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Beginner's tutorial for using the Canvases feature in DAZ Studio's Iray renderer. I tried to make this as simple and straightforward as I could - hopefully it makes sense!Thanks for taking a look!
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SnowSultan In reply to ??? [2023-02-19 03:34:47 +0000 UTC]
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sebastiantz [2023-01-08 07:12:59 +0000 UTC]
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thrwm [2022-11-10 16:02:17 +0000 UTC]
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SnowSultan In reply to thrwm [2022-11-11 05:23:56 +0000 UTC]
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thrwm In reply to SnowSultan [2022-11-11 06:05:06 +0000 UTC]
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shedofjoy [2021-04-29 23:57:46 +0000 UTC]
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SnowSultan In reply to shedofjoy [2021-05-01 21:49:16 +0000 UTC]
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bruntumber [2020-11-02 21:08:25 +0000 UTC]
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SnowSultan In reply to bruntumber [2020-11-03 15:26:04 +0000 UTC]
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LittleDragonKid [2020-01-21 05:35:10 +0000 UTC]
Just tested again and it will not work...
With Alpha On, my hair+Backdrop image gets invisible, with Alpha off, my hair is there, but the background is just black... but I did set a image in the environment.
The Backdrop image is btw. not selectable in the Nodelist in Step 5/6.
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SnowSultan In reply to LittleDragonKid [2020-01-21 06:15:19 +0000 UTC]
Background images do not render separately in canvases, that is normal.
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LittleDragonKid In reply to SnowSultan [2020-01-23 01:00:28 +0000 UTC]
but... how then do I use my background image if it isnt loaded in the render?
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SnowSultan In reply to LittleDragonKid [2020-01-23 06:02:37 +0000 UTC]
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LittleDragonKid In reply to SnowSultan [2020-01-23 17:02:59 +0000 UTC]
yeah, but when I postedit it, i dont see it in the studio, where the stuff would be.
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SnowSultan In reply to LittleDragonKid [2020-01-24 00:11:11 +0000 UTC]
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LittleDragonKid In reply to SnowSultan [2020-01-24 12:22:38 +0000 UTC]
its okay, anyway thanks for your try
I just do my shadow editing in gimp
But I just ordered a new PC, so I dont will use much JPG's backdrops anymore and dont need such tricks anymore^^.
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LittleDragonKid [2020-01-04 00:33:00 +0000 UTC]
Hi!
I tested it and... nope :8 also should it work in active Iray so i can see the effect without rendering it?
i wanted to show the spoon on the table, because its a backdrop the spoon will make no shadow, so I placed the pane there, if I use the SPotRender my render will be empty...
Made I something wrong?
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SnowSultan In reply to LittleDragonKid [2020-01-04 02:39:53 +0000 UTC]
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LittleDragonKid In reply to SnowSultan [2020-01-06 01:50:01 +0000 UTC]
but you said it appears in the Spot render and... for me it did not appear
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SnowSultan In reply to LittleDragonKid [2020-01-06 02:07:26 +0000 UTC]
Did you set it to New Window? It's possible things have changed since I made this tutorial. I'll try to test it soon.
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LittleDragonKid In reply to SnowSultan [2020-01-07 00:17:32 +0000 UTC]
I always set to new window, the other one is stupid, also you can not cancel the other... which I hate... and I hate that I can not set it default to new window *sigh*
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SnowSultan In reply to LittleDragonKid [2020-01-07 03:11:12 +0000 UTC]
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LittleDragonKid In reply to SnowSultan [2020-01-07 11:28:39 +0000 UTC]
oh... well rendering a full scene takes much longer....
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SnowSultan In reply to LittleDragonKid [2020-01-07 18:28:15 +0000 UTC]
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LittleDragonKid In reply to SnowSultan [2020-01-08 20:57:30 +0000 UTC]
hmmm yeah the nodes I guess... I had the plane not attached to anything also you said I should NOT select the plane in your tutorial so... you didnt talked about parenting the stuff. (I guess you mean parenting with connecting?)
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SnowSultan In reply to LittleDragonKid [2020-01-09 16:11:37 +0000 UTC]
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LittleDragonKid In reply to SnowSultan [2020-01-09 23:45:24 +0000 UTC]
I dont know why, but my brain gets dizzy if I read your comment it can not translate your words into something.. touchable for my brain... I hate that sometimes
I wanna understand what you mean and how the magic works but I can't touch your words... they will not be... working in my head, I'm native German, so I have to translate in my head and right now I struggle... Your tutorial was helpful with images, so I understand all better
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SnowSultan In reply to LittleDragonKid [2020-01-10 00:28:23 +0000 UTC]
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LittleDragonKid In reply to SnowSultan [2020-01-10 15:23:36 +0000 UTC]
i.epvpimg.com/irwLdab.png Setup
Result:
(its a png, so... it looks in my browser a bit weird^^)
how it looks on black:
I see now another problem, which I maybe had with my last test, the backdrop image doesnt get used... and in this case, the cube also create shadows :<
I just made a tets build how the books would make a shadow on the table a jpg image.
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SnowSultan In reply to LittleDragonKid [2020-01-10 22:35:01 +0000 UTC]
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LittleDragonKid In reply to SnowSultan [2020-01-11 11:52:36 +0000 UTC]
That is what I did .... like your tutorial said, I did not selected the cube.
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SnowSultan In reply to LittleDragonKid [2020-01-11 18:12:02 +0000 UTC]
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LittleDragonKid In reply to SnowSultan [2020-01-12 07:55:04 +0000 UTC]
I never asked there in German
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SnowSultan In reply to LittleDragonKid [2020-01-12 08:26:18 +0000 UTC]
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LittleDragonKid In reply to SnowSultan [2020-01-12 14:13:40 +0000 UTC]
its okay I am skilled with gimp I can add the shadows with Gimp
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LittleDragonKid In reply to SnowSultan [2020-01-10 13:03:08 +0000 UTC]
a problem of my brain is, that I stay up sometimes for 2-3days without sleeping and right now I was just 12hours up, but I am really tired... I want too much from my body and need a better sleeping cycle...
I will try it again from your tutorial just for testing.
Β And tell you then if it works.
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SnowSultan In reply to BlindOwlProductions [2019-08-30 05:26:47 +0000 UTC]
Glad it could be useful!
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plmad666 [2019-07-24 17:42:44 +0000 UTC]
Very nice tutorial. All my doubts was cleared. Thanks.
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SnowSultan In reply to plmad666 [2019-07-25 03:29:31 +0000 UTC]
Glad it helped, thanks.Β
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honormacdonald [2019-01-19 12:46:51 +0000 UTC]
Great googleyΒ moogley... The possibilities. Thank you!
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SnowSultan In reply to honormacdonald [2019-01-20 20:51:01 +0000 UTC]
It hasn't proven to be as useful as I thought because I can't get the renders to go on long enough to stop being grainy, but the possibilities are definitely there. Thanks for taking a look!
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DesertLion3D In reply to SnowSultan [2019-01-26 21:23:20 +0000 UTC]
Thank you for this tutorial.Β For me, it will be useful to isolate/render figures from scenes so that I can add motion blur and photoshop them together into a final image.
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SnowSultan In reply to DesertLion3D [2019-01-31 17:39:08 +0000 UTC]
Sounds good, I hope it can help!
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SnowSultan In reply to RAMWolff [2018-11-11 02:13:04 +0000 UTC]
Thanks, glad it can help! I've had to look at it twice so far because I forgot how to do what I was trying to teach others to do here.Β Β
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SnowSultan In reply to Linwelly [2018-10-20 21:09:28 +0000 UTC]
Glad it could be useful!
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