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Can someone please explain why I get black renders in DAZ Studio?

contedesfeescontedesfees Posts: 254
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I'm using  DAZ Studio 4.12. Over and over again, I get renders that are simply a black panel. Nothing to be seen. The perspective view displays what I arranged. The render is a black panel. I'm stumped.  Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you to all.

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,804

    Iray? What is your driver version, assuming you are using the GPU to render? Check by right-click on the desktop>nVidia Control Panel.

  • contedesfeescontedesfees Posts: 254

    And which of those parameters are causing the problem? My GPU driver's up to date. I downloaded it last week.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,804

    Just to be sure, please post the actual version number.

  • contedesfeescontedesfees Posts: 254

    Thanks for yours, Richard, it's appreciated. My GPU is an MSI GeForce GTX 1650; driver date 2020-04-03; version nmbr 26.21.14.4587. Not quite two months old. It should work like Jesus on Sunday.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,804

    I think that is OK, but the usual format is xxx.xx, or xxx.xxx depending on how many iteration that version has been through - on Windows it should show under the logo as soom as you open the nVidia Control Panel window.

  • DMaxDMax Posts: 637

    Some investigations and learning in this thread... hopefully you can find something helpful there!
    https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/261176/rendering-and-getting-a-black-render#latest

  • alexhcowleyalexhcowley Posts: 2,386

    Has your camera become embedded in a wall or other object?  This can cause black renders. 

    Cheers,

    Alex. 

  • leohr_aicragleohr_aicrag Posts: 13

    Greetings,

     

    If memory serves me correctly, I believe this will be my first post!

     

    I wouldn't say I'm brand-spanking new to DAZ and 3D in general - I started exploring 3D with DAZ/Sketchup/Blender back in circa May 2015 . . . but within a few weeks eventually I back-burnered Blender/Sketchup because DAZ is a heck of a lot easier to use and get decent results with - but I have the opportunity to render in DAZ/Iray only during my spare time . . . so while I began this wonderful hobby of 3D art several years ago, I very much consider myself to still be a beginner.

     

    Very recently I also began getting black renders in Iray and for me the fix was to go into the "Render Settings" tab and change the "Render Mode" parameter to "Interactive".

     

    Otherwise, in the "Render Settings" tab under the "Environment" parameter my "Environment Mode" is set "Dome and Scene", the "Dome Mode" setting is "Infinite Sphere", and "Draw Dome" is set to "On". For me this works even with no spotlights, distant lights, etc. in the scene, and also if my camera "Headlamp Mode" is set to "Off".

     

    I'm using DAZ edition 4.12.1.118 Pro under Windows 10 Home 64-bit running on a GeForce GTX 1070 graphics card with (from memory - I don't know how to tell exactly and confirm on my computer) 4GB of GPU memory.

     

    Caveat: the black rendering for me has been inconsistent and sometimes whenever I create a new scene from scratch then inexplicably I get black renders again even if I didn't change anything under my "Render Settings" tab. For me the fix for this is to go back to "Render Settings" and toggle the "Render Mode" back to "Photoreal" (keeping all the other settings above the same).

     

    I hope ths response is helpful because as a beginner I certainly know the frustration of getting nowhere after rendering a scene. Thank goodness for these forums and all the artists out there who are guiding others. In all of the other technical posts I've read if an issue was one I had encountered and solved before some poster before me had already responded and proffered the same solution I would have suggested, so I didn't see any need to beat a dead horse. However, responding to this query seemed like it would be helpful. I hope it puts you on track to solving the issue, and I apologize if it came to late but I am mostly just a lurker look over the forums only occasionally. Notwithstanding I admit that potentially helping out someone else feels very gratifying and motivates me to go to the newbie forum and formally introduce myself. Who knows, perhaps I might even upload some renders.

     

    Anyway, enough of my mindless bantering. Good luck with solving the issue if you haven't solved it already.

     

     

     

     

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