Render Settings in DS 4.9

nelsonsmith

A lot of the tutorials and books on Daz reference a slider for Render Quality,  a shader with a render style of realistic or cartoon, and finally a Shadow category under the Parameters tab when you select Lights.   There are probably more discrepancies, but these were enough to hang me up and prevent me from progressing further.   I can't find any of these controls in Daz 4.9;  at least not under the tabs they are being described as being under.

fixmypcmike

The "Render Quality" slider is now a pull-down menu; the old "Fast" was OpenGL, and "Slow" was 3Delight.

The Toon render style will show if you have "Show Hidden Parameters"; they hid it because it was causing people problems who activated it without meaning to.

The Shadow parameters for lights will show if you have the render engine set to 3Delight (and possibly Iray with the Progressive option); Iray with the Photorealistic setting doesn't have these Shadow parameters because it uses physically-based shadows.

nelsonsmith

Fixmypcmike said:

The "Render Quality" slider is now a pull-down menu; the old "Fast" was OpenGL, and "Slow" was 3Delight.

The Toon render style will show if you have "Show Hidden Parameters"; they hid it because it was causing people problems who activated it without meaning to.

The Shadow parameters for lights will show if you have the render engine set to 3Delight (and possibly Iray with the Progressive option); Iray with the Photorealistic setting doesn't have these Shadow parameters because it uses physically-based shadows.

Thanks, that helps a lot.