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My mystery solved: the Reality Installer understandably directed the software to the Daz Folder...but the older 4.7 folder. I redirected to the 4.8 Public Build folder and re-installed...now look forward to climbing a steep learning curve.
So, on the upside, I had a relatively trouble free install -- don't ask me why.
That said, when I tried to render a human figure, I had the weirdest problem with lips. Reality 4.1 set them to glossy, as 4.0 did, and they went completely gray, as if it couldn't figure out what the texture was. The only way I was able to get them to render was to convert them from Glossy to Skin and sync them with the face -- luckily it was all one texture and not separate lips. There weren't any error messages, and Reality and Lux were both behaving as though they thought they were handling the lips correctly. Has anyone else run into that?
All the other lights load but when I try to load the top mesh light I get a message that the file doesn't exist.
If it doesn't exist when I click Icon where is it?
Is there an Official help thread some place?
Is the "light plane" the top mesh light. It loads, but even with intensity cranked I get no light in the Reality/lux render process. Black and a few fireflies. In Iray, it requires amping up the lumens, but I don't see a lumen control for this light plane.
hmm,,you're right,,I'm seeing that as well.
Very very annoying. I have 8 cameras and multiple lights in the scene and it's telling me I have none, to add one. Uh, OK, so I added a distance light, that took care of that complaint but there are literally 8 cameras in the scene and it's not "seeing" any of those? Weird!
I think this happens when things are de-synced between Reality and DAZ. Did you try restarting both? (Most likely you did)
The official one is over at runtime DNA ( http://forum.runtimedna.com/forumdisplay.php?322-The-Official-Reality-for-Daz-Studio-Forum ) I've not seen one here just yet.
I tried that light , and mine seems to working, Does it tell you what file is actually missing?
Check your options in Reality and make sure you have things selected and turned on or they will not be seen.
No it didn't but after 3rd download and reinstall it now loads. Go figure. Thank you icecrmn :)
you're welcome :)
So I bought reality last nite...I'm not using it yet...but I looked in my account under seral numbers and there's one for reality in there....
I thought I was supposed to go to the pretapet web site to get one of those...? Can someone explain?
So the Reality Render panel says that OpenCL is instlaled and registers the cpu and two graphics cards on my mac, but Lux shuts down when I try to render using Open CL. There is a note that Open CL is not supported on Mac OS...will this change with the OS 10.11 to be released on Sept 30? Are my two nvidia graphics cards irrelevant until then as far as render/lux goes?
They're mostly irrelevant since LuxRender and OpenCL don't play well at all. :( You're better off with more CPU cores and threads.
Thanks. Paolo's video on the new features, however, sure makes is sound like OpenCL is great with Lux.
opencl seems to be working fine for me, but I'm on a windows machine with an AMD CPU and GPU, I have an R9-270x.I posted a screen shot earlier of a render I was getting 1.5 million samples per second with.Thats not really all that bad,,I don't think so anyway.
From what I've seen so far, the better your light setup, the faster it gets.Here's one of the scene I'm doing now,,it's a simple one,,I'v not worked on anything more complexe yet,,I'm saving that for the weekend.
The open cl problem is just with Mac's. The OS doesn't support it or something. Hoping that will chane with the upcoming OS.
Oh, weird. I have an nVidia card and I get no shortage of grief with Reality and OpenCL :/
Weird thing is that it's not consistent. One figure, no lips. Next image, no problem with lips. Difference between the renders, as far as I can tell (well, apart from one being G3F and the other G2M, but Reality can tell what's going on there) is that the G2M figure had no specular maps in his lips because the texture had been "flattened" by Wet and Tanned Skins. (Reality can't tell what that's supposed to be doing, by the by. Also, Iray water shaders have a tendency to get converted to Reality/Lux water shaders -- which is good -- and then render black -- which isn't.)
Also, I've got a render working that has both an HDR and a single spotlight, and the light in the render keeps flaring. Hugely bright along one side -- where the spotlght is, and the light from the HDR is not -- and then it'll settle, and then it flares again. I think it's going to be OK, but it's really weird to watch.
I didnt have problems with installing, but boost, openCL and accelerated gives me a black scene even after 5 minutes. CPU no acceleration works fine. I dont like the G3 material convertion from iray to lux, she's shiny as a car but that can be fixed. So far I dont see the speed increase either. The multiple material editing is back which is nice. Sadly no UV map viewer so I had to keep R2.5 yet again.
Looks like there may be one other change. I'd been rendering an image for a couple of hours on CPU accelerated, and it had approached 1000 S/p. I tweaked a light setting, and suddenly it was back to 30 S/p. Apparently, just like Iray now, if you change one of the Imaging parameters, it effectively starts the render over, even though it doesn't look like it. And then I tweaked it again, and it dropped to 0.15 S/p. Lux didn't always do that, did it? I'm pretty sure I'd have noticed a several hours' render suddenly needing to start itself over again.
Weird thing is, the image itself doesn't look like it's starting over, which Iray does.
If you bought it here at DAZ 3D, the serial number will be in My Account > Serial Numbers.
Thanks Jimmy!
Hi all,
I've read the whole thread through and still can't find an answer: how much faster is Reality to Iray if you compare the CPU-only modes?
My personal configuration is: an Intel Core i3-4130 CPU 3.40GHz, 8GB of RAM and an onboard AMD CrossFireX graphics card (from the GIGABYTE GA-Z97P-D3 motherboard). Since I have an AMD graphics card I can't use GPU mode for Iray, and always render in CPU mode. On the average my renders with standard settings (5000 samples) take 2-3 hours. A decent GPU card costs 150 euros, the Reality plugin at the moment is 17.98 with my Rev-Up discount.
So, my two questions:
1.How much faster is Reality CPU-mode vs Iray CPU-mode? (The only mention I've seen in numbers is that it's around 50 minutes for Intel i7, which is not very promising.)
2.Would I be able to use my small-bad-onboard GPU with Reality? Or would it be a total disaster, since it's too small/bad/onboard?
I saw a speed increase myself. I haven't rendered anything much than the test comparison I posted here. There was a high increase in speed, I am talking about minutes as compared to hours, but can't give you the exact times. Don't look at the SPs, they are different from previous LuxRenders. Look at how fast the image is starting to clear.
Someone else will have to answer this one. Although I have my doubts about this one.
My processor has only up to SSE4A and I am seeing an increase in speed. Whereas bobvan's processor has SSE4.1, SSE4.2, and AVX. He has everything going for him, he should be doing better than me speedwise.
there wont be an "official" on here, there can be an "unofficial" one here but Paolo has stated on many occasions that it's not possible for him to be on several forums at once.
For functionality or tech support where you want him or the other devs to chime in you should go to runtimedna for now.
Here's that test render I was running last night.
on average it was getting 1k samples per hour in opencl mode with CPU+GPU, I stopped it at 7.63k this morning when I got up.
I think it turned out rather well, besides the lips,,,I'll have to work on that later..
Okay, a couple of issues that I have run into. One I found a resolution to, the other is just annoying.
1. Keeps prompting me to register the software. I've registered it four times now. There doesn't seem to be a pattern, rhyme, or reason to when the registration becomes invalid. Just suddenly is.
2. Open CL rendering. Extremely fast, but I needed to do a bit of trouble shooting to get it to work.
Out of the box it was throwing an error every time I tried to use it:
RUNTIME ERROR: OpenCL device selection string has the wrong length, must be 3 instead of 2
I tracked this error down to the following line in the .LXS LuxRender Scene File:
"opencl.devices.select = 01"
I am running on a laptop, with two video cards, so your mileage may vary. My specific configuration is an oboard video card plus a GeForce GTX 980M.
If I change the above line to:
"opencl.devices.select = 001"
Then everything works. It appears that the first digit is my CPU (0 for off, 1 for on), the second digit is the onboard GPU, the third digit is the GeForce GPU.
If I turn on any combination of the above, LuxRender throws an error or renders a blank, black scene. With just the GPU on, the render flies at 1-3 Mbyte samples per second.