Not sure why but very few 3d programs will run on Surface Pro ???

I think its something to do with the HD .

The only ones I have got running off my 128gb HD is Carara 8 Pro and 3d coat ,

Hexagon , Silo , Winds 3d , Sculptis, Modo , Poser , Vue ect will not run of the surface pro HD

But I did get poser to run on Surface pro by having it installed on an external HD .

I dont use any of these programs on my surface lol I was just testing what Surface Pro could handle lol

I have other Desktop I7 pcs and a Asus ET2300 AIO for doing serious work :)

Oh I also have the Sony Vaio 20" Tablet PC which has the same specs as Surface pro but has a 500gb HD and ALL the above programs work fine on it .

So there is some thing about the surface pro HD these programs dont like .

Not sure if the Surface Pro 128gb HD is a flash drive or a SSD HD?

All the device manager states is that it is a Samsung MZMPC128HBFU .

I love windows Tablets , I have Both the RT and Pro but both have there limitations

cheers sen

I rarely comment in forums ( Yes I am a lurker lol)

well I just watched your preview of reality 3

and I a very impressed with what I see ,

I have Reality 1 for Daz studio but because I dont really like Daz studio I didnt upgrade to reality2

But I am very pleased to see Reality 3 for Poser .

I cant wait to buy and use it :)

Bravo Pret-a-3d!

Quote - > Quote - How do you rename lights in Poser 8 ?

Like in older Posers too: Select the light, and in the properties tab of the properties window, click on the name and change it.

Thanks :)
How did i miss that lol .

there must be a bug in the Hierarchy editor because once you change the name in the properties tab and goto the hierarchy editor and click to edit the new name it puts you into a infinite cycle of errors lol

but happy the properties panel works :) so i will just stay away from the Hierarchy editor with lights .

How do you rename lights in Poser 8 ?
whenever I try to rename a light in the Hierarchy editor I get a message stating :
"This character combination is not allowed as an object name"

any ideas?

thanks sen

Quote - Just did this with the same LuxPose you all have already.

sweet !
ive been playing with metals in Reality for a hour and there is noway to get a metal like that using Reality's settings :(

Luxpose is going to be really cool ! :)

Quote - In LuxPose, the way it will work is:

You'll be presented with a multi-column grid of all the materials in the scene. One of the columns will be what LuxPose will convert the material to automatically (if it can).

You will be able to sort and filter the list by figure name, actor name, material name, type of material LuxPose thinks it should be, and a couple other things.

You will be able to rearrange the materials into arbitrary groups, on the fly, or persistently. (These groupings can be saved.) Groupings will be presented as group boxes (into which you can drag materials to put them in the same group) or as a tree.

You will then be able to select any combination of individual materials or groups or tree branches.

With whatever the current selection is, you will be able to bump up or down the various parameters controlling diffuse, specular, etc. Or you can just reset them to any value if you want them all the same. Bumping them means they will retain their relative differences, but you can raise or lower them together, while preserving the relative differences. Pick the lips and bump up the specular. Then pick all the skin zones and bump up the specular a little more. This will not make it forget that you wanted a lot more on the lips.

Or, given any selection, you can select pre-defined materials from the Poser material library or from the LuxPose material library. If you choose a Poser material, you will have the option to write that back to the scene or just override temporarily. Choosing a Poser material will still involve a conversion, but it will not apply to rendering in Poser. Choosing a Lux material will not involve a conversion. It will use the Lux material preset. You will be able to use presets that we make using LuxPose, or you can get them from the Lux material library.

Having chosen a material from the library, you will be offered the chance to alter the parameters,  just like poking around in the material room, but you won't be dealing with nodes. You'll just have a nice GUI full of sliders and color pickers and checkboxes and such.

You will be able to save these back as new presets.

You will be able to save these choices in the scene or just try them out.

You will be able to save multiple materials as LuxPose material collections, so that you can re-use them later. Unlike Poser material collections, these can be used across multiple props.

sound really good :)
and this is a free plugin !

BB your blood is worth bottling :)

Quote - Ok, I didn't realize that the Reality plugin switched the materials automatically without giving an option to keep the Daz mats.

There are times when I think I'd like to use a Luxrender material rather than a Poser mat, but I think I'd also like the choice as to whether I really want to switch them or not ;o). It should have been an option IMVHO.

Laurie

well when it comed to metals it replaces all metals with Lux gold , which you can then change to silver , copper or aluminium and you can tweak those metals to get other metals .
But its alot of mucking around to tweak those metals with such a small materials preview window , its really hard to see how much they change while tweaking :(

after reality has loaded the metals (all as gold) you can change the material to use the original image file instead but it only seams to work if you use a Mat option , using a gloss option the original image comes out as silver .
For example in a scene I have a rusty pipe using a jpg image and Lux converts it to gold .
I can get the original image to render by forcing reality to use the jpg image but only as a mat not as a gloss .
I have no idea why it dosnt work with gloss lol

BB you have got me drooling already lol

In the reality thread I read that reality converts Daz materials to Lux materials ,
But I dont think that is completely true as it stands .
Sure it maybe converting to Lux materials but they do not look like the Daz materials.
(atleast with metals)
if Ioad a scene with buildings and those building have metal drain pipes ,metal ladders , metal manholes ect ect I dont think they should all come into Lux all Gold ?
they werent gold in Daz studio and they should not be gold in Lux .

Sure Im not a programmer , so those things are beyond me but I expect a paid for plugin to work correctly .

atleast Daz has the 30 money back thing :)
which I will be taking advantage of with Reality .

Ive been watching the Luxpose thread here and the reality thread at daz ,
Ive had a play with Luxpose alpha and I also decided to buy reality just to try it .
Now I actually Hate daz studio , I use Poser and Carrara :)
To use Reality I have to upgrade to the latest Daz version which broke the cloth plugin lol
That why I hate Daz , new updates always break something that was working :(
and Poser/Carrara are so much easier to use and both Have good render engines :)

Sorry got a bit side tracked there lol

Back to my point , Luxpose is no slower exporting than Reality , as far as I can tell .
But my big disappointment with Reality , that Most Materials are exported with a very high gloss setting ? skin , wood , concrete ect ect all gloss ?
ALL Metals are exported Gold ??
SO you have to spend alot of time adjusting ALL materials ,
when you change the imported Gold metals you only have a choice of gold , silver ,aluminiun and copper :(

IMO for a paid for plugin it really seams unfinished and uncomplete .
Sure it works well and has a nice GUI but its not "With a click of the mouse you can render your scene with Lux" as adertised .

I cant wait for the Luxpose version to be finished ,
for what I can see so far it will be alot better :)

I think this is what your looking for :)
http://market.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/index.php?ViewProduct=33744&keyword=MDP

sweet! TY2 is one of my favourate characters and this will make her more usefull :)

Is she going to be made availible to the public?

mmm my credit card is AMEX too which i am having the problem with , but ive been using this credit card on Renderosity for 6 years without problems ..... strange

Quote - Interestingly I also had this exact same issue and also am from Australia ..

Are you still having this issue?
has it been fixed?
I am affraid to use the check out now because I dont want to many "pending charges added to my credit card :(

Both my profile and shopping cart have Australia listed as the country ,
This "pending" amount that put on my credit card , Will if affect the amount of money available to be used on my credit card ?
And how long before this "pending" amount is removed ?

I am having no problems with this credit card on Daz and other online stores , so it must be a Rendo shopping cart issue ?

I have tried and checked everything 5 times , name , address , credit card details ect every thing is correct yet I still get this error :(