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  • Alessandro MastronardiAlessandro Mastronardi Posts: 2,659
    algovincian said:

    Has LAMH been updated so that the instancing issue in 4.8 is fixed? Thanks in advance for any info anybody can provide.

    - Greg

    Hi Greg, nothing has been done on my end to fix that yet.

  • Kendall SearsKendall Sears Posts: 2,995
    A fix is on the way. Please be patient a little bit more.
    Alessandro_AM said:
    algovincian said:

    Has LAMH been updated so that the instancing issue in 4.8 is fixed? Thanks in advance for any info anybody can provide.

    - Greg

    Hi Greg, nothing has been done on my end to fix that yet.

  • algovincianalgovincian Posts: 2,696
    Kendall Sears said:
    A fix is on the way. Please be patient a little bit more.
    Alessandro_AM said:

    Hi Greg, nothing has been done on my end to fix that yet.

    Thanks for the quick response guys.

    In the meantime, do you know of any way I can DL the installs for DS 4.6 or 4.7?

    I didn't keep local archives because I thought (wrongly, as it turns out) that my "Product Library" in my account was an archive of all the products I've purchased. The only version of DS that shows up in my "Product Library" is 4.8. Kind of strange to buy a product and then not have it available for download. And before anybody jumps down my throat and says I didn't pay for Studio, I would point out that I still bought it through the store. And I did pay $600+ for content (including LAMH) in the last year. Anyway, I digress - sorry for that . . .

    What version of DS will the update to LAMH require?

    - Greg

  • Kendall SearsKendall Sears Posts: 2,995
    For the older versions of DS contact DAZ Support. As for versions that LAMH will support, I can assure you that I have a lot less hair now than I did a little while back making sure that it works with as many versions as possible. Kendall
    algovincian said:
    Kendall Sears said:
    A fix is on the way. Please be patient a little bit more.
    Alessandro_AM said:

    Hi Greg, nothing has been done on my end to fix that yet.

    Thanks for the quick response guys.

    In the meantime, do you know of any way I can DL the installs for DS 4.6 or 4.7?

    I didn't keep local archives because I thought (wrongly, as it turns out) that my "Product Library" in my account was an archive of all the products I've purchased. The only version of DS that shows up in my "Product Library" is 4.8. Kind of strange to buy a product and then not have it available for download. And before anybody jumps down my throat and says I didn't pay for Studio, I would point out that I still bought it through the store. And I did pay $600+ for content (including LAMH) in the last year. Anyway, I digress - sorry for that . . .

    What version of DS will the update to LAMH require?

    - Greg

  • jakibluejakiblue Posts: 7,281

    Anyone know if someone has created a preset to use on the Noggins Rat (from here at DAZ) that can be used with the free player? 

     

  • Alessandro MastronardiAlessandro Mastronardi Posts: 2,659

    Anyone know if someone has created a preset to use on the Noggins Rat (from here at DAZ) that can be used with the free player? 

    jakiblue said:

     

    Mmmhhhh I'm afraid there is no preset for it around.

  • Oso3DOso3D Posts: 15,115

    Are we permitted to share presets on Deviantart and Sharecg and the like?

     

  • Alessandro MastronardiAlessandro Mastronardi Posts: 2,659
    timmins.william said:

    Are we permitted to share presets on Deviantart and Sharecg and the like?

     

    Sure thing!

  • RogerbeeRogerbee Posts: 4,460
    edited October 2015

    Thanks for the tutorial regarding Iray. I certainly feel more inclined to give LAMH a go now. For anyone wanting good shader presets for human hair once they export it to use in Iray, Mec4D's Unshaven 2 Iray MATS can be used on other hair with very good results. For animal hair, well, I think the YouTube video has shown the way there.

    CHEERS!

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  • KnittingmommyKnittingmommy Posts: 8,191

    I thought I would share what I did for the New User Contest for November.  The theme was materials and I decided I had to do a bear cub render with the black bear mats.  While I started out in 3Delight, I didn't like how it was rendering because my lighting in 3Delight isn't as good as in Iray which I've been much better at learning how to do effectively.  So, I tried rendering the bear cub in Iray.  AM's videos were extremely helpful.  Also, I saw the note Kendall had posted about using the fiberhair instead of exporting as an object so I used that method. 

    The first render is what I started out with, my test render right after exporting the fur and zapping it with the Iray Uber Shader and nothing else done yet.  The second render is what I managed to get in Iray after plaing with various aspects of the surface settings, lighting and scene setup.  I have to admit this bear cub kicked my rear end.  I learned a LOT so I'm happy with that, but I concentrated so much on getting the bear just right that I didn't have time to finish the scene itself.  The second render is what I uploaded it to the contest before I had to take off for as we were traveling Thanksgiving week.  My plan is to actually finish the render now that the contest is over and I can actually concentrate on all of the little nitpicky things I want to fix.  This render took about 20 hours to render on my setup.  The only postwork is what is listed in the file name.  Mostly contrast and adding the lens flare.  While I'm sure there is room for improvement, I was quite happy with my first attempt to do this cub.  Now that I have him all setup, I just have to save all of my settings as a preset and I should be good to go for future renders.

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  • Alessandro MastronardiAlessandro Mastronardi Posts: 2,659
    Knittingmommy said:

    I thought I would share what I did for the New User Contest for November.  The theme was materials and I decided I had to do a bear cub render with the black bear mats.  While I started out in 3Delight, I didn't like how it was rendering because my lighting in 3Delight isn't as good as in Iray which I've been much better at learning how to do effectively.  So, I tried rendering the bear cub in Iray.  AM's videos were extremely helpful.  Also, I saw the note Kendall had posted about using the fiberhair instead of exporting as an object so I used that method. 

    The first render is what I started out with, my test render right after exporting the fur and zapping it with the Iray Uber Shader and nothing else done yet.  The second render is what I managed to get in Iray after plaing with various aspects of the surface settings, lighting and scene setup.  I have to admit this bear cub kicked my rear end.  I learned a LOT so I'm happy with that, but I concentrated so much on getting the bear just right that I didn't have time to finish the scene itself.  The second render is what I uploaded it to the contest before I had to take off for as we were traveling Thanksgiving week.  My plan is to actually finish the render now that the contest is over and I can actually concentrate on all of the little nitpicky things I want to fix.  This render took about 20 hours to render on my setup.  The only postwork is what is listed in the file name.  Mostly contrast and adding the lens flare.  While I'm sure there is room for improvement, I was quite happy with my first attempt to do this cub.  Now that I have him all setup, I just have to save all of my settings as a preset and I should be good to go for future renders.

    Very nice results, you managed to remove those glossy sparks on the fur.

  • KnittingmommyKnittingmommy Posts: 8,191
    Alessandro_AM said:

    Very nice results, you managed to remove those glossy sparks on the fur.

    Yeah, that took me forever to figure out and, when I finally did, it was such a simple fix!!!  Once I figured that out though, everything else just sort of fell into place and was super easy after that.  He is a great little cub AM!!  I think I have most of your furries and now that I know what I'm doing, I will have to give them all a try in Iray. 

    Here is my render with your new wolf.  It could use some tweaking because I'm not super happy with the composition, but again I ran out of time for a contest.  The wolf, however, looks lovely and I followed your video tutorial almost step by step.  He was my test before I did the bear cub.  I will probably go back and fix the things I think need improvement with the render at some point in the future.  I definitely need a little more ambient lighting and something to highlight the wolf more.  The fog needs some work, too, as I am still learning about the Above the Fog product and my results in Iray haven't been the greatest yet.  However, I was really happy with that wolf.  While I liked the old wolf, this one is SO nice to work with.

  • IceDragonArtIceDragonArt Posts: 12,972

    I'm working on a winter wolf scene myself and am looking forward to getting to play with this in a bit more detail. And again, my thanks for your patience in helping me load this to laptop as well.

  • nicsttnicstt Posts: 11,715

    Any presets for Genesis 2 and 3 females hair (long, short, or whatever.)

  • DisparateDreamerDisparateDreamer Posts: 2,520
    edited December 2015
    jakiblue said:

    Anyone know if someone has created a preset to use on the Noggins Rat (from here at DAZ) that can be used with the free player? 

     

    sorry i didnt see this sooner- i haven't gotten any forum notifications form daz in MONTHS. I have a noggin's rat preset- made a few days ago as i finally got the rat. :) I'll get it to Alessandro's presets ASAP :) 

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  • algovincianalgovincian Posts: 2,696

     

    Alessandro_AM said:
    algovincian said:

    Anybody successful exporting instanced geometry? I must be doing something wrong . . .

    1. created a sphere and low-poly cone in a new scene

    2. selected the sphere and created a new LAMH object

    3. in the hair salon, selected & imported the sphere from studio

    4. added follicles

    5. grew guide hairs in styling

    6. exported hair as instanced geometry (selecting cone from available props)

    I've tried hair quantity of the default 10000, 1000, and 100. In all cases, I get a wait cursor & "Not Responding" for all 3 windows (the studio window, the hair salon window, and the export options window). I let it cook for 10+ minutes in each case but it remained hung each time until I had to give it the 3-finger salute.

    DAZ Studio 4.8 and LAMH 1.5.15 on Windows 7 Pro

    I'd love to be able to use this feature, and any experience anybody has with getting it to work (and how I'm being bone-headed) would be greatly appreciated!

    Thanks in advance.

    - Greg

    Hello Greg, instancing has changed in DS 4.8 and we are working on adapting the code so that the instance generation will work more efficiently with a large number of those. However it's odd that it kills the application with only 100.

    Alessandro - what previous version of DS should I install for successful exporting of instanced geometry?

    Thanks in advance.

    - Greg

  • Alessandro MastronardiAlessandro Mastronardi Posts: 2,659
    algovincian said:

     

    Alessandro_AM said:
    algovincian said:

    Anybody successful exporting instanced geometry? I must be doing something wrong . . .

    1. created a sphere and low-poly cone in a new scene

    2. selected the sphere and created a new LAMH object

    3. in the hair salon, selected & imported the sphere from studio

    4. added follicles

    5. grew guide hairs in styling

    6. exported hair as instanced geometry (selecting cone from available props)

    I've tried hair quantity of the default 10000, 1000, and 100. In all cases, I get a wait cursor & "Not Responding" for all 3 windows (the studio window, the hair salon window, and the export options window). I let it cook for 10+ minutes in each case but it remained hung each time until I had to give it the 3-finger salute.

    DAZ Studio 4.8 and LAMH 1.5.15 on Windows 7 Pro

    I'd love to be able to use this feature, and any experience anybody has with getting it to work (and how I'm being bone-headed) would be greatly appreciated!

    Thanks in advance.

    - Greg

    Hello Greg, instancing has changed in DS 4.8 and we are working on adapting the code so that the instance generation will work more efficiently with a large number of those. However it's odd that it kills the application with only 100.

    Alessandro - what previous version of DS should I install for successful exporting of instanced geometry?

    Thanks in advance.

    - Greg

    Hi Greg, IIRC correctly it's DS 4.7. After that release, things with instancing (code-wise) aren't working as they were. We hope to have a fix for the new LAMH update.

  • alexhcowleyalexhcowley Posts: 2,409

    Another of Alessandro's bear cubs, having a nap in the enchanted forest.

    Cheers,

    Alex.

     

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  • Jack238Jack238 Posts: 117
    alexhcowley said:

    Another of Alessandro's bear cubs, having a nap in the enchanted forest.

    Cheers,

    Alex.

     

    Hi, very nice. The bear cub probably just finished eating all the food at my bird feeder. Nice render great lighting

  • annamironova2007annamironova2007 Posts: 7
    edited December 2015

    sorry wrong topic, gona reask in player topic

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  • Alessandro MastronardiAlessandro Mastronardi Posts: 2,659
    annamironova2007 said:

    hello everybody

    could you please tell me

    is it possible to export figure with the fur (to 3dxchange)?

    rendrer is with fur

    but in 3dxchange its "bald".  What am i doing wrong?

     

    Hello Anna you need to export to .OBJ (in the LAMH pane there is a button for it), and then you can use that in any 3D application...

  • Kendall SearsKendall Sears Posts: 2,995
    annamironova2007 said:

    hello everybody

    could you please tell me

    is it possible to export figure with the fur (to 3dxchange)?

    rendrer is with fur

    but in 3dxchange its "bald".  What am i doing wrong?

    You must export the LAMH preset to OBJ or Fiberhair in order to take it outside of DAZStudio.

     

    Kendall

  • KA1KA1 Posts: 1,012
    Help!! I've probably made this worse on myself by buying full LAMH way back in June, then returning it and just using LAMH free player till now and today realising I made a mistake and purchased full LAMH again. It after it refused to let DIM even find it much less install I diligently followed the instructions and made sure free player was uninstalled before installing the full LAMH but now I seem to still only have free player opening up, any ideas what I'm doing wrong??
  • Alessandro MastronardiAlessandro Mastronardi Posts: 2,659
    KA1 said:
    Help!! I've probably made this worse on myself by buying full LAMH way back in June, then returning it and just using LAMH free player till now and today realising I made a mistake and purchased full LAMH again. It after it refused to let DIM even find it much less install I diligently followed the instructions and made sure free player was uninstalled before installing the full LAMH but now I seem to still only have free player opening up, any ideas what I'm doing wrong??

    Hello, it happens because you still have the free player installed. You need to remove it to unlock the full version. If the DIM doesn't make it, you need to go in your Program Files/DAZ 3D/DAZ Studio4/plugins folder and delete manually the lamhPlugin*.* files.

    After that, install LAMH full version and it will work...

  • KA1KA1 Posts: 1,012
    Thanks for getting back to me so quickly Alessandro - turns out I'd done everything right, just had to select an actual object before opening the editor to enable me to register my copy!! Apologies for me being a bit DIM!!
  • Alessandro MastronardiAlessandro Mastronardi Posts: 2,659
    KA1 said:
    Thanks for getting back to me so quickly Alessandro - turns out I'd done everything right, just had to select an actual object before opening the editor to enable me to register my copy!! Apologies for me being a bit DIM!!

    Very good, I'm happy it worked.

  • JOdelJOdel Posts: 6,322

    Well here's something rather interesting; Over on RDNA the RDNAPro team (Littlefox, RDNAPro & Traveler) have just released their first outfit featuring LAMH fur, and have a very nice pitch for downloading the free player to use it.

    It's called Snow Angel for G3F and should be on the top page of What's New. On sale until tomorrow.

  • SpottedKittySpottedKitty Posts: 7,232
    edited January 2016

    I think the little light went on... and yes, it is brighter than the one that comes on when you open the fridge door. After leaving several head-shaped dents in nearby walls, I think I finally "got" exporting a LaMH preset as fiberhair so I can use it in Iray.

    Incomplete test render (only let it run for 20-odd minutes) of a hairy wuff. Iray renderer, only base shader conversion, default environment light.

    I think I like it.  

     

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  • janmclarejanmclare Posts: 32

    Hi,

    Just bought this product in the 49% off sale. It was bought on an impluse and reading through some threads it seems like it does not work with IRAY.

    However I bought as people in threads were saying IRAY support is being worked on. However it seems like the link in the description to the beta page does

    not work and the product has not been updated for years (since 2014) according to the page on http://www.furrythings.com/.

    Whats going on with this product...?  wondering if I made a mistake buying it

  • algovincianalgovincian Posts: 2,696
    SpottedKitty said:

    I think the little light went on... and yes, it is brighter than the one that comes on when you open the fridge door. After leaving several head-shaped dents in nearby walls, I think I finally "got" exporting a LaMH preset as fiberhair so I can use it in Iray.

    Incomplete test render (only let it run for 20-odd minutes) of a hairy wuff. Iray renderer, only base shader conversion, default environment light.

    I think I like it.  

     

    That looks sweet, SpottedKitty!

    - Greg

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