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Geo Location Lighting problem

CGHipsterCGHipster Posts: 241
in The Commons

Hi, I had installed this the other day and the renders were nice, then I decided to pick up LAMH Catalyzer for my LAMH, once installed though I started getting an Auth error.  Then my scenes suddenly went from having light to being black.  I uninstalled it, and still the scenes will not show light, then if I just install the Geo location I get nothing now but black.

Only when I hit the default button on the iray settings do I see environment but no emissions and no specular light.  I only get light if I use HDRI skydome now.

I have uninstalled and reinstalled everything but still I cannot get my studio to work right, not even after all that.  This is very bad, has anyone else experienced this?

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  • CGHipsterCGHipster Posts: 241

    Well, I sorted this after 5 hours....  I love the Geolocation and its amazingly good.  I owned LAMH and decided I would get the Catalyzer, after installing I got an AuthError and even after uninstalling it continued and then the Geolocator stopped working.  Then Daz Iray stopped rendering any light, nothing, the models would be visible but absolutely no light.  I loaded some of my renders, I even loaded spheres and put glass shaders and emissive light on them and they were just flat 2d balls and any light was gone.  The background no matter what I did was pitch black.

    I did several uninstalls, then I went through my pc the last time and found every file and folder for Daz, then the Registry and did the same thing and purged my system.  Did a final try and installed (5hours of this) and loaded up and my Iray renders were back and the shaders worked again.  

    I imagine this has not happened to many, or at least its rare but after this, I am avoiding the Catalyzer.  It was a horribly deflating experience.  I don't dare risk this occurring again.  I don't dare assume its just a bug in the plugin, I have a lot of the creators other products and all of his stuff is amazing.  It must be something with my setup.  A driver or plugin or w/e but I'm just not able to bring myself to try and install it again.

    just posting how I fixed it and managed a full clean reinstall to close this post off.

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