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Click the icon next to the eye, a pointer with a check mark, to make it unselectable (the check turns to an x) or multi-seelct items you want to click through and use the Selectable button in Parameters.
A light emitting surface has to be visible, but a light with non-point geometry can be set to Render Emitter false to stop it from blocking the camera.
It does?
Hmm thinking I'm misunderstanding how it works, or missed a button; well there are lots of buttons and I've missed a few, and have no clue what others do. :) So... it's certainly possible.
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Well damn me, I never noticed the new window setting; thank you for that.
Well I have a new feature for DAZ Studio 5 I'd like to see and that is the AMD ProRender engine being adding to our list of render engine choices.
+1
+1 for me too.
No no. This is a longstanding and well known issue. DAZ will likely never fix it. I hope they do. But considering the number of years it's been like that, not keeping my hopes up, hence my joking about it being a feature I'd like to see fixed.
1 - Make the Surfaces and shader mixer all one window. Make one entire window so users can see what all is going on. Make the shader mixer mess understandable to the newbies. Dump the Poser way of the labrinth of nodes and craziness and make it digestable. It's made way way more difficult than it really is. If you release a PRO version of something... make it PRO and not for tech geeks only.
2 - If I hit 'copy' on a material zone... COPY IT. Right now if I copy it, it only seems to copy the last parameter I had highlighted. So, I have to save the zone as ashader preset to actually make it work... when I thought 'copy' as going to actually 'copy' the entire zone... and not just one setting. DAZ's ability to select multiples elements on the fly is the absolute badass bomb... if it could with whole material zone sets and transfer them over in single clicks... a thousand yummies!!
3 - If DAZ is committed to IRAY full board but still supporting 3DL... then support both. I want to buy fabulous DAZ content, not thousand dollar graphics cards. If IRAY becomes the sole texture/shader my store buying will dump hard. Unless DAZ comes up with a script to make IRAY shaders 3DL ready. If you created this and it worked 100% I'd be a DAZ Connect junky and loudly praise it in the forums. Support 3DL 100% and your customers will back you.
4 - Create a V4 DUF ready base shader/material like the HSS/UBER... that is VERY easy for Vicki4 users to make all their Poser textures work in DAZ as a basic template. It doesn't have to be kickass quality... just a basic material that makes all old textures ready for a basic 3DL render... instead V4 users having to do it manually... and you will win even more customers. Ease of use is Daz Studio's badassery... make it even more easy to use for oldtimers who spent all that money on your previous Vickis.
5 - Give Fixmypcmike and Richard Haseltine a raise!! They rock beyond belief
I wouldn't want Shader Mixer up on the surface tab: the surface adjustments to a shaders' settings need to be readily available as I work with the object, but the gears and pipes of the shader itself are independent of my mesh, and of my viewport. It would, however, help to know which shaders (Iray Uber, Daz Default, others?) build their node-trees internally and which do not--- AoA's SSS, for instance, works from a S/M node tree, an so do my Noir shaders, but the omUberSurface/UberLight/UberVolume don't even pull up anything in S/M, et cetera...
Ready-made V4 base material settings, map independent, for Iray or for 3DL, are easy enough to make and readily available on SCG or dA if you dig a bit.
Some vendors only support one renderer and some only support another. I wouldn't make it a requirement to support both except in DOs.
+ 10 on copying materials: we should be able to select all (as in every single one of the) parameters of a selected material, or only these four, or whichever as needed, when we want to copy material settings from one surface to another. For that matter, a dialogue that says "The target surface shader does not match the source material. Do you want to apply the source shader?" would be helpful as well. Some times you don't want to copy shader and all, but some times you do.
I've put in a Feature Request for Hierarchical Material Presets not to apply to every material in the mesh automatically.
+32,294
This is one thing from Poser that I absolutely, truly miss in Studio, and am frustrated by the lack of many times.
Totally agree with this. There are so many times when you want to adjust just one little bit of geometry, which would be natural as anything in any modeller, but there's no magic morph that you've bought that covers that one area. It would solve so many problems with conforming items and weird figure morph issues.
THIS!
To add to the first point.... A friend over at Hivewire was trying to recreate some effects from Poser for DAZ Studio and found that the Shader Mixer when showing the previews would crash out DAZ Studio each and every time. So there is horrible bugs in this area that need to be addressed and yea please make this a bit more streamlined. It's a mess. Ken had to hook up 3 times the nodes in Shader Mixer to achieve the same effect he got from Poser's nodes. Ridiculous!
To add to the second point.... I couldn't agree more. Why can't we just right click on one sub surface area and copy and paste that? Should be more ease of use abilities in this area.
To add to the third point.... I agree. In the new Poser 11 the shaders and material settings are compatible (within reason) for both Firefly and Superfly. I know that for a fact because my Equipment pack for Hivewire had allot of metals and they looked great under BOTH rendering engines. Sure there were small differeces but imagine being able to set up skin, metal, cloth and all the rest in DAZ Studio and have them all render beautifully under both rendering engines? That would rock so hard! Seriously!
I'd like light to be in one location for Iray. I realize there is a utility to do this but having the lights in multiple areas is counter intuitive.
Material copy/paste in DAZ|Studio has always had a few wrinkles that sometimes trip people up. The copy picks up parameter names, and the paste affects those parameters with names that match the copy material. The shader type isn't involved. This becomes a problem when you try to copy/paste two materials with different shaders — it's common for different 3Delight shaders, e.g. UberSurface, AoA SSS, HSS and D|S Default to have parameters that do the same thing but have different names. The whole thing is more complicated if you want to toss Iray into the mix; it has very few parameter names in common with the standard 3Delight shaders. Change the base shader type of your paste material first, then you can do the copy/paste.
Why doesn't it just copy the entire base shader as part of the copy function though?
I think it's for consistency - if you copy from a bone to another bone it copies the settings, not the joint parameters; if you copy from a surface to another surface it copies the settings, not the shader.
Including the option to copy the shader base as well would be very welcome.
Absolutely agree. +32,295!
an export or transfer g3m to carrara
Render resolution can be scene or Camera specific, unlike now where it applies everywhere.
And also more than one Auxillary Viewport.
Carrara has to be updated to use the Genesis 3s, an exporter/importer would just be stripping out features that make the Genesis 3s new and improved.
I don't know about it.
What is the ticket number?
Just one thing I noticed last night:
It MAY be a bug in DS.
If I open up a Poser-format file with a broken link, DS DOES call up a 'Find It' alert box...so you CAN surf your system and locate the files.
IF my assessment of this is correct...if it IS a bug...hopefully we COULD see a fixed 'Grey Box' that allows link finding in v5.0? PUH-LLLEEESEEEE?!
Be well, all.
Greg
One thing I would like... Is there a way to tweak expressions without having the guides show up over the face? I can't see often what the expression looks like, when I choose the head and dial something in. I'd like not to see the navigation/arrow box.
Switch to node select.
That's what I do is change expressins in node select
Thanks guys! I will try that.
You can do this! create a camera > select the camera in the parameters tab and camera there is a section labled dimensions, select that and then hit "use local dimensions"
Correct.