Rendering Genesis 2 figures using IRAY
rames44
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I'm wondering what the collective body of DAZ experts recommends in terms of rendering Genesis 2 figures using IRAY. I know about applying the IRAY Uber Shader to non-IRAY items in order to improve the rendering, but wondering what additional steps are recommended.
As an example, I see that EcVh0 has and Iray Skin Shader product for G2F. (But not G2M?) Recommended? Are there alternatives, given the lack of an equivalent for G2M?
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I very highly recommend the Iray skin converters from V3Digitimes. They are excellent. There are versions for several generations of figures. The version for Genesis 2 is here. It even appears to be on sale today for a good price! This one product works for both Genesis 2 Male and Female.
Thanks, barbult, I'll check that out.
You could download & install the Genesis 8 Female and then save all of her surfaces shaders as shader presets and when you do, it will take 30 - 60 minutes to do them all correctly, uncheck all the images being exported so you wind up with only the shader settings and not the images. Then after you use the Uberiray Preset to convert those surfaces to iRay you can go through each shader surface on your figure and apply the appropriate shader you saved from Genesis 8 Female to it.
For Genesis 2 I usually use the free included "Iray Optimized Genesis 2 Female MAT" (found in Iray section of Materials under Genesis 2) as a starting point, and adjust to "taste" as needed, I also use the free Skinray Alpha shaders from Most Cigital Creations, it includes Iray shaders for V4, Genesis, and Genesis 2, and works quite well (But again, I usually tweak setting to my tastes). The commercial versions here may be better ..... I don't have them to compare.
Agreed!!
Excellent product for Genesis 2 (My preferred generation)
@nonesuch00 - interesting idea. Never would have thought of that.
@DustRider, @wolf359 - thanks!
I hope you got the V3Digitimes product yesterday, if you want it. It was half price yesterday. I see it is back to full price today.
Personally I prefer NGS Anagenessis. Does amazing stuff with Genesis 1-3
DOH! How did I forget Anagenesis 2. It's my first choice too, if it doesn't work well, then I use the others I listed. I just used it severa times yesterday too, I think my brain must have been in another plane of reality.
Or you could simply get G3F and G3M Shader and apply on top of G2F :)
If you're looking for realism then apply a 3rd party shader as suggested above. Anyway DS does convert other shaders to iray quite fine, so you really need to do nothing. Furthermore the advantage of using simple shaders in iray is it's good for rendering speed.
Hi the Genesis 2 Essetials includes an Iray version of Gen 2 female and male.
Agreed!
I ran across this thread and realized I purchased and never tried the G2 Iray converter so decided to give it a test run on Cara HD for G2 and this is the result. I wasn't exactly sure what I was looking for but thought this turned out fairly well. Any critiques are most welcome :)
I think it looks great! What were you looking for that was different?
Thanks @barbult I guess I was just hoping it was looking authentic, I really struggle with the material settings as I am never quite sure what each slider changes, sometimes I see no change at all when moving sliders but using this script made it all alot easier. I can't believe I've had it so long and never used it!