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One of the first things I did was to assign a keyboard shortcut to "Edit Strand-Based Hair…" It turns out, when I open the editor using the shortcut, the editor is not fully loaded. The only tab available is the Style tab, and several of the buttons surrounding the comb are missing.
I've removed the shortcut for now.
I was able to add the "Edit Strand-Based Hair…" menu icon to the toolbar, and that opens the editor as expected.
What you've found is an "Easter Egg", not a bug. It is entirely intentional as a mode that only provides access to the tools that would be useable to create morphs for the style curves; tools that don't cause the vertex count/order to change. Press/Hold the Ctrl key and launch the editor by clicking the action... Notice anything? Its usefulness is limited for non-PAs, but for PAs it provides a piece of the puzzle that simplifies creating morphs for dForce Hair.
Daz Studio 4.11.0.366 uses a much more current/powerful/complex version of the Iray rendering plugin than 4.10 stable does (if you check their install directories, Iray in 4.10 takes up ~320MB whereas Iray in 4.11 currently takes up ~1.26GB.) Consequently 4.11 takes significantly longer to complete each individual iteration of a render than 4.10 does. However, 4.11 also generates siginificantly more image detail per iteration than 4.10 did - especially if you utilize advanced shaders in your scene.
Interesting. Sounds like the issue for me was the Ctrl key in the sequence, (Ctrl+Shift+H)
Also interesting.
So a better comparison than how many iterations per minute would be the same image in both versions, rendered to the same number of samples, then compared in Photoshop at 100% or better magnification. I just put The Beast to bed, but I'll have to try this tomorrow.
And do not forget with the 4.10 you get 34% Converged in 2 minutes and with the beta 35% in the same time ;)
much slower without Optix
Going to try that using advanced shaders thenOK...
...but is much slower!!
With newer drivers, I should run some more tests. Initially, I determined Optix actually slowed rendering on The Beast. Perhaps that's no longer true…
What determines if a shader is advanced or not? Or how do you tell if a shader is advanced.
Denoiser from Nvidia. is one of the best things in 3D world
Only 3 min render with one of the heaviest scenes.
The first render is 5 min with denoiser
the socond 16.7 min without
The denoiser start at 8 iteration.
Graphic card Nvidia 2070 with 8gb
using layers of shaders, weighted mixing mode instead PBR, SSS, etc
Hi Daz-Team,
Finally had a chance to work with poses yesterday evening.
Read your changelog 4.11.0.366 "Animation / Inverse Kinematics (IK)"
Not 100% sure which improvement exactly applies here,
But as an end-user, I can now grab a finger, hand, or whatever bone type, and adjust the pose so much better!!!
Finally it was fun to pose!
Before, had to select bone with mouse then use parameter sliders to bend, twist, etc.
If not, then too often rest of body would shift, so before you just could not pose efficiently.
There are still a few more complicated poses like calves tucked under thighs where figure goes flippy, when you try to tweak calf outwards.
But overall way nicer to use. Thank you alot!
Sorry for cross-posting but I think I've isolated my problems in this thread to being an issue with the beta: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/328786/iray-error#latest
If you look at my penultimate post in that thread (the first post of 25 May) you will see why I believe its possibly an issue with the beta i.e. CPU renders work OK on the stable release but not in the beta. Unfortunately, as RTX isn't supported in the stable release I can't verify that the GPU works OK in the stable release. Nevertheless, the CPU issue of itself seems fairly conclusive?
I'm having difficulty installing the Beta. I have installed it through DIM, but when I open Daz Studio it is still version 4.10.
I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong and any help would be great. Thank you.
When you installed through DIM, did you get a new D|S icon on your desktop?
How are you trying to open the beta — clicking on the desktop icon, selecting from the Start menu, clicking on a scene file, or what?
The old version remains, 4.10 & you opened that. The new beta version is also installed and will have a different icon.
I found another DS 4.11.0.366 crash situation with the Strand-Based Hair. If I paint a map and put that map in the clumping bias, Das Studio crashes when I start rendering. I will submit a help request with the crash data.
Request #299484 submitted
you need to allow/check on Beta builds on preferences inside DIM.
when you installed correctly the splash screen had changed, the female robot is changed to a red haired dwarf troll.
Hi
Trying Genesis 8 on the BETA - this is what I am getting...
Weird hips.
Genesis 8 is fine on 4.10. Tried purging the BETA install and reinstalling - then purging the entire Daz install and redoing, reinstalling Genesis 8 base.
Other than this constant problem, the BETA runs much better & no other figure is affected.
Running on Wine-staging on Linux.
Is anyone else getting this on Genesis 8 Females?
It's started doing the same on the copy of the latest 4.10 branch on the same installation - but another 4.10 installation that doesn't have the Beta also installed is fine.
Hi guys,
When I run BETA - version 4.11.0.366 with the latest Nvidia drivers Iray renders don't use my GPU (GeForce GTX TITAN X) but revert to CPU only. OS is Windows 10 Pro 64-bit.
any ideas?
even with the latest driver? My BETA uses CPU only, but I'm on NV 416.16, but i can't update. I thought the reason was my old NV driver.
At least you can render CPU only. Until I updated my drivers, all I got was 100% transparency. GPU wouldn't render, but neither did it kick things over to the CPU. (Sorry to hear you can't update.)
@lcattus_9716520438, Sometimes the latest driver isn't the best for Daz Studio. I'm using v418.81 without issue. Others are reporting the v419.xx is working best for them. Find a scene that renders using the GPU in the released version you've got installed. Then update (downgrade,) the drivers to the 419 version. And finally, try rendering the scene you identified as rendering with the GPU from the beta. Does it still kick you to CPU?
I'm currently using version 430.64
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Thanks I'll try some experiments when I get some time.
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Just noticed there is an update of DS Beta in my DIM. Downloading it now.
You know it's been about 2 years for this beta. Be nice if it actually saw the light of day as a general release SOON!
Feels like it, I know. Longest time between releases I've seen since 4.7 was released. (Several months after I got started, so no idea how long between 4.6 and 4.7.) However, dforce was introduced with 4.10, which was released early October of 2017. So closer to 20 months.
(Okay. That's pretty darn close to two years! LOL)
Well - April 17, May 14, and May 29 for the most recent versions. And PhilW is previewing two new dForce hair products that I'm relatively sure won't be released until 4.11 goes live, I think we've gone from "Daz soon" to soon!
Time to grab the 4.10 stand-alone installers or copy the 4.10 DIM files to another directory if you want a way back to 4.10 . . .
I know... like 4 months before it's at the 2 year mark. Adobe doesn't even take that long! LOL
Regardless of published artists throwing awesome new products our way I just don't do beta's and yea, it's been long enough. IMHO anyways.