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Ok cheers
My first thought was to tell you that maybe Lux doesn't work with 8 bit .tif files, because I am using .tif files in a current render and I get no such error messages, but my .tifs are 16 bit. Did you try converting the .tif to .jpg or .bmp? Maybe that would help get rid of the error and might solve the gray issue, too. Just a suggestion, I really don't have any idea.
I was having the same prob;em with some tiffs that luxus could not seem to create properly and I got a copy of a trial Luxus which sorted it out. I don't know whether the latest update includes that or not.
I was also having this problem. I'm assuming your using the collect the textures option. If so once the render starts up in Lux, save and exit. Then re-save the problem .TIFs Luxus has created in something like PhotoShop or PaintShopPro. That should fix the issue. You can restart in Lux now but if you restart in DS again Luxus will overright your fixed up files again when you transfer to Lux and you'll be back at square one.
I have a question. For LuxRender, which do I download?
I am assuming you want to use the material pictured? Or are you still in the stage where you are trying to get Luxus and LuxRender installed and running? I noticed that you just got into this game this morning, so I wasn't sure if you managed to get everything installed.
If you are just talking about getting the orange juice material to work in DS, none of those options you circled will work directly as downloaded. They are files created for the Blender version of Lux.
So, to answer your question, download the first one (LXM). Once you have it on your machine, open the material in a text editor like Notepad (on Windows). Copy all of the text and go to Daz Studio. Go to the material in Surfaces Tab that you want to apply the material to and paste the text into the "Extra Settings" box, which should be at the type of the material settings on right-hand side. Now it should render in LuxRender.
I am assuming you want to use the material pictured? Or are you still in the stage where you are trying to get Luxus and LuxRender installed and running? I noticed that you just got into this game this morning, so I wasn't sure if you managed to get everything installed.
If you are just talking about getting the orange juice material to work in DS, none of those options you circled will work directly as downloaded. They are files created for the Blender version of Lux.
So, to answer your question, download the first one (LXM). Once you have it on your machine, open the material in a text editor like Notepad (on Windows). Copy all of the text and go to Daz Studio. Go to the material in Surfaces Tab that you want to apply the material to and paste the text into the "Extra Settings" box, which should be at the type of the material settings on right-hand side. Now it should render in LuxRender.
OK. Once you said: "open the material in a text editor like Notepad (on Windows)", You just lost me! Sorry, I am such a problem. First I got the LuxRender and Luxus. Have to put them on computer. I know I can make a folder for LuxRender and put it where I want it. Does Luxus go in Daz 4 content? The Lux I downloaded was for Daz. These were materials for LuxRender. This page. http://www.luxrender.net/en_GB/lrmdb2 Does this help understand what I am talking about?
OK. Once you said: "open the material in a text editor like Notepad (on Windows)", You just lost me! Sorry, I am such a problem. First I got the LuxRender and Luxus. Have to put them on computer. I know I can make a folder for LuxRender and put it where I want it. Does Luxus go in Daz 4 content? The Lux I downloaded was for Daz. These were materials for LuxRender. This page. http://www.luxrender.net/en_GB/lrmdb2 Does this help understand what I am talking about?
I understand what you are asking. I did the same thing you did, I went to the LuxRender site looking for materials to download before I even got Luxus and LuxRender installed. What you will find, once you get the products installed, is that there are a few included materials in DAZ Studio that work with the LuxRenderer. Plus, you can create your own by modifying what is there. As for the ones listed in the link you provided, they won't work in DAZ Studio exactly as you download them from that page. You will have to paste the code for those materials into the Surfaces Panel of DAZ Studio.
Once you get Luxus and LuxRender installed on your system, let me know. It will be easier to explain this once you can see what I am talking about in the Surfaces Tab. LuxRender (the one you downloaded from the website) will install to its own location. Don't install it to your Studio folder.
OK. Slosh, I will get back to you as soon as I put these on computer. Thanks for the help. Should I pm you or com back to this forum?
OK. Once you said: "open the material in a text editor like Notepad (on Windows)", You just lost me! Sorry, I am such a problem. First I got the LuxRender and Luxus. Have to put them on computer. I know I can make a folder for LuxRender and put it where I want it. Does Luxus go in Daz 4 content? The Lux I downloaded was for Daz. These were materials for LuxRender. This page. http://www.luxrender.net/en_GB/lrmdb2 Does this help understand what I am talking about?
You want this page for the Luxrender download. Get the latest version appropriate for your system.
You want this page for the Luxrender download. Get the latest version appropriate for your system.
That's where I got it. Thanks!
Ok I took the render off Hybrid and no issues with the render stopping. I will ask over on the Lux forums about the GPU issue tomorrow if I get a chance
Now the dreaded Transmap issue has cropped up.
I am using one of Ken Gilliland's birds, one of his new ones that haven't been released yet and it is full of transmaps but only one is causing the issue. I have turned the transmap in to a Greyscale image to see if that fixed it,,,nope, I made sure the black was 100% black and same with the white and still no joy. It renders perfectly in 3DL. I have tried using different render settings and Path seems to work better but still a far cry from what it should be. I even removed all the maps from this one surface and set the opacity to 0% in both Daz Studio and Lux surface settings and it still renders black. How can something render even with Opacity at 0% and with no maps. I just can't get my head around this one.
I think I know why it is happening from the way the surface is made. It looks like a series of planes grouped together as the Daz Studio surface selector shows the surface as a dome that covers the top of the head.
Szark,
Is there a volume associated with the material?
I was using "collect the the textures", and that did, indeed, get rid of the error message. Apparently, there are some files that Luxus isn't having Lux create properly, or some such. Unfortunately, I don't know enough to know whether or not it's an improper instruction that Luxus is passing to Lux, or just some weird glitch that Luxrender itself has with certain types of files. I'll need to try converting his textures with Luxus again to see if that gets rid of the glass-mask look as well.
Thanks for the assistance!
It may be that the number of insersections is higher than the default settings can cope with - this, or something similar, came up earlier in the thread with some hair at the edges. Bidirectional renderer defaults to 8 for eye and light intersections, path to 16 which may be why path is giving closer to what you'd expect. I cant remember the exact names of the render settings but they're fairly obvious when you go looking. Try increasing the numbers (eye and light for bidirectional, just eye I think for path) and see if the artifacts decrease.
Are you kidding me right now? Read post #1325. Of course I will share. Hopefully you don't mind waiting until tomorrow. Fiddling with those settings kept me up all night last night, then I worked a full day today and the new beta release has me still awake. Shutting down now because my aging body can't take 41 hours without sleep.
BUT, if I share, you have to share, too. I want the settings for python guy. :-P
waiting to see this share :) :)
Pete, try doubling the opacity. You will have to disable the limits in the parameter setting, but this has worked for me on a number of things, including eyelashes and hair. It's worth a shot, right?
Are you kidding me right now? Read post #1325. Of course I will share. Hopefully you don't mind waiting until tomorrow. Fiddling with those settings kept me up all night last night, then I worked a full day today and the new beta release has me still awake. Shutting down now because my aging body can't take 41 hours without sleep.
BUT, if I share, you have to share, too. I want the settings for python guy. :-P
waiting to see this share :) :)
In progress... and I've been working on hair and eyes (which I know you expressed an interest earlier in this thread.) I really, really like the eyes I came up with, but have to let it render. I am working on writing up a tutorial to post on dA. Now, if I can just learn how to write a PDF or a tutorial in dA's format with links and such.
I am using Hybrid, have ATI Radeon HD 4650 graphic card and no problem with rendering in Lux in that mode.
As stated on the "LuxRender Render settings" web page
http://www.luxrender.net/wiki/LuxRender_Render_settings
... Hybrid sampler is a modified form of "sampler" that supports GPU-acceleration via OpenCL and the LuxRays Library.
Hybrid sampler will use your computer's graphics card to handle calculating the ray's actual flight through the scene,
freeing your CPU to handle things such as the filter and sampler.
The available surface integrators, bidirectional and path, have the same settings as it counterpart in the regular
"sampler" renderer, with the exception of light strategies. Path supports the "all", "auto", and "one" strategies.
Bidirectional only accepts "one". For hybrid bidirectional, you must explicitly declare your light strategy as "one".
If you can't find this control in your exporter, try enabling advanced parameters.
Hybrid path accepts the parser-default "auto", so explictly declaring a light strategy is not necessary for it...
I am using Hybrid, have ATI Radeon HD 4650 graphic card and no problem with rendering in Lux in that mode.
As stated on the "LuxRender Render settings" web page
http://www.luxrender.net/wiki/LuxRender_Render_settings
... Hybrid sampler is a modified form of "sampler" that supports GPU-acceleration via OpenCL and the LuxRays Library.
Hybrid sampler will use your computer's graphics card to handle calculating the ray's actual flight through the scene,
freeing your CPU to handle things such as the filter and sampler.
The available surface integrators, bidirectional and path, have the same settings as it counterpart in the regular
"sampler" renderer, with the exception of light strategies. Path supports the "all", "auto", and "one" strategies.
Bidirectional only accepts "one". For hybrid bidirectional, you must explicitly declare your light strategy as "one".
If you can't find this control in your exporter, try enabling advanced parameters.
Hybrid path accepts the parser-default "auto", so explictly declaring a light strategy is not necessary for it...
Yes I know thank you. I always use Path with Hybrid...thoght this doesn't explain my problem, but I thank you anyway.
czexana and Slosh thank you I will go and try those suggestions now.
And the winner is czexana. Increasing the Surface Integrator Path - Maxdepth to 32 works perfectly. Yipeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Thank you everyone you chipped in, very much appreciated.
:-)
I'm glad it worked.
I think the first time I saw this type of problem was in DKBTrace or PolyRAY, twenty-ish years ago? Some things never change ...
:coolsmile:
20ish years ago man I have only been around this stuff for 4 years. Yep still green and wet behind the ears.
Time isn't everything. I've always been reasonably proficient on the technical side of things, but looking through your render thread you were a better artist in this medium from the start than I'll ever be. :vampire: :-)
:coolsmile:
I'm going to have to try this myself, for eyelashes and hair.
Here is another skin test and a closeup on the eyes. I'm not sure how much I like it, now that it's done cooking. Should have gone with a deeper color for absorption and maybe a higher volume. I didn't want him to have the same waxy look that my Freak pic had, but I may have gone a little too subtle.
Time isn't everything. I've always been reasonably proficient on the technical side of things, but looking through your render thread you were a better artist in this medium from the start than I'll ever be. :vampire: :-)
:coolsmile:Aew shuck, thank you czexana. :)
Slosh to be honest I just went for 32 as it seemed like a good idea at the time. I haven't tried a lower setting than 32 but more than the default 16.
Hmm, I posted those David picks this morning without a good look, then ran out the door to work. Now that I have a chance to look closer, he appears to be wearing contact lenses (I think I know where this went wrong) and in both pics, he seems to have cotton in his right ear.
Just thought I'd mention that Luxus did a fantastic job converting many of the materials used on the Enterprise-D model I imported. The only alterations I made personally was to change the windows and sections of the nacelles and into lights.
It is a good start though Slosh.
HOF very nice. I said more on DA. :)