So I wondered whether there was a way I could render the street scene and the people separately (using canvases) and then composite them in Gimp. I've looked for tutorials but they all describe LPE and rendering lights separately which is wonderful but not what I'm looking for. Does anyone know of a tutorial somewhere that I could follow? I'm guessing that shadows might be a problem, among other considerations.

1) Is there a way to transfer poses from M4 or the Genesis figures to Apollo? Poses are kind of limited for Apollo and I have some giant pose libraries that would help.

2) Is there a way to transfer clothes from M4 or Genesis to Apollo? Clothing's kind of limited for Apollo, etc., etc., etc.

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!

as an animator i love to make quick renders with opengl

is it possible to have a version with shadow casting enabled ?

would enhance it so much

http://www.daz3d.com/mountain-valley 

I understand the basics of SLI, but since most of the info out there focuses on gaming (which does not apply to me at all -- I don't play video games on my computer), I've got a few specic questions that relate to Iray.

1. Can one card be set up to run my dual monitors and the other dedicated entirely to Iray processing?
2. I don't want to dump the 960 card, but will two of them provide the better performance than a 970? (I think the 980s are out of my price range).
3. Is anyone else using a similar configuration? Does the second card provide a significant boost to rendering speed?

I tried using three point photometric light setups and just could not find a way to handle the harsh, obvious shadows without way too much time consuming fiddling.  I switched to mesh lights.  I generally use just a single 1 meter emissive sphere.  Produces a really nice render and lets me get setups done in minutes.  I still have one problem.

I can't seem to get a handle on how good is good enough when using mesh lights.  I find the convergence percentage a good indicator of quality for sun sky lit renders, but interior mesh light renders never get above 1% to 5% convergence.  The renders LOOK fine to me but I keep waiting for that convergence percentage to come up to something reasonable.  It just never budges, no matter how good the render looks to my eye.

Can anyone suggest a render setting tweak that will give me a more useful measure of render quality for these interior mesh lit scenes?

It seems to have lost its intro discount.

--  Morgan

Thanks in advance

Can anybody identify this outfit from the Varna for Rune 7 promo? It may not be a Daz item.

I'm creating extensive 2D artwork of a futuristic city and its inhabitants for a senior project my daughter must complete over the summer (a 2D educational game). Because I want the environment stylized - not quite toony, but not so much CGI/3D-looking and more hand-drawn/toon-ish if that makes sense, I plan to use a combo of Visual Style Shaders, Subsurface Toon Shaders, Toon Style Hair Shaders, Subsurface Gummy & Plastic Shaders, pwToon, ToonyCam, etc. (And any other helpful shaders I can find!)

I have very carefully been buying new items that have 3Delight materials and not buying anything that was Iray only.

However, "Lecture Hall with Props" by Tesla3dCorp fits right into the whole future city theme somehow with the ampitheatre design and I adore how it looks --- but it's Iray only. While I have the computer power for Iray and might go there someday, for this project it's unusable, as I wouldn't be able to apply all my "toon" render options.

But I REALLY like the Lecture Hall and wonder if converting the materials to 3Delight equivalents is a reasonable alternative and process.

I'm a bit of a newbie with Daz, although I have collected models for years, with a huge investment in Genesis and Genesis 2. Sadly, life interfered and I'm just now starting to use all these cool things. (I was feeling a bit like an OCD collector "just in case" some day I'd have the time, health, and energy to trying working with Daz again.) So pardon if this is a REALLY newbie question and the answer should be obvious...

Any and all help and advice is GREATLY appreciated!!!

Anyone done any other renders, really like the look of this character. Sadly no gens and no-eyebrow option, so thinking quite expensive. (But at least a makeup free face.)

I remeber seeing several in the past, at least one of them being a morph, but I can't find any of them. 

Maybe Common Carnelian mineral Iray shaders?

I wonder what other song titles can be riffed into product names.

DM could build a Stairway to Haven...

Don't mind me, folks. My meds just kicked in. Pretty colors, though.

So I'm having another struggle, again, with point lights.  I had a couple point lights in my scene and they were working, along with some spot lights and the ambient light.  I made a change to the skydome, and BOOM, point lights don't work any more.  No matter what I do, even deleting the ones I had and putting in new ones, they just don't work.  Now I know from some reading in the past that point lights are difficult buggers, but how on earth do you get all these lights to play together?  It's always point lights that kill me.  Is there some kind of trick to get them to show up without killing every other light in the scene, and vica versa?  They are such a handy idea, but wow are they tough to get to work.

I've got AoA Advanced Ambient, AoA Advanced Distant, a couple standard spotlights and a couple standard point lights.  Everything is working but the point lights.

does the separate genesis installer have the duf file?  or is it just the shaders?

thanks.

Any advice on which fiber mesh or hair  products might work for leg hair for G3M? If it is fiber mesh, would like it to autofit...

Thanks.

The List:

These are at Hivewire:

BNB Cobra Lily

Creepy Kid 2

Stryke Angel for Star

poses for Mortem Vetus's Ragnarok

Gnobbit

Zaarin's ethnic morphs for V4/M4

Boy Bot

A fairy place

Elephant throne

CynDrone (formerly Cynagtala Drone)

Hiddenscape

Karth: Cookie Sneakers

Wraptop

SisSweater

Overkneezz

More Overkneezz

Shoteka character and outfit

Yurdigital:

Madness Took Me poses

Business Casual for Cookie and Chip

fantasiesrealm:

NGartplay Big Bow Hair

Renderosity

K4 Winny

K4 Wynther Winny

SugarDolly

Kiki Little Wood Witch

Kiki Little Wood Witch expansion

K4 Clowny

K4 Sweet Little Clown

K4 Abena

K4 Trachten Gaudi

Misaki

K4 Winny

K4 Wynther Winny

Sam Sadie Best Friends

BabyElf

BabyElf Expansion

Kiki Summer Breeze

Kiki ElvenGirl Dress

Kiki ElvenGirl DressExpansion

BabyElf

BabyElf Expansion

K4 Spring Flower Dress

Lil Bit Lilly

Fairy Nature (texture expansion for http://www.daz3d.com/kiki-nature )

Kiki Jumper

Kiki Jumper Elves

I've just spent my whole evening working on a model, only to find that I can't import it into Daz Studio :(

So, now (or tomorrow), I'm going to try and recreate it using the Primitives in Daz3D (which I didn't know was possible).

However, I have no idea what number to input to get a perfect, smooth (round) cylinder, or if it's possible to get a perfect cylinder in Daz.

I'm a tad burned out, so I'm sorry if that made very little or no sense...

Thanks for any help. :)

I'll pass thanks