Epic. Classic establishing shot.    Orestes Vega Skydomes. 

Go massive sale extra 40% not working see sample orestes attached. Refreshes stay the same.

The extra savings are only applicable to select items, as shown when you click the ''Extra xx% off ..." buttons on the sales page not the entire PA catalogs.

Ooops. Slip of the mouse :)

Go massive sale extra 40% not working see sample orestes attached. Refreshes stay the same.

The extra savings are only applicable to select items, as shown when you click the ''Extra xx% off ..." buttons on the sales page not the entire PA catalogs.

Go massive sale extra 40% not working see sample orestes attached. Refreshes stay the same.

https://www.daz3d.com/orestes-iray-hdri-skydomes-vol-3-vega-system

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Trixie's Lovelies
Trixie and her mutants provide a little light and beauty to a post-apocalyptic world in the form of lovely lamps and custom repainted furniture.

used:
Pink Oak Room
Colors for Trixy Hair
Portable Generator
Carnival Ride Poses
Plated Wolf (LB)
Parkside Passenger Car (LB) 

Also used:
Carnival Midway lights
Greater and Lesser Goblin
Horror Survivors: Marius
Clown Clan 2 HD
Ape World 2 - Chimp HD morph
Industrial Pneumatic Tools hose
Orestes Iray HDRI Skydomes Vol 1 - Eventide
InaneGlory's Lights and Lamps 2 - Floor Lamps
Day At The Mall for Genesis 2 Female(s)
Snuggle Up Knits for Iray and 3Delight - Shader Presets
Hippie Chick Outfit Textures skirt
Decorative Easel Set
Classic Furniture Assortment Clock 
Yard Sale Treasures
Lazy Afternoon rocking chair
Ground Shaders for DAZ Studio
Lisa's Botanicals - Cottage Plants I
N.G.S. Anagenessis 2 - Revolution

I was using Orestes Iray HDRI Environment - Triskele Falls in my test image and something got messed up. So, I closed the image by clicking "new" and NOT saving the existing one. When the new scene opened it had Orestes Iray HDRI Environment - Triskele Falls already loaded but nothing else. How do I load a clean, new scene?

Hmmm. That should not have happened. When you selected New, it should have opened a scene with the default render settings HDRI (that low res ruins hdr), I believe. Unless you edited your preferences and selected a particular scene to be loaded each time you select New. Try it again and see what happens. Maybe close DS and restart it and see what happens.

I was using Orestes Iray HDRI Environment - Triskele Falls in my test image and something got messed up. So, I closed the image by clicking "new" and NOT saving the existing one. When the new scene opened it had Orestes Iray HDRI Environment - Triskele Falls already loaded but nothing else. How do I load a clean, new scene?

I upgraded to the most current version of DS from the previous version I am doing test renders that ake all of maybe 2 or 3 minutes and the picture is not fully rendered. It is grainy and unclear.

When I first started using DS I had this problem but learned from others that my problem was my Max Render time was set at the bottom. So, I have already checked that and it is ALL the way up.

I am rendering in NVIDIA Iray engine.

Render Mode is set to Photo Real

I am using an Iray light, Orestes Iray HDRI Environment - Triskele Falls, G8F Rebekah.

The scene DOES render, just not completely.

Can anyone help me please?

Does anyone happen to know which character and outfit is used in the main promo image for Orestes Iray HDRI Environment - Triskele Falls (https://www.daz3d.com/orestes-iray-hdri-environment-triskele-falls)?

Many thanks,

Mike L.

I can't send you a file since it's a commercial product but for outdoor scenes I would go with the HDR route.

Check out the stores of

https://www.daz3d.com/dimensiontheory

https://www.daz3d.com/orestes-graphics

Hi All, I just bought this HDRI set here in the store. I installed it properly. The ad page says "One click" and you have the scene and can rotate it. The zip file has five .duf files and is under light presets. Also has the texture folder with .hdr files in it. When I click on the icon to load one of the five there...I get nothing. Just a quick flash of a small popup for the load and then nothing. Still the empty screen. I have tried to open it in my environment>backgrounds section and it loads the huge .hdr file as a backdrop but you can't rotate it or move it in any way, so the files are there. What am I doing wrong? Where is the "one click" it says about? Why is the screen blank? Anyone?

https://www.daz3d.com/orestes-iray-hdri-environment-triskele-falls

https://www.daz3d.com/orestes-iray-hdri-skydomes-vol-2-dreadful-clouds

I was looking at this and couple other content items where I need some ominous weather for use in a video.

There is so much emphasis on IRAY and 3Delight I find confusing.

I produce video in Iclone, so I am exporting all content I buy from Daz3d or Carrara in IClone.

Exporting does not seem to be a problem, as 3dxchange does that well enough.

My concern is with the render bit.  Is there something I should be concerned about?

Is there one I should prefer over the other?

Iclone render engine is built in and there is ancillary render engine "Indigo".

I was thinking the choice between IRay and 3DL was probably a ligthing thing that can be resolved within Iclone. That it really isn't that big a deal for what I am doing, but would be making static single images with Daz3d

DAZ has really been killing it with the great sales recently. I picked up Minotaur 6 HD, my only Genesis 2 character, and the Orestes Triskele Falls HDRIs. Then by coincidence I used them together and found a strange issue I can't explain. It's as if Iray doesn't like it when some of these items get used together--even if I use the Iray Uber Shader on all the Minotaur's surfaces.

Before I describe the problem, let me note that I already uninstalled the minotaur, deleted the package, then redownloaded and reinstalled it, just to make sure there was no corruption in the original install process.

I'm using DS 4.9.3.166 Pro 64-bit edition.

Here are my steps to recreate the issue:

1. Open DS and find and double-click on the Triskele Falls 01 HDRI. 
2. Double-click on Minotaur 06 HD. 
3. Change to Iray Preview and zoom in to look at his right pectoral.

As you can see in the Minotaur 01 image, shadows reveal hard edges instead of smooth curves on his body, and there is an area on the pec where textures don't "stick." It appears as if some part of another, unsubdivided model is sticking out through his body, but there are no other objects in my scene. My first screenshot shows an Iray preview, so I've included Minotaur 02 so you can see the problem appears in an actual render, as well.

Loading a new texture doesn't help. In Minotaur 03, you can see I've applied the Asterion texture, but the buggy area is still there.

What does help is to change the figure's subdivision level. In Minotaur 04, I reduced it to 0. (The figure preset defaults to 1.) The messed up area now appears to be just a stretch mark, and it accepts textures. However, the skin shows more hard angles.

The problem area also mostly goes away if you increase the subdivision level to 2. The buggy part reduces to one triangle-shaped notch that's barely noticeable. This is shown in Minotaur 05, but here I had to add an extra spotlight to brighten the shadows enough for us to see that the texture is applied.

What boggles me is that the default subdivision level of 1 works just fine if I start DS and load the minotaur by itself or when I use other HDRIs. If the HDRI is Triskele Falls 03 (see Minotaur 06), this area of the skin looks different: instead of looking like naked, untextured faces, it looks like a patch of skin copied from somewhere else. But if the HDRI is Triskele Falls 05 (see Minotaur 07), the skin looks perfect.

I included Minotaur 08 to show that switching back to Triskele Falls 01 causes the buggy area to reappear.

Finally, I used the Surfaces pane to switch to the Iray Uber Shader for all surfaces on the Minotaur model and added Minotaur 09 and Minotaur 10 to demonstrate that using all Iray shaders doesn't help.

How is it that an HDRI preset's render settings can mess up the UV textures on a model???

I will offer up a few images.

Gallery

Render 1  Daisy & The Hobgoblin - This is a simple image inspired from Those Things amazing pose set.  I also loved Orestes Graphics HDRI's and decided to combine them.  I am afraid of thunderstorms and that was the original idea behind the image. I didn't intend to add the Hobgoblin but he called out to me.  I think it turned out quite nice. 

Render 2  Shattered Heart - My original idea for this was to feature just the shattered heart in a simple render...but it felt incomplete.  So my OC Arnia came to the rescue.

Render 3 Arnia Portrait - This is my OC Arnia.  She is so wonderful to work with.  Whenever I seem to get stuck she is always there for me.  And she always seems to want to possess a 'Mona Lisa" smile.  A little mysterious with just a hint of mischievousness.  She likes to keep people guessing as to what she is really thinking. 

Render 4  I Am Beautiful - I have had the Arctek Cybernetic Arms and Legs since April.  I think I realized I owned them when going through the store and decided to use them.  I had a general idea what I was going to do but except for the pose the final image is completely different.

Render 5 Jinx - I have been playing around with Mood Renderer lights.  Unfortunately I cannot get the script to work ATM.  I love green eyes.  I didn't get her eyes to stand out as much as I might have liked but I am still pleased with the image.  New August 23, 2021

Render 6 Unbroken - I really loved the craggy, worn face of Tennessee when I first saw him.  But I chose not to put him in a warrior / chaos style render.  I would have liked to have more shadows on his face to really highlight the ridges, scars and wrinkles on his face but I chose to highlight his eyes instead.  Which I totally went in a fantasy direction with as far as colour goes.  I also used ARTCollaberation's new Uniquie Fabrics Shaders on his clothes.  I don't usually supply any kind of a story in the Description Field as I prefer to give the viewer the room they need to interpret the image in thier own way.  But the phrase I ended up recording came to me while I was creating this image.  When that happens I have to honour the request and record it for the character. 

Render 7  Brooke - I just finished creating this image.  I haven't rendered an image in a couple of months.  It felt longer.  

Render 8  Caged - I just finished this today.  I have a love of wings. 

Render 9 Strange Discovery - I fell in love with the promo images for The AntFarm's Alien Lands.  I loved the atmosphere and did my best to create my own version. 

Render 10  Storytime - I different perspective on Fae Mushroom characters. 

​I've really been lusting after the Anti Gravity Lift by AntFarm, but $15, even $10, seems a little steep for something that I felt like I could probably design myself in Hexagon... so, I kept putting it off with the idea I might take it on as a project. Then DAZ gave away the Supersuit SciFi Content bundle and I looked at the Stingray product and thought, "I think I might be able to kit-bash my own version of a retro-car AG lift out of that." 
Here is my result. 
Additional content used in this render:

Ravenous Dodge Edge Challenger, which seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth, and Will Timmin's procedural emissive shaders, Nobiax Iray shaders. 
DragonzBreathWeapon 

Made with...

• The Wasp Class Space Fighter
• Tribal Village Huts
• Dystopia City Blocks 001-010 (Poser)
• Sting-Ray
• Skyrider
• Orestes Electromancy for Iray
• Technophilia Arcane: Quantum Eye

This looks like fun.

Being an RRRR vetran I can attest that many of us have done many silly things with many props as a requirement to our contest. Here are some parts from GIS Nova and charming sea creatures (Gardens of Poseidon) from Orestes that have been anodized with Dimension Theory's Anodized shader. 

Note all prices are dependent on if you have the qualifying items in the cart.

Swam Hair- in the sale. Look at all the morphs in Morgane Hair, you can significantly reduce the top. Compare it to Lauren Hair, which has fewer. I'm picking up both I think, but it is good to note the number of morphs in Morgane.  Also, take a look at the brunette hair in the thumbnails for Lorin Hair- it's a really classy style to use with a fancy evening gown! 

And the Tonal Rage product goes down to 7.63 depending on what you have in the cart.  Note Nydo Hair is $3.77    Charlotte Hair would be great for kids and one thumbnail shows you how you can shrink the poofiness/lengthen one side, change the bangs a bit. Kimmy Hair is another one that changes quite nicely, according to the promos.

For a good bundle, and to pick up Carson, Lover's Delight Bundle is already 65%, and it drops to $13.48 (Just Carson would be $11.85)
Daydreamer Outfit- I don't like the materials on the pants (that's easy, use a shader) but I like the flared bottoms, they seem fluid, and I'm tired of skin tight jeans. The top can be used for beach scenes/with other jeans. $6.91 

The cute Magic Ball (with shaders- change it up) is worth a peek for $2.70 if you have qualifying item in your cart (Arcanum sale, main promo banner. The Book of Spells is only $2.87. Again, think shaders. Some of those Iray metal/chrome for the hinges, and aged leather for the binding, and wow.)  IMAGE IS HERE

I'm getting Orestes Iray HDRI Skydomes which triggers that Arcanum sale.

Oh, and Fast Grab has changed. Depending on what you have in your cart, test those prices. 

I just tested- if you receive two gift card codes, the first one is usually wrong and the second one is right.  

I have to say I really like this promo image for Orestes Graphics The Morak Badlands.

Clever use of that asteroid space HDRI!

Fantasy Skins for Genesis 3 is a pretty cool set. I'm also really liking the new Orestes winter grove HDRI's. Very nice looking stuff. I hope they make more. Orestes' produces nice quality stuff.