Iray Storm 2 - Tornado And Foam issue
evilcho_
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Hi. The product Iray Storm 2 - https://www.daz3d.com/iray-storm-2 has a perfectly working waves etc. but the tornado and foam come out as texturless blocks. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?
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It sounds like you are missing the data files?
How are you installing, and what does your log say Help > Troubleshooting > View Log File?
Directly through zip file. Log says this:
2022-08-23 16:58:24.437 WARNING: ..\..\..\..\..\src\pluginsource\DzIrayRender\dzneuraymgr.cpp(359): Iray [WARNING] - TRIT:GEOMETRY :: 1.0 TRIT geo warn : Object DS_shape_4414_347: the parametric approximation level is set to 4. The original value of 5 would produce too much geometry in a single mesh.
2022-08-23 16:58:28.747 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER :: 1.0 IRAY rend info : Geometry import (1 triangle object with 15394k triangles, 0 fiber objects with 0 fibers (0 segments), 1 triangle instance yielding 15394k triangles, 0 fiber instances yielding 0 segments) took 4.332s
So the data file is there.
Can you load other items correctly?
You haven't swithed the viewport to 'solid bounding box' (the dropdown in upper right of the viewport)?
I can load the water and waves that come with the product and they render fine, but the "foam" and the "tornado" render out as blocks. And no, I use the Iray engine to render.
Doesn't the log file say my PC can't handle it? Or am I misinterpreting it?
This is how the tornado looks in Iray preview. The foam the same. My PC is not that bad though, it should be able to render it, so I don't think it's that.
Reading this: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/548791/volumetric-effects-in-daz-studio/p8
It's suppose to work like this, but it doesn't.
I think I figured it out. I have an older daz studio version which does not support these volumetric effects. I use Daz Studio 4.15.
Yeah, that will be the reason, you need to upgrade to 4.20!