UltraScenery - new(er) territory [Commercial]

barbult

aoki.kenjo_e35481ea16 said:

Hello everyone,

 

I have tried using ultrascenery tropics, but it fails to generate any trees. I've uninstalled ultrascenery, accelerator and ultrascenery tropics, closed Daz Studio, Redownloaded and reinstalled the softwares I just mentioned via DIM, started Daz and tried again, but still no trees. It is very frustrating since it is not cheap. Does anyone have an idea why this is happening? All my other ecologies work fine. Its only Tropics that generate no trees. Any opinion would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

 

"EDIT" My apologies, I just noticed you need 2 more products for Tropics to function. 

For reference, the first post in this thread has a list of required products.

DoctorJellybean

Traffic Jam

 

AnEye4Art

Nice job.

Totte

DoctorJellybean said:

Traffic Jam

 

Very nice render!!

 

Artini

Nice composition, Doctor Jellybean

 

barbult

Good luck at the bridge!

DoctorJellybean

Thank you all.

memcneil70

Does the tide go down so the boat can sneak under? (It's not like they can deflate the tires under the boat to lower the level.)

richardandtracy

It's Potter Heigham (a notorious low bridge on the Norfolk Broads in the UK):

Regards,

Richard

DoctorJellybean

memcneil70 said:

Does the tide go down so the boat can sneak under? (It's not like they can deflate the tires under the boat to lower the level.)

The UK canals don't have tides as such. I had to check, so I moved the narrowboat under the bridge and, yep, it does just about get through. Luckily the boat has adjustable solar panels, so it could be lowered.

paulawp (marahzen)

Does anyone know if there's a way programmatically to check the Optimization setting before starting a render? It'd be a nice feature if USC could check that and pop a warning if "Speed" is set. I know perfectly well that one needs to not have "Speed" set for rendering anything in Ultrascenery, but in recent times, I've been doing a lot of random product testing and surprisingly frequently, Optimization ends up getting set to Speed. Then the next time I randomly decide to do something in USC, I click Render and a fraction of a second later, think "...drat."

tsroemi

paulawp (marahzen) said:

Does anyone know if there's a way programmatically to check the Optimization setting before starting a render? It'd be a nice feature if USC could check that and pop a warning if "Speed" is set. I know perfectly well that one needs to not have "Speed" set for rendering anything in Ultrascenery, but in recent times, I've been doing a lot of random product testing and surprisingly frequently, Optimization ends up getting set to Speed. Then the next time I randomly decide to do something in USC, I click Render and a fraction of a second later, think "...drat."

I would much appreciate this too, the dreaded freezing because of the wrong setting makes me kind of scared to use USC unless I'm awake enough to really concentrate (which I'm not too often these days, due to work and stuff). It's a pity really. A simple warning would help a lot I think.

Totte

paulawp (marahzen) said:

Does anyone know if there's a way programmatically to check the Optimization setting before starting a render? It'd be a nice feature if USC could check that and pop a warning if "Speed" is set. I know perfectly well that one needs to not have "Speed" set for rendering anything in Ultrascenery, but in recent times, I've been doing a lot of random product testing and surprisingly frequently, Optimization ends up getting set to Speed. Then the next time I randomly decide to do something in USC, I click Render and a fraction of a second later, think "...drat."

I did a quick check but it looks like those params are not accessible from a script (at least not what I foundin the API docs, but I might dig into that when I have some free time....

 

richardandtracy

To be honest, if the parameters are actually available programmatically, then don't issue a warning, just set it to memory every time it's found not to be memory.

Totte

richardandtracy said:

To be honest, if the parameters are actually available programmatically, then don't issue a warning, just set it to memory every time it's found not to be memory.

Yea, if it's possible... 

alexhcowley

Totte said:

richardandtracy said:

To be honest, if the parameters are actually available programmatically, then don't issue a warning, just set it to memory every time it's found not to be memory.

Yea, if it's possible... 

I get round this problem by using a template scene, containing just the render / environment settings and my favoured cameras. Each time I create a scene based on Ultrascenery or USXT, I load the template scene first and then create the ultrascene over it. This way, I don't have to remember each individual setting.

Cheers,

Alex.  

Totte

alexhcowley said:

Totte said:

richardandtracy said:

To be honest, if the parameters are actually available programmatically, then don't issue a warning, just set it to memory every time it's found not to be memory.

Yea, if it's possible... 

I get round this problem by using a template scene, containing just the render / environment settings and my favoured cameras. Each time I create a scene based on Ultrascenery or USXT, I load the template scene first and then create the ultrascene over it. This way, I don't have to remember each individual setting.

Cheers,

Alex.  

Good idea!
Then the information is stored, and if stored, it can be retrieved.  

 

DeeKay

DoctorJellybean said:

Traffic Jam

 

Is the canal boat model available somewhere? I did do a search but could not find anything of that standard. Thanks

DoctorJellybean

DeeKay said:

DoctorJellybean said:

Traffic Jam

 

Is the canal boat model available somewhere? I did do a search but could not find anything of that standard. Thanks

That narrowboat is part of a collection of 5 boats. I purchased it from CGTrader, but it is also available at Turbosquid. It imports into DAZ Studio very well using the Autodesk FBX file, one just needs to add the textures manually. Now only if someone could model interiors

memcneil70

DoctorJellybean said:

memcneil70 said:

Does the tide go down so the boat can sneak under? (It's not like they can deflate the tires under the boat to lower the level.)

The UK canals don't have tides as such. I had to check, so I moved the narrowboat under the bridge and, yep, it does just about get through. Luckily the boat has adjustable solar panels, so it could be lowered.

Thank you for checking @DoctorJellybean.

When my computers could create USC scenes my first actions were to set things to 'Memory' and make sure 'Iray' was off even though I don't use it that often anymore as my 1080/1080Ti cards whimper with the new textures. But I use Memory for most things. Right now I am testing an HDRI that turns the Dome off and I want it on and have to keep turning it back on. 

Mary

DoctorJellybean

I use the Auto setting myself.

DeeKay

DoctorJellybean said:

DeeKay said:

DoctorJellybean said:

Traffic Jam

 

Is the canal boat model available somewhere? I did do a search but could not find anything of that standard. Thanks

That narrowboat is part of a collection of 5 boats. I purchased it from CGTrader, but it is also available at Turbosquid. It imports into DAZ Studio very well using the Autodesk FBX file, one just needs to add the textures manually. Now only if someone could model interiors

Found it, thanks!

bombenleger58

@DeeKay

for the Canal Boat you can look there https://www.daz3d.com/canal-country-for-terradome-3

Fishtales

River Angler

2023-10-28 09:05:34.418 [INFO] :: Total Rendering Time: 42 minutes 54.19 seconds

Distant Light Fill light

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Artini

Looks great, Fishtales

I just wonder, if you are using DOF (Depth Of Field) in your images.

I am still struggle to find the optimum DOF for my images,

just to improve them, but not look worse.

Fishtales

Artini said:

Looks great, Fishtales

I just wonder, if you are using DOF (Depth Of Field) in your images.

I am still struggle to find the optimum DOF for my images,

just to improve them, but not look worse.

Thank you.

 I don't use DOF as a rule but I have used it on the odd render.

The focus is on the eye in this one.

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These are the same render except I moved/zoomed the camera ( I can't remember which. ) The background is an HDRI with rocks added for him to stand on. The horse and rider and tents are also figures.

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AnEye4Art

The teepee pic looks like the tilt-shift photography effect, which gives the illusion of miniatures. Cool.

Fishtales

AnEye4Art said:

The teepee pic looks like the tilt-shift photography effect, which gives the illusion of miniatures. Cool.

 

I always think this one looks like a model train image :)

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/139311/my-wips-renders-and-animations/p23 ;

Artini

Thanks for the examples with DOF.

 

Fishtales

Artini said:

Thanks for the examples with DOF.

 

 

What problem are you having getting DOF? I just use the settings I use on my camera and use the back and front panes to get it where I want it and how much I want front and back.