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How To Use Render Presets?

kocammykocammy Posts: 65
in New Users

Hello..yet again,

I've been trying to learn and I've had a hard time learning how to set-up my renders.  I found a group of presets on the forums here and have added them to my scripts.  I have a super Noob question - how do I use them?  Do I just right click to load them into the scene and then initiate the render?  I tried using the draft quality script in that way for a quick render.  Reading in the forums it's supposed to take just a few minutes to complete.  I'm going on 30 plus at this point and am not close to done.  Obvioulsy I'm doing something wrong.  My computer although a laptop is just a few months old.  Should my renders ways take this long?  My scene is not complicated.

Thanks

Cammy

 

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  • srieschsriesch Posts: 4,241

    Unsure about the render presets.  However for the render time, it is entirely dependent on what you are rendering.  render quality settings, transparency, lighting, which render engine you use, how fast your PC is, etc.  all affect the render time.  While it might be possible under certain conditions, I would not expect the typical render to finish in just a few minutes.  I often have renders that last hours or overnight, sometimes it takes several days.  While you are using DAZ Studio and not Bryce, I've had Bryce renders last a few weeks.

    You could do a test by rendering an empty scene, add a cube and render that, add a figure and render that, etc.  and watch the render times go from very quick to very slow to get a very rough feel for the variability.

  • SiscaSisca Posts: 875

    If you're talking about the freebie render settings scripts that were availble those are mainly for 3Delight redering so make sure you've switched from the default IRay if you're using 4.8 or later.

    As for using them they're script files so you just double click on them to run them and you should see your settings change in the render settings pane. I've actually added them to my scripts menu by right clicking and choosing Add Custom Action for each one of the scripts.

    Again, these are 3Delight settings so these days I mainly only use the size scripts since those work for IRay. 

  • kocammykocammy Posts: 65

    Thanks, Sisca.  That's a big help!

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