Pd-Soft Leather Daz Studio Shaders for Iray

parrotdolphin · March 2015

You can grab these here:
http://www.sharecg.com/v/80223/view/7/Material-and-Shader/Pd-Soft-Leather-Daz-Studio-Shaders-for-Iray
or here:
http://parrotdolphin.deviantart.com/art/Pd-Soft-Leather-Daz-Studio-Shaders-for-Iray-523108353

Features

4 finishes:
* More Shine (shown)
* Less Shine
* More Shine More Grain
* Less Shine More Grain

42 colors for each finish

***** NOTES *****
- These shaders only work with the Iray render engine in Daz Studio 4.8 beta+
- To change the color of the leather, just change the Base Color and the Glossy Color to whatever you want
- you can get interesting effects by using 2 different colors for the Base and Glossy Colors
- To scale, change the Horizontal Tiles and Vertical Tiles in the Geometry/Tiling section of the shader - bigger numbers = smaller leather grain

Use them for anything you want, except you can't sell them**
** It's OK to use them for texture sets (free or commercial)

barbult · March 2015

Hi, these look great. I left you a comment on the ShareCG page. I got an error when trying to apply them. They are looking in C:/Runtime instead of My Library/Runtime where I installed them.

parrotdolphin · March 2015

barbult said:
Hi, these look great. I left you a comment on the ShareCG page. I got an error when trying to apply them. They are looking in C:/Runtime instead of My Library/Runtime where I installed them.

Oops!! Thanks for letting me know! I should have checked for that, but I forgot. Someone else tried them with no issues, so that's weird, I guess. I'll update the files at DA and ShareCG and post back here when I'm done.

parrotdolphin · March 2015

I don't know how to fix these. I changed all the Runtime/Textures references and DS is still trying to find them in C:\Runtime\textures

Here's all the references to the string "jpg" that Notepad++ finds in one of the files:
Search "jpg" (6 hits in 1 file)
C:\Shaders\parrotdolphin\Pd-SoftLeather IRAY\1-More Shine\BlackRedMix.duf (6 hits)
Line 16: "id" : "pdsl-Leather.jpg-1",
Line 17: "name" : "pdsl-Leather.jpg",
Line 21: "url" : "/Runtime/Textures/Pd-SoftLeather/pdsl-Leather.jpg",
Line 22: "label" : "pdsl-Leather.jpg"
Line 3016: "keys" : [ [ 0, "/Runtime/Textures/Pd-SoftLeather/pdsl-Leather.jpg" ] ]
Line 3956: "keys" : [ [ 0, "/Runtime/Textures/Pd-SoftLeather/pdsl-Leather.jpg" ] ]

Then I also tried Runtime/textures (lower case textures) and that didn't work either. I have been restarting DS each time and even refreshing the folders and it still doesn't work. Does DS cache the file references somewhere? I even tried restarting my PC.

I also saved the basic Iray leather to a folder, and that one works fine. The only difference is the texture is a png file, not a jpg. Here's the find on "png" for it in Notepad++.
Search "png" (5 hits in 1 file)
C:\Users\Public\Documents\My DAZ 3D Library\Shaders\parrotdolphin\Pd-SoftLeather IRAY backup\1-More Shine\IrayLeather.duf (5 hits)
Line 16: "id" : "LeatherNormal.png",
Line 17: "name" : "LeatherNormal.png",
Line 21: "url" : "/Runtime/Textures/DAZ/IrayDefaults/LeatherNormal.png",
Line 22: "label" : "LeatherNormal.png"
Line 3060: "keys" : [ [ 0, "/Runtime/Textures/DAZ/IrayDefaults/LeatherNormal.png" ] ]

It looks about the same to me. Not sure what else to do.

barbult · March 2015

I loaded all the .duf files in each folder and applied this Notepad++ replacement to all open files and then saved all. That seems to have fixed the files for me.

barbult · March 2015

Yellow leather applied to each Contemporary Living sofa. Brown leather applied to the sofa welting. These are nice shaders, thanks.

parrotdolphin · March 2015

barbult said:
I loaded all the .duf files in each folder and applied this Notepad++ replacement to all open files and then saved all. That seems to have fixed the files for me.

I loaded all the .duf files in each folder and applied this Notepad++ replacement to all open files and then saved all. That seems to have fixed the files for me.

Yeah, that's what I did too, except I used the "Find in Files" to replace them all (that way you don't have to open them all) But they still aren't working for me. I think I'll just re-upload them without the /C: since they work for you. Thanks very much for doing that, by the way.

Maybe they don't work for me because I was just checking stuff out the other day and I right clicked on the main folder, Pd-SoftLeather IRAY, and there was an option called "Create a Product". Being curious, I clicked on it, and now I have it in the Smart Content under a category called "Unassigned". Maybe DS is reading it from there and they still have the /C:? I wonder how I get rid of this unwanted Smart Content.

And also, NICE RENDER!! :) I like the yellow and grey together!