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Trouble getting Reality 4 to work

Rowan_Jedi_KnightRowan_Jedi_Knight Posts: 34
edited December 1969 in Daz Studio Discussion

I have downloaded LuxRender 1.3.1 and installed it to C: Program Files/LuxRender, and Reality 4 is successfully registered. When i call on the Render, it says it is 'unconnected', on the initial 'Reality 4' splash screen. I can set materials and other parameters, but no image renders at all. I cannot find anything about this in documentation, so perhaps i am missing something obvious. I used Reality 2.5 a lot and it worked fine with Daz Studio 4.6. I run DS 4.7 now. I wonder if someone could tell me what might be wrong.

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  • PlatnumkPlatnumk Posts: 671
    edited December 1969

    Can you re-produce the problem if so then post a short step by step guide so we can see if you are doing something wrong as that should only appear if DS is not running.

    Quick Question :- are you running Reality from DS or from its stand alone program?

  • Rowan_Jedi_KnightRowan_Jedi_Knight Posts: 34
    edited December 1969

    I will work on this. But i am running Reality from DS, calling it from DS once i set up the scene. The Reality 4 splash appears very briefly, and in its upper right corner
    it says 'unconnected'.

    When i installed Reality 4, i then managed to register it. But i discovered that i hadn't downloaded LuxRender 1.3.1 yet. I did this yesterday. Maybe i didn't do it in the right order, as i should have had that version in hand before. I was using Reality 2.5 up to purchasing Reality 4, and was really getting into it.

  • SimonJMSimonJM Posts: 5,997
    edited December 1969

    Along the lines of 'is it plugged in?', have you told Reality where to find LuxRender?

  • Rowan_Jedi_KnightRowan_Jedi_Knight Posts: 34
    edited December 1969

    The Reality User Guide told me where to do that, and it seems i have, it says 'C:Program Files/LuxRender. It doesn't allow any selection of files in that folder, it only selects the folder. It is very weird, DS says the Reality 4 plugin is installed into DS (i looked at "Installed Plugins' and it has the green indicator. I am frankly stumped. But i am still thinking hard.

  • PlatnumkPlatnumk Posts: 671
    edited December 1969

    One thing to test, make sure that Reality isn't blocked by your ant-virus or firewall software. Reality needs full network access to connect with Daz Studio.

  • Rowan_Jedi_KnightRowan_Jedi_Knight Posts: 34
    edited December 1969

    My firewall allows "LuxRemder Slave" in the path C:\Program Files\ LuxRender|luxconsole.exe. My antivirus allows it in the path C:\ Program Files\ LuxRender. And of course Reality doesn't render anything as i call it from DS. It evidently converts meshes to Lux things, from the momentary descriptions that are flashed. I'm trying to mention everything i can notice because i don't have a clue to what is wrong. Thanks for all the feedback!

  • PlatnumkPlatnumk Posts: 671
    edited February 2015

    Try disabling both your firewall and anti-virus and seeing if that cures the problem, if so then we know that its either your firewall or anti-virus that is the cause.

    Edit: make sure that Reality is in your firewall's allow list

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  • Rowan_Jedi_KnightRowan_Jedi_Knight Posts: 34
    edited December 1969

    In closely re-reading the Reality 4 user guide, it says it is very important not to run the plugin before you install LuxRender 1.3.1 first. Well, that is what i did, so i think i need
    to uninstall the Reality 4 plugin, then reinstall it again (as i do now have LuxRender installed). I didn't realize i hadn't the right version of LuxRender before i ran the plugin, silly me. But i don't really know how you uninstall the plugin from DS.

  • PlatnumkPlatnumk Posts: 671
    edited December 1969

    Inside you DAZ 3D folder you should find a folder called Plugins, Delete the REALITY folder inside that.

    If using Windows then you DAZ 3D folder should be under Program Files, If using a MAC then it will be under APPLICATIONS

    For instance you would find the Reality Plugin here under windows - 'Program Files/DAZ 3D/DAZStudio4 64-bit/Plugins/Reality'

    Rowan_Jedi_Knight said:
    In closely re-reading the Reality 4 user guide, it says it is very important not to run the plugin before you install LuxRender 1.3.1 first. Well, that is what i did, so i think i need
    to uninstall the Reality 4 plugin, then reinstall it again (as i do now have LuxRender installed). I didn't realize i hadn't the right version of LuxRender before i ran the plugin, silly me. But i don't really know how you uninstall the plugin from DS.
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