Reality and DS4.7 x64

adegner

I had to disable gpu acceleration to get a render in lux to complete.

Softimage_Graphic_Artist

The Reality option does not show in the Studio 4.7 Render menu
This problem is caused by a bug in DAZ 4.7 Studio.

JimmyC_2009

Softimage_Graphic_Artist said:

The Reality option does not show in the Studio 4.7 Render menu
This problem is caused by a bug in DAZ 4.7 Studio.

What OS are you using? What steps exactly did you use to install it?

I installed Reality 4 to DAZ Studio 4.7 with no problems at all, and so did many others.

If you can supply some more information, we may be able to help you.

adegner

It does show in mine and is awesome as long as GPU is disabled. There is a problem with the task bar which doesn't hide once the reality window pops up. stays hidden until one launches LUX

Platnumk

adegner said:

It does show in mine and is awesome as long as GPU is disabled. There is a problem with the task bar which doesn't hide once the reality window pops up. stays hidden until one launches LUX

question....
is your GFX Card OpenCL compatible, if so then what settings are you using when you enable GPU Acceleration

Hiro Protagonist

To be honest, quite a number of experienced Reality/Lux users do not find GPU acceleration useful and simply ignore it. It has limitations, and the results can be more noisy to the extent that the benefit of the acceleration is cancelled out, or even reversed. I've been rendering with Reality/Lux since ver 1 of Reality and I never use it for these reasons. I'm open to contradiction on this opinion—maybe it has improved since I last tried it, or maybe it's just not right for my card.

adegner

is your GFX Card OpenCL compatible, if so then what settings are you using when you enable GPU Acceleration

my NVida card os so open gl compatable it works with everything. It worked with Reality 2.5. They broke something with Reality 4

Platnumk

When you next want to give GPU acceleration a try then try the following settings...

Under 'Scene Configuration' change the Type from 'Bidirectional' to 'Mono-Directional', set FFs Removal 1, set the Light Strategy to 'Single'
then under 'Acceleration' set the acceleration to 'Hybrid GPU' number of GPUs to 1 (unless you have more than 1), make sure 1 is checked and set the OpenCL Group Size to 64

Softimage_Graphic_Artist

thank god I finally got Reality 4 to work in My DAZ Studio! Reality is a program that requires a lot of time and work. The end results are well worth it in the end. If you want to buy Reality 4 for studio or Poser; you must buy a really good Graphic Card that can handle about 2 or 3 Gigs: if not, then forget about it. Reality 4 Requires power!!! a lot of memory Power! when you Render using Reality 4 it will pull on your system and drain it, if yoyr system is weak it will SHUT DOWN and/or Crash! and then you will have to startup and/or reboot up again. I have experienced this already.

It's well worth it Reality is nice.

Softimage_Graphic_Artist

Reality 4 for DAZ Studio is really nice, now that I have been playing around with it. it's great! I have learned
like anything else you have to just read ... read ... and read more to learn

Softimage_Graphic_Artist

I finally got Reality 4 to work in my DAZ Studio 4.7, it's really a wonderful program; however, the only setback is the rendering time it takes forever and ever and ever. And if you do not give your image enough light in Reality it will always look very grainy (with a lot of little white specks all over your work). Other than that Reality 4 is wonderful. One of the best for DAZ Studio Everyone should try it.
When you tell Reality 4 to Render your 3D image from DAZ , just go away and see a movie or go shopping and then come back to see the final results.

If anyone is thinking of buying Reality 4 for Studio or Poser. Then you should first look into buying a good video graphic card
Like NVIDIA GeFORCE GTX 980 4GB, trust me you will need the power. Without a good graphic card you're just wasting you time. Your computer will crash! and at times shut down due to your CPU trying to work overtime for rendering. A good graphics card will cost you about $400 but it's worth it in the long run.

Softimage_Graphic_Artist

It's been about a week or two and I still seem to be having problems with Reality and the LuxRender, my system crashes at times one freezes up. I have a power computer system along with a 4 gig graphic card 10 gigs of memory AMD processor. I hate the fact that I got involved with Reality 4 and the LuxRender; as far as I am concerned these program plug Ins were sold as bête and not really tested. I believe that is why so many people are having problems. I will never use this software again. Best of luck to the rest of you out there using Reality 4 with LuxRender 1.3

Platnumk

1st up, all those little white specks is render noise and will disappear over time (LuxRender doesn't stop rendering, you have to decide when the image is done). Next up, Lighting, to light your scene you have to think light a photographer and light for the camera. And last, unless your are doing GPU rendering your gfx card is not used, LuxRender relies on the CPU to do its calculations, the more cores your CPU has the faster the rendering process will be, tho your gfx card will be used while working within Daz Studio.

My latest render (which you can find Here http://www.daz3d.com/gallery/#images/51476 ) took just over 25hrs with a quad core i5, 8gb memory, and using just a single curved light.

The thing you have to remember when using Reality & LuxRender is to be patient.

Hopefully this has cleared a few things up for you.

Softimage_Graphic_Artist said:

I finally got Reality 4 to work in my DAZ Studio 4.7, it's really a wonderful program; however, the only setback is the rendering time it takes forever and ever and ever. And if you do not give your image enough light in Reality it will always look very grainy (with a lot of little white specks all over your work). Other than that Reality 4 is wonderful. One of the best for DAZ Studio Everyone should try it.
When you tell Reality 4 to Render your 3D image from DAZ , just go away and see a movie or go shopping and then come back to see the final results.

If anyone is thinking of buying Reality 4 for Studio or Poser. Then you should first look into buying a good video graphic card
Like NVIDIA GeFORCE GTX 980 4GB, trust me you will need the power. Without a good graphic card you're just wasting you time. Your computer will crash! and at times shut down due to your CPU trying to work overtime for rendering. A good graphics card will cost you about $400 but it's worth it in the long run.

Softimage_Graphic_Artist

I have finally uninstalled LUxRender and Reality 4 from my entire computer system! I feel so relieved
I don't have to worry about long rendering or systems shud down ever again. I really liked REality 4
But all the hard aches and head aches just was't worth it! Despite all the help from DAZ and Reality
People. This product wasn't for me.

StratDragon

I realize this product was not for you but you posted misinformation on how this software works:

Softimage_Graphic_Artist said:

thank god I finally got Reality 4 to work in My DAZ Studio! Reality is a
program that requires a lot of time and work. The end results are well worth it in the end. If you want to buy Reality 4 for studio or Poser; you must buy a really good Graphic Card that can handle about 2 or 3 Gigs: if not, then forget about it..

Only the GPU and Hybrid modes require a GPU, and you don't need a high end card to use it, obviously you will benefit from a better card ONLY if you use GPU and Hybrid, if you use the CPU LuxRender which will give you more accurate rendering results you could have system the absolute base VGA card useable by your OS and it would work because you only need the CPU for calculations. I think you're confusing LuxRender with Octane which is exclusively GPU dependent.

Softimage_Graphic_Artist said:

Reality 4 Requires power!!! a lot of memory Power! when you Render using Reality 4 it will pull on your system and drain it, if yoyr system is weak it will SHUT DOWN and/or Crash! and then you will have to startup and/or reboot up again. I have experienced this already. .

Reality 4 is not the culprit, LuxRender does use up memory but on memory intensive projects you can save your .LXS data as a file to be opened by LuxRender after closing down Daz Studio and freeing up system memory. If you are rendering an image that is 1000x1000 and you scale that render up to 2000x2000 you have quadrupled (4x not 2x) the RAM requirements necessary tender, That being said I have rendered epic images at 3800x2400 with 12GB RAM with Studio running and a 5 year old i7 and a GTS 250 with 1 GB DDR 3. The question is are you OC'ing or does your system have adequate cooling and airflow. If these factors are introduced all bets are off as per your experience.

I finally got Reality 4 to work in my DAZ Studio 4.7, it's really a wonderful program; however, the only setback is the rendering time it takes forever and ever and ever. And if you do not give your image enough light in Reality it will always look very grainy (with a lot of little white specks all over your work).

You can adjust the individual lights in a render while it's rendering. Lights in groups are listed in the LuxRender interface and they can be modified while the render is taking place, this is a feat 3Delight is incapable of doing but can be performed easily in LuxRender.