AoA subsurface shader white-out

DaWaterRat

Please forgive any typos or auto-corrects, as I'm typing this from my tablet while I try to fix this on my desktop computer.

I'm having an issue with the AoA shader where when I load in a scene where I have previously applied and the AOA shader, when I render it, the areas that have the AoA shader are, effectively blanked out. If I reset the surface to Daz default and then re-apply the shader preset, it works fine, but I'd rather not have to reset the shaderes every time. especially when I've made some modifications tomynoriginal presets.

Now, I know there have been a couple of updates to the AoA shader since I made these presets (but not since I made the scene, since that was just last night), so might that have something to do with it?

Mistara

we been there :)

1st trick is to delete the brickyard under your roaming apps folder
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewreply/603811/

also try fix via shademixer http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewreply/604483/

the other try was to reapply the subsurface shader base

something about tilemaker corrupting sdl files, (can't find the original post)

DaWaterRat

Thanks. I'll take a closer look once I can use my desktop again. (This is one of those huge "shut down any program you don't need" memory hog images. Primarily because I didn't bother to trim down all the character texture files.)

Mistara

those tif normal maps for the g2 figs are Hugemongous :lol:

can't remember where i saw it, there's preset to turn off sss for their mouth surfaces.

DaWaterRat

Oh, these are all Genesis 1. There are just 7 of them, each with their own textures, most with hair, and while several of the guys are showing off their pecs, only two really count as skimpwear.

And a fair amount of arms, armor bits, and jewelry, which is what had the AoA shaders applied

Testing6790

I just save my current view as a camera and close / reopen the scene and that usuallyfixes it

Mistara

DaWaterRat said:

Oh, these are all Genesis 1. There are just 7 of them, each with their own textures, most with hair, and while several of the guys are showing off their pecs, only two really count as skimpwear.

And a fair amount of arms, armor bits, and jewelry, which is what had the AoA shaders applied

hmm guys in skimpwear, highly intriguing :)

DaWaterRat

Paradigm67 said:

I just save my current view as a camera and close / reopen the scene and that usually fixes it

This was the first (well, second, but the first time I did the "reapply shader" route) time I'd been hit with this particular bug. And a re-load was probably going to take as long (or longer) than wound up taking me to fix it.

Misty Whisky said:

Oh, these are all Genesis 1. There are just 7 of them, each with their own textures, most with hair, and while several of the guys are showing off their pecs, only two really count as skimpwear. And a fair amount of arms, armor bits, and jewelry, which is what had the AoA shaders applied

hmm guys in skimpwear, highly intriguing :)
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