He's gone.
He died at 3AM this morning, just few hours ago.

Only 19 years old. Unbelievable. Everyone is in a big shock.

Thanks guys!  I just came home from most of the day in the hospital. He's not in a very good shape, but opverall his condition isn't getting any worse at the moment.  The doctors are pretty baffled with his condition, and are looking to transfer him to UCLA - a major research and teaching medical center. Hospital that he's in right now is really good too, but not quite up to par as UCLA. We're waiting for a bed to open up over there.

:crying:
My 19 year old stepson is in a hospital, in ICU, with really bad complications from infectious mononucleosis. He's been in there for a week now, and in the hospital for two weeks.

He's been hanging in there, but tonight everyone is extremely worried that he's not going to make it.
:crying:

Quote - > Quote - AFAIK you don't need the pay version to get GI. The biggest advantage of the pay version is the ability to MAKE shaders with the new node based shader ability. The free version can still read and render them, but not make them.

As of now the free version does not include GI/IBL.  Also, limiting the shading tools to read-only is really, really limiting.  For those using the free version only, D|S 3 offers almost nothing new, although I expect that DAZ will be selling content with D|S baked shaders a lot more often now.

I thought JenX p[osted screenshots from the free version, and I see uber environment in there. Uber environment is what gives you IBL and GI.

As for free version vs. pay version, are you seriously bellyaching here over $40 bucks for all those features? Seriously, it's not like they're all of a sudden charging $500 for it.

Quote - Certainly some people will buy the GI-capable version, but I'll bet you literally 10 times as many will stick with the free one.

AFAIK you don't need the pay version to get GI. The biggest advantage of the pay version is the ability to MAKE shaders with the new node based shader ability. The free version can still read and render them, but not make them.

Looks like the bulk of the pay version abilities is targeting content makers.

I love the "Uber environment"  That's the one that does AO and IBL, just depending on which setting is turned on or off.

What I really like is that AO doesn't have to be set by material. (Like we have to in Poser, for best results)

Another thing I really like about DS is the ability to select multiple materials and change shader settings all at once. Same with posing and morphing body parts, and placing items in the scene. For me, it makes the scene building work much faster.

Believe it or not, I've encountered more then one piece out there that is not super conforming, and morph dials are not at the body level, but in individual body parts. In Poser, that would drive me batty. In DS, it's no big deal.

Anyway, those are all the little reasons I'm gravitating towards DS and away from Poser more and more.

Quote - Actually, Connie, all of those lighting settings are in the basic DS, and Gamma Correction is in the render settings, and you can set the degree of correction you want. ;)

Cool, Even better!

If anyone is curious, I just made a render with it - it's by no means a really good render taking good advantage of all of it's abilities.  It's more like what you get with about 20 minutes of fiddling... sort of an average result.
It's a mix of low intensity whit-ish IBL, single spotlight and 'uber surface' shader on the skin with almost no tweaks. I think Uber curface somes with the free version too?

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1901886

Quote - Anyone know if the new DS3 handles python scripting? (I use a lot of Python utilities in poser)
Can the DS3 renderer handle ambient occlusion?

DS has it's own scripting, different from python.

DS3Advanced has several lights and environments included with it, which give you AO, DOF, GI and IBL, soft shadows, light edge falloff, color bleeding and even volumetric lighting. (I saw a blurb somewhere about caustics too, but I'm not sure about that yet) It has Gamma correction too. That's the $40 version.

I haven't tried the free version, so I don't know if all of this is included or not.

Quote - Connie, what he's saying is that you can only run the ONE copy of 3Delight, regardless of how you got it. It's the license, and it's in the license agreement that you agree to when you install DS.  What's being confused is multi-processor and multi-core.  If you want to run it on separate processes, you have to buy another license, per the license agreement.  If you want to render using multiple cores, you just have to be running an OS capable of using as many as you have.

Yea, I know. Where misinformation comes in a form of omission. These statements already confused a bunch of people whom don't differentiate between those two, and are being led to believe that they have to shell out a thousand dollars to be able to use more then one thread on a quad core processor.
Let's be realistic here, large part of poserdom isn't very likely to have the ability or the need for multi processor use.

Sort of like saying, OMG, Poser doesn't do modeling, and if you want to do modeling, you have to spend a thousand dollars on another application.  :rolleyes:
See what I'm getting at?

Quote - I'm glad I'm wrong about the GI. Up until now, 3D Delight in Daz Studio hasn't had this feature. Still, the one-processor limit (without an insane expenditure) is a major weakness--64 bit version notwithstanding. . 

What exactly are you talking about? What insane expenditure? $40 bucks?
Where are you getting this one processor limit? DS has had multi threaded rendering for some time now.
Can you point me to your sources, because I can't find the same info on DAZ site.

Quote - Personally I think Play-doh is a better medium for 3d work but all these nerds insist on using computers and polygons and stuff.  I think they're weird.

Now we're talking!

I'm still handier with regular and polymer clays then I am with, um, Mudbox!

Quote - ROFL Oh for f***s sake...Coke or Pepsi?:lol:
Both engines produce good results when settings are properly applied.

Ahhh, the periodical attempts at establishing the pecking order!  LOL

I'm way too opportunistic to lock myself into one or the other.
I try to use the tool that fits task at hand.

By the way, with the larger package, if you already have those add-ons, their DS3 update was free.
I actually only have and use the figure setup tools. I don't really have thet much of use for others.

Quote -

Video games render with higher quality than base D|S!

Actually base DS produces great renders.
Unfortunately, much like poser, lot of DS users don't use it's ability well.

Maybe the problem is with the shadow mapping settings in Poser, sice the obvect renders fine when raytraced. 
If the problem is with the obj istelf, I would expect it wouldn't render fine when raytraced.