Show Us Your Iray Renders. Part V
This discussion has been closed.
Daz 3D is part of 
Connect
DAZ Productions, Inc.
7533 S Center View Ct #4664
West Jordan, UT 84084
Licensing Agreement | Terms of Service | Privacy Policy | EULA
© 2026 Daz Productions Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Comments
Hello all,
This is the first time I am using Iray. Coming from Poser and now trying to find my way in Studio. The morph and skin textures all mine. I tried some suggested settings for Iray. I wish i could have a bit more specular on the skin( like some pictures of Mec4D and others I have seen here). I think this is not bad for a first time.
Ugh, trying to render clouds, and...
I have a really cool effect set up, but it requires displacement maps at about SubD 4, at which point, between SSS and everything else, the render shrivels to 1 iteration a minute. Ugh. Need a Titan.
(I have a less cool effect that might not require displacement, here's hoping)
Looks good Tirenxi3d. If you have not looked at this thread http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/54239/fiddling-with-iray-skin-settings/p1 . You may not want to hike through the whole 50+ pages but I would look at some of the settings toward the end.
Thank you Khory( love the nick) I am reading all the info i can get. And yes i am obsessive and reading every page about Iray. Some things go above my head for now. But i did pick up some tips. Hopefully will improve soon.
You might give agent unawares settings a try http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/54239/fiddling-with-iray-skin-settings/p53 . They seem like a fairly good compilation of much of what they have discussed. Most of which shoots right over my head as well. It might get you in the general ball park of what they are going for. I know that the settings they are working with and trying to fine tune will give you better results in a wider variety of lights etc than some of the current "standards".
Thank you i will have a look at it :)
OMFG this took so much work.
It ended up not being exactly as I initially intended, but I ended up with results I liked, so ... hey.
http://willbear.deviantart.com/art/City-in-the-Clouds-579599614
..really nice. Did you use Above the Fog? (been thinking about getting it).
tirenzi3d
Your morphs, pose and mode are fantastic! Great job!
timmins.william
Your concrete sculture is amazing! Very nice.
Thank you very much Magnumdaz. I tried to morph the girl with scan data. Here you can see a bit more of the girl with very raw and quickly done renders.
In esscence she is done ( diffuse maps all done in projection mode), but I have to make a good material tree, and do some studying. I am coming from Poser 2014 but I dont like the direction it is going. Studio is still a bit a mystery to me but I am getting better.
Kyoto Kid: I did not, that was... a lot of sweat.
It's Ocean Wild for the base 'cloud' shape, then a displacement map I generated in... ... I forget, now. Maybe a Gimp or Paint.net filter. Basically, cloud noise.
And then a LOT of work to get it right.
I needed to keep the background light level almost nonexistant, which was tricky -- enough so that it showed in reflections, but not so much that it made the clouds a featureless white space.
I ended up having to really play with SSS to get the results even remotely right. This ended up being SSS Direction .99, which is... weird.
It took many multi-hour renders (that looked horrible) and a bunch of machine crashes. Ugh. Hopefully at some point I'll have a Titan... mmph.
Magnumdaz: Thank you! Amusingly, it turned out to be one of the easier things I've rendered. Just a decal.
timmins.william
You did a very good job on your picture!
Hrm. For some reason I uploaded a smaller version. Here's full size (but grainier): http://willbear.deviantart.com/art/City-in-the-Clouds-579617111
My latest using a terrain made in Infinito.
Shader was from Iray Ground Shaders and used the Iray Tiling Shader.
Plants are from various sets
Water is a cube with the Iray Dispersive Water Shader and the Normal Map for the terrain as a displacement map.
Water fall is the Pouring Curtain from the Liquid pack. I used three with different settings.
The mist is Clouds from Stonemason's Winter Terrains with adjustments to the settings so that they worked :)
Ducks are Lynes Ducks.
Dragonflies are from DAZ Animals
Lighting is from the HDRI, Finite Sphere with Ground, Dome Scale Multiplier set to 60.00 to get rid of the Horizon that was showing in the 'V' between the hills in the background just below the branch the Bluebird is on.
Twilight
..wow. Now I am very impressed.
..ooooh, this is really beautiful.
kyoto kid
Thank you.
Very pretty!
It's Wednesday, which means... comic update! Not the most exciting of scenes, but STORY. And I was able to make use of what I learned about node instances to fill out some of the distant figures. At some point I need to go back into this environment to replace repeated trees with node instances, but it actually renders reasonably fast.
http://thefarshoals.webcomic.ws/comics/49
Also, testing the new freebie RM Emeray Gothic. I was nervous about how much use I'd get out of a K4 skin, if it'd even work on Genesis 2... but yep! G2F figure, Edit hair, beast hands (from Creature Creator)
http://willbear.deviantart.com/art/Red-Lady-579728723
(Warning, blood)
Some early winter snow at the pond :)
Experimenting with MDL, managed a fairly basic Perlin noise bricks piped to color and bump.
http://willbear.deviantart.com/art/Perlin-skin-579843525
Nicely, this is a procedural shader that ignores UV maps. Woot.
So here is the final version of what I posted before. Grabbed settings from the skin thread, and rendered at 4x this size. Only postwork is eleminating like 5 little fireflies and running a sharpen before I shrank it up. Maybe the bloom is a little too high, but after rendering it for almost 24 hours, I'm gonna say I'm happy with it.
.again, wow.
Room with a view of the pond.
Room with a view of the pond.
i like the first one more like this
reminds me on Joe jackson somehow
More like or more than?
I didn't touch the bloom setting between last time and this time, but I did change to 4.9, so who knows what settings are translated differently. Sigh.
This is my second try at rendering in Iray. Still very studio - ambient light orientated. I haven't figured out the other options yet. I finished the orphs and textures for my character. Hope you like it.
Hmm...doesn't help that the preview iray render doesn't look anything like the final render, where bloom is concerned. It's far more pronounced in the final render than the preview render. -_-
The preview as far as I know, gives you only an approximation on how the render is going to look. Sometimes I like the preview better.