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AoA Advanced Ambient Light and Studio 4.8

ZwytZwyt Posts: 138
edited March 2015 in Daz Studio Discussion

Okay it appears that AoA Advanced Ambient Light is not working in 4.8 for some reason. When I try a render I get no light in the scene from it and some of the parameters are missing from the parameters tab. Oh yeah and that was not with an Iray render but with a 3Delight render. It works fine in 4.7, I have not tested any of AoA other lights. Anyone else noticed this?

Charles

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  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,750
    edited December 1969

    You need to install the AoA lights into DS 4.8.

  • ZwytZwyt Posts: 138
    edited December 1969

    barbult said:
    You need to install the AoA lights into DS 4.8.

    Oh, okay, I was assuming that like my other content that if they showed up in the content library in 4,8 that they would work. Is there a way to do this using install manager or do I need to do it manually?

    Charles

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,750
    edited December 1969

    I used DIM. I went to the Installed tab and uninstalled them. Then I went to the Ready to Install tab and installed them again. After that, they seemed to work in DS 4.8 (with 3delight) in the same way they worked in DS 4.7. They do not work in Iray, because they are based on 3delight shader technology.

  • SpottedKittySpottedKitty Posts: 7,232
    edited December 1969

    zwyt said:
    Oh, okay, I was assuming that like my other content that if they showed up in the content library in 4,8 that they would work.

    That applies to most content, but the AoA lights aren't just what you see in the content tabs. They're just presets for the actual light plugin files which are installed to the DAZ|Studio program folder. Since the current release version 4.7 and the beta 4.8 are installed into different locations, the beta doesn't know about the light plugin files until you install them.
  • R25SR25S Posts: 595
    edited December 1969

    so it is not possible to have them in 4.7 and 4.8 because I have to unistall them in 4.7 while I install them in 4.8?

    if that is so I think I leave them in 4.7 because since they did not work with iray it is not necessery to have them in 4.8

  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,600
    edited December 1969

    R25S said:
    so it is not possible to have them in 4.7 and 4.8 because I have to unistall them in 4.7 while I install them in 4.8?

    if that is so I think I leave them in 4.7 because since they did not work with iray it is not necessery to have them in 4.8

    No, if you uninstall and reinstall them with DIM they will be installed to both.

  • R25SR25S Posts: 595
    edited December 1969

    thank you for that Information; did it right now.

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