I couldn't render this scene on my GPU but it works on the CPU. The lady in the red dress is LaFemme, everyone else are older figures. Vicky 4, Mike 4 and the two lurking in the booth are Poser 4 LowRes figures. Image adjusted in PostFX with changes to exposure and gamma (I don't know what gamma is but when I tweaked the dial I thought it looked better).

ChromeStar posted at 10:49 PM Thu, 13 April 2023 - #4462116

If you check the log, in addition to listing how long the render took, it also shows how much memory is being used. I never noticed that before but I read Nerd's comment, thought it would be helpful to know your actual memory usage, and then decided to look at the log before making a comment about it. Lo and behold!

My current scene has two figures, clothes, props and scenery for around 7500 MB.

If you use a lot of figures, you can also cheat and reuse textures. For example no one will notice if you use the same maps for the inner mouth and teeth on all your figures.

ChromeStar posted at 10:53 PM Thu, 13 April 2023 - #4462117

peter_wade posted at 6:41 PM Thu, 13 April 2023 - #4462101

Thank you for the explanation, Y-Phil. I've got it working on Vicky 4 and she's looking better now.

One minor problem.  I click on Subsurface Radius, update the numbers as shown and press return, but if I click on it again to check the numbers they have gone back to how they were at the start. I've tried not pressing return but clicking somewhere else but it still ignores my changes. Is there some trick to updating this?

Make sure you are entering all three values separated by commas before pressing enter. If you try to enter a single value, it won't know what to do with it and might throw it away.

I'll do some more tests to try and figure out how this works. If I can't find a way to re-enable editing of the values I'll put a ticket in for it.

Thank you for the explanation, Y-Phil. I've got it working on Vicky 4 and she's looking better now.

One minor problem.  I click on Subsurface Radius, update the numbers as shown and press return, but if I click on it again to check the numbers they have gone back to how they were at the start. I've tried not pressing return but clicking somewhere else but it still ignores my changes. Is there some trick to updating this?

Do any of these failed renders involve scatter volumes?

I've tried removing different items from the scene and I found that everything in the scene will render on the GPU but not all of it together. I've tried lowering the bucket size to 16 and switching off progressive render but that doesn't help. The only causes I can think of are that the scene is too big for the graphics card or there is some combination of items that conflict in some way and don't work together but I can't be bothered to go through different combinations of stuff to check this.

I suppose I just have to accept that my rather old computer is a bit limited when using the latest software. It is useable, I can render on the CPU, it just takes longer.

Thank you for your replies, it makes things clearer.

I assume that if you want to install on a fourth computer you have to de-install from another one. I don't expect that I will but the reason I am thinking of installing on a second is because the computer I am using now is fairly old and getting a bit unreliable. If it does fail completely and I can't de-install from it I would still have two installations I could use.   

I'm not an expert on this but I think that Victoria and Michael 4 are Unimesh figures. Does this mean we won't be able to use Victoria and Michael 4 and all the morphs, textures, clothes and hair we bought for them in Poser 13? If that's the case I*'ll be staying with Poser 12.

Thank you for the clarification.

Do I redownload using the Smith Micro Downloader, some other downloader or do I get it from your website?

It's getting clearer now. I had a look around and found a directory called "Collections" in my main runtime with the same layout as the favorites tab. It looks fairly straightforward, as far as I can see the actual items are shortcuts to the files but the png thumbnails are copied into the directory. Renaming folders with windows explorer updates the favorites tab OK. I assume that if I can work out a way of making the shortcuts and doing the copies I could create new folders and populate them without using the "Add to Favorites" button.

I was wondering about this. I can't find any mention of upgrade prices for the modules on the Vue website. Do we have to pay full price again?

What are these daily specials of which you speak? Have I been missing out on something?!

Sorry, I got the name wrong. It is "Today's Specials" on the Marketplace Home Page, second row of pictures in the main section.

garyandcatherine - 3 points ICM - 2 points skiwillgee - 1 Point Very difficult to chose just 3, there are a lot of great pictures and a wide variety of styles.

lindans, Are you using your debit card? I use a credit card issued by Lloyds TSB and I'm not getting this on my statement (so far).

Did you get a download link on you account page for br_sc005_SeriouslyReal1.exe or something like that? There seems to be a bit of confusion over this. Some people have two links, I had one but no-one really knows if there should be more. If you have got it, run it and it will create some .mat files, mine ended up in ContentDAZ ContentMaterialsJonathan Allan If you have got these, import them into the materials library. P.S. I have e-mailed DAZ to ask if the single installer contains all 6 volumes which we are supposed to get.