hi guys

I am trying to do great renders in DS but being a noob .... i have no idea what great render settings should be.

I am trying to use Lantios Lighting ... but the end result is just meh ....

I am using the latest version of DS4 ....

any advice is greatly appreciated!!

Without seeing any images it's really hard to say if the issue is with your render settings or with your lighting setup.

I can strongly recommend the render preset scripts found on this thread, http://forum.daz3d.com/viewtopic.php?t=177995 as a great starting point. I've been really happy with the final quality setting from these scripts plus it makes it super easy to quickly flip from draft or medium while you're fine tuning things before flipping to final when you have things dialed in.

yeah i picked that one up today ..

thanks for replying!!

Great sig file Artemis!

Yeah my hubby loves it LOL ... i always roll my eyes at him ...

Attached Link: Optimising Render Settings in DAZ|Studio

Wish Daz would create poper documentation.

Regardless of what program you prefer, getting a good quality render is a lot about setting up lighting. Setting up lighting could take as long as setting up the scene.

After a movie has finished check out the credits. Boring? Hell Yes! But there are a LOT of people's names listed in the lighting department, and sometimes many different types of lighting are mentioned.

A couple more tutorials on Daz Studio lighting in following links.

http://iamuman.deviantart.com/art/Realistic-lights-in-Daz-Studio-153461863

http://www.cooltuna.com/blog/2009/04/27/introduction-to-lighting-for-poser-and-daz-studio/

If you plan to do a lot of postwork (in photoshop, gimp, whatever) on the rendered image then consider that lighting may not be so important.

Tip: When setting up the main scene lights. Do test renders with shadows turned off. Shadows take a long time to render.

thanks LBA .... the renders i am doing are for promos and i dont postwork them other then compositions ....

i'll check out the links ... ty x

These are Fisty's render settings, I tend to use something in the middle of the Good and awesome.

http://forum.daz3d.com/postimages/origimage_1_2808055.jpg

If you are rendering hair and or things with trans mats, applying  the Uber shader and turning off Occulsion helps speed up renders.

The problem I find with test rendering without shadows is that if something will cast a bad a shadow across the face for example, you won't know until your final render. Personally I find it suits me best to render at low settings first withshadows turned on.

Right .... 

still learning my way thru DS ... been a poser user since the beginning LOL ...

ty x