First render -- 

 

@hacsart You are off and running! Be sure to check out the official commercial thread for the product, too. That is the main place we have been sharing images. That is where HowieFarkes and TangoAlpha occasionally share tips and sneak peeks of upcoming products. There are several UltraScenery addons on sale today for good prices. The first post in the commercial thread clarifies some of the confusing prerequisites. (Daz originally posted the required product information incorrectly and caused a lot of confusion at the time.) The Pines addon requires the Nature Treess Pack 4 product by Andrey Pestryakov. Nature Trees Pack 4 is 70% off right now and is excellent! There is also a coupon advertised in the scrolling banner, for additional savings, if you haven't used it yet.

Have fun!

Locations: MICK, Forsaken Keep/Village, Medieval Hall and Garden, Medieval Dinner Hall, Hog and Barrel Pub Interior, Medieval Throne Chamber, Medieval Bedroom, ROG Medieval Fantasy Bedroom, Triple Moon Cottage and Props, basically any of Stonemason's fantasy/medieval sets

Environment: Terradome 3 (with some improved ground shaders) and UltraScatter for vegetation, anything by Andrey Pestryakov

Wardrobe: dForce Wise Wizard, Orlean's Armor for G8 Male, Knight Champion Outfit for G8 Male, Gate Guardian

Wendy: an environment by Andrey Pestryakov.

Bennie: Thanks, yeah it is strange. I'm going to do some tests with texture-less items and primitives and see if things speed up significantly.

no wonder

I cannot even fit most of his stuff on my card 

Wendy: an environment by Andrey Pestryakov.

Bennie: Thanks, yeah it is strange. I'm going to do some tests with texture-less items and primitives and see if things speed up significantly.

My computer is 4 years old and I do need to upgrade the RAM as I only have 16 GB. I have a GTX 980 and use DAZ 4.10 (so I can actually use the GPU and not have it fall back to CPU...ALL THE TIME). I do have the 4.12 Beta but almost never use it. I don't have a problem rendering on the CPU but most of the time I don't have to. I've gotten pretty good at rendering in sections and arranging in Photoshop. Most of the time my scenes render on GPU. Andrey Pestryakov's mountain sets do just fine for me although I do need to be careful once I start adding characters.

I have a 7 year old Win7 machine/16Gb RAM with a GTX1060 with 6Gb and DS 4.11. It can cope.. The basic UltraScenery has never filled more than 12Gb RAM and 5Gb of VRAM with one G8 figures. So you should be able to use Ultrascenery without significant problems.

My computer is 4 years old and I do need to upgrade the RAM as I only have 16 GB. I have a GTX 980 and use DAZ 4.10 (so I can actually use the GPU and not have it fall back to CPU...ALL THE TIME). I do have the 4.12 Beta but almost never use it. I don't have a problem rendering on the CPU but most of the time I don't have to. I've gotten pretty good at rendering in sections and arranging in Photoshop. Most of the time my scenes render on GPU. Andrey Pestryakov's mountain sets do just fine for me although I do need to be careful once I start adding characters.

Will I know its a pain and flustrating to deal with its a pretty easy fix (dont use the link below because this is from yesterdays sale)

In front of the #filter replace whatever is there (highlighted in red)  with    shop   that will display all the vendors included.

https://www.daz3d.com/moonscape-graphics#filter_vendor=moonscape-graphics^sade^david-brinnen^forbiddenwhispers^josh-crockett^e-arkham^zeddicuss^capsces-digital-ink^ensary^andrey-pestryakov^quixotry^fenixphoenix^esid^perspectx^feralfey^demonicaevilius^jessaii^sixus1-media^greybro&filter_new=0&filter_platClub=0&filtered=1

Fixed Link

https://www.daz3d.com/shop#filter_vendor=moonscape-graphics^sade^david-brinnen^forbiddenwhispers^josh-crockett^e-arkham^zeddicuss^capsces-digital-ink^ensary^andrey-pestryakov^quixotry^fenixphoenix^esid^perspectx^feralfey^demonicaevilius^jessaii^sixus1-media^greybro&filter_new=0&filter_platClub=0&filtered=1

Sadly, this doesn't work for all vendors. The DD link scrapes the vendors' names from the links on the page, but Daz doesn't bother to use uppercase in any of the names and the filter is case-sensitive. To the filter, "feralfey" is not the same as FeralFey, (for example,) so FeralFey won't be checked in the list of vendors and their products will not be listed. So just changing the name before the "#" in the url to shop only lists the vendors whose name in the list is all lowercase anyway, like "esha".

Will I know its a pain and flustrating to deal with its a pretty easy fix (dont use the link below because this is from yesterdays sale)

In front of the #filter replace whatever is there (highlighted in red)  with    shop   that will display all the vendors included.

https://www.daz3d.com/moonscape-graphics#filter_vendor=moonscape-graphics^sade^david-brinnen^forbiddenwhispers^josh-crockett^e-arkham^zeddicuss^capsces-digital-ink^ensary^andrey-pestryakov^quixotry^fenixphoenix^esid^perspectx^feralfey^demonicaevilius^jessaii^sixus1-media^greybro&filter_new=0&filter_platClub=0&filtered=1

Fixed Link

https://www.daz3d.com/shop#filter_vendor=moonscape-graphics^sade^david-brinnen^forbiddenwhispers^josh-crockett^e-arkham^zeddicuss^capsces-digital-ink^ensary^andrey-pestryakov^quixotry^fenixphoenix^esid^perspectx^feralfey^demonicaevilius^jessaii^sixus1-media^greybro&filter_new=0&filter_platClub=0&filtered=1

Hi all,

I'm pretty excited to show off my (hopefully) next product - UltraScenery. Think of it like UltraTrees but for entire landscapes. Use procedural noise and/or heightmaps to generate the terrain, select features such as rivers, ponds, roads and tracks then choose an "Ecology" to cover the terrain in vegetaion and rocks etc.

A sample of generated landscapes are below :)

 

** Things to try if UltraScenery is not working for you **

• Install UltraScenery via DIM instead of SmartContent
• Ensure Instance Optimization in the render settings is set to "Memory" or maybe "Auto" but definitely not "Speed"
• Use a viewport renderer other than "Nvida Iray"
• Uninstall Ocatane Render (if convenient) - Octane Render has for some people caused freezes and/or extremely long processing times for UltraScenery
• Getting a big stack of plants and props in the very center of the scene - that also can be caused by Octane Render and can be resolved by uninstalling Octane.

*** UltraScenery - Pines ***

UltraScenery - Pines has been released... unfortunately the store page is currently showing "Mossy Hollow Botanica" as a required product and that is incorrect. The set requires "Nature Trees Pack 4" by Andrey Pestryakov. *UPDATE* Store page looks like it has been fixed.

Stunning stuff  as always!

I'm literally breaking the bank with all your products ! Even if It seems that Daz-studio is rapidly choking with vegetation instancing.

FOR ULTRA TREE : Keep adding species please !

For "my real pleasure" it would be, the so called "native vegetation" from north to south europe.

Betula Alba 

Pinus sylvestris

Pinus Nigra ;

Castanea Sativa

Corylus Avellana or in fact any kind of Betulacea of good resolution

There are still some minor bugs but it works very correctly given the complexity of this kind of program.

It would be great if you could add :

- a little more choice of Barks and Foliages

- A "button" to choose the AGE of the tree

- And another to choose the desired RESOLUTION (Foreground/Background)

FOR ULTRA SCATTER PRO

It would be great to find a way to connect it with Ultra Tree, so as to have a bit of variation in instances of plants. I absolutely don't know if it's feasible.

AND if you could make a TERRAIN GENERATOR, with erosion, And the ability to modify it with a brush (sort of advanced "mesh grabber?)

Last I'm yet to be convinced by most of the grasses sold here : most of them are too "golf grass" like and John Deere colored... I would like more adventices (is it used in English ?)  stinging nettles, wild brambles  or what ever of these I keep removing form my little vegetable garden one by one without any chemicals

That's all for today !

(And probably too much work for you ....)

To contextualize, my "jardin potager"  was built in the late 1500, there are terraces with what they call  "cyclopean" built walls : enormous "pebbles" assembled by hand, an irrigation system with "Béals", the water come in them from a small torrent nearby.

It took us 2 years to restore it and in 2 more years, it will be a real historical "cevenol" garden.

We have a very small orchard of fruit trees apples, cherries, pears an apricot tree with fruits some time (it's a bit too cold here) we had to use a jackhammer to be able to plant them correctly.

When it's finished. I plan to buy and restore a small chestnut orchard, cutting and grafting the trees. That's really hard here to find someone accepting to sell his ancestors acres, event if it's mostly left unused and degrading slowly.

Since I lived until 3 years ago, in different European very big cities. I can confirm that  digital planting is much more easy !

Thank you

Yves

It does require NTP4. The wording was "This product contains 7 new ecologies featuring the wonderful pine trees found in Andrey Pestryakov's Nature Trees Pack 4.". It does not contain the trees and the list of required products for "UltraScenery - Pines" is correct.

 

Howie mentioned the product page lists the wrong required product. Here it is from the first post:

"*** UltraScenery - Pines ***

UltraScenery - Pines has been released... unfortunately the store page is currently showing 'Mossy Hollow Botanica' as a required product and that is incorrect. The set requires 'Nature Trees Pack 4' by Andrey Pestryakov."

That be the problem then.  I did buy Mossy Hollow Botanica because of  that.  I'll go check on the Trees Pack then.

Thanks.

Problem with the Pines

Picked this up this afternoon.  Made a new scene using the Extend option.

They're there:

They're there:

 

They're not there:

 

Any ideas what's going oin here?

 

Howie mentioned the product page lists the wrong required product. Here it is from the first post:

"*** UltraScenery - Pines ***

UltraScenery - Pines has been released... unfortunately the store page is currently showing 'Mossy Hollow Botanica' as a required product and that is incorrect. The set requires 'Nature Trees Pack 4' by Andrey Pestryakov."

UltraScenery - Pines has been released... unfortunately the store page is currently showing "Mossy Hollow Botanica" as a required product and that is incorrect. The set requires "Nature Tree Pack 4" by Andrey Pestryakov.

UltraScenery - Pines has been released... unfortunately the store page is currently showing "Mossy Hollow Botanica" as a required product and that is incorrect. The set requires "Nature Trees Pack 4" by Andrey Pestryakov.

Will post this on the front page of this thread until it is fixed.

Some promos show a mix of trees.  Can we do that  now?

Some of the ecologies in this pack also make use of the trees that come with the UltraScenery base product - that's why there are mixed species.

Ugh. I bought Pines and have been fighting with it to make it render. At first I thought it was my render settings. Then I thought I was out of memory. Now I see why it isn't working for me.

UltraScenery - Pines has been released... unfortunately the store page is currently showing "Mossy Hollow Botanica" as a required product and that is incorrect. The set requires "Nature Trees Pack 4" by Andrey Pestryakov.

Will post this on the front page of this thread until it is fixed.

It's great that you are including other artist's products! I have a bunch from MartinJFrost, so hopefully you'll consider a set with his in mind. 

UltraScenery - Pines has been released... unfortunately the store page is currently showing "Mossy Hollow Botanica" as a required product and that is incorrect. The set requires "Nature Trees Pack 4" by Andrey Pestryakov.

Will post this on the front page of this thread until it is fixed.

Glad, that you have mentioned works with Nature Trees Pack 4 previously,

so I have had enough time to grab it, while on sale.

Now the Pines extension looks like a must for me.

UltraScenery - Pines has been released... unfortunately the store page is currently showing "Mossy Hollow Botanica" as a required product and that is incorrect. The set requires "Nature Tree Pack 4" by Andrey Pestryakov.

UltraScenery - Pines has been released... unfortunately the store page is currently showing "Mossy Hollow Botanica" as a required product and that is incorrect. The set requires "Nature Trees Pack 4" by Andrey Pestryakov.

Will post this on the front page of this thread until it is fixed.

Some promos show a mix of trees.  Can we do that  now?

Some of the ecologies in this pack also make use of the trees that come with the UltraScenery base product - that's why there are mixed species.

 

UltraScenery - Pines has been released... unfortunately the store page is currently showing "Mossy Hollow Botanica" as a required product and that is incorrect. The set requires "Nature Trees Pack 4" by Andrey Pestryakov.

Will post this on the front page of this thread until it is fixed.

 

In case you can get this fixed faster than Howie.

This has been reported, but may not be fixed immediately. Howie does at least say which product to use in the description, though it will be good to get this rectified.

UltraScenery - Pines has been released... unfortunately the store page is currently showing "Mossy Hollow Botanica" as a required product and that is incorrect. The set requires "Nature Trees Pack 4" by Andrey Pestryakov.

Will post this on the front page of this thread until it is fixed.

In case you can get this fixed faster than Howie.

UltraScenery - Pines has been released... unfortunately the store page is currently showing "Mossy Hollow Botanica" as a required product and that is incorrect. The set requires "Nature Trees Pack 4" by Andrey Pestryakov.

Will post this on the front page of this thread until it is fixed.

UltraScenery - Pines has been released... unfortunately the store page is currently showing "Mossy Hollow Botanica" as a required product and that is incorrect. The set requires "Nature Trees Pack 4" by Andrey Pestryakov.

Will post this on the front page of this thread until it is fixed.

Just bought it... have Mossy hollow but not nature tree pack, which's not reduced - sadly 

UltraScenery - Pines has been released... unfortunately the store page is currently showing "Mossy Hollow Botanica" as a required product and that is incorrect. The set requires "Nature Trees Pack 4" by Andrey Pestryakov.

Will post this on the front page of this thread until it is fixed.

Some promos show a mix of trees.  Can we do that  now?