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Problems with Easy Environments: Road to Nowhere and Road to Nowhere Add-on

leelanydbhleelanydbh Posts: 2
in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

Hi everyone!

I'm an absolute beginner and I need your help, please. I started with DAZ a few days ago and now I have my first question about an environment with HDRI backgrounds I bought: Easy Environments: Road to Nowhere and Road to Nowhere Add-on.

When I load the environment, it looks like this:

When I add the standard HDRI (DTHDR-RuinsB.hdr), it looks like this:

But the moment I add one of the hdr files of the set I bought, it changes to this:

 

The items look like this and I'm using the Iray ones:

But these Iray render presets don't seem to work for me. (When I load the 3DL ones everthing looks fine at first, but the final render doesn't look good or the characters I used in another test were totally wrong (Yes, I changed the engine for that)). I tested the hdr files in another scene and they don't work there either. I also couldn't find a read me or other documents on how to use this correctly or if there are special settings needed.

Does anyone know how to use this correctly or how I can fix this? Am I missing something? I'm just so confused because the other things are working.

 

Kind regards!

Comments

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,990

    This is a known issue - the image-handling code in the new version of Iray does not like the compression method used for these files. The PA has resaved them using a different method and submitted an update, which should be made avaialble for download through your isntall emthod once it is up - in the meantime, if you don't want to wait, you can fix it yourself by opening the files and resaving them (still as .exr, but using a dfifferent compression algorithm) in many image editors - people haev used Photoshop and GIMP and I think Affinity Photo with success.

  • leelanydbhleelanydbh Posts: 2

    Thank you so much for your help!

    With that, I knew what to look for and found some threads talking about it. Looks like I have to wait for the changes then since I tried to open the files with gimp, but the program crashed everytime (even tried different versions, saw other people having the same issue).

    More time to learn other things while waiting smiley

  • chris-2599934chris-2599934 Posts: 1,817

    I had this issue with https://www.daz3d.com/easy-environments-winter-fields , here's how to fix it...

    • Identify the HDR environment file, in my case it was EEWF_Environment01HDR.exr
    • You could try opening it with Photoshop or GIMP, but I don't have the former, and GIMP kept choking on my file, so instead...
    • Go to https://convertio.co and upload the file
    • Tell it to convert to the HDR format
    • After a little while, the converted file will be ready for download. I put mine in the same directory as the .exr file
    • In the Render Settings/Environment tab, use the .hdr file as the Environment Map instead of the .exr file
    • It should work properly now!

    You could then save a render preset and use it to replace the one that comes with the product, but since the PA will be uploading an update in the near future that might be more trouble than it's worth. Just flipping to the .hdr file manually is good enough for now.

  • leelanydbhleelanydbh Posts: 2

    chris-2599934 said:

    I had this issue with https://www.daz3d.com/easy-environments-winter-fields , here's how to fix it...​

    Thank you so much!!! It's working now! 

  • memcneil70memcneil70 Posts: 4,119

    The corrected files are coming through DIM since Friday, two or three at a time.

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