to obj, edit in Hexagon, save obj then import with morph loader pro. Finally, fit geografts back onto genesis. 

Problem is, this way I always lose my geografts morphs and have to do those again. Tedious...

there must be a better way, right?

Sadly, I still find out that for unexplained reasons, using the displacement brush on an imported OBJ or "send to hexagon"-bridged G3 or G8 causes an application freeze.

i used to have this issue for years but assumed this is just Hexagon being old and unsupported. When I read that Daz had worked on it to stabilize it and probably fix some 64-bit addressing stuff, this bug would go away. 

Alas, no such luck.

is this a known issue? What can I do to resolve? If blender wasn't such a steep learning curve... sigh.

When I fiddle in Iray shaders, I'm a bit stuck, though. Here is what I'm trying to do:

I'll hand paint the makeup in a dedicated layer in photoshop, then export a 16-bit (256 levels of transparency) PNG file as a tint mask for various kinds of makeup, so I can easily use it on various character textures. I'm not exporting the base diffuse texture, just the makeup, or maybe a few custom liver spots or freckles... that type of thing.

surely, there ought to be a way to load this as a separate diffuse of some kind, hopefully with some operators like transparency level or tint color, right?

in Octane, you can just hook a diffuse mix into the base and get creative. Iray inside DAZ is more limited, I know, but there surely is a way without resorting to LIE, yes?

Thanks.

I would like to ask if there's a built-in way to display the current vertex count (I think it depends on the Resolution Level and the LOD of a model?) in DAZ Studio without going to any other software.

Thank you!

I've created a D-Former on Genesis 2 Female which seemingly worked fine.

First I dialed in a morph on the head.

Then I created a new D-Former on Genesis 2 Female.

I've scaled the field so that it occupies the head, and I dragged the base into the head.

I've tested the D-Former by selecting Genesis 2 Female->D-Former_1_Base->D-Former-1, then going to Parameters->Transforms->Scale and dialing it up. The head became bigger, so it worked fine.

Now I want to spawn the D-Former.

Therefore I go to Windows->Tabs->D-Former.

I click "Genesis 2 Female" in the scene view.

I check the options "Create Root Control Parameter", "Delete Applied D-Former(s)" and "Apply Spawned Morph".

Then I click "Spawn Morph...".

DAZ tells me "The D-Former "D-Former_1" still affects some nodes. Do you want to delete it anyway?".

I select "Yes".

The D-Former is now gone, and I try to locate in in the Parameters tab. But it's nowhere to be found.

What am I doing wrong?

Thank you!

The pants work fine and I put them through a barrage of pose tests. They are not finished but seem to working well with respect to posing. However, the top has under breast mesh aberrations when I bend the lower chest forward or side to side. I used the weight mapping smoothing brush to smooth the weight mapping transitions and this helped a lot, but it still looks a little odd when bending G8F's lower chest. 

I created a simplifed to test top garment to remove random folds from draping and simply the mesh so the problem is obvious. (There are no hemmed edges as it is just a test. top)  See attached.

I know vendors must deal with the all the time. Can someone who shed some light on the process to deal with this?   I have seen products in the store that were created in Marvelous Designer, so I know it can work. 

1. Is there something I need to do to the mesh prior to rigging? 

2. Does it have to do with Thin or Thick option in the Marvelous Designer Export options? 

3. Do I have to retopo in external product like Blender or ZBrush?  (I am already using quads)

4. Is there a better rigging template than the default Transfer Utility Template?  (I will buy a merhcant resource if it is avaiable, including a thrid part rigging transfer tool if there is one that works better).

5.  Would creating a JCM tied to the G8F lower chest help, or would the problem still occur in the JCM morph mesh?

Sorry for all the questions.  I have spent hours reading and testing and not getting the results I am after. I need some help from people who do this routinely.

thanks

So, now, I've actually gotten into trying this out pretty deep... Watching lots of tutorials, getting my library (kinda?) sorted, and trying to mess with iRay, lighting and composition.

Now that I am in process of rendering my image, I wonder... Would this program benefit from being installed on an M2 drive?  Something like this:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LXS4TYB/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Now, I don't pretend to know much about this, I can only fathom so far that they write incredibly fast (supposedly).  Have any of you tried this?  Does Daz Studio benefit from the speeds of these drives?

Naturally, I'd still try and have my content library on a seperate drive.  I just don't know how this would affect the speed of the program in general if mounted on a drive like this. 

Any of you tech types have any experience or input into this?  Or is speed of rendering primarily a function of GPU (and cpu) and drive type really isn't an issue?

Have fun rendering!

Everything was fine yesterday.

Hola, ¿cómo podría pasar toda mi biblioteca del disco c a otro disco? Gracias

I set up an indoor scene and used the HDRI image for a background view out of the window.  I now need to change that the background, but I can't figure out how to get rid of the image.  I've gone so far as to delete every visible item in the scene and the HDRI image still shows up when I render.  I've tried checking in the environment settings, but I haven't been successful in fiuguring out wher and how the HDRI image loads into the scene.

I really like the lights and the way the background works,  I just need to get rid of it for now.

Any hints?  

Jack Tomalin

Getting this error.

Some assets needed to load the file were missing. The Content may not.....

data/jack tomalin/classic deco eclectic 2/cdec2_room/cdec2_room_7196.dsf

What's the deal Jack?

I own everything that's required......

Maybe the solution is very simple, but I don't know Daz Studio very well and I've been working with it a little time. I will appreciate any help. 

I'm one-month-new to DAZ Studio, using 4.5, and I don't know what I did / may have done / didn't do to cause this situation, but it didn't always used to happen.

When I apply morphs to a figure, or change the pose, the figure distorts radically during the process, and reverts to normal, morphs and pose changes included, after I release the slider.

Aside from making measured adjustments problematic, because I can't see how much change is applied until after the fact, it makes animation unusable, in that the distorted transitions are animated as well.

As an example, if I reposition a shin in any direction, the shin shrinks up like a stick while I'm moving it, then reverts immediately to its normal shape as soon as I'm done moving it. Very weird, very annoying.

Has any of the community seen / dealt with this?