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What is the button with the plus and minus sign?

bsellner10bsellner10 Posts: 1
in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

I was messing around in Daz and clicked this by accident. My question is what is it and how do I turn it off?

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  • Syrus_DanteSyrus_Dante Posts: 983
    edited November 2017

    Noooo you should never push that button - now you ruined your installation of DazStudio. devil

    LOL. Seriously this is for to set the Viewport Preview Mode aka DarwStyle to NVIDIA IRay - an auto updating live Preview of IRay reders in the Viewport. Maybe they have been adding this thing that "looks like a button with the plus and minus sign" but as far as I know has no function if you click on it - to show you that the auto updating live Preview is activated.

    If you ask yourself why is DazStudio freezing after this and give you no information about that - DazStudio wants to say - your computer is damn slow - go and buy yourself a new more powerfull and expensive one - then come back and try it again.wink

    Or you can click on the symbol right next to it to show the Viewport DrawStyle Options menu and set the Viewport Preview Mode back to something default like the "Texture Shaded" one.

     

    One hint, to know what the heck is going on, is to activate the Status Bar. That - in a somehow misterious manner - can be activated / Enabled by right-clicking on some Tool Bar.

    This is useful for to know what DazStudio is busy with at the moment and doing in the backround and why it looks like its freezing or dosnt response to user input as fast as usual.

    The Status Bar is a special extra Pane where DazStudio starts to talk to you and in your case with DarwStyle set to NVIDIA IRay or if you have alot of Smoothing Modifier applied - also will showing you an progress bar - to let you know why it is busy with calculating something in the backround for you to update the Viewport Preview as soon as possible with your current hardware.

    To activate this useful Status Bar Pane - right-click somewhere on a showen Tool Bar in the DazStudio InterFace and select it in the right-click menu to Enabel the Status Bar.

    With this you can set it to be Enabled by default. Unfortunatly I think by default or with changing some Layouts with Window>Workspace>Select Layout... the Status Bar gets Disabled.

    Use Window>Workspace>Save Layout As... to make shure its allways Enabel with your current Interface Layout.

    If you think - hey my DazStudio dosn't look anything like this - as showen in this screenshot - see my thread How to Customize Daz Studio !? for further info.

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  • MarcCCTxMarcCCTx Posts: 912
    edited November 2017

    It turns the sun off and on when in NVidia preview mode. Click on the widget, then click in the window.

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 99,326

    It's an auto-exposure tool - click it, in nVidia Iray preview mode, then click on an area of the scene to use it to set exposure for the render.

  • Syrus_DanteSyrus_Dante Posts: 983
    edited November 2017

    Here I have another screenshot:

    Showing the Status Bar in action with Apply Smoothing Modifier to Mesh. Its like a Benchmark Scene to test how fast DazStudio is on your Computer LOL.

     

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  • TheKDTheKD Posts: 2,677

    Yeah, it's auto exposure tool, I avoid like plague because I don't know how to work it, had to move back to a previous save in rage after messing with it one time.

  • mhulmzzmhulmzz Posts: 3
    If you press the plus minus button like I just did, go into render settings click defaults and it goes back to normal.
  • MJWMJW Posts: 517
    edited June 2019
    mhulmzz said:
    If you press the plus minus button like I just did, go into render settings click defaults and it goes back to normal.

    THANKS!

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  • LeoPixelStudiosLeoPixelStudios Posts: 0

    Actually it's a quick autoexposure or white balance setting... click it, draw a rectangle around you scene... then you'll see the result.. to tweak it, go to render settings/tone mapping and adjust your shutter speed, exposure value etc.

    MP

     

  • SolitarySandpiperSolitarySandpiper Posts: 510
    edited October 2020
    mhulmzz said:
    If you press the plus minus button like I just did, go into render settings click defaults and it goes back to normal.

    Thats the best answer...  Who uses it anyway?(serious question) it seems to produces terrible results when following the on screen instructions and how do you change it from exposure to white balance?

    But most importantly for me is why does it take up such a prominent place in the viewport? and can i get rid of it!

     

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  • technobrownietechnobrownie Posts: 24

    As far as I can tell. To undo that things effects, go to Render Settings > Tone Mapping > Exposure Value. Set Exposure Value to 13.0 (Default)

  • Three WishesThree Wishes Posts: 471

    I'm actually a fan of the white balance functionality, which produces useful results at least 50% of the time.   Exposure...not so much. 

    -3W

     

     

  • BTX49BTX49 Posts: 2

    technobrownie said:

    As far as I can tell. To undo that things effects, go to Render Settings > Tone Mapping > Exposure Value. Set Exposure Value to 13.0 (Default)

     

    Thank you!  Thank you!!  THANK YOU!!!!!!

  • PtropePtrope Posts: 681

    I don't know if it's something that broke in one of the updates, but clicking "Defaults" with the "Render Settings" tab open makes no changes to any of the settings there.

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