The most beautiful,gruesome bloody background,Halloween Special
Vampire Special
looks like I missed the date... oh well
the way you got the lights and camera angle, your giving me summer's gone vibes.
Nice! I see you are still having issues with the fireflies in some renders, like this one. Besides some other recommendations you already got, like increasing the max samples count or using the post denoiser, one other thing you can try if you have a good graphics card is rendering at a higher resolution and then downscaling the render to the desired final resolution.
Sad... I didn't see the fireflies after the render on Daz, but they emerged after I increase the clarity in PS. Spent too much time on the pose and was too tired so I just left them in there. Lol
I still like your render a lot, even if it has fireflies.
Wrong thread?
Ghost lights don't work the same as they used to, in DAZ 4.16 and earlier you could use normal lighting values when using ghost lights, but apparently it was a bug and Nvidia "fixed" it. So now to use ghost lights the cutout opacity needs to be set at .0000001 and the intensity set to something like 10000000.00 to counter the opacity, and in my experience this has led to very noisy renders which take a lot longer to clear up, and may lead to fireflies.I still like your render a lot, even if it has fireflies.
About the ghost lights part that you mention, I have a basic understanding of what they are, but haven't used them yet, so I'm surely missing important knowledge about them. With that said, I see no logical reason to think that just by using them in a scene there's a bigger likelihood of fireflies appearing. After all, are they not basically invisible light sources or am I missing something here?
Interesting. I installed the new v4.22 yesterday. It's still too soon for me to know whether I like it more than 4.21, though. By the way, together with the release of this newer revision of the Studio, they published some short introductory videos on their YT channel. And in one of them they introduce a script that turns a primitive (a sphere in the video) into a ghost light.
Thanks mate for the detailed expanation. You are right, I go for ghost light as it is easier (or so I think) to mimic a light source such as small lamps and lights. Might go for emissive primitives in the future.
I have not given much use to it yet. I have not rendered anything on it, for example. I've been playing with my saved characters a bit in the viewport with zero issues, though.
I use ghost lights almost exclusively, they were good, still are if you're using an older version of Daz. The lighing in this image is ghost lights.
