All shader work without problem, since it is "only" a D|S update and not a render-engine update.

To avoid problems, you do have to update your graphic card/chip driver, it demands a lot from openGL.

There is a list of plug-ins not working, such as Finder, Render Editor, Layered Image Editor, SpotLight Pointer ....

More over at the DAZ forum.

Could you post a WIP to clearly see what you want to do?

Normally you tweak the reflection settings in your surface tab, if you want real reflections push it up to at least 50%, you can as well use a reflection map for faked reflections, which renders faster the the real ones.

Looking for inspiration?

Just go outside and have a look around, take a look at your libary, turn on your television, listen to your favorite music, browse the galleries ....

And don't try to copy "big" artists, they may know a lot more then you (no offence meant), just get some experience before trying this.

Start with a simple scene, a plane, a character and place some spotlights (3 will be enough), use different colours and intensity settings, turn around the scene with your camera and every time you find an interesting point of vision do a render and do use shadows. And inspiration will come! ^_^

Most of AS-stuff works in D|S and it ALWAYS looks good! ^_^

Maybe some pose presets wont work out from the library, but you can always use the dials to make the movement morphs working.

You can also have a look  at  www.aerysoul.com/board/forumdisplay.php and ask here.

Thanks for your reply Rubicon!

Ok, in this case I understand that you had problems, the lightning is not the same and I think every D|S user with a bit of brains wont ask for adapting light sets or node based textures. (And because there are this differences, most D|S users wont bother buying light-sets, we are quite good in lightning ;)  )

We are only asking for a simple information on the product page "Not tested in D|S" (it is up to us to see if we try or not) or "Does not work in D|S"/ "Works only partially in D|S" and we know what to do.

If a vendor will not take the time to test a product, he may ask in any D|S forum, he will find volonteers for testing.

And just have a look in the D|S gallery to see what can be done with this "crappy" piece of software!

Just try to use DS for a while, use it first without any plug-in to get used to the way it works, afterwards you may start using plug-ins to be able to do things you cannot (yet) do.

And if you have questions or stumble across some problems, just ask, you will find always someone to help you! ^_^

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Quote - A lot of people simply can't get DS to run. Just so you know. Until 1.7.9 or so I wasn't able to load a thing into there, 1.8 came along and sort of broke things again until a later version. Some people simply can't get ti to run on their machine at all.

And then there is the learning curve, load into DS and it looks like garbage but there is nothing to make it look better (that the person knows about) so they just don't bother. That was a lot of experiences early on and people just don't go back.

But, again, for some people it simply doesn't work.

Honestly, I use DS since 0.8 or something like this and I never had a major problem with it, apart from plugins not working after an update. I am on PC, maybe it is different for Mac-users, so I do not think that it is a DS problem.

I had some testruns on Poser at a friend who owns it, but I do not find it very easy to use, especially the lightning, so I think it is simply a question of getting used to it, like every time when you learn a new prog.

I don't ask the vendors to learn DS like a pro, just to open their works in it and do a test-render, apply their morph or what else applies. You don't have to be using DS for ages to see if it works or not, or they just ask a DS-user to do a test, they will find some willing to help.

Just my point of view.

Rubicon, I am sorry to here that you didn't sell your product as you hoped, if only for your effort to do a DS-version; but there is one thing which kills me very time: DS is free! No money spend, so at least a vendor could do a testrun in DS and state on the product page if it works or not!

I know the biggest problem and difference is the  render-engine, a DS-user knows this as well (or should know), but most of the time we will find a work-around, use a plug-in ...., but there are as well morphs that do not work correctly with DS and this cannot be solved (as far as I know).

So 30 minutes to test a product in DS and a mention on the product page (100% DS, Shaders not working in DS, Not working in DS) could help to take a decision if to buy or not.

And a growing comunity would feel better as well! ^_^

The DAZ community is growing everyday and the people who use it are getting better and better, just a question of time.

Vendors who don't support D|S must gain enough from their products to be able to ignore a community.

I only use D|S, the money I did not spend on buying Poser, I spent it on content. Poser must be about 200-300 bucks, imagine the number of content bought!

Its up to the vendors to use a calculator to see what they might have earned (or not) by the D|S comunity!