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Inside the sub

Quote - Inside the sub

Which sub?

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> Quote - > Quote - Inside the sub > > Which sub?

 

This one

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While I am at it...Can't wait to have more lux materials in R3

 

Renders have slowed down a little in this thread recently, so I thought I'd jump in.  Feedback and suggestions for improvement are more than welcome.  Some minor postwork was performed.  I'd ultimately like to turn this into an old-looking photo, but that requires a whole other set of postwork skills I don't have yet.

"Evening Constitutional"

The Mechanical Man -- being a marvel of copper and brass -- had no need of the modesty afforded to more conventional men by a shirt and trousers.  But the very thought of going about town without his waistcoat and evening jacket would have been -- as any Gentleman knows -- quite absurd.

Very cool and original.

I call this "Colours & Cuffs". I tried removing the textures from the hair on each model and setting the diffuse and spec channels to the colour I wanted. Also set some transparency on the hair. The transparency and spec colours were in direct ratios to the actual diffuse channel.

Glossy was set at 6800.

Quote - Renders have slowed down a little in this thread recently, so I thought I'd jump in.  Feedback and suggestions for improvement are more than welcome.  Some minor postwork was performed.  I'd ultimately like to turn this into an old-looking photo, but that requires a whole other set of postwork skills I don't have yet. "Evening Constitutional"

The Mechanical Man -- being a marvel of copper and brass -- had no need of the modesty afforded to more conventional men by a shirt and trousers.  But the very thought of going about town without his waistcoat and evening jacket would have been -- as any Gentleman knows -- quite absurd.

Very good.

Quote - Very cool and original.

Quote - Very good.

Thank you both!

A little off-topic, but: The lack of features in this forum software is a little painful... how does anybody keep track of who is quoting who when replying?

Thoreandan wrote - A little off-topic, but: The lack of features in this forum software is a little painful... how does anybody keep track of who is quoting who when replying?

Thoreandan, I agree with you, normally I copy the original poster's name then I preview my reply before posting it, mainly because it adds {quote} all over the place. It is also a pain the way it adds blank lines, note the wasted space above the pic.

While I'm here, I made this over the week-end (got bored again).

Nice looking bow

I'm an old archer grew up shooting long bow then went to recurved bows

Did all my hunting with a bow

Quote - > Quote - Mike, you might take a look at the ShaderWorks Library Manager, it might suit you better than Poser's built-in library.

Cheers.

 

Hmm, remember seeing it and thought it was for poser 8 and 2010, will see if it was updated, thanks.

 

I second the recommendation of Library Manager 2 - and I can confirm that it works great with PP2012.  It makes the Library in Poser ALMOST usable...  LOL.

  ~ Russ  

New version of Reality 3 out. It is version 3.0.1.193, so check your about reality box to see which version you have.

Opinions for new build 

Options that I'm considering

)1 Intel Core i7-3930K Sandy Bridge-E 3.2GHz (3.8GHz Turbo) LGA 2011 130W Six-Core Desktop Processor BX80619i73930K

ASUS Sabertooth X79 LGA 2011 Intel X79 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard 

EVGA 03G-P4-3668-KR GeForce GTX 660 Ti FTW+ 3GB 192-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

With 64gig of ram

Or

)2 ASUS SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0 AM3+ AMD 990FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard with UEFI BIOS

AMD FX-8350 Vishera 4.0GHz (4.2GHz Turbo) Socket AM3+ 125W Eight-Core Desktop Processor FD8350FRHKBOX

Same video card

32 gig of ram

Both systems have max amount of ram for the respective motherboards

 

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Quote - Opinions for new build 

Options that I'm considering

)1 Intel Core i7-3930K Sandy Bridge-E 3.2GHz (3.8GHz Turbo) LGA 2011 130W Six-Core Desktop Processor BX80619i73930K

ASUS Sabertooth X79 LGA 2011 Intel X79 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard 

EVGA 03G-P4-3668-KR GeForce GTX 660 Ti FTW+ 3GB 192-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

With 64gig of ram

Or

)2 ASUS SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0 AM3+ AMD 990FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard with UEFI BIOS

AMD FX-8350 Vishera 4.0GHz (4.2GHz Turbo) Socket AM3+ 125W Eight-Core Desktop Processor FD8350FRHKBOX

Same video card

32 gig of ram

Both systems have max amount of ram for the respective motherboards

 

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Funny you mention that after a long dry spell commission projects are taking off like crazy! I have a grand put aside when I have another 5 to 600 dollars set up I am also going to have a 32G desktop powerful monster built and will still keep my 8G notebook. Didin't folks mention that ATI cards work better with Lux please correct me if I am wrong... I need to know this as well for my future machine..

Go with the Intel 3930k they overclock very easily to 4.2+ ghz and are fastest 'desktop' processor you can get.

I have three of them, networked for LuxRendering.

 

Regards,

 

S.K.

 

Rfriese.. sounds like a nice build.. other than the geforce vid card.  Nvidia has horrid open-cl support.  I'd go with an ATI card.  Other than that, beautiful setups.  Any intel cpu that is of the sandybridge chipset is a monster.  Have you compared the performance of the i7-3930 over the i7-2600?  The 2600 is still outperforming newer, faster and bigger chips when it comes to 3D rendering

Quote - Rfriese.. sounds like a nice build.. other than the geforce vid card.  Nvidia has horrid open-cl support.  I'd go with an ATI card.  Other than that, beautiful setups.  Any intel cpu that is of the sandybridge chipset is a monster.  Have you compared the performance of the i7-3930 over the i7-2600?  The 2600 is still outperforming newer, faster and bigger chips when it comes to 3D rendering

 

Thanks for t that tid bit an ATI card it will be

Quote - Rfriese.. sounds like a nice build.. other than the geforce vid card.  Nvidia has horrid open-cl support.  I'd go with an ATI card.  Other than that, beautiful setups.  Any intel cpu that is of the sandybridge chipset is a monster.  Have you compared the performance of the i7-3930 over the i7-2600?  The 2600 is still outperforming newer, faster and bigger chips when it comes to 3D rendering

Won't work with the motherboard because it uses differant socket

Will look into an ATI/AMD video card

Thanks

Quote - Go with the Intel 3930k they overclock very easily to 4.2+ ghz and are fastest 'desktop' processor you can get.

I have three of them, networked for LuxRendering.

 

Regards,

 

S.K.

 

 

Thanks

If I am not mistaken alot of folks including UHF are running nvidia cards

Another vote for Intel and a ATI video card. I have an AMD 3850, worth the money but if you have the budget for a i7 and mboard, go for that.

"I don't have to be... Dressed to kill."

OT just bought my  new system

Intel core i7 3770 hyperthreading processor LGA1155 3.4 GHZ ivy bridge 8G

2 x Kingston hyperx blue black series 16G 2X8G DDR3-1600 CL10 DIMM Dual channel memory

Cooler master hyper 212 evo direct  touch 4 heatpipe heatsink

AMD Firepro W5000 2G DDR5 PCI-E 3.0 X 16 workstation video card

Samsung 840 series 250G 2.5in SATA3 MDX solid state flash drive

Seagate barracuda 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB

Zalman Z11 plus mid tower ATX case black

& a lower end Radeon card for HDMI out.

I get to stay with win 7

 

Paolo or anyone I would like to confirm that there will be no issues on running Reality on 2 seperate machines.

Quote - Paolo or anyone I would like to confirm that there will be no issues on running Reality on 2 seperate machines.

If you mean if that is compatible with the license then it is, as long as you don't run the two instances at the same time. If you need to run two copies at the same time then you need to purchase an additional license.

Hope this helps.

Quote - > Quote - Paolo or anyone I would like to confirm that there will be no issues on running Reality on 2 seperate machines.

If you mean if that is compatible with the license then it is, as long as you don't run the two instances at the same time. If you need to run two copies at the same time then you need to purchase an additional license.

Hope this helps.

 

If I am understand you right I can have it on my notebook and new monster system but cant have it up on both machines at the same time? Will it be an issue if both machines are up but only running Reality on 1?

That is not correct Bob. You can have it installed on both machines. You cannot run it at the same time.

It's a matter of usage. If you are running two copies of Reality at the same time then you need one license for each simultanous use. Think of Reality as a physical book. If you give it to somebody else you cannot read it at the same time. If two people/machines need access to it at the same time then you need a license fo reach user.

Hope this helps.

Quote - That is not correct Bob. You can have it installed on both machines. You cannot run it at the same time.

It's a matter of usage. If you are running two copies of Reality at the same time then you need one license for each simultanous use. Think of Reality as a physical book. If you give it to somebody else you cannot read it at the same time. If two people/machines need access to it at the same time then you need a license fo reach user.

Hope this helps.

Got it I dont see why I would need to run it on the notebook when I am home
 

& to run lux files from one to the other I just need to ensure I run the same version of lux on both and collect textures.. I will have the option of network rendering with my notebook..

Can someone please re post how to or a link to network render? I had done it a year ago but kind of forgotten how to !

You need Lux installed on both machines.

Start Lux on the Master machine (where DS is installed) and let the scene start rendering.

Goto the 2nd machine (the slave) and assuming it is Win7, click on Start Luxrender Slave in the Luxrender program group.

This will open a window and in this window will be an IP address, take a note of it.

Goto your master PC and in the Network Tab and in the Server field, type in the IP address of the slave.

Press the + button and you should see session details appear in the list. If not, check the Lux log.

Once you are happy that network rendering is happening, I would change the Update Interval in the Network Tab to 1800 (30 minutes) as a minimum.

Ok thanks I remember you told me last yeear and I gotten it to work I may be going with win 8 on the new machine (not sure yet) but the slave (notebook) would run 7

No one said my render was nice.  sniff sniff  :-(

Quote - No one said my render was nice.  sniff sniff  :-(

I'll say it - Your render is nice! Actually, it's very nice, great lighting and posing, but maybe a bit disturbing too???  

Quote - No one said my render was nice.  sniff sniff  :-(

 

It's very nice just saw it today haven't been getting notifications

Sounds like you got a nice system Bob

 

Got my system ordered but due to financial restraints I had to go with the AMD 8 core cpu,32gig of ram and an MSI R7950 Twin Frozr 3GD5/OC Radeon HD 7950 3GB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX video card on the Asus Sabretooth motherboard

But the savings let me upgrade to two 27 inch monitors

Im lucky I sold a grand of commission in the past 2 weeks (got to still produce renders) the system cost double that with the additional coverage I had the option of going with  7 but will go with 8 just cause I will have the system for at least 2 to 3 years and M$ does allow roll back to 7 should I have any problems. I also downloaded the shell to make 8 more like 7 I get it at the end of nest week will also be using my I7 8G notebook and will use it for network rendering on big intense scenes. I am really curious to see how many characers I will be able to stuff in a scene with it...

 

Doug my stuff gets not commented on many occasions I don't worry about it too much..

Quote - Doug my stuff gets not commented on many occasions I don't worry about it too much..

It took like 5 days... to get right.  sigh

Quote - > Quote - Doug my stuff gets not commented on many occasions I don't worry about it too much..

It took like 5 days... to get right.  sigh

5 days! I bought this monster to cut back on render times LOL at least they are not that long now

Quote - 5 days! I bought this monster to cut back on render times LOL at least they are not that long now

Some renders are a b**ch... some are not.  Some of my longer renders have been in the million poly range...

 

I'm feeling the love... I hit #15 on the art charts. 

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/artchart.php

 

Right behind Elianeck...

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/browse.php?user_id=492465

Quote - OT just bought my  new system

Intel core i7 3770 hyperthreading processor LGA1155 3.4 GHZ ivy bridge 8G

2 x Kingston hyperx blue black series 16G 2X8G DDR3-1600 CL10 DIMM Dual channel memory

Cooler master hyper 212 evo direct  touch 4 heatpipe heatsink

AMD Firepro W5000 2G DDR5 PCI-E 3.0 X 16 workstation video card

Samsung 840 series 250G 2.5in SATA3 MDX solid state flash drive

Seagate barracuda 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB

Zalman Z11 plus mid tower ATX case black

& a lower end Radeon card for HDMI out.

I get to stay with win 7

 

Bob.. did you piece your box together yourself?  I built mine myself back in October.  Have the exact same heatsink.  With the exception of THAT beast.. I would have had the box together in about 15 minutes.  That heatsink took me an additional 10 or 15.  Would have loved to put a firepro or two in this box too.  The radeon hd 7750 i have is pretty decent for the price-point tho.  Sounds like you built a pretty boss box.

Quote - That is not correct Bob. You can have it installed on both machines. You cannot run it at the same time.

It's a matter of usage. If you are running two copies of Reality at the same time then you need one license for each simultanous use. Think of Reality as a physical book. If you give it to somebody else you cannot read it at the same time. If two people/machines need access to it at the same time then you need a license fo reach user.

Hope this helps.

This seems pretty easy to accomplish with R3 Paolo.  Not that I don't love your plug-in; but, if I have it open for more than 10 minutes.. something is drastically wrong with my materials.  I know it's off-topic for THIS particular forum; but, I'm finally starting to get clothes to fit decently in poser again.  Just have to stay away from heavy duty morphing.  My main issue has been getting clothes to behave when I use any number of different breast morphs.  Like jawdropper, natural gravity or natural breast movement morphs.  The wife pointed out to me that if I was using those to simulate real-word conditions affecting the female anatomy.. that they'd probably not be wearing clothes anyway.

Quote - > Quote - 5 days! I bought this monster to cut back on render times LOL at least they are not that long now

Some renders are a b**ch... some are not.  Some of my longer renders have been in the million poly range...

 

I'm feeling the love... I hit #15 on the art charts. 

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/artchart.php

 

Right behind Elianeck...

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/browse.php?user_id=492465

Congrats... sounds like you're in good company.  Elianek is ungodly when it comes to the futuristic/robotic renders.

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> Quote - > Quote - OT just bought my  new system > > > > Intel core i7 3770 hyperthreading processor LGA1155 3.4 GHZ ivy bridge 8G > > > > 2 x Kingston hyperx blue black series 16G 2X8G DDR3-1600 CL10 DIMM Dual channel memory > > > > Cooler master hyper 212 evo direct  touch 4 heatpipe heatsink > > > > AMD Firepro W5000 2G DDR5 PCI-E 3.0 X 16 workstation video card > > > > Samsung 840 series 250G 2.5in SATA3 MDX solid state flash drive > > > > Seagate barracuda 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB > > > > Zalman Z11 plus mid tower ATX case black > > > > & a lower end Radeon card for HDMI out. > > > > I get to stay with win 7 > > > >   > > Bob.. did you piece your box together yourself?  I built mine myself back in October.  Have the exact same heatsink.  With the exception of THAT beast.. I would have had the box together in about 15 minutes.  That heatsink took me an additional 10 or 15.  Would have loved to put a firepro or two in this box too.  The radeon hd 7750 i have is pretty decent for the price-point tho.  Sounds like you built a pretty boss box.

I'm not that skilled I am having it built. I'm going in stores & playing with win 8 so I will have SOME Idea of what I will be doing seems pretty simple. If all else fails I do have the run the start like win 7 shell exe file. You getting decently faster render times?

 

Anyhoo intro to one of thems commish's I am doing ot pay for this beast!

 

Paolo,

Can you tell us whether Reality 3 for Daz Studio will allow the user to a) change the accelerator used on a scene.??

I like to use QBVH which on average is about 15-20% faster than KDbacktree, and often uses less memory.

and b) will you be adding the feature of setting or assigning 'light importance' on lights in a scene.??? THAT would be a very handy feature to have, as again it would help in increasing render times / samples, when scenes have alot things like glowing control panels and monitors etc.

Cheers,

 

S.K.

Yes, both features will be present.

Cheers.

Quote - Yes, both features will be present.

Cheers.

 

Excellent Sir, just excellent. !!!!

I cannot wait for the Studio Version..but know that I must.. ;)

Wishing you continued success.

S.K.

 

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Madonna club renders

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Paolo,

Will Reality 3 have the ability to reverse which side of a plane I'm using?  Sometimes I've tried to convert an objet to light, only to realize that the plane is facing the wrong way.  The issue is that that object's designer may not have been aware of the Lux's requirements.

 

Also, I've had a terrible time with displacement maps, and in working on this render;

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=2435754

It became appearent to me that the maps were 'inverse'.  Blood on the surface of the model seemed to go in.  I'd love to be able to either reverse a displacement map's direction or at least enter different possitive or negative values for the limits.

 

Please and thanks...