I am circling buying Octane for both my render boxes but need to know if the new DAZ plug in can access the Spherical cameras yet. I can and have pulled Daz scene into the Standalone but since I animate, I have to use alembic and putting the material on so much stuff is very very time consuming via ...

Hey guys, just wanted to say thanks for those who helped me with previous questions. I humbly thank you. I also wanted to apologize for me outburst earlier as well ( for those who saw it). As someone who has learning disability I really hate when peope act as if having such a problem makes you ...

Hey guys, just wanted to say thanks for those who helped me with previous questions. I humbly thank you. wanted to apologize for me outburst earlier as well ( for those who saw it). As someone who has learning disability I really hate when peope act a sif havng such a problem makes you stupid. It ...

FrankPooleFloating wrote:I have a life too. I need to stop trying to help the Daz and Poser folks... Good luck I guess.

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FrankPooleFloating wrote:I have a life too. I need to stop trying to help the Daz and Poser folks... Good luck I guess.

I have a response to that [...] but I'd probably get booted off here for saying it...

Luv, you can make anything you want Invisible to Camera ... including emitters. Use Placement node to move... have you looked at the manuals at all? :shock:

I have but they don't really answer questions in regards to VR --- if you mean did I read the entire manual--I have a life and I don't have ...

You could remove your ceiling/roof and use daylight (desaturate sky and sunset colors).. or use a small emitter.. by making plane a couple inches big, import it, and make it an emitter.

Would I be able to hide the emitter or move it around? I am trying to create 360 environments so I need all the ...

Here's another image I am playing with--I did a screen shot so you can see the settings -- I want a hard shadow cast of his body and the objects in the room without trying to go through confusing, complicated processes...

Hi,
it largely depends by the HDRI chosen. The gamma setting has a great impact on the shadows deepness, but you can have an unwanted saturation of all the colors. The default gamma value for good HDRI is 1. You can work with the kernel setting instead, reducing the light bouncing. Also the GI ...

editing HDR itself (by adding small bright dot where the sun is located) might help too =) see on YouTube, You might find tutorials how to do that =)

Thanks Glimpse--I looked on YT and most of them talk about render layers and such--the process seems confusing and complicated to me though as ...