How to edit a file to change a SubDivision setting ... and other ideas here for October projects

Catherine3678ab

Some products such as https://www.daz3d.com/ab-delpyune-hd-for-genesis-81-female are loading with their subdivision settings too high which guarantees a crashing come render time. Dear PAs please do NOT do that. We can dial the settings up, thank you.

As I couldn't find a way to make a preset I edited the character file which of course I cannot share. But for others working on anything less than a monster-sized computer set-up, here's how.

First, zip up the original for backup and/or the day you do have a monster-sized computer set-up. Unzip the original using 7zip to decompress the info. Unzip to 'here' ... name the extension .txt ...

Then search for 2 specific settings and change their numbers to "1" ... when done, rename the extension to .duf replacing the original one [might have to delete that one first].

Open in Notepad or similiar;

Find:
SubDIALevel
and change the current value to 1 ... "current_value" : 1
SubDRenderLevel
and change the current value to 1 ... "current_value" : 1

The above setting will have the Character displaying with
SubDivision Level 1
Render SubD Level 2

Of course one can adjust the settings for whatever their computer/videocard can handle.

And now I can render in Iray.

Alternatively one can remake the mats to 3Delight and render in 3Delight ... the trickier part is remembering to reset the Render Engine "everytime" one opens D/S [esp. this beta] ....

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Also, there's a nice product for getting a newer looking scary scarecrow figure - on sale today :-)

https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-wraith-for-genesis-8-male

Don't forget to download the free for awhile grave keeper and working graveyard, and some other pink items available over in the freebie thread.

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Very helpful videos for making head - body separate morphs - so one can mix 'n match some figures is here:

Be sure to nab the free D-Former morph he supplies. If your 8.1 is reading 8's morphs, fine. If it isn't, simply copy the morphs also into the appropriate morph folders for 8.1 and they will work :-) 

 

 

Mattymanx

You might want to move this thread to the DS subforum so that it doesn't get lost in the Commons

 

Catherine3678ab

Mattymanx said:

You might want to move this thread to the DS subforum so that it doesn't get lost in the Commons

 

Okay.