I need to set the viewport to render in real time with decent quality.

Flortale

The default texture shaded viewport looks horrible. It doesn't show the textures of Genesis 8 female properly.

I need to set the viewport to something faster than interactive that doesn't need to constantly refresh by forcing the viewport to go black.

I need a way to render the viewport in real time with some decent quality.

Richard Haseltine

You can try experimenting with Window>Panes(Tabs)>Draw Settings to see if you can improve the speed of the Iray preview. However, the screen reverts to smooth shaded while the scene is being prepared for the render so i don't know that you could do much about that stage. I've never tried it but people have reported that the Octane plug-in does a "better" job, however theya re measuring that, than the iray - but that of course is a switch of engine, to one which doesn't have presets 9and isn't free, as far as I know, though I believe the next version of Octane was said to be going to be free for personal use).

Flortale

Richard Haseltine said:

You can try experimenting with Window>Panes(Tabs)>Draw Settings to see if you can improve the speed of the Iray preview. However, the screen reverts to smooth shaded while the scene is being prepared for the render so i don't know that you could do much about that stage. I've never tried it but people have reported that the Octane plug-in does a "better" job, however theya re measuring that, than the iray - but that of course is a switch of engine, to one which doesn't have presets 9and isn't free, as far as I know, though I believe the next version of Octane was said to be going to be free for personal use).

Good to know. It's unfortunate there isn't a faster solution for the viewport without having to prepare the scene.

Poser 11's default viewport works great in near real time and accurately shows the textures at 4k resolution without having to constantly black the screen for preparation.  This is the first time Poser does something better than DAZ, but that's fine. DAZ makes up for it by being better at EVERYTHING ELSE, lol.

ebergerly

Try these settings if you're doing Iray preview:

1. Render Settings/General/Auto Headlamp = Never
2. Draw Settings/Drawing/Response Threshold (msec) = 5000
3. Draw Settings/Drawing/Inactive Viewport Delay = Off
4. Edit/Preferences/Interface/Display Optimization = Best
5. Use Perspective View when manipulating, since any Camera view is generally much slower, especially if you have a light parented to the camera like a headlamp
6. Avoid using "Point At" if you want your character's eyes to point at the camera. That will slow the camera view manipulation a lot.