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DAZ Studio Pro BETA [Project Iradium] - RELEASE CANDIDATE 3 - version 4.8.0.53! **UPDATED**

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  • RogerbeeRogerbee Posts: 4,460
    edited December 1969

    Yep .55 on the manual download too.

    CHEERS!

  • Guardian Angel 671Guardian Angel 671 Posts: 223
    edited December 1969

    ok I'll have her try ta refresh again & retry.

  • RAMWolffRAMWolff Posts: 10,228
    edited December 1969

    I'm downloading now... it's so funny, I mean I do laugh when I think back, that DAZ Studio used to be like 30 mb's.... now it's like 230+ Mb's... times a'changin'! lol

  • Guardian Angel 671Guardian Angel 671 Posts: 223
    edited December 1969

    She has the .55 downloading now-thanks guys

  • RogerbeeRogerbee Posts: 4,460
    edited May 2015

    RAMWolff said:
    I'm downloading now... it's so funny, I mean I do laugh when I think back, that DAZ Studio used to be like 30 mb's.... now it's like 230+ Mb's... times a'changin'! lol

    Indeed, I've still got an installer for DS2, you can actually run that alongside DS4 as well. I was curious to see what happened and it ran ok.

    CHEERS!

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  • IvyIvy Posts: 7,165
    edited May 2015

    I want to congratulate you guys at daz on the daz pro 4.8 you really have out done yourself.
    you finally made daz a real animation tool.
    I created a short animation with daz studio 4.8 it and I found it to really work great with a ton of improvements. the real time preview window was the Bomb. what a fantastic tool for helping me hide some my animation flaws using older ani-blocks with shadows.

    I was really impressed when i was able to stop in mid rendering of a avi and resume again that allowed me to correct small flaws in lighting .

    Thought i rendered this animation in Daz studio 4.8 I did it using the 3delight render engine instead of Iray which was much faster than daz 4.7 when i compared a few of the scenes when building the animation. still one of the scene s in the film took 15 hours to render.
    I guess no matter what program rendering mirror reflection with return shadows in raytrace light really slows render times... ..ha ha ha

    anyway thank you very much for the real time render preview window and the other improvements I really look forward to working with the final results of the new daz program.

    Ms Ivy

    Private Reflections - A gymnastic Yoga work out
    A young girl practicing yoga moves by her self.

    Created with Daz Studio pro 4.8
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FSYWEuK2FA

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  • RAMWolffRAMWolff Posts: 10,228
    edited December 1969

    OK. Installed but from what I know iRay is now the default rendering engine. Until I get my vid card updated I really would like to continue using 3Delight, how do I go about making that the default so I don't have to worry about it.... set it and leave it sort of thing!

  • DAZ_SpookyDAZ_Spooky Posts: 3,100
    edited December 1969

    RAMWolff said:
    OK. Installed but from what I know iRay is now the default rendering engine. Until I get my vid card updated I really would like to continue using 3Delight, how do I go about making that the default so I don't have to worry about it.... set it and leave it sort of thing!
    Like layouts, the last thing you were set to should be persistent.
  • RogerbeeRogerbee Posts: 4,460
    edited December 1969

    If you create a scene, set 3Delight as the renderer, save it and have DS launch with that scene, shouldn't that keep what you want where you want it!?

    CHEERS!

  • Bobeagle77Bobeagle77 Posts: 164
    edited December 1969

    Thanks DAZ Studios. Daz Studios Pro 4.8 is working very good. And renders look way better. Now I need a guide for the new rendering settings.

  • RAMWolffRAMWolff Posts: 10,228
    edited December 1969

    Thanks. Did a render before jumping in the shower.... It rendered lightening fast. OMG. 3Delight is actually faster than before. Thanks!

  • Mage 13X13Mage 13X13 Posts: 435
    edited December 1969

    Well it seems things are happening faster than I would have expected. You guys at DAZ 3D must be in OVERDRIVE! lol

    I've not checked my DIM since this morning, but I am confident it is in there already. Before I download it and install it I am waiting for all the updates to be completed. Can't wait to try the new render engine, Iradium! I plan to try some comparison renders to see which does best for me per my own set of priorities.

  • alexhcowleyalexhcowley Posts: 2,392
    edited December 1969

    Quick question on DAZ Studio 4.8. Do I need to re-download the Genesis 1 and 2 starter essentials? Have there been any changes since 4.7?

    Cheers,

    Alex.

  • RogerbeeRogerbee Posts: 4,460
    edited December 1969

    As far as I can gather from the first page of this thread, you should be ok with what you already have.

    CHEERS!

  • alexhcowleyalexhcowley Posts: 2,392
    edited December 1969

    Rogerbee said:

    As far as I can gather from the first page of this thread, you should be ok with what you already have.

    CHEERS!

    Thanks. Downloading several hundred megabytes is a pain in the proverbials which I would like to avoid if I can.

    Alex.

  • RAMWolffRAMWolff Posts: 10,228
    edited May 2015

    Going to need some quick set up tutorials. The info through out the multitudes of threads on iRay is a bit to go through. I'm doing a 'quicky' render of my "CatPerson" scene and all it is is one figure and a background image. I can see already her eyelashes are not using the transparency assigned to them. I can't find where all those controls are hidden. Perhaps you should code into the Surfaces tab an iRay Surfaces tab so when folks aren't using 3Delight they can switch easily over to that with one click and do what they gotta do. I read that the OpitiX Acceleration was useful in speeding things up so checked that to ON. Other than that all my searching in the interface doesn't show me where I can correct the lashes issue. Wasn't it mentioned that there was an auto conversion script somewhere for the surfaces?

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  • DAZ_SpookyDAZ_Spooky Posts: 3,100
    edited December 1969

    alexhcowley said:
    Quick question on DAZ Studio 4.8. Do I need to re-download the Genesis 1 and 2 starter essentials? Have there been any changes since 4.7?

    Cheers,

    Alex.

    That depends on when you last downloaded Genesis 2 Male/Female Starter essentials. There was an update to those during the beta cycle which makes them work better with Iray.
  • RogerbeeRogerbee Posts: 4,460
    edited May 2015

    Oh, my bad, I'll download them then. Thanks for clearing that up. Perhaps you should mention that on Page 1.

    CHEERS!

    EDIT:

    What is the Genesis 2 DMC!?

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  • DAZ_SpookyDAZ_Spooky Posts: 3,100
    edited December 1969

    Rogerbee said:

    Oh, my bad, I'll download them then. Thanks for clearing that up. Perhaps you should mention that on Page 1.

    CHEERS!

    It is likely to get mentioned in the release thread. :)
  • RogerbeeRogerbee Posts: 4,460
    edited December 1969

    Ok, you got in ahead of my edit, so what is the Genesis 2 DMC?

    CHEERS!

  • DAZ_SpookyDAZ_Spooky Posts: 3,100
    edited December 1969

    Rogerbee said:

    Ok, you got in ahead of my edit, so what is the Genesis 2 DMC?

    CHEERS!

    Mimic Configuration file. For use with Mimic Live, 32 bit DS' Lipsync, or Carrara's Mimic Pro.
  • RogerbeeRogerbee Posts: 4,460
    edited December 1969

    Oh, nothing for me to worry about then. How are the Iray support files coming along?

    CHEERS!

  • RAMWolffRAMWolff Posts: 10,228
    edited December 1969

    I clicked that little box with the + - in the view port now my renders are overly bright. How do I adjust that please!

  • RenderPretenderRenderPretender Posts: 1,041
    edited May 2015

    SpottedKitty said:
    masi3vee said:
    I don't have a system that will support Iray, but like 3Delight anyway. Am I to understand that 4.8 itself requires a system upgrade even to just use 3Delight?

    System specs for the new version are so scattered in all the 4.8 threads it gets a bit confusing. There's no such thing as "a computer that won't support Iray" — as long as you can run the previous D|S versions, you can render in Iray; it'll just be a lot slower if you don't have a graphics card that can handle your scene, because the rendering will be done by your computer's system hardware instead of the graphics card.

    The same goes for 3Delight; there's a new version in 4.8 that apparently works a bit better and renders a bit faster. You don't need a system upgrade to use it, 3Delight itself is the upgrade.

    Interesting. I was under the impression that Iray would not run at all without a NVIDA graphics card.

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  • RAMWolffRAMWolff Posts: 10,228
    edited December 1969

    OK.. got it... Tone Mapping ON... Exposure Value set to about 12 makes me pretty happy for now...

  • RAMWolffRAMWolff Posts: 10,228
    edited December 1969

    Saw in a few renders with backgrounds that there is a shadow catcher. Love to know where that is....

  • RAMWolffRAMWolff Posts: 10,228
    edited December 1969

    Are one of these what I need to get the transparency or alpha's working?

    If so, which one?

    Thank you

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  • tomtom.wtomtom.w Posts: 140
    edited December 1969

    masi3vee said:
    Interesting. I was under the impression that Iray would not run at all without a NVIDA graphics card.

    It will run with any graphics card, rendering with CPU-power. It's only when using one or more GPUs (graphics processor units) to speed up rendering that you need an Nvidia card.

  • RogerbeeRogerbee Posts: 4,460
    edited December 1969

    masi3vee said:
    SpottedKitty said:
    masi3vee said:
    I don't have a system that will support Iray, but like 3Delight anyway. Am I to understand that 4.8 itself requires a system upgrade even to just use 3Delight?

    System specs for the new version are so scattered in all the 4.8 threads it gets a bit confusing. There's no such thing as "a computer that won't support Iray" — as long as you can run the previous D|S versions, you can render in Iray; it'll just be a lot slower if you don't have a graphics card that can handle your scene, because the rendering will be done by your computer's system hardware instead of the graphics card.

    The same goes for 3Delight; there's a new version in 4.8 that apparently works a bit better and renders a bit faster. You don't need a system upgrade to use it, 3Delight itself is the upgrade.

    Interesting. I was under the impression that Iray would not run at all without a NVIDA graphics card.

    It can be used without one, but, you're likely to need a pretty hefty CPU.

    CHEERS!

  • RogerbeeRogerbee Posts: 4,460
    edited December 1969

    RAMWolff said:
    Are one of these what I need to get the transparency or alpha's working?

    If so, which one?

    Thank you

    It's possible that you'll need to install the Iray support content, which isn't in the Product Library for the full release yet.

    CHEERS!

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