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Will a DS4.7 file render the same in DS4.8 if using 3Delight setting?

WillowRavenWillowRaven Posts: 3,787
edited December 1969 in The Commons

Will a DS4.7 file render the same in DS4.8 if using 3Delight setting?

I have to edit an old cover scene and don't want the over-all look of the render to change since the only thing I have to change is the character's expression and hair color.

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  • scorpioscorpio Posts: 8,484
    edited December 1969

    Should render the same possibly a bit quicker.

  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001
    edited December 1969

    Yes, there is a bit of speed improvement between the 3Delight versions. But other than that there were a couple of other fixes/improvements in 3Delight...which actually increase the overall quality of the render. Especially if you turn on Progressive mode for your 3Delight renders.

  • ScavengerScavenger Posts: 2,674
    edited December 1969

    What is "progressive mode"?

  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001
    edited December 1969

    It is a render method that makes several 'passes' through the scene to get to the final image. A lot like the iterations in Iray. But what it does, with 3Delight, is enable the faster raytrace part of 3Delight.

  • acanthisacanthis Posts: 604
    edited December 1969

    Although I was VERY skeptical about installing 4.8 I have found no problems rendering existing scenes. I don't see any reduction in quality - possibly an ultra-miniscule improvement in some scenes. As for the much talked about speed-up of 3Delight, I never experienced this, or if it was there it was in the sub-picosecond domain. Better to just switch to iRay, which IS faster for me.

  • WillowRavenWillowRaven Posts: 3,787
    edited December 1969

    Ugh! Installing 4.8 totally screwed up my system.

    I am left with no other option but to refresh windows and start over, and this is a new computer (Alienware) with a nvidia card, so I know capabilities isn't the issue.

    Somehow, it reset my virtual memory settings to none and refuses to revert back to original settings.

    Hopefully the refresh will resolve it and I can avoid a total restore.

    I shouldn't have tried to upgrade.

  • frank0314frank0314 Posts: 14,330
    edited December 1969

    What did it do to screw up your system?

  • algovincianalgovincian Posts: 2,636
    edited December 1969

    scorpio64dragon said:
    Should render the same possibly a bit quicker.

    Not saying this will be the case for every scene, but here is some hard data on the speed increase for one of my scenes:

    http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/56967/#829418

    Huge improvement!

    - Greg

  • WillowRavenWillowRaven Posts: 3,787
    edited December 1969

    Frank0314 said:
    What did it do to screw up your system?

    All I did was install 4.8 ... then suddenly I have no virtual memory.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,858
    edited December 1969

    AidanaWillowRaven said:
    Frank0314 said:
    What did it do to screw up your system?

    All I did was install 4.8 ... then suddenly I have no virtual memory.

    Neither DIM nor DS touch those settings. Very few things will, as far as I know.

  • WillowRavenWillowRaven Posts: 3,787
    edited December 1969

    I wouldn't have thought so, but I only did that one thing, and within an hour ... chaos.

  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001
    edited December 1969

    Three things off the top of my head that can: Windows updates, malware and some 'system utilities'...

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