Quote - Ok, I didn't realize that the Reality plugin switched the materials automatically without giving an option to keep the Daz mats.

There are times when I think I'd like to use a Luxrender material rather than a Poser mat, but I think I'd also like the choice as to whether I really want to switch them or not ;o). It should have been an option IMVHO.

Laurie

well when it comed to metals it replaces all metals with Lux gold , which you can then change to silver , copper or aluminium and you can tweak those metals to get other metals .
But its alot of mucking around to tweak those metals with such a small materials preview window , its really hard to see how much they change while tweaking :(

after reality has loaded the metals (all as gold) you can change the material to use the original image file instead but it only seams to work if you use a Mat option , using a gloss option the original image comes out as silver .
For example in a scene I have a rusty pipe using a jpg image and Lux converts it to gold .
I can get the original image to render by forcing reality to use the jpg image but only as a mat not as a gloss .
I have no idea why it dosnt work with gloss lol