3D-Daz Daz3d Art - Show Us Your DazSkill

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tripod70

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My first impression is that the water surface is to smooth, maybe rip a bump map from another surface and apply that to the water (adjust the strength as needed). And, the refraction strength is too strong.

One of the coolest things about 3d rendering vs. photography is that you can break the laws of physics. Don't worry about the water refraction value being "accurate" and tweak values until it looks good. I find most refraction effects within iray to be overboard, just try rendering curved glass like a car windshield to see how out of whack it can get. It works well for some surfaces, like a drinking glass, but is way too strong on other surfaces, like water.

And, if you pull the camera further away from the subject and then adjust the camera's focal length you'll get significantly different results. That's a real life photography trick to reduce lens distortion and will affect how the render refractions & reflections look with iray renders.
Thanks, It's not the water to say, I think it is the lighting. Every time I start a render to check every thing the Harwood House set changes lighting variables and switches over to CPU mode. I know that doesn't make any sense at all. At that point DAZ boogs down to a crawl, and the render has a strange tint to it. I have changed the HDR, and even deleted it completely from scene, but it comes back and messes things up. It is probably something horribly simple that I keep missing. It is a horrible asset to work with....... The bad thing is that It is a large part of the next few scenes....
 

tripod70

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I think I have a corrupt scene set with the house and pools. Put this together in just a couple of minutes and every thing works as normal. The house set was trying to load 6.5 Gib of bitmaps into base and GPU memory at same time, it looked like. I hate to have to drop back 10 and punt, but may have to... Of course the whole scene is totally different and not heavy at all.

deb scene set testD.jpg
 

mrbigchungus

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Been sharing my renders with my partner, she likes these ones infinitely better than Magical Restart's characters so far.
hersecret04.png

What do ya'll think? Below, on the far right, are the same two characters with different outfits - I made a few adjustments to them both, which makes me like them better in the pose above.
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apprentices-magicalrestart02f.png
 
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