Shaders

Antaus

Fairly simple question, how do I use shaders? I'm wondering because I have Daz 4.6 which only seems to read .duf format files. I have both Gemologica and Ultimate Shaders Pack, the problem is when I select something and click on the shader option nothing happens. I'm still kinda new in this area.

Richard Haseltine

You use shaders every tiem you render, and change shaders (or at least settings0 every time you apply a material set. You can also have shader presets, which is what Gemologica includes - for those you need to select both the item and the surfaces on the item that you wish to apply the shader to, since Shader Presets are generic rather than being for a specific item. I'm not sure what you mean by Ultimate Shader Pack - if it's for DS I would imagine the same applies, if it's for another application (such as Carrara) then it won't do anything for DAZ Studio.

Antaus

What I mean is that the shaders won't apply. I click on them nothing happens, render and there's no change. I'm trying to apply Gemologica shaders to a primative and it worked fine in earlier versions of Daz before it went to the .duf format.

fixmypcmike

Did you select the surfaces in the Surface pane?

Antaus

It's things like this that make me feel stupid, works fine now...