[Tutorial] Getting Started With Iray by SickleYield, journal
[Tutorial] Getting Started With Iray
Introduction
Here is the tutorial on YouTube.
Here is a .pdf version.
This is for those of you who are looking at the interface going, "Now what?" This covers how to convert existing shaders and how to set up lighting for your render.
This is a text version that, while different from what I'm saying in the video word by word, contains the same information.
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To use this you need DAZ Studio 4.8 Pro or later.
Part 1: The Environment and Camera Settings
Before we get started, we need to check the environment, camera and render settings.
The Render Settings tab has an Editor and an Advanced section. Advanced is where you check or unc
[Tutorial] Transferring Character Morphs G1G2G3G8 by SickleYield, journal
[Tutorial] Transferring Character Morphs G1G2G3G8
The first version of this workflow came from Kattey on the DAZ forum, for which I acknowledge credit.
Here is that (lengthy) thread: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewthread/24093/
First of all, however: there are two ways to recreate a character. There is the easy way, which is not redistributable, and the hard way, which is. We'll discuss the easy way first. I'm sorry, but I can't do anything for those of you who absolutely can't learn from text. This is what I have time for right now.
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PART 1: CREATE A SINGLE DIAL
Load Genesis 1. Dial in your character morph. There cannot be anything in the scene except the single figure while
I recently acquired LuxRender and I'm quite excited about using it but I have some basic questions. First of all...how do you save your rendered image? I lost twelve and a half hours work yesterday! It says that it's saving to an apps data roaming file. The only problem there is, is that my Windows 7 doesn't have such a file. The other problem with saving is that I am not given an option of the format I want to save in or what folder where I'd like to save it. It just says "save and exit"...then it shuts down.
My second concern is the rendering time. Does it ever stop rendering? After more than twelve hours, I stopped the process manually