I wouldn't say that is sad though. ^_^ Visual art is about light and how it interacts with surfaces. Working with lights and manipulating materials is, ya know, what we do.

I hear ya on the whole transition from all the different daz rendering solutions. I remember all the uber this, uber this 3.0 ...

As always I'm absolutely confused about what to do, what was sold, and what is happening.

I have a 'Regular' license, and I'm running with the 4.4.0.44 plugin in Daz Studio 4.12.00.86. I was wondering if it worked with the latest version of Daz Studio which is 4.15.0.2.

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I have something to say here. Complaining that its not all easy to use is fine and dandy, but I see this entirely differently. When I started using Daz, 3DLight wasn't supported, and my introduction into rendering was spent with days of editing textures. Not only that, but after 3DLight was ...

So, I noticed that applying poses in Daz Studio was slow... I tracked down a lot of things and tried a few things, so spare me the time and actually pay attention.

Clothing with props become tremendously slow to pose with the Octane plug in. This is an Octane plug in issue.
https://www.daz3d.com ...

Never mind that last bit... It seems to have saved. (I had loaded the scene one additional time with 4 'don't load' options, so maybe that cleared it up.) I now have a working scene, although its a bit of a chore to work with.

So even after you do all that, there's still a limit or a bug in the plug in. I can edit all the textures, but either I can't save them all or it won't load\apply them all. This is after you put up with the 5 minute save and load times.

In addition, there is something utterly broken with the ...

OK.. there is a script (which needed a quick update.. available 35 days from now) which will convert scenes including Ultra Scattered instances into objects;
Instances to Objects;
https://www.daz3d.com/instances-to-objects

Willow Creek by stonemason is a serious mess for Octane to handle;
https ...

All of this is nice.. buuut what does the "Surface Material Filter" do? To my eyes.. it intentionally renders the materials unusable, while leaving the geometry around to intersect with the surfaces.

What's the point? To reduce your control over your renders? I don't get it. If it deleted the ...

Rajib. Its not hair. Its V4 colliding with the same V4.

Is there any chance you'll fix this?