Going back to work

GXT6000

Is it possible to make it so we can back to work in studio while rendering with iray?

Please make it so.

FirstBastion

Got to say that's one of the cool features with the Reality/Luxrender combo. 

Daywalker Designs

I suspect it would require a radical redesign of how DAZ Studio works, since Iray is integrated into the software instead of acting as an externally accessible utility like Reality and Luxrender are. A lot of us probably prefer the current system simply because it works with how we are used to using Studio; I actually don't want to start doing anything with the existing characters since I'm not sure exactly how the render is going to turn out, so I don't want to alter the settings any until I know the render is going to turn out the way I want it.

GXT6000

daywalker03 said:

I suspect it would require a radical redesign of how DAZ Studio works, since Iray is integrated into the software instead of acting as an externally accessible utility like Reality and Luxrender are. A lot of us probably prefer the current system simply because it works with how we are used to using Studio; I actually don't want to start doing anything with the existing characters since I'm not sure exactly how the render is going to turn out, so I don't want to alter the settings any until I know the render is going to turn out the way I want it.

I use the iray preview before i do a render. the preview saves me some time, but it sure would be nice not to have to run two instances of daz at a time.

Koloss

I agree with the OP. Maybe leave it as is by default but in the Advanced Render Setting allow more user control over the amount of CPU/GPU/RAM resources used so that a portion could be used to...go back to work! In a big scene with many material zones for example, maybe you've applied a few textures and you'd like to see how that is going to render while continuing your texturing/other work in DAZ.