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Li Fur - need help with Lycan 9 Wolfsbane fur and Snuggles the toon bear fur add-on

FrankTheTankFrankTheTank Posts: 1,238
in The Commons

I just bought two products Lycan 9 Character Bundle which comes with the Wolfsbane hair, and https://www.daz3d.com/li-fur--for-snuggles-the-toon-bear which is an add-on for Snuggles the Toon Bear. Both fur products are from the same vendor, and neither one will render for me in iray. As I don't see any other complaints in the forums regarding these 2, its probably a simple fix. 

When I try to load the default Wolfsbane hair attachment onto Lycan 9 I get the error message "the following files could not be found: data/daz 3d/built-in content/omnisurface/omnihair root-tip blend.dsf". Ok, so "Omnihair" is out, but that's not a problem, because it also says in the product description that Uber fur is included. But I've had no success with that either. I can't even figure out how to load the Uber fur.

Switching gears, regarding Snuggles the Toon Bear, the hair attachment loads without any error messages on that figure. So that one should work right out of the gate, but that doesn't render either. I can see the fur is attached to the body (in texture shade preview mode), but it will not render in iray no matter what material presets I try to load on it.

It's very frustrating, I've had both of these characters and hair products on my wishlist for a long time, I finally buy them, but I can't use either of them.

Also, I just bought Lahr 9 the same day as these two, and he renders beautifully out of the box, no fuss. And I've never had a problem rendering fur for any of RawArt's, Vysur's, Alessandro_AM's, or Hypertaf's creatures. I must have 50 different creatures with fur that all render beautifully in iray. But these 2 have me stumped. There also so many preset options included (especially with Wolfsbane Fur) that they should have a PDF user manual. I'm probably just missing something simple that could be answered easily if the PA would have included some basic instructions. 

 

 

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,858

    Do you have the current version of Default Resources installed?

  • FrankTheTankFrankTheTank Posts: 1,238

    Richard Haseltine said:

    Do you have the current version of Default Resources installed?

    Ok, I updated the default resouces, (I was on 4.23+ resources, but I guess there was a recent update I missed). That did eliminate the error message, but the fur still will not render in iray.

  • FrankTheTankFrankTheTank Posts: 1,238

    They both work in the Beta of course, but the Beta has other problems that I mentioned in another thread. So that is not an option for me.

    One last idea, is there a way to apply a new hair shader to the exisitng hair attachments? I have Colorwerks X, which is supposed to work on SBH and it applies its own custom shader I think, so I tried that, but that didn't work either.  

    Is there some other way to convert it so it works?

  • FrankTheTankFrankTheTank Posts: 1,238
    edited March 2

    ok, I gave up on getting the Li Fur to work, but on the bright side I did learn how to make SBH hair using the SBH editor in Daz Studio in the process of my frustration. So here's my 2nd attempt after reading 3Diva's tutorial. I'm gonna keep Snuggles the Toon Bear but return the Li Fur add-on. I think with a little more effort I can make fur that is just as good as the store bought version.

    Snuggles Toon Bear SBH attempt 2.png
    2560 x 1440 - 3M
    Post edited by FrankTheTank on
  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,858

    Sorry, it doesn't sound like a tool issue (having a content creation tool active will stop any interpolated hairs  being created, which would affect every dForce/stand-based curve hair rather than only some as in your case). It does sound like a settings issue somewhere, given that it works for others and for you in the beta (which has its own settings).

  • joannajoanna Posts: 1,617

    I have Lycan 9 and his fur addon from the bundle, and he seems to render out of the box with no issues. I just added Lycan (not HD) into the scene and applied LI WFur Preset Lycan Coat & Tail (PreSim) 01 to him as a test. It's visible in Iray preview and renders as well (see attached image; didn't bother to go through the full render).

    So it seems there might be something in your settings?

    I do have to say that the product isn't very intuitive, and the documentation is not much of one and does not help at all.

    Lycan9furtest.jpg
    2014 x 2900 - 5M
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