Morning folks.  After a disasterous night of attempting to download Worldbuilder XT from DAZ (it timed out all my download attempts but one) I put together this test image.  I love Worldbuilder, think it's cool and it will eventually show up in much of my work, but can someone explain why it looks like everything is infected with pox or covered in ash?

Using DAZStudio 4.5Pro, plenty of RAM, on a new(ish) computer.

Are you using UberEnvironment anywhere? Not familiar with prop but to me it looks like when UE is set to low quality settings. There should be some quality presets for UE that you cna use to improve the render quality.

Hey, I got Uber Environment and it did the same sort of effect adacey is talking about but I cannot find any quality settings for it. Are they in the Render Settings? if so which ones do I tweak?

Hi, sorry earlier I'd replied on my laptop so wasn't able to give specifics from DAZ.

In DAZ 4 or 4.5, select the lights and cameras tab, and select the UberEnvironment from the scene panel. Under presets there should be some presets for UE and you'll see ones like "Set Quality 0XLo", "Set Quality 1Lo", etc. I've usually used the 4XHi preset but it will punish your rendering times so I'd stick with the low quality settings while getting everything right, then crank it up for your final render.

If you're not using the Smart Content or are in DAZ 3 (which I've not used), they should be in your content library under Light Presets -> omnifreaker -> UberEnvironment2.

Thanks very much for the help, adacey!

You have been a great help, even if it wasn't the way you intended: I didn't realise they were presets, with content-like icons - guess I wasn't looking in the right place before !

I found the quality presets under DAZ Studio formats>My library>Lights>UberEnvironment. 

I have never used Smart Content either since there is a lot of content that does not appear there, especially the great stuff available here.

Yeah, the thing to realize with UE and a lot of the other Uber products is that a lot of their quality settings are driven by their parameters, separately from your render settings.

You can dial in more specific settings in the UE parameters as well but I find the presets more convenient unless you're doing something specific. Worth reading up on the docs though to get a better understanding of what the various settngs do.

It also helps if you reduce the shading rate in the DAZ render settings to  about 0.5 or less. Again, this will increase the render time.