Vanishing body parts in Reality...

gederix

I purchased Reality for daz a few months ago but have not used it much as Im still learning the ins and outs of 3delight but also because the renders take far far longer so I figured I'd press on learning daz with 3dlight for now.
However with the recent update to 4.0 I decided to go ahead and run a render test to see how things go. Plus I have also recently built a new computer, i7 proc, 16g ram, etc, (but still have my old nvidia 550ti) to see if rendering went any better because on my old machine it was just ridiculously, uselessly slow.
So I took a scene I have thats fairly complex -- set in enchanted grove but revised (stone floor instead of shallow swamp, pillars, braziers with fire) with 4 figures in the scene.
The male figures Im experimenting with a 3rd party gen prop (OMG2) and have the surfaces set up correctly (as far as I know anyway, created a shader preset from the hip of the figure, applied preset to gen, applied correct textures, bumps, displ, etc) , and everything renders great in 3delight (using uberenv2, an area mesh and a few uber spots, as well as some point lights in the fires, etc). Renders perfectly.
So to test in reality I ripped out all my daz lights and dropped in the Reality Sun light. Rotated it around until I likes the look of things and started the render with just the sun as my light source.
On my new rig the render is much faster than before but i still had to let it cook for a couple of days to even begin to see whats what and as things began to clear up I noticed that all the male gens were gone.
So I stop the render and go back to the daz scene, restart the reality export and check my materials in the reality window and according to it the gens exist, the surfaces preview properly in the materials editor window at least.
So I have not a clue what to look at or check for next. Anyone have any idea at all why this would happen? What I should do?

StratDragon

gederix said:

I purchased Reality for daz a few months ago but have not used it much as Im still learning the ins and outs of 3delight but also because the renders take far far longer so I figured I'd press on learning daz with 3dlight for now.
However with the recent update to 4.0 I decided to go ahead and run a render test to see how things go. Plus I have also recently built a new computer, i7 proc, 16g ram, etc, (but still have my old nvidia 550ti) to see if rendering went any better because on my old machine it was just ridiculously, uselessly slow.
So I took a scene I have thats fairly complex -- set in enchanted grove but revised (stone floor instead of shallow swamp, pillars, braziers with fire) with 4 figures in the scene.
The male figures Im experimenting with a 3rd party gen prop (OMG2) and have the surfaces set up correctly (as far as I know anyway, created a shader preset from the hip of the figure, applied preset to gen, applied correct textures, bumps, displ, etc) , and everything renders great in 3delight (using uberenv2, an area mesh and a few uber spots, as well as some point lights in the fires, etc). Renders perfectly.
So to test in reality I ripped out all my daz lights and dropped in the Reality Sun light. Rotated it around until I likes the look of things and started the render with just the sun as my light source.
On my new rig the render is much faster than before but i still had to let it cook for a couple of days to even begin to see whats what and as things began to clear up I noticed that all the male gens were gone.
So I stop the render and go back to the daz scene, restart the reality export and check my materials in the reality window and according to it the gens exist, the surfaces preview properly in the materials editor window at least.
So I have not a clue what to look at or check for next. Anyone have any idea at all why this would happen? What I should do?

Check if the "Visible in Raytracing" flag is enabled.

Theres are similar threads started over at RDNA
http://forum.runtimedna.com/showthread.php?77761-Missing-figures-and-props-when-setting-up-scene

http://forum.runtimedna.com/showthread.php?95234-Reality-4-Genesis2-grapht-genitalia-not-appearing-in-the-render

gederix

I tried to reply when you posted but the forums kept giving me an error, sorry.
I have not yet checked the visibility flag as I figured out how to do something else in daz and it has consumed my daz-time the last few days, but thanks for your reply!