I am astonished. I've had three staff pick honours almost in a row! I am so happy that folks find my little pictures worthy of note. Thank you again!!!

Thank you so much!  I am gobsmacked! Especially after one of my images was a Staff Pick in September! Two in a row. Not sure I can top that!!!

I am honored. Thank you!

PS, this is the log file for the above, LuxRencered test image:

[2013-10-24 17:10:57 Info: 0] Freeing resources.

[2013-10-24 17:10:57 Info: 0] Freeing resources.

[2013-10-24 17:10:57 Info: 0] Server requests interval: 180 seconds

[2013-10-24 17:10:57 Info: 0] Loading scene file: 'C:/Users/Andre/Documents/reality_scene.lxs'...

[2013-10-24 17:10:57 Info: 0] Loading texture: 'C:/Users/Public/Documents/Poser 9 Content/Runtime/Textures/Poser 8/P8 lights/P8LightGrids/LG6.jpg'...

[2013-10-24 17:10:57 Info: 0] Memory used for imagemap 'C:/Users/Public/Documents/Poser 9 Content/Runtime/Textures/Poser 8/P8 lights/P8LightGrids/LG6.jpg': 732KBytes

[2013-10-24 17:10:57 Info: 0] Reusing data for imagemap 'C:/Users/Public/Documents/Poser 9 Content/Runtime/Textures/Poser 8/P8 lights/P8LightGrids/LG6.jpg'

[2013-10-24 17:12:07 Info: 0] Writing resume film file

[2013-10-24 17:12:10 Info: 0] Film transmission done (16612 Kbytes sent)

[2013-10-24 17:12:10 Info: 0] Resume film written to 'C:UsersAndreDocumentsreality_scene.flm'

[2013-10-24 17:12:10 Info: 0] Writing Tonemapped PNG image to file 'C:UsersAndreDocumentsreality_scene.png'

[2013-10-24 17:13:11 Info: 0] Writing resume film file

[2013-10-24 17:13:14 Info: 0] Film transmission done (17628 Kbytes sent)

[2013-10-24 17:13:15 Info: 0] Resume film written to 'C:UsersAndreDocumentsreality_scene.flm'

[2013-10-24 17:13:15 Info: 0] Writing Tonemapped PNG image to file 'C:UsersAndreDocumentsreality_scene.png'

[2013-10-24 17:14:16 Info: 0] Writing resume film file

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[2013-10-24 17:14:20 Info: 0] Resume film written to 'C:UsersAndreDocumentsreality_scene.flm'

[2013-10-24 17:14:21 Info: 0] Writing Tonemapped PNG image to file 'C:UsersAndreDocumentsreality_scene.png'

[2013-10-24 17:15:22 Info: 0] Writing resume film file

[2013-10-24 17:15:26 Info: 0] Film transmission done (18136 Kbytes sent)

[2013-10-24 17:15:26 Info: 0] Resume film written to 'C:UsersAndreDocumentsreality_scene.flm'

[2013-10-24 17:15:26 Info: 0] Writing Tonemapped PNG image to file 'C:UsersAndreDocumentsreality_scene.png'

[2013-10-24 17:16:28 Info: 0] Writing resume film file

[2013-10-24 17:16:32 Info: 0] Film transmission done (18136 Kbytes sent)

[2013-10-24 17:16:32 Info: 0] Resume film written to 'C:UsersAndreDocumentsreality_scene.flm'

[2013-10-24 17:16:33 Info: 0] Writing Tonemapped PNG image to file 'C:UsersAndreDocumentsreality_scene.png'

[2013-10-24 17:17:34 Info: 0] Writing resume film file

[2013-10-24 17:17:38 Info: 0] Film transmission done (18108 Kbytes sent)

[2013-10-24 17:17:38 Info: 0] Resume film written to 'C:UsersAndreDocumentsreality_scene.flm'

[2013-10-24 17:17:38 Info: 0] Writing Tonemapped PNG image to file 'C:UsersAndreDocumentsreality_scene.png'

[2013-10-24 17:18:19 Info: 0] Rendering stopped by user.

[2013-10-24 17:18:40 Info: 0] Writing resume film file

[2013-10-24 17:18:43 Info: 0] Film transmission done (18100 Kbytes sent)

[2013-10-24 17:18:43 Info: 0] Resume film written to 'C:UsersAndreDocumentsreality_scene.flm'

[2013-10-24 17:18:43 Info: 0] Writing Tonemapped PNG image to file 'C:UsersAndreDocumentsreality_scene.png'

[2013-10-24 17:19:45 Info: 0] Writing resume film file

[2013-10-24 17:19:48 Info: 0] Film transmission done (18100 Kbytes sent)

[2013-10-24 17:19:48 Info: 0] Resume film written to 'C:UsersAndreDocumentsreality_scene.flm'

[2013-10-24 17:19:48 Info: 0] Writing Tonemapped PNG image to file 'C:UsersAndreDocumentsreality_scene.png'

[2013-10-24 17:20:50 Info: 0] Writing resume film file

[2013-10-24 17:20:53 Info: 0] Film transmission done (18100 Kbytes sent)

[2013-10-24 17:20:53 Info: 0] Resume film written to 'C:UsersAndreDocumentsreality_scene.flm'

[2013-10-24 17:20:53 Info: 0] Writing Tonemapped PNG image to file 'C:UsersAndreDocumentsreality_scene.png'

[2013-10-24 17:21:54 Info: 0] Writing resume film file

[2013-10-24 17:21:57 Info: 0] Film transmission done (18100 Kbytes sent)

[2013-10-24 17:21:57 Info: 0] Resume film written to 'C:UsersAndreDocumentsreality_scene.flm'

[2013-10-24 17:21:57 Info: 0] Writing Tonemapped PNG image to file 'C:UsersAndreDocumentsreality_scene.png'

[2013-10-24 17:22:58 Info: 0] Writing resume film file

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[2013-10-24 17:23:01 Info: 0] Resume film written to 'C:UsersAndreDocumentsreality_scene.flm'

[2013-10-24 17:23:01 Info: 0] Writing Tonemapped PNG image to file 'C:UsersAndreDocumentsreality_scene.png'

[2013-10-24 17:24:02 Info: 0] Writing resume film file

[2013-10-24 17:24:05 Info: 0] Film transmission done (18100 Kbytes sent)

[2013-10-24 17:24:05 Info: 0] Resume film written to 'C:UsersAndreDocumentsreality_scene.flm'

[2013-10-24 17:24:05 Info: 0] Writing Tonemapped PNG image to file 'C:UsersAndreDocumentsreality_scene.png'

[2013-10-24 17:25:06 Info: 0] Writing resume film file

[2013-10-24 17:25:09 Info: 0] Film transmission done (18100 Kbytes sent)

[2013-10-24 17:25:09 Info: 0] Resume film written to 'C:UsersAndreDocumentsreality_scene.flm'

[2013-10-24 17:25:09 Info: 0] Writing Tonemapped PNG image to file 'C:UsersAndreDocumentsreality_scene.png'

[2013-10-24 17:26:10 Info: 0] Writing resume film file

[2013-10-24 17:26:13 Info: 0] Film transmission done (18100 Kbytes sent)

[2013-10-24 17:26:13 Info: 0] Resume film written to 'C:UsersAndreDocumentsreality_scene.flm'

[2013-10-24 17:26:14 Info: 0] Writing Tonemapped PNG image to file 'C:UsersAndreDocumentsreality_scene.png'

[2013-10-24 17:27:15 Info: 0] Writing resume film file

[2013-10-24 17:27:18 Info: 0] Film transmission done (18100 Kbytes sent)

[2013-10-24 17:27:18 Info: 0] Resume film written to 'C:UsersAndreDocumentsreality_scene.flm'

[2013-10-24 17:27:18 Info: 0] Writing Tonemapped PNG image to file 'C:UsersAndreDocumentsreality_scene.png'

[2013-10-24 17:28:20 Info: 0] Writing resume film file

[2013-10-24 17:28:23 Info: 0] Film transmission done (18100 Kbytes sent)

[2013-10-24 17:28:23 Info: 0] Resume film written to 'C:UsersAndreDocumentsreality_scene.flm'

[2013-10-24 17:28:23 Info: 0] Writing Tonemapped PNG image to file 'C:UsersAndreDocumentsreality_scene.png'

[2013-10-24 17:29:24 Info: 0] Writing resume film file

[2013-10-24 17:29:27 Info: 0] Film transmission done (18100 Kbytes sent)

[2013-10-24 17:29:27 Info: 0] Resume film written to 'C:UsersAndreDocumentsreality_scene.flm'

[2013-10-24 17:29:27 Info: 0] Writing Tonemapped PNG image to file 'C:UsersAndreDocumentsreality_scene.png'

Any assitance is appreciated.  Thanks.

For some reason, none of the procedural materials are converting into Reality or into Lux. See the image attached. Top image is scene rendered with Firefly, bottom with Reality 3 plugin.

It's a simple test, using the Andy figures, from left, one with Cyber texture (which is an image map),  in the centre the standard MilkMan Andy texture and the one on the right, with the Andy Checkers texture, which is aare both procedural materials. As you can see, the last two are simply appearing with the white, diffuse channel colour. Whereas the image map is converting properly.

As Paolo described erlier in this thread, these material should be easily converted. But they're not in my case.

Paolo, can you confirm that indeed, Reality 3 can or can't process these procedural materials? On the other hand, if Reality is indeed supposed to correctly convert the materials, can you speculate as to the possible cause for my problem? 

Could someone volunteer to try to recreate or at least render Andy with these three textures/materials, from Poser's Mannekin materials directory? 

Possible issue, I am not running the OpenCL version of LuxRender. Could this be the issue? 

Thanks!

Yes it does help. Thank you. Plesae let me know if you find/confirm that the material is indeed not able to be processed by Reality/LuxRender at this time.

Thanks for your advice on this problem.

Following your advice on Troubleshooting at the RuntimeDNA site, here is more information:

• Windows Vista - NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT graphics card

• Poser 9 (not pro) with latest service release

• 32 bit version of Reality installed

• Reality version 3.0.5 build 108

• Luxrender versin 1.2.1 (32 bit)

• log error message: unable to find OpenGL GPU device, falling back to CPU

• not using graphic acceleration

Hope this is helpful. 

Thanks! I will post screen captures ASAP.

Just a quick note to say thanks for the wonderful script. It's a great contribution to the community, and helping to breathe new life in many Daz and Poser figures. I'm having a lot of fun exploring the script's capabilities.  

Here's a link to render and acknowledgement I posted earlier today.

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=2290171

Cheers!

That's correct. I am using the McAfee firewall, not the Windows firewall. Now that I have allowed McAfee to accept Poser 9 as an exception, it seems like all is back to normal.

I hope that others are not facing similar firewall issues, due to recent updates to software virus definitions.

Thanks!

I want to report that all is well, after I followed Bagginsbill's meticulous run-through of potential issues and problems.

The solution (hanging my head in shame for not thinking of this in the first place), was to allow my firewall (McAfee) to allow Poser 9 as an exception.

As far as I can tell, a new virus definition or update from McAfee last night or this morning suddenly blocked access to program file.

Actually, I never would have figured it out without Bagginsbill's patient and thorough walk-through dissection of the issues. I also learned about my own system and have a better understanding of how to troubleshoot. Thank you, thank you.

No, I don't. any advice?