OK, thanks RH. So no additional benefit then in sliding to 2 from Default. 

Thanks for your reply.

I found some time ago that V4 does benefit, especially the smooth curvature of her breasts by enabling SubD. Otherwise, I was noticing a bit of jaggedness in the shape of her breasts, especially the lower part. Enabling SubD smooths it out to what it should be.

But yeah, I could not see any discernible difference between the Default setting which was halfway between 1 & 2, and all the way to 2.

Quote - > Quote - Beautiful render Dr! Where did you get this elaborate house environment and vehicles outside? And how large was the original render? How long did this scene take to render? Stellar work!

Pardon all the questions please.

Thanks, MarkR151.

The house environment is from Design 12 (Arrin) here at Rendo, and the car is V8 Panther at DAZ. Other bits and pieces from DAZ, RDNA and Rendo. The render size is 1834 x 920, and took around 48 hours. It probably didn't need to render that long, but I usually let mine render for long periods.

Thanks Doc!  :) 

Quote - The Chain (Fleetwood Mac)

Listen to the wind blow, watch the sun rise

Run in the shadows
Damn your love, damn your lies

And if you don't love me now
You will never love me again
I can still hear you saying you would never break the chain
And if you don't love me now
You will never love me again
I can still hear you saying you would never break the chain

Beautiful render Dr!

Where did you get this elaborate house environment and vehicles outside? And how large was the original render? How long did this scene take to render? Stellar work!

Pardon all the questions please.

Quote - Callad.. believe it or not.. this character started out life as Neve.  Haven't worked with her for a while so wanted to bring her out of mothballs and do something unique with her.  Don't ask me wtf happened to  her outfit because I have no clue.  Most around here won't even notice she has clothes ON.

 

Hmmm.. after posting the render here.. the black streaks that were all over her outfit are gone.  I must have inadvertantly had an alpha channel active.

Clothes?

Anyway, show us more of Neve. How about a double bicep pose? 

Paolo,

You said the default format(for Reality & LR?)is PNG. Can it also work with BMP?

If I try to render my V4 model in DS4 with any photo backdrop I have with PNG format, I lose that backdrop. Nothing shows up in the image behind her but the empty white & grey checkered background. I need to be able to keep the background I want to use. And the photos I'm using are in Jpg and sometimes Tif. 

Out of curiousity, what is the largest size render you have ever made?

So when we render something with Reality & LR is it saving the image as a .BMP file, .JPG or other?

If I were to open the rendered image from Lux in Photoshop, what is it going to show for resolution?

I don't mean the image dimensions like 1280x720, but the ppi.  

In DS4 with 3Delight regardless of the image dimensions, the resolution always shows 96ppi after I open it in Photoshop. 

When I'm rendering an image in DS4 alone,(no Reality or LuxRender yet) with the render "Quality vs Speed" settings slider in the upper left corner with the Worst(Hare) at 1 and Best (Tortoise)at 4, I've got it set at 4(Best). I'm also using render quality settings under3Delight that one of the experienced DAZ users recommended and all that does produce an excellent image.

Now here's where the 96 ppi comes in. In Photoshop under Image>Image Size>Document Size>Resolution the rendered images are 96 pixels per inch or 37.795 pixels per centimeter.

When I asked someone in the DAZ forums on their site about how to change the ppi to something else like 300 or 360 which I'm familiar with in photography, he said that ppi doesn't really matter & you can change it to whatever you want later.

So apparently 96 ppi is the default setting in DS4 which cannot be adjusted until after rendering in a PS type image editor.

Thanks Paolo. It's beginning to make sense.

One more question in another thread about Reality.

Go here and drop to bottom of page to the last 3 messages, including between mbin & me:

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2862963

Quote - The shutter speed has nothing to do with the render time. The render time is not the time light hits the camera film, it's just the time Lux takes to sample each oixel for light hits. The shutter speed of the exposure settings works exactly like the same adjustmnet on a real camera.

Hope this helps.

No, I'm afraid not. If we are supposed to think or treat Reality & LR like a real photo studio or on location photo shoot with cameras, camera settings, different lights, etc then(scratching my head here) why does the shutter speed(exposure duration)not correlate to render times? 

How do you know what shutter speed to set unless you do a lengthy test render each time? Does 1/30th of a second shutter speed instead of 1/60th not matter? Is the render going to look the same anyway regardless of whether I use 1/30, 1/60 or 1/125? And if so, why even have shutter speeds in Reality & LR program?

In DS 4 it is rendering my images at 96dpi I believe. And that is with the render quality at the highest level next to the turtle symbol for slow.

But if I have only one subject, say V4 and nothing else but a photo background I'm supplying and I want good, soft, natural looking wraparound light(mesh light?) and don't know yet if I would need more than 1 mesh light, and I want to render @ say 16x24 inches as mentioned earlier, what do you think I'm likely to need?

For props, the only thing would be her wedding ring(always) and maybe simple clothing. I guess the only large prop I have would be the Ultimate Bed by Powerage(available here). And I don't use that all the time.

Also, I would only be doing one render test at a time.

Another question then. I understand the use of different film speed(ISO) and aperture, but shutter speed?

In a camera, it could be anywhere from several seconds up to something super fast like 1/8000 sec. But usually around 1/60 to 1/500 for most people's normal photography.

BUT in Reality & LuxRender, your typical exposure times or "render" times are going to be at least several hours & sometimes days. Actually it never stops until we make it stop  right? Otherwise as you say, the light just keeps bouncing around all over.

So what is the difference between shutter speed in recording the image of our subjects and render times?

Another question:

How much RAM is recommended for Reality and LuxRender?

Especially if I want to make some larger size renders, say 16x24 inches(40.6x 61cm) or larger. 

Paolo and everyone else using Reality,

1. What film speed are you using or do you recommend? For best results, we should use the lowest possible ISO I would think, right? For the least amount of noise/grain like with film?

2. Pardon my ignorance, but the DAZ version of martial's render looks much better.

By the way martial, I'd love to see a lighting diagram showing how you lit her in DAZ. From the top and also at a lower angle so I can see how high you placed the lights and what kind of lights you used.

1. I think the noise martial might be referring to is on the front of her neck.

Thanks Arkathan,

I'll give it a try later. My mind is just not in the right frame to take this on right now with a lot of other stuff to do, but will get back to this sometime soon.

Thanks for your reply. And if anyone else has any tips, please feel free to share.