has anyone managed to render Enchanted Forest 1 in Iray

WendyLuvsCatz

I can render Stonemasons Enchanted Forest 1 easily sans skydome in Octane render DS in a second!!! and even 3Delight if not in a hurry
and certainly in Carrara, Poser or iClone but using Iray it just never seems to get past 0%
now on the otherhand Andrey Petroskys Nature Lake and forest which is impossible to load in carrara and too much for Octane renders in Iray in about 2 hours and compared to EF1 it is massive texture and polygon wise!!!! Yes it uses CPU but it does render EF1 never does, Reality can handle it fine too btw so what gives with Iray and that set??

Richard Haseltine

It's working here - currently on 17%. However there are a lot of transmapped surfaces so it's possible it may sometimes fall foul of the down Iray bug with those - I think DAZ Spooky may have posted an update on that, though whether it was anything more than "we've reported this to nVidia" I can't recall. I have turned off the supplied skydome, of course - without that it would be a lot slower to converge.

WendyLuvsCatz

And only 6 mins have elapsed! Mind you your system may be more powerful
I am not alone btw I know another with same issue I Skype with and the only reason I tried it, it seems to be only that set for us.
EF2 is OK.
Is so odd as in Octane render it is such an easy load with a tiny texture footprint unlike many sets
As I said Nature lake and Forest the biggest texture loaded set I have and highest poly full load with everything visible LOD1,2 &3 renders and that is one very taxing scene indeed.

WendyLuvsCatz

I can actually get it to appear using an environment map after 9 mins, how long it will take to actually finish another matter

still too slow for me though but works, this one appeared instantly
I could not let it finish looked same at 50 iterations as 150 so stopped it then

Richard Haseltine

I have an i7 920, nVidia 450 GTS and 12GB of RAM. As irecall you have better specs than that.