Quote - > Quote - > Quote - ...well as things continue to come together with the new workstation project, time to finally dust off the 64 bit version of Reality 2.5 that's been sitting in my installs archive. 

 

Received the Daz newsletter that mentioned Luxus.  Viewed some of the pics in the discusssion thread and they really don't look much better than what I can achieve using the default 3Delight and good lighting (even in 3.1 with LDP2). Comparing Reality/Lux and Luxus renders posted in the thread, the Reality/Lux ones just look better even in the hands of those still new to using it. 

The render times may be quicker, but I feel that the tradeoff will be quality (as it was with the Render Throttle plugin which had difficulty interpreting detailed textures and transmapped hair). In a way I cannot help but feel it does not use LuxRender to it's fullest. 

Yeah they may have the jump on a bridge between Lux for 4.5 for now but I beleive Reality 3 will blow it out of the water.

Reality 2.5 works just fine with 4.5

...I didn't know that.  Thought I had to wait for Reality 3.

 

Thanks.

Nope.. you can use it right now.  I've been using the Reality2.5/DazStudio4.5 combo since the day Paolo released the update for D|S4.5.  Some have reported a few issues; but, I've been running the combo issue-free since release day.