How to change Background Color in Render
AVU4U
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I'm trying to get the same color in the render as I assinged the color in viewport. I've assingned the vieport color this way: Window>Style>Customize Colors>Customize Interface Colors>Vieport Color: 168-168-168. That color is light grey. When I render the empty spaces around my objects it is black. I'm trying to find a way to make the render background color that fills the empty spaces around my rendered image the same color that is on the viewport. How do I do that?
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I would like to know that to. My renders have a black background, even though the view port background color is blue.
I think i know what your talking about, go to the dropdown where your window panes is on the top, find the environment pane and click that than you can choose backdrop and color. Apparently it used to be in a different spot in earlier versions of DAZ prior to 4.6
Daniel
It works. Thanyou.
From D Robinson "I think i know what your talking about, go to the dropdown where your window panes is on the top, find the environment pane and click that than you can choose backdrop and color. Apparently it used to be in a different spot in earlier versions of DAZ prior to 4.6"
It works on some files, but not on others. This Daz 4.8 program seems really buggy with all the changes. Now 3Delight does all these wierd render things. I Ray. It takes forever even on my 12 core 64gig 1Terabyte SSD drive with top of the line video card that I spent $10,000 on. I'm really dissapointed in Daz 4.8!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. It sucks.
I'm trying to get work done...http://avu4u.com/nocturnes.html I've completed neary 170 pages of Nocturnes with older versions of Daz3D with no problems, but now this 4.8 crap comes along and I'm having no success. I want to create images for my GN Nocturnes, not spend days trying to figure out how to change background colors. But I guess the software geeks at Daz have to justify their jobs. Here's the geek talking to his boss "Oh wow look at what I did, I changed this from the old version. Now everything is new. I'm so cool. Now give me a raise." Why can't these geeks leave it alone if its not broken?
Define forever....
As to the backdrop problem...what is it working on? Not working? What kind of scenes? Which renderer?
From D Robinson "I think i know what your talking about, go to the dropdown where your window panes is on the top, find the environment pane and click that than you can choose backdrop and color. Apparently it used to be in a different spot in earlier versions of DAZ prior to 4.6"
It works on some files, but not on others. This Daz 4.8 program seems really buggy with all the changes. Now 3Delight does all these wierd render things. I Ray. It takes forever even on my 12 core 64gig 1Terabyte SSD drive with top of the line video card that I spent $10,000 on. I'm really dissapointed in Daz 4.8!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. It sucks.
I'm trying to get work done...http://avu4u.com/nocturnes.html I've completed neary 170 pages of Nocturnes with older versions of Daz3D with no problems, but now this 4.8 crap comes along and I'm having no success. I want to create images for my GN Nocturnes, not spend days trying to figure out how to change background colors. But I guess the software geeks at Daz have to justify their jobs. Here's the geek talking to his boss "Oh wow look at what I did, I changed this from the old version. Now everything is new. I'm so cool. Now give me a raise." Why can't these geeks leave it alone if its not broken?
You do know that you can use 3Delight in 4.8 and there is virtually no difference between the version in 4.8 and the one in 4.7?
The only real difference is a speed increase (between 5 and 30% in most cases, more in some).
Some files work in 3Delight with the background I set in Window>Panes>Enviroment. Other files I set in the previous way "Window>Panes>Enviroment" only render properly in Intermediate Open GL. Like I said this 4.8 version of Daz really sucks. Even the new forum sucks. It was so simple B4.
I'm tired of this. Its almost 1AM and I have to do so many workarounds now to make this program do the work I want.
Its nice to have more speed, but if I have to spend more time figuring out how to do simple things like change the background color that the earlier versions of Daz did just fine whats the advantage? I have the top of the line Mac. That gives me plenty of speed.
Set the color at 255-255-255 which is white. Good luck if any of your colors in the scene being rendered is that color, like clothing.
Mac Pro 12 Core 64gigs ram, 1TB SSD drive AMD FirePro D700 6144 MB video card
Looks to me like they've also changed the default lighting.
Re the Environment pane
The default transparent background in Iray renders is also driving me nuts, and as far as I can see, there's no real solution to it. Here's what I've found, after much testing, discussion with DAZ_Spooky, and a bug report.
1. If I set Environment to Backdrop/Color 192/192/192, I get an Iray render on a light gray background. Fine. If I hit CTRL+N for a new scene, the environment pane reverts to default - No Backdrop/Color 255/255/255, and I have to reset it manually.
2. In Preferences> Scene, there are a number of options to record/ignore Backdrop Color, etc when saving a scene or opening a new scene. NO combination of these settings actually works to give me a Backdrop + selected color in every new scene.
3. I submitted a bug report asking for a simple toggle between transparent and viewport color. I got a reply within 2 hours, marked Closed and thanking me for my interest in DAZ Studio.
Conclusion - DAZ has changed the render background to transparent for all Iray renders, and if you want the viewport color instead, you have to set it manually for every scene.
My solution - I made a large chamfered cube in 3d max, reversed the polys to face inwards, and I use that for renders where I want a background. Obviously not something everyone can do, but it's all I've come up with. My only suggestion is for everyone to submit a request for a toggle, until DAZ finally cave it and add it.
mac
That'll take until just before the release of DS5, at which point the entire circus starts all over...
Mac, instead, perhaps you can share the cube with us?
I would if I had anywhere to upload it. Do you have a site you could host it on? If so, PM me and I'll mail it to you. (Or anyone who has a site to host it on)
That video card isn't doing anything for you in Iray. As far as I can tell 3Delight hasn't really changed, except to be a bit faster.
Hello everbody this is an easy way to make your background white and only for 4.9 first you go to daz connect default resources then click lights then click !UberEnviroment thats it
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