Well, at least I can confirm it's definitely not a memory issue. It failed to allocate exactly 64 megabytes of about 3.5 gigabytes of available video ram. I don't understand what's going on here. And I'm very tired of butting my head against a wall with this problem. I could just shrug and hope the next scene doesn't have this problem but I really want to know what's going on here. I guess I'm going to have to seek help on the daz forums. There are daz forums... right?
From what I can see, you most likely have the HDRI active that came with the background asset. It could also potentially be an artificial sun within the scene. To determine which, you just need to navigate to Render Settings \ Environment \ Environment Mode.
From what can see it definitely looks like a memory error. Firstly your Geometry Memory Consumption is about double what is desirable and it gave up half way through trying to push the Textures through to VRAM. Follow the suggestions I made above and you should be able to resolve your issues.
Sorry didn't see your reply when I went to write my last. Uhm, I did reduce the goemetry quite a lot. And I actually _deleted_ anything that wasn't visible from the camera perspective because somewhere I read that hiding it doesn't keep it from taking up memory (which seems unlikely... but I got desperate). I don't have the exact details but like... any item that is small in the camera view i made sure was no more than subd level 1... and bigger things like the body meshes for the characters I constrained to subd level 2 (shalborg himself defaults to 5). Reduced the horns to 1. etc. Basically nothing above 2 and almost everything at 1 or 0. Then I cut the larger (in the camera view) textures down to half resolution followed by cutting everything else down to 1 quarter resolution.
Ok is it the _default_ HDRI that's a problem or all HDRI? Cause without HDRI the jewelry in the scene renders as flat black. I've spent quite a lot of time learning about scene lighting already... obviously there's always more to learn and I'm still new to this but still. I'm using three large meshlights for general scene lighting and two distant lights (for highlights and editing without iray turned on). The only reason I keep HDRI aroudn is for the metal shaders to not turn flat black. Auto-Headlamps are disabled.
Rule of Thumb, to efficiently reduce geometry load.
To get on top of the geometry memory consumption you need to trial render with different portions of your scene to determine which is the offending item. To do this hide half the objects in the scene and render and monitor the geometry memory consumption. If it's greater than 1/2 the previous value, the problem is in the visible objects, otherwise it is in the hidden ones. Keep doing this until you determine which item is the offending item. Note that using a Render SubD Level of 0 in items in the background is fine as is reducing the texture map size by a factor of 4.
Lighting is something that takes a long time and a lot of practice to get a handle on. One general rule I live by, is that every single light within a scene has to have a purpose. Some of the best images produced utilise nothing more than a well selected and manipulated HDRI.
Well you know your shit, that's for damn sure. Geometry Memory Consumption = 976 megabytes? Renders no problem. Goemetry Memory Consumption = 1016 megabytes? Runs out of memory. I realize there's some variance there depending on what else is getting shoved into vram... but I found it humorous that it worked out that way after what you've said. Texture memory consumption is 1.5GB, btw.
The Studio HDRI Lighting is just one of the options available to use with iRay camera. lexx228 utilises
I can't really claim the credit for the animation of the fight scenes as they are predominately the animation assets from
Unfortunately dForce hair will always have very complex geometry when the hairs are done as single strands. It just comes down to the number of points you need to manage to create the shape for each hair strand. Normal hair assets utilise ribbons for different portions of the hair and then places a texture / opacity map against it to give a strand type feel. This reduces say 20,000 individual hair strands to perhaps 1000 surfaces. You can see the ribbons clearly on a normal hair asset if you change the hair shader to plain surface (no opacity map).
Did you install in the directory that DAZ uses for its recognized content? It's a common misconception, but... unless you throw it to the same folders DAZ already uses to load content from, you'll have to manually add the new content library to DAZ, via the "add new library directory" option in the content tab.
There it is. Thank you for the help, I'll know where to look next time. So far everything has appeared in the smart content and that's why I didn't find it.
The clothing asset you are attempting to use is not correct installed within your 'My Daz3D Library'. Whilst you are able to located the duf file for the asset from within Daz (people\genesis 8 female\clothing), you do not have the additional information to correctly display the item.
