Quote - Well...while it didn't let me rename it, it did begin to show up in reality under the same name with a (2) behind it. Now the render is working so thank you very very much. :)

Click twice in the content pane in Studio.

I don't think you can rename from the Reality list of surfaces.

Octane is by far the most expensive option, the price point of the software alone rules out many hobbyists and it also requires a powerful GPU to get quick results and the texture size is limited to the GPU RAM capacity, GPU's upgrades can also necessitate a PSU upgrade to power the card(s). For a professional it may be a great production pipeline but the cost made it highly impractical for my use.

I rendered this using Reality into LuxRender on a dual xeon 2.26 GHz. Mac that's over 4 year old, these are the results after after one hour and sixteen. minutes

within 24 hrs of me buying anyhting here or there it will almost always go on sale AND become a buy-one-get-one free

so next time I buy something I'll let you all know and get the savings I keep missing out on.

FInd two photos of the same model that can be used like a "mug shot" meaning a full front view of the face and a side view, in both photos try to find the subject looking straight at the camera with the head as level as possible.

You will need to combine the images in a photo editor so the head is the same size on each side of the image then load the image as the background in Studio, then load your model and set the camera so the figure's head is in the same area as your picture.Adjust morphs to approximate the shape of the face with morph targets.

No human face is symetrical but most of your morphs are so to get the finer details fixed you would need some modeling program that allows you to create morphs and import them, crocodilian mentioned Blender and while this is an amazing application it has one hell of a learning curve so unless you are comfortable with it already I don't suggest it unless you want to spend many hours with tutorials and reading materials. all that aside I just did a photo-real render for a company that was having trouble with getting the lighting in a photo they were doing and I did it all in Blender and they were very happy. It's worth learning but it takes patience.

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I have not been feedback to DS users, but I know that many DS users bought Powertown. The product does not use special Poser shaders only texture maps, so there's no reason you have problems with it in DS. If that were the case, contact me so that I help you

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Renders of the street lamp I've been working on.  Available for free:

Turbosquid.com
ShareCG.com

Pending approval in Freestuff here on Renderosity as well.

the texture used in the glass twice takes away the illusion of realisim, you should consider making two different textures. Other than that this model is excellent.

I'm starting to think they're breaking things on purpose over there, especially with content and functionality for older models. Older gen figures still appear to be popular over here but have pretty much vanished from new release support over at Daz. They're no longer making money off of them so why would they support the customers who still use it. Newer always equals better, right?

For the past few months I feel like Daz's approach to running the company is they're going to do what they want and what the consumer is asking for is irrelevant to them. Lately they're quicker with the posts deletes than Clint Eastwood is with a handgun ad the finale of a spaghetti western. I'm wondering what a customer satisfaction survey would show at this time, but no polls are possible over there. If Poser lowers the price of the 64 bit 2012 version I will jump ship. If they made a limited content version for free I think it would destroy Daz overnight at this point, they don't appear to care if they make enemies, this kind of thing can catch up to a company very quickly.

I don't tink Blender will become a pay for app, there are 1000's of free apps who's business model can be surmised in one word; Donate.

That and Blender also provide source code so you can actually take the code, recompie it and stick your name on it and charge money, which is lower than dirt IMHO, but the license for open source software makes for some interesting reading.

http://www.blender.org/blenderorg/blender-foundation/press/re-branding-blender/

What is the problem?
What is the error message?

does it happen every time you try to save or on a specific file?

what version of studio are you using?

what type of computer and opperating system do you have, how much RAM, video card, hard drive space?

because unless you write a negative thread about Dawn on the Daz3d forums it will get deleted. If no other reason it makes the new powers that be in Draper aware they are not the only game in town and if they don't want to listem to their customer base someone else will.

What was so great about Gen1 and Gen2? Unless you need a figure that you can turn into an alien or a dog or a squid it's a jack of all trades but a master of none. It was more work than it was worth and more cost to get it to where it was as flexable with generation 4 figures. I'm not speding $125 on morphs so I can do what I was already doing.

btw a ford carb will fit on a chevy, you need a cirucs hammer and a heliarch torch

hivewire3d.com

it's tanked at the moment but they're working on getting it fixed.

the forums and chat are up though

http://hivewire3d.com/forum/

it's civil...

...for the moment.

here's some free cards already on rendo

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/details.php?item_id=38855

these better be some really good cards you got for sale.

 I don't know if it's the host or the software or what but either the ability to post or search or edit goes belly up for me daily on that blasted thing, or they simply hate me which explains everything. It's dead right now when I try to respond to a thread btw.

I'm surprised vendors will go the "not tested in Daz Studio" route when Studio Pro is free and the only thing they stand to loose by not testing in it is sales.