Forum: DAZ|Studio


Subject: Which render engine do DS-users use most?

Biscuits opened this issue on May 25, 2018 ยท 14 posts


Biscuits posted Fri, 25 May 2018 at 1:28 PM

Does the majority of the DS users use IRAY?

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Jack238 posted Fri, 25 May 2018 at 1:56 PM

I use both that come with DAZ Studio, and also Reality but I would have to say that I use IRAY the most.


goofygrape posted Fri, 25 May 2018 at 5:32 PM

I use Iray most


3doutlaw posted Fri, 25 May 2018 at 8:18 PM

Iray...and I render toon style figures :) I only use 3delight when I want to use the Visual Style shaders.


Biscuits posted Sat, 26 May 2018 at 3:25 AM

Because I was wondering whether the PZ2 material sets in my Hair props were at all useful anymore.

Because my Hairs can be used in Poser as well as DS.

For Poser I add the MT5 material sets.

For DS I I add the IRAY duf files.

Does anyone need the PZ2 files?

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-Timberwolf- posted Sat, 26 May 2018 at 5:18 AM

I use IRAY excluslivley. Iray was one of my two reasons too switch over to DAZ Studio. I never liked 3dlight.


SpookieLilOne posted Sat, 26 May 2018 at 9:41 AM

Iray exclusively here.

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JQP posted Sun, 27 May 2018 at 8:10 AM

No button to quote the original poster, great idea.

To answer your question, Iray is definitely displacing 3Delight, much to my chagrin; my GTX 760 is too slow for me to prefer Iray over 3Delight. I need lots of fast renders, not few slow renders, like most users.


JQP posted Sun, 27 May 2018 at 8:14 AM

Biscuits posted at 8:11AM Sun, 27 May 2018 - #4330580

Because I was wondering whether the PZ2 material sets in my Hair props were at all useful anymore.

I'm not sure how much of that stuff is useful. I suppose it's a matter of degree, unlike some of the new stuff I see coming out for Iray, which is totally useless to 3Delight users (until recently, I could still render most any Iray shader in 3Delight and see SOMETHING, but some of the new stuff is just blank, i.e., white with no rendering at all, like a cutout). Hair seems like something straightforward and consistent enough that a good converter could be written to take it from 3Delight to Iray.


Raindroptheelf posted Sun, 27 May 2018 at 3:56 PM

I use Iray only.



Biscuits posted Sun, 03 June 2018 at 3:12 AM

Thank you all for the replies!

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butznutz posted Mon, 11 June 2018 at 2:15 PM

I use Iray and Octane about 70/30


tykey posted Tue, 12 June 2018 at 10:20 AM

I've only ever used Iray since I started using Daz. I have the Reality plugin, but have never once tried it.



tkdrobert posted Tue, 12 June 2018 at 12:15 PM

I use 3Delight for cartoon/comic renders and IRAY for everything else.