HDRI Issues?

morrisonmp

You all are so helpful... maybe you can help me with this.

I've been using skydomes with a lot of my images (a lot of Orestes but others too). When I add one of the skydomes to an image, a little progress meter starts at the bottom saying "Processing image [image name].hdr" and that keeps working even after the image is in the scene. It keeps going even when I save a scene and re-open it. It keeps going even when I hit "New" and wipe that existing scene away. It's like it never fully sets and just keeps processing forever.

And it seems to be (observationally) adding a lot to my render times. 

Any ideas on if this is normal or how I can get it to stop, if not?

Thanks in advance.

crosswind

Better post a screenshot, and which skydomes did you use... from Orestes' products or sth.?

morrisonmp

crosswind said:

Better post a screenshot, and which skydomes did you use... from Orestes' products or sth.?

I don't think a screenshot will help. The HDRI image/skydome shows up just fine. The problem is that it seems to continue processing the image at all times while it is open. Daz Studio never stops processing the skydome. I use a lot of Orestes' skydomes because they are beautiful but it has happened with others as well.  

FSMCDesigns

Personally I have never had this happen, and I use HDRIs often. What are your system specs? How resource heavy is the scene? Keep in mind there is a diffeence between an HDRI and a skydome

jeremy-2601292

Same issue with my computer; I just updated to a new PC from the old one, this has a 4090 and I've installed the very newest daz as well. 

What's especially frustrating is it's "processing image," from an HDRI in the notification that isn't part of the scene I have open, but from a scene file that's already closed...so yeah, any help on how to fix this would be greatly appreciated. The older discussion from 2020 here in the forums also didn't have anything I could test to attempt to solve the issue.

jeremy-2601292

Okay, copied the solution from here:

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/456076/constant-image-processing-in-the-background

Which was this:

ctnfoster said:

Same is happening to me:

The HDR in question come sfrom the "DAX Studio Iray HDR Outdoor Environments" and is the "dthdr-mauia.hdr" file. Issue persists across saves, and is super annoying.

I can confirm it's causing other areas of the program that weren't slow before to now be super slow and barely useable.

Troubleshooting steps I've tried without success: 

• Reloading save
• Restarting Daz & loading save
• Rebooting entire PC

EDIT: I think I found a fix:

1. Change all the viewports to wireframe
2. Remove offending HDR (set to none)
3. Save changes
4. Reboot PC
5. Relaunch DAZ

and at least for me that solved the issue. Whew!