Just find the directory you have them in and double click the one you want.  Adjust the opacity because it loads at 60%.  It automatically loads into the IBL section in Reality. 

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OK Guys, bonus points if you can name the characters in this render.

Its called, "At The Malt Shop".

You see it full scale here;

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=2414494

 

Velma, Daphne, Fred, Shaggy, and Scooby!

I've been doing a lot more learning than producing lately, so I jumped back on Daz to feel some accomplishment.  For such a simple program, it's hard to get back into after using another program. 

Quote - Well, there is no doubt in my mind that the Lux version looks a lot more realistic and with more vibrant in colors. 

Thank you for the test.

Hopefully maybe some day some talented guy with a cool accent will make a plugin to use Lux with C4D. I'd definitely be willing to give my money to that guy if he does.  

Quote - Here's one for anyone that might know the answer.  For the last couple of months.. no matter what eye texture I use(except for dublin and a couple others).  The eyes on my characters always turn out black.   I've tried everything I can do and it always ends up the same.  Solid black eyes.

Here's the fix from the man himself.

 http://youtu.be/8PnMGMR7HrQ

Here's my completely un-scientific and uncontrolled experiment.  Same object with very similar lighting setup (3 mesh lights in Reality, 3 Vray area lights).

Top is the Lux render at 4 hours.

Bottom is Vray render in 4 minutes and 39 seconds. 

Quote - Actually I don't think VRay, and certainly not Maxwell, have much distance on Lux. I can't compare speed of rendering but result-wise Lux hold its own very well in comparison with those very expensive packages.

I'm about to throw together a little test right now.  I'm going to set up a scene in Daz then export it to C4D.  Render it with Lux and Vray.  My average Lux render is probably abou 10 hours, closer to 3 for simple scenes and as high as 40 for really complex ones (on an overclocked i5 2500K quad core).  My average Vray scene has been around 2 minutes, the longest I've had so far was 20 minutes.  I'll post results so you all can judge the quality vs time spent.

But I need to add  that no matter what, I wouldn't be getting any decent results with Vray if I hadn't spent the past year playing with Reality and Lux. It gave me a great foundation for lighting and settings like spec, displacement, bump, etc in a very simple manner (and with a great instructor) that has made Vray way less intimidating 

Had to hop back on to Daz to play with Callad's new toys.  This has the floor and wall prop with the Curve&spot light. Also one Reality mesh near the floor poniting up. 

Quote - > Quote - Some nice stuff here lately, wish I had something to share.  Maybe I'll dust off Daz this weekend just so I feel like I'm doing something. 

I've spent the past two weeks very, very slowly learning my way around Cinema 4D and Vray (and Maxwell render, and Mental Ray, and Indigo...I have a million different trial versions installed right now).  Tried out Carrara first and it was nice, but I figured if I'm learning something new why not just go all out and work with one of the big boys.  Only complaint is that I can't find any Lux plugins.  

Have you looked at Blender (free) which can also use Lux Render I believe... Would be interested if you have, as when I get some time (when do I ever!) I'd like to have a go at learning it... seems to be a big following, and so far all that have tried it seem very positive about it. If you have, I'd be interested in your opinion compared to the other 'big boys'... `¬)

...sorry if this is a bit off topic?

I played with Blender a few years ago but I guess I wasn't as motivated as I am now and gave it up pretty quick. When I was researching this time everything said C4D had the easiest to learn interface,  and I believe it.  It's so easy to find and use the tools you need and I'm picking it up much faster than I expected.

But in these days of Youtube it's alsoa lot easier to find info on any program. 

Some nice stuff here lately, wish I had something to share.  Maybe I'll dust off Daz this weekend just so I feel like I'm doing something. 

I've spent the past two weeks very, very slowly learning my way around Cinema 4D and Vray (and Maxwell render, and Mental Ray, and Indigo...I have a million different trial versions installed right now).  Tried out Carrara first and it was nice, but I figured if I'm learning something new why not just go all out and work with one of the big boys.  Only complaint is that I can't find any Lux plugins.  

This is what I threw together for that Scared Stiff contest on dA.  Not my best and not really how I wanted it to come out, but it's what I did in the time I had.  The prizes are too nice not to submit something. 

Quote - Hey Brad, if you're really interested in animation, check out what you can do with motion capture. Carrara is great and such, and I really admire the particle/physics utilization, but at the end of the day, frame by frame is still really, really taxing on both time and computer resources (where rendering is concerned).

I can't recall the site of the top off my head, but there used to be a company that went belly up some years ago and following, all of their mo-cap files went up on the net. The format was in .bvh which can be used with most modeling programs (and blender, if you ever try that).

Not withstanding, I happened to scoop up the iPi recorder program when it was free. I haven't tried it, but the idea is that you use the ps3 eye cam to record your own movements and translate them into daz-usable mo-cap animations. Sounded super slick, but I didn't have the eyecam to see if it worked. Just another option... 

Baby steps.  I went to Carrara because of how easy it is to throw my Daz content into a scene (and I have tons of it to play with). This is giving me a chance to learn some animation and modeling in the same program. Just bringing a Daz model into Carrara model room has given me some new insight on this stuff is built. 

Hopefully after a few months I can move on again to something bigger and better like Blender, 3DS Max, Cinema 4D, or something else that looks incredibly complicated. 

Not changing, just expanding.  My ultimate goal has always been animation.  I was just starting to read up on iClone when Daz went free.  I grabbed Daz just because it was free, planning to integrate it into iClone.

But I got a little sidetracked and spent this whole past year playing with Daz (and never got iClone). 

I've played with Carrara for a few hours over the last few days and it's pretty amazing so far.  It can use almost all of the content from Daz and Poser, with better animation AND physics and particle effects. 

Here's an image I threw together in a few minutes during one of the basic lighting tutorials. Render time was 1 minute 32 seconds. Tomorrow I'm going to take the same figure and pose and run it through Reality to see how it compares.  I love Reality, but I don't think I'll ever see an image like this come out of it that quick. 

Started this one a few weeks ago and just went back to it.  I have one more image running for that dA contest mustang2011 mentioned and that'll probably be the last I mess with Daz/Reality for a while.  My project for 2013 is learning Carrara so I'm about to bury myself in some tutorials.

Quote - Ok got this figured out now lmao. I'm still a newbie at forums

Try this one

That worked. 

Lots of entries and some are pretty good, but I'll give it a try anyway.