Search isn't free text, it uses tags - so presumably street is not set for this (not entirely unreasonable since it's a square).

If you go to this thread in the Members Only forum, Jack posted links to everything from this week.

Taylor-S-Rose said:

I don't know that I'd say PAs have any responsibility to list the products used in their promos.

I just find it frustrating to see a promo image of, say, a hair asset with a nice model with nice clothes, and have no idea where to find the models or clothes. Though I think I may have been spoiled by Sabby over on Renderosity, who posts full lists of promo assets with all her products. I think she's an exception.

So that's why I posted this request regarding products, here in this product request forum.

Hopefully some PA will read this request and it will compel him/her to list the stuff they use in their promos.

Or they're just as free to list products without detailing the assets.

It's just a request. :)

I have asked for this for years...since 2005!!    There are many products here and at Rendo where other products used in the promos are listed!  I appreciate that so very much.

It is truly an missed opportunity for the other vendors.

When you download a free product, usually the creator wants you to give credit if the product is used. 

I have a few gallery pics here and at Rendo and I definitely try to list all of the products used.  I want to acknowledge and show appreciation for both the freebies and paid products.  I want to help sell those products.  I want the creator to know all of their hard work was not in vain and it is wonderful to use.

I certainly understand Vincent van Gogh not listing all of the products he used!  LOL

However, I do a lot of crafts...like furniture painting and stenciling.  I belong to a lot of groups that showcase their hard work.  I do want to know what type of paint and where they purchased the stencils.  Trust me, my work will NEVER look the same :(

Well, there are, indeed, two sides to every coin.  Sometimes, I work on a project in DS and have no idea whose shaders I used if I mixed a bunch together...which I do.  Sometimes, when playing with morphs, I use so many that I would have to look at "Currently Used" in DS, a function I love!!  In the galleries, I state in my comments that I will be glad to open the file in DS and do a print screen of what I used :)

Please know, that when I begin doing my own artwork, that I don't want to just copy the promo from the product.  My creative juices start flowing...I start experimenting and my work is my own.  I, also, don't want to be accused of copying the other artist.  

I was absolutely embarressed seeing two gallery works at another site that looked exactly alike.  The first artist was, of course, upset.  

So, I am so very thankful to the vendors or promo artists that take the time to list products.  

PerttiA said:

DanaTA said:

PerttiA said:

Richard Haseltine said:

A quick internet search on radiator placement offers two possible reasons (which suggests that no one really knows) - that that space was most likely not to be used by anything else, and that it was the coldest spot and so gained most from the heat. I find the first most plausible.

I remember someone saying that it's to prevent or minimize the 'draft' when the glass radiates cold. The need of course depends on what type of windows one has, with triple glazing there is very little if any 'draft'.

The draft usually comes from around the window fittings and frame, not the panes.  Unless the panes are not well mounted, of course. 

It's not real draft but a feeling of draft as the panes are so much colder than the air in the room, and when one goes near the window, one feels like there is a draft

Also remember that the cold air against the window pane falls to the floor and spreads out from there onto cold toesies. 

DanaTA said:

PerttiA said:

Richard Haseltine said:

A quick internet search on radiator placement offers two possible reasons (which suggests that no one really knows) - that that space was most likely not to be used by anything else, and that it was the coldest spot and so gained most from the heat. I find the first most plausible.

I remember someone saying that it's to prevent or minimize the 'draft' when the glass radiates cold. The need of course depends on what type of windows one has, with triple glazing there is very little if any 'draft'.

The draft usually comes from around the window fittings and frame, not the panes.  Unless the panes are not well mounted, of course. 

It's not real draft but a feeling of draft as the panes are so much colder than the air in the room, and when one goes near the window, one feels like there is a draft

PerttiA said:

Richard Haseltine said:

A quick internet search on radiator placement offers two possible reasons (which suggests that no one really knows) - that that space was most likely not to be used by anything else, and that it was the coldest spot and so gained most from the heat. I find the first most plausible.

I remember someone saying that it's to prevent or minimize the 'draft' when the glass radiates cold. The need of course depends on what type of windows one has, with triple glazing there is very little if any 'draft'.

The draft usually comes from around the window fittings and frame, not the panes.  Unless the panes are not well mounted, of course. 

Dana

Richard Haseltine said:

A quick internet search on radiator placement offers two possible reasons (which suggests that no one really knows) - that that space was most likely not to be used by anything else, and that it was the coldest spot and so gained most from the heat. I find the first most plausible.

I remember someone saying that it's to prevent or minimize the 'draft' when the glass radiates cold. The need of course depends on what type of windows one has, with triple glazing there is very little if any 'draft'.

Something is weird again... okay the forum is weird... okay weirder than normal.

The other day when I posted there were a lot of posts missing that apparently showed up later (now)... I definitely didn't see Dana's or TJohn's and I'm pretty sure Wendy's with the garden implement wasn't there either... in fact I'm positive it wasn't there.

I'm wondering if it's an iOS thing...

How I even noticed was when I turned on my iPad and went to the forum, the window was open to my last post so I refreshed and suddenly the screen loaded and then auto-scrolled up to Dana and TJohn's posts from two days ago... that's usually what happens when you refresh... it scrolls up to where you last read... well, within a post or so of the last post...

But I posted at least twice since then... 

Is that necrorefreshing?

Weird.

The other possibility is parallel worlds overlapping again... but I have a quality quantum ekdilosic-decomangulator running all the time that is guaranteed to prevent parallel universe overlap.

I don't know that I'd say PAs have any responsibility to list the products used in their promos.

I just find it frustrating to see a promo image of, say, a hair asset with a nice model with nice clothes, and have no idea where to find the models or clothes. Though I think I may have been spoiled by Sabby over on Renderosity, who posts full lists of promo assets with all her products. I think she's an exception.

So that's why I posted this request regarding products, here in this product request forum.

Hopefully some PA will read this request and it will compel him/her to list the stuff they use in their promos.

Or they're just as free to list products without detailing the assets.

It's just a request. :)

Richard Haseltine said:

Togire said:

There is a problem a problem with the "Femme Fatale Bundle". https://www.daz3d.com/femme-fatale-bundle

While it appears in some sale list and is properly displayed on a search https://www.daz3d.com/catalogsearch/result/?pp=40&q=femme+fatale+bundle&mature=true&s=score&p=1&guid= the link leads to an Ooops page.

Where is it being listed?

Daz Original Sci-Fi Classics sale (90%off with coupon) https://www.daz3d.com/sci-fi-builder-items-for-you#order=popular^1&filtered=1

Basic example: 
https://www.daz3d.com/catalogsearch/result/?mature=true&q=Street

Search misses a lot of products like:
https://www.daz3d.com/grovebrook-park

Description (street name road sign) & Whats includet (Street Name Sign Prop) was ignored by the searching algorythm with the keyword "street". With "road" it would be the same, so I would miss a lot products, if I would search for street settings in particular. The same happens in the product library, which makes it nearly impossible to search for specific products. Sure, in Daz Studio there are ways to search, but they also find not everything "we have", since many probs have different names, are not really includet somehow, so the smart content will not find them and so on. So it would be nice to have at least in the search for the products (we got) a more precise search option. And, if Daz want to sell more stuff, I'd recommend to change also the search function for the products we buy, so we would filter the items we would really want by both, decription and product name... 

A quick internet search on radiator placement offers two possible reasons (which suggests that no one really knows) - that that space was most likely not to be used by anything else, and that it was the coldest spot and so gained most from the heat. I find the first most plausible.

Togire said:

There is a problem a problem with the "Femme Fatale Bundle". https://www.daz3d.com/femme-fatale-bundle

While it appears in some sale list and is properly displayed on a search https://www.daz3d.com/catalogsearch/result/?pp=40&q=femme+fatale+bundle&mature=true&s=score&p=1&guid= the link leads to an Ooops page.

Where is it being listed?

There is a problem a problem with the "Femme Fatale Bundle". https://www.daz3d.com/femme-fatale-bundle

While it appears in some sale list and is properly displayed on a search https://www.daz3d.com/catalogsearch/result/?pp=40&q=femme+fatale+bundle&mature=true&s=score&p=1&guid= the link leads to an Ooops page.

I don't know if there is a way, but it would be nice to have better features to filter out products. I recently bought some things and cannot find them, because the library gets bigger and bigger. I try to rearange the products, by their purpose. But in Order to do that for products I already own, I have to find the ones I already got too. It would be a help to know if there is a way to let's say filter about "modular" stuff. I know for sure the shop does not really crawl to the description, because I bought something that has sepcific words in it and the product does not pop up, if i search it. In the product library it's the same. So it would be nice, if this neat function to search something could be able to do that... 
But, in case there is another way, please let me know! 

The point I wanted to make is that the argument that an iteration is doing more work kind of falls apart when CPUs are clearly not impacted the same way. Plus the renders demonstrate this as well.

It is apparent that the Iray dev team is focused heavily on caustics, and I can understand that. Calculating caustics is very hard. Enabling caustics in past versions of Iray killed render speeds, often doubling them or more. So having caustics improve is a good thing...but I don't believe it should come at the cost of general performance overall. While caustics are nice, most people don't take notice of this effect, and if you don't have the types of glass like materials that benefit from caustics, killing performance for caustics is a waste. The most visible impact from caustics is that the room has a bit more ambient light. This can be replicated with simple tone mapping, while rendering significantly faster (in 4.16).

My belief is the performance drop is down to a simple mistake. They already admitted that they made a mistake when they claimed to fix the performance loss. So I believe that they still have left something unoptimized, and this is wasting resources during rendering. If they fix this, it would benefit the caustics, too, because the base renderer would be optimized, not just the caustic sampler. So it is very much worth their effort to find the solution. This is a highly competitive industry, they have to be better than other render engines, period, or they will fail even if they have Nvidia's backing. Daz Studio is obviously not their only partner, though it is the most visible partner in every search for Iray.

When you start a CPU only render, it starts right away because the scene is already in RAM where the CPU accesses it. To render on GPU, it has to be sent to GPU, and this process involves several tasks, such how CUDA converts the textures into its own proprietary format, and compression. I am thinking something with this step is involved with the performance loss. It would explain why the CPUs appear to be unaffected.

I have tested compression. The default compression settings are very aggressive. I set them so that no texture at 8K or under would get compressed, all the textures were under 8K. The render will load faster, which is logical, but it didn't impact the render speed much. It did seem to render just a hair faster, but the margin was so small it could be within error, certainly not enough to explain the issue. So compression is not the problem. But we still have the translation Iray performs. I don't think we can test for that.

OK, click the gear icon on the slider for the problem shape>Parameter Settings, copy the Name (not the Label).

Help>Troubleshooting>View Log File, then search that for the name you just copied to see if there are any errors or warnings related to it.

Dartanbeck said:

Richard Haseltine said:

Because the Clear button is the function that all simualtion engines will support, making it Clear Selected might be problematic with futue additions. I am in the habit of using the pane's option menu, via right-click on the tab, since that is available even if the pane is not the active member of its group.

I truly understand, but it would be nice if there was an option next to "Freeze Simulation" that allows it to be frozen against Clear as well. However, I'm still a very happy dForcer. I do have those times when I lose bucket loads of time, but that's just life. Between the weight editing, surface dForce properties and simulation settings, I think dForce is a pretty slick solution. And as for it being in Daz Studio, it's still brand new - when you thnk about it.

I notice that you are very generous in your praise but you do make a similar point to the one I made about "freeze" should be absolute. As for dForce, I can only compare it to the only other cloth sims I have used (Marvelous Designer and VWD) and both have/had huge advantages over dForce. I mean being able to manipulate the cloth while the simulation is running and also both being so much quicker. Unfortunately, VWD crashed my DAZ Studio repeatedly and we never figured out why. So I think that, as with some other aspects of DAZ Studio, the technology needs to catch up.

I would add that we all want DAZ Studio to be the best it can be which is why so many posts on the forum concentrate on what we think could be improved. 

RuudL said:

I was actually already thinking about posting my developer environments on both Windows and macOS. But I wasn't sure anyone would be interested. So I had put it on the back burner. Currently it's just a collection of notes and it will take some time before it's ready to be posted.

I'll post it in the 'Carrara SDK Developer Discussion' forum. To me that's the most logical place to post it.

+++

no rush on this... that said, *any* knowledge we can record on such tools might help those with familiarity and interest in coding to put together a local workspace where they/we can play/fix/tweak existing plugins and perhaps grow some new ones. Many of us know the nouns and verbs of coding in a specific environment, but few likely know the secret sauce to coding for Carrara (which compilers, library versions, carrara-specific plugin conventions), and having such notes as you mention might really accelerate the immersion process - rather than the now-unlikely "RTFM from scratch" approach.

Most of our collective progress relies on the "shoulders of giants" and the willingness of those generous giants who would give us that leg up.

I'm certain anything you would cobble together would be greatly appreciated by current and future Carrara-ists - even if basic in form!

best wishes and TIA,

--ms

Richard Haseltine said:

Are the the Manifest files still there, in the Manifests folder? There are various things that can break that (mostly local - over-zealous security software, hardware issue). The code for handling this area has not changed so it is unlikely the update is to blame in itself (I did have Malwarebytes decide that updating the thumbnails was a ransom are attack and delete the whole application, had to adjust its settings to resume that process)..

Nothing changed but the IM.

I figured it out. Not sure if this is a bug or feature but if feature it's kinda bizarre. IM can't read hidden folders/files. Hidden is a user facing setting. I enabled it to stop Everything displaying swathes of unrelated daz content on every search. This didn't obviously impact the previous version but based on the implication that code doe handling hasn't changed, I'm guessing that was because nothing had refreshed yet.

Everything is a superior search index for Windows with an unfortunate--non google friendly--name. It can be set not to display results in hidden and system. Everything itself had nothing to do the issue. I only mention it to explain the use case of hiding Daz files that have no day-to-day need to be user exposed in file browser or search.

Daz Studio has no issue with hidden files. I presume IM is using some part of the Windows file management API intended for user display rather than programmatic file access because, as with Studio, it shouldn't matter to IM if the hidden flag is checked or not. At least, no obvious reason for it to matter comes to mind. Thus kinda bizarre.