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Ancient Temple Courtyard - no Iray materials?

SpottedKittySpottedKitty Posts: 7,232
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Anyone else having problems with the new Ancient Temple Courtyard? The complete scene seems to load with the 3Delight materials set, but when I try to apply the Iray materials, nothing changes. Opening the preset in a text editor reveals the materials are all 3Delight, I haven't found any Iray settings yet. A bit odd, considering the store page explicitly says "Iray only".

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  • Oso3DOso3D Posts: 15,095

    Apparently products can be billed as 'Iray' so long as the results render properly, even if they use 3DL shaders.

     

  • TykeyStudiosTykeyStudios Posts: 876
    I have the product, but can't install yet due to a render in place. But the store page does say Iray material presets included. I have a similar issue with Arki's Calla gown. There are no Iray materials included even though there are icons for them. I need to reinstall or contact CS as it seems to be an error. And on a side note, I really love bitwelder's products. The sets are just amazing and beautiful.
  • nDelphinDelphi Posts: 1,933
    edited February 2017

    It comes with Iray materials. The list of files is here:

    http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/read_me/index/37091/file_list

    /Environments/Ancient Temple Courtyard/Iray Materials/Ancient Temple Courtyard - Hierarchical Material Preset.duf

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  • NovicaNovica Posts: 23,925

    I rendered it over in my Art Studio thread. It's a nice set. There's several renders, here's the first one then scroll down.

  • SpottedKittySpottedKitty Posts: 7,232
    nDelphi said:

    It comes with Iray materials. The list of files is here:

    http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/read_me/index/37091/file_list

    /Environments/Ancient Temple Courtyard/Iray Materials/Ancient Temple Courtyard - Hierarchical Material Preset.duf

    Yes, I know it's labelled "iray materials", but what it actually contains is 3Delight materials... mostly. I did a more complete check last night, and I discovered there are exactly four Iray materials in the whole scene; the flame for the large brazier, the small brazier and its flame, and the floor. I'm especially puzzled by the custom 3Delight material used for the water; I thought we'd been told setups like this just didn't auto-convert to Iray very well.

    Incidentally, is there any way to apply the Environment Presets without having my render size/aspect ratio also changed?

    I'm not complaining, it's a great environment; I'm just confused.

  • Oso3DOso3D Posts: 15,095

    I had the same issue with another set, same thing -- only the emission stuff was Iray, everything else was 3DL.

    I was told 'that's fine.'

     

    I don't think it's fine, but hey, that's me.

     

  • HavosHavos Posts: 5,614
    timmins.william said:

    I had the same issue with another set, same thing -- only the emission stuff was Iray, everything else was 3DL.

    I was told 'that's fine.'

     

    I don't think it's fine, but hey, that's me.

     

    I got a set from another store that claimed to have IRay shaders, there was even a separate folder called IRay containing duf files to apply all of those shaders. However everyone used the DAZ default shader, so there was nothing remotely IRay about any of them. Fortunately there was only a few surfaces that really needed dedicated IRay shaders, like metal and glass, so it was quite easy to make the set IRay optimised. All the same, I still thought it was a bit cheeky claiming the set had IRay shaders on the product page.

  • NovicaNovica Posts: 23,925

    Hmmm. I didn't tweak the water at all, it's out of the box, and no problem.

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