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In current Studio Version: do AoA Advanced Lights Work?

grinch2901grinch2901 Posts: 1,246
edited December 1969 in The Commons

These lights (Advanced ambient, advanced spot, and advanced distant) are my mainstays and I've seen conflicting info on their compatibility with current version of DAZ Studio. I have not upgraded and will not until I know, as it will require me to redo all my scenes if they don't work anymore. And by work I mean all the features, including flagging.

Does anyone know for sure? Thanks!

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  • MarcCCTxMarcCCTx Posts: 926
    edited January 2015

    Someone came up with a patch for the Graphic Arts Cameras, but I don't know if it fixes the other AoA cameras. I even found a way to make it work on Windows 8.1.

    Found a temporary fix.

    Steps for Windows.
    1. Close DAZ Studio 4.7
    2. Open Advanced System Settings.
    3. Click on Environment Variables.
    4. Click New.
    5. Name: SHADERDL_OPTIONS
    6. Value: -Dtime=0
    7. Click Ok.
    8. Run DAZ Studio.
    9. Open Scene with any Art/Atmospheric Camera.
    10. Happy render.

    This is from this thread.

    By the way this isn't a perfect fix, the light sensitivity range seems much tighter than before.

    Post edited by MarcCCTx on
  • SickleYieldSickleYield Posts: 7,644
    edited December 1969

    grinch2901 said:
    These lights (Advanced ambient, advanced spot, and advanced distant) are my mainstays and I've seen conflicting info on their compatibility with current version of DAZ Studio. I have not upgraded and will not until I know, as it will require me to redo all my scenes if they don't work anymore. And by work I mean all the features, including flagging.

    Does anyone know for sure? Thanks!

    I've had to reinstall mine for some reason, but after the reinstall they worked.

  • grinch2901grinch2901 Posts: 1,246
    edited December 1969

    Okay thanks, I'll give it a try then!

  • grinch2901grinch2901 Posts: 1,246
    edited January 2015

    Testing this now. Seems some settings work, others look like they don't. But still checking.

    As of right now, the "Dont illuminate" condition appears not to work. That is, it's not supposed to illuminate anything that is flagged (in my case "any of these" because this is a low quality settings light for background items) but it's illuminating everything.

    Other conditions with positive settings (i.e. DO illuminate if...) seem to work.

    Post edited by grinch2901 on
  • RuphussRuphuss Posts: 2,631
    edited December 1969

    as this issue is not new I wonder why there is no reaction from Mr and Mrs Daz or AoA here ?

  • HavosHavos Posts: 5,403
    edited December 1969

    ruphuss said:
    as this issue is not new I wonder why there is no reaction from Mr and Mrs Daz or AoA here ?

    AoA owns the product, so only he can fix it. However he has not been seen here on the forums for many months now, so he is either ill, or busy working on other things.

  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634
    edited December 1969

    Havos said:
    ruphuss said:
    as this issue is not new I wonder why there is no reaction from Mr and Mrs Daz or AoA here ?

    AoA owns the product, so only he can fix it. However he has not been seen here on the forums for many months now, so he is either ill, or busy working on other things.That would be both Ill and now busy catching up on his workload.

  • RuphussRuphuss Posts: 2,631
    edited December 1969

    a word would be helpfull

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