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m4dsk1llz · Feb 23, 2022

After reinstall and even changing hair to a different OOT, 2022-02 I get the same results. Even picked bright blonde as the hair color.

According to the threads on the DAZ forums there are a bunch of fixes expected next week. Also Sabby had to fix a bunch of characters of his (SASE) as they would error out when loading. It was a syntax error that apparently older versions of DAZ simply ignored. Mostly errors in the makeup duf files.

m4dsk1llz · Feb 23, 2022

MrPerson28475 would you be so kind as to check something for me?

I assume you are using an nVidia card, what driver version are you on?
Also in your render settings, is Spectral Render Enable off or on?

All is not lost, I still have my old PC with two 1080Ti cards in it and it is still on DAZ 4.16

MrPerson28475 · Feb 23, 2022

I use an nvidia rtx 3060 with 12GB, Latest Driver 511.79

Most of my settings are Daz default. However I do use Mesh Lights and turn off "Auto Headlamp", "Draw Dome" and "Environment Map" set to 0.

All "Fog" settings are default.

m4dsk1llz · Feb 24, 2022

MrPerson28475 Thanks for that, our settings aren't very different, I have some exposure settings in Tonemapping that are different and I generally use Sun/Sky rather than a dome for test renders and set Environment Light Resolution to 1024, but haven't tested that thoroughly to see if it actually helps. Also, with a 3090 I upped the defaults in Max Samples, Max Time and Rendering Converged Ratio. Also I set Max Path Length to 8 as I find that beyond that it just takes longer to render with no noticeable improvement in render quality. Your -1 setting basically tells DAZ to keep path tracing the light until it's too dim and that generally ends up in averaging 16-20 for length.

I will monitor the DAZ forums to see if there are any solutions to the rendering issue.

Oh one more thing I almost forgot, I use NVCleanInstall to strip out all telemetry, GeForce Experience, PhysX and a lot of useless crap out of the nVidia driver install. Maybe it is a bit too aggressive.

m4dsk1llz · Feb 25, 2022

Woohoo!!!!

New beta of Daz version 4.20.0.3 and the renders seem to be working again! At least I can now render OOT hair in the color that was selected. Back with new stuff tomorrow. Other stuff is broken, like the menus are all in the wrong spots but rendering works again.

Maromator · Feb 25, 2022

royalcandy · Feb 25, 2022

m4dsk1llz said:
This is more of a message directed at royalcandy.

I was able to get the current release of 4.20.0.2 to render correctly and I do like the new volumetric fire and clouds that are now part of DAZ. Obviously it didn't seem to affect everyone as MrPerson28475 can render OOT hair properly, but I could not. So I installed the Beta version. Once I started comparing directories I found an interesting item. The dzirayrenderer.dll (in the plugins subdirectory) was 3KB bigger in the Beta than in the Release version, but they are both using the same version of iRay. So I copied the Beta version of that file to the Release directory and rendering now works properly in Iray.

For everyone else.

If you use Ghost Lights the are 100% broken. nVidia decided that there was a bug in the way Thin Film was implemented (DAZ had no part of this, it is all nVidia). So nVidia decided to fix their bug. That fix made ghost lights not work. It is not Daz's fault, it wasn't identified as a bug until nVidia decided to 'fix' it. So if you have scenes that use a lot of ghost lights then they may all be broken.

Cheers, well since all my scenes use Ghost Lights I don't think I'm ready yet to upgrade my Daz. Probably I'll start using the Beta version and redo the light for the scenes there and once everything goes well, I'll upgrade the Production version too.

m4dsk1llz · Feb 25, 2022

royalcandy
Part of that quote is incorrect, that's why the post is deleted. You cannot move the .dll file to the release. It breaks everything. Also please note that for many people (myself included) the Beta has messed up menus. Everything is in the wrong place. But at least it renders.

I am pretty sure that 4.20.0.2 will be gone in a few days replaced with a beta as it seems to fix a bunch of issues.

Also Sickleyield has