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Daz Studio 4.14 Coming This Month?

SevrinSevrin Posts: 6,310
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So along with their updated Studio Driver, Nvidia announced we'd be getting 4.14 this month.  It's kind of odd to get this kind of news from a third party, but Daz's communication strategy is opaque at the best of times.

With Daz’s new bridges to Maya, Blender, 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Unity and Unreal, users with NVIDIA RTX GPUs can render scenes faster than ever before.  Daz Studio 4.14, coming later this month, delivers an Iray 2020.1 update supporting RTX 30 Series GPUs. With RTX 30 Series GPUs, users will see dramatic improvements in rendering speeds -- up to twice as fast as TITAN RTX!

https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/geforce/news/october-2020-nvidia-studio-driver/

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  • benniewoodellbenniewoodell Posts: 1,986

    Oh, this makes me excited as I just got a new Alienware computer yesterday with the 3090. It won't get to me until like the second week of November they said, but I can't wait to see how fast the renders come out! 

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,257
    edited October 2020

    ...hope it's still compatible with my "steam era" system and W7.

    Excuse me, have to stoke the boiler some more.

    Post edited by kyoto kid on
  • 3Diva3Diva Posts: 11,748
    kyoto kid said:

    ...hope it's still compatible with my "steam era" system and W7.

    Excuse me, have to stoke the boiler some more.

    ROFL laugh

  • fred9803fred9803 Posts: 1,564

    The very fact that Daz got their new iteration of DS to work with Ampere (NVIDIA) deserves a lot of praise. We thought it would take months for them to get their act together. I'm pleasently surprised and give credit where it's due. Well done DAZ!

  • tsaristtsarist Posts: 1,618
    So Daz is skipping version. 4.13? Well, I guess something is happening because I went to my product library & when I click on DazStudio 4.x all I get is a "swirly".
  • joseftjoseft Posts: 310
    tsarist said:
    So Daz is skipping version. 4.13? Well, I guess something is happening because I went to my product library & when I click on DazStudio 4.x all I get is a "swirly".

     

    my guess is Nvidia dun typo'd it, and it should actually be 4.13

    if not, maybe Daz is jumping on the confusing naming scheme bandwagon, to join in with the hardware industry. Skipping numbers is pretty mild in comparison :)

  • KeryaKerya Posts: 10,943
    joseft said:
    tsarist said:
    So Daz is skipping version. 4.13? Well, I guess something is happening because I went to my product library & when I click on DazStudio 4.x all I get is a "swirly".

     

    my guess is Nvidia dun typo'd it, and it should actually be 4.13

    if not, maybe Daz is jumping on the confusing naming scheme bandwagon, to join in with the hardware industry. Skipping numbers is pretty mild in comparison :)

     

    Or it may be that somebody at Daz is superstitious, or they are afraid there are superstitious users who wouldn't get a 4.13 ...

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,320
    edited October 2020

    I can only guess it's going to integrate iRay's new native support for things like strand based hair & such in DAZ Studio. 

    Post edited by nonesuch00 on
  • PaintboxPaintbox Posts: 1,633

    Someone from Daz mentioned that they indeed would be skipping 4.13 (can't remember the reason)

    Question : If the beta runs well, which it does for the most part, can I assume the full version will too? I don't want any unexpected surprises :)

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,601

    I hope some Filament shader bricks and base shaders for stuff like emission

    and opacity, I am pretty sure the engine supports opacity better that we are seeing just not using the mathematics of the existing DAZ shaders

    I think it could be a twosided issue too

    it does apparently support emission too from the documentation

  • 3Diva3Diva Posts: 11,748
    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    I hope some Filament shader bricks and base shaders for stuff like emission

    and opacity, I am pretty sure the engine supports opacity better that we are seeing just not using the mathematics of the existing DAZ shaders

    I think it could be a twosided issue too

    it does apparently support emission too from the documentation

    +1

  • BendinggrassBendinggrass Posts: 1,373
    kyoto kid said:

    ...hope it's still compatible with my "steam era" system and W7.

    Excuse me, have to stoke the boiler some more.

    Love your steam-punk, coal fired, difference engine. Beautiful case..... cast iron? About as big as my shed out back...... :)

  • fastbike1fastbike1 Posts: 4,078

    Studio Beta 4.12.2.50 has Iray 2020.1.1 in it. https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/335016/daz-studio-pro-4-12-nvidia-iray#latest

  • LeanaLeana Posts: 11,842
    Paintbox said:
    Question : If the beta runs well, which it does for the most part, can I assume the full version will too? I don't want any unexpected surprises :)

    The General Release issued after a beta is usually the same version as the latest beta made available, so if that beta worked for you then the General Release is likely to, unless you have lots of differences between your beta and general release setups (like for example plugins causing problems with that version which you had installed only for the general release so you didn't see the problems )

  • SevrinSevrin Posts: 6,310
    Paintbox said:

    Someone from Daz mentioned that they indeed would be skipping 4.13 (can't remember the reason)

    Question : If the beta runs well, which it does for the most part, can I assume the full version will too? I don't want any unexpected surprises :)

    What kind of a surprise would it be if you expected it?

  • The RED CrownThe RED Crown Posts: 247
    edited October 2020
    Sevrin said:
    Paintbox said:

    Someone from Daz mentioned that they indeed would be skipping 4.13 (can't remember the reason)

    Question : If the beta runs well, which it does for the most part, can I assume the full version will too? I don't want any unexpected surprises :)

    What kind of a surprise would it be if you expected it?

    Makes me fly in my room .wink

    Version 4.15 make money . laugh

    Post edited by The RED Crown on
  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,257
    edited October 2020
    Bendinggrass said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...hope it's still compatible with my "steam era" system and W7.

    Excuse me, have to stoke the boiler some more.

    Love your steam-punk, coal fired, difference engine. Beautiful case..... cast iron? About as big as my shed out back...... :)

    ...actualy it fits pretty well in the flat. Stero surround, multiple display, even a docking port for one of those new fangled "smart telephones".

    Post edited by kyoto kid on
  • markgoode77markgoode77 Posts: 343
    kyoto kid said:
    Bendinggrass said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...hope it's still compatible with my "steam era" system and W7.

    Excuse me, have to stoke the boiler some more.

    Love your steam-punk, coal fired, difference engine. Beautiful case..... cast iron? About as big as my shed out back...... :)

    ...actualy it fits pretty well in the flat. Stero surround, multiple display, even a docking port for one of those new fangled "smart telephones".

    I want one.

  • PaintboxPaintbox Posts: 1,633
    Leana said:
    Paintbox said:
    Question : If the beta runs well, which it does for the most part, can I assume the full version will too? I don't want any unexpected surprises :)

    The General Release issued after a beta is usually the same version as the latest beta made available, so if that beta worked for you then the General Release is likely to, unless you have lots of differences between your beta and general release setups (like for example plugins causing problems with that version which you had installed only for the general release so you didn't see the problems )

    Thank you! Gives me some peace of mind :)

     

  • PaintboxPaintbox Posts: 1,633
    Sevrin said:

    What kind of a surprise would it be if you expected it?

    Somehow I see Captain Jack Sparrow saying this. :D

    Thanks for the laugh!

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,601
    Paintbox said:
    Leana said:
    Paintbox said:
    Question : If the beta runs well, which it does for the most part, can I assume the full version will too? I don't want any unexpected surprises :)

    The General Release issued after a beta is usually the same version as the latest beta made available, so if that beta worked for you then the General Release is likely to, unless you have lots of differences between your beta and general release setups (like for example plugins causing problems with that version which you had installed only for the general release so you didn't see the problems )

    Thank you! Gives me some peace of mind :)

     

    I got caught out by that assumption with 4.12 and the Optix Prime unchecking being disabled 

    so not always 

  • khorneV2khorneV2 Posts: 147
    kyoto kid said:

    ...hope it's still compatible with my "steam era" system and W7.

    Excuse me, have to stoke the boiler some more.

    laugh

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