How do I use Iray?

zug22

HI, I just spent a heap of money going from Mac to Windows so that I can have nice Iray renders with Nvidia GPUs  . . . The first thing I noticed is that all of my old Mac images are darker and yellowish in Windows - but that is another question. . 

Where can I find how to adjust settings in Iray and what settings to adjust? So far all of the vids I have seen seem to be talking about settings that either aren't in my DAZ Studio 4.10 version of Iray or I already know about them because they don't affect rendering.

Where's the useful stuff so I can use Iray properly?

Richard Haseltine

The settings are in the Editor tab of render settings, if you start with Iray materials on the models. Do you have any HDR environment sets? If not try a few renders with the deault settings, using the Ruins map, and then start experimenting with the Tone Mapping settings befopre moving on to adding local lights (spots and points) with the geometry options (in the light parameters) to make them more interesting (soft shadows, non-point reflections).

Fishtales

The tint on your images will have to do with your monitor and graphics settings in windows.

For Iray have a read at this.

http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/referenceguide/interface/panes/render_settings/engine/nvidia_iray/environment/start

http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/referenceguide/interface/panes/render_settings/engine/nvidia_iray/tone_mapping/start

JD_Mortal

"all of my old Mac images are darker and yellowish in Windows"...

 

If they are darker and yellow, in windows... Chances are, they were darker and yellow on your Mac too... You may have had the brightness cranked-up on your mac, and crippled yellows (or boosted red/blue)... If your monitor had crippled yellows, or your video-card was boosting red/blue, you compensated by adding more yellow or reducing red/blue in your renders. Apple tends to determine what things you want, without your consent, including screen colors, contrasts, brightnesses. With windows, you get what the values are. You have to make them look the way you want. However, I don't suggest that you change your monitor to make your images look good. You surely have the "default" settings that the rest of the world has, who doesn't have a crippled Mac. Move forward from this point, onward.

 

However, You should still adjust your monitor so you have the most "true" base colors. (Even without that, you can use any "human" photograph for a color-reference. Even on a bad monitor.)

 

Take the time to learn how to use this site... It pays-off, in the end.

http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/