Yeah, I get quite a bit of those too, but I expect that. I'm also not running a prime graphics machine either, so I run into memory and cpu issues. Anyone render any sunbeams/godlights? I tried for that on that render but got nothing. I'd be interested to know what atmosphere settings were used.

Soooo.....anyone got $3000 to spare for a new pc?

Drat!

My first posted cararra render was done in c8. The render time on this one really surprised me. I thought I'd be off watching tv while I waited, but it was done in 5 minutes.
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Actually, I should have mentioned that any time I have that problem it's usually because of something updating, or my system went into sleep-mode or some such. Once those details were looked after I've been able to do 87 hour renders. (don't ask)

I do almost all of that on my system as well...except I stuff my keyboard tray under the desk cause my cats always seem to stand on the power button...then there's the touchscreen controls for my monitor....

Come to think of it, most of my prep work for a midnight render involves cat proofing!

Thetalov, I've seen your stuff, it's good enough!

Dats der bunny! Thank yah!

Awesome! Thanks!

Especially true if you already have C7. Really the only thing you can do in Daz is make cross application clothing and characters with the figure tools plugins. As far as Dynamic clothing, I won't touch it in Daz 3, since you cannot even make your own. I still use D3A because I soaked down cash for it, might as well get mileage from it, plus I find it easier to setup a quick scene and render. I'd really be happy if I could get C7 or C8 to successfully import a Daz or Collada file.

Reminds me, I saw somewhere that someone had already made a dynamic cloth plugin for C7. Anyone know of this?

Anyhow, I'm going to reload that scene and give it another go tonight once I get back from the doc.

Yes, always liked using procedural over texture maps for that reason. I'm not even going to attempt to load Andorian City with it's supplied textures, It bogs Daz down to a slideshow when I view textures in open gl. I'd suspect it'll be worse in C7
On a positive note, I rendered a test scene with thousands of trees, that's a cool feature!

Thetalov I did notice that DS 3 advanced had some improvements with memory leaks over Ds 3 basic, but I still find I have to close down ds, let windoze dump, then restart DS 3.

Quote - Thanks everyone, I just upgraded to 7. It was only $99.95. Give me one more prgram I probably won't get the hang of... :)

Lol, so I'm not the only one. Thankfully, I have a couple of Cararra users bugging me to learn it. (thanks guys, you know who you are)

WEll, I'm hoping C8 will be better at importing Daz scenes, I prefer that to Cararras, system so far. This might change as I get to know the program better. So far it's still a bit intimidating.

While I like Daz (I use D3 advanced) I find it has always been atrocious for leaks, and several minute delays while it writes to disk at seemingly any opportunity...at least I have not noticed this in cararra.

Maybe it's a 'feature', you know, to give you time to pee, get coffee...etc....

Those are handy tips, thanks for the link to the other thread.
I get memory leaks with Poser, Daz (any incarnation) and Cararra, it seems to go with the territory. But at least with Cararra there are some steps you can take it seems.

Thanks for the advice! Yeah, His stuff is heavy on the texture side.  I'm going to try both of those suggestions.in a re-render. funny though, C7 pro seems to use slightly less memory than DS3 to begin with, but (as I'd expect) pretty much 100% of the cpu as it  gets into a render.
I do have the c8 beta, but without a 64 bit OS i'll have the exact same issues. I'm hoping to have enough of a system upgrade soon to keep me busy for awhile.

Woot! Thanks for the heads up and the link!