VIEWPORT : Complete Guide to Optimizing your Realtime Experience with DAZ Studio

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Digital Art Live

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Compatible Software:
Daz to C4D Bridge, Daz to Maya Bridge, Daz to Unity Bridge, Daz to Unreal Bridge, Daz Studio 4.23, Daz to 3ds Max Bridge, Daz to Blender Bridge

Install Types:
DIM Manual Install

SKU:83478

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*3D Printing License $1.99

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Artist: Digital Art Live

Compatible Figures: N/A

Compatible Software: Daz to Unity Bridge, Daz to Unreal Bridge, Daz Studio 4.23, Daz to 3ds Max Bridge, Daz to Blender Bridge, Daz to C4D Bridge, Daz to Maya Bridge

Install Types: DIM Manual Install

SKU:83478

Optional License Add-Ons:

*3D Printing License $1.99

What is this?

*Unless otherwise specified, no discounts or offers will apply to License Add‑Ons.
Details
The Viewport in DAZ Studio is our most used window peering into our created 3D worlds. It allows you to examine, move and work with your scene.

If we spend so much time relying on the Viewport, it makes sense& to want to make the best use of it, learn all of it's facilities, and optimize it to speed up our workflow<.

However, the default settings for the Viewport unfortunately can leave the artist struggling, with the viewport refreshing slower than you would expect, especially for larger scenes.

In this tutorial, Ken Kawashima goes over exactly what you can use Viewports for, the wide variety of settings and optimizing for a better creative experience.

Webinar Content
- Frame your expectations: how to make the best out of the DAZ Studio Viewport.
- Is there a best size for the Viewport?
- What is the DAZ Studio Auxiliary viewport for?
- Hardware acceleration and why it's important to enable it.
- What is the new Filament rendering engine and how to use it?
- Discussion on some of the Display Styles for performance and artistic effects.
- Iray preview optimization: defaults are your enemy and how to speed it up.
- Iray configuration options: what do they mean?
- Can I optimize materials and/or scene objects to help real-time loading?
- A word on hardware. Should I spend mega-bucks just to get a better real time experience?
Tutorial total running time : 2 hours and 47 minutes. Searchable videos with optional captions.

Sample Searchable Video. Use the cog symbol to improve the playback quality if needed and switch on captions.

About the Presenter : Ken Kawashima<

Ken is a programmer, with a background in computer hardware as well as a professional 3D artist, creating content for Daz Studio and Poser.
What's Included and Features
- VIEWPORT : Complete Guide to Optimising your Realtime Experience with DAZ Studio
- 3 x MP4 videos and searchable versions of the videos with optional captions
- Video 1 : Introductory Session 37 minutes (.MP4)
  
  00:01 Introduction
  
  00:04 Understanding render engines (slide)
  
  00:09 About PBM materials in terms of biased/unbiased
  
  00:14 Does size matter? (Slide)
  
  00:16 Final render size
  
  00:18 Scene complexity vs performance
  
  00:20 Question on when VRAM is maxed out
  
  00:23 Keep your lighting to a minimum (in terms of number of lights)
  
  00:25 Open GL limits
  
  00:26 Does HDRI count as one of the limiting lights for open GL
  
  00:28 About bucket rendering
  
  00:30 VIEWPORT setup (slide)
  
  00:31 Texture shaded
  
  00:32 About filament and it's advantages
  
  00:34 Configurations for Filament?
  
  00:35 Iray
- Video 2 : 29 minutes (.MP4)
  
  00:00 The Auxillary viewport
  
  00:01 Filament - points with aux viewport
  
  00:02 I-ray - points with the aux viewport
  
  00:05 Hardware acceleration
  
  00:09 Case size and cooling design
  
  00:15 Are expensive GPUs worth the price?
  
  00:19 What are you primarily buying It for?
  
  00:21 About aiming high: RTX3090 - the best you can get
  
  00:26 Questions on hardware and graphic cards
- Video 3 : 1 hour 40 minutes (.MP4)
  
  00:00 Viewport using texture shaders defaults (Open GL previews)
  
  00:01 What highlights are (Open GL)
  
  00:03 Preferences - Interface - Hardware Details and check graphic card driver version
  
  00:05 Examining current hardware details / features
  
  00:10 Why are textured blurred with OpenGL?
  
  00:15 Looking at Filament
  
  00:16 PBR materials in real time!
  
  00:19 Detailing on texturing that we couldn't seen before
  
  00:20 Add a spotlight with Filament
  
  00:23 Shadows
  
  00:27 Do emissive lights work in Filament?
  
  00:30 And HDRIs?
  
  00:34 Comparing Filament Viewport and Open GL (aux) at the same time
  
  00:38 Tweaks you can achieve in Filament (Filament draw options)
  
  00:44 Hardware test with Filament - spin the camera around a single character
  
  00:48 Using Iray in a Viewport - default settings
  
  00:51 Adjust environment dome lighting to be less harsh
  
  00:52 Progressive render options
  
  00:55 Auto headlamp off
  
  00:58 Render node (Interactive (Biased))
  
  01:01 Progress rendering - noise test
  
  01:03 Realistic PBR shadows and Max Samples
  
  01:07 Progressive rendering : Rendering Quality Enable
  
  01:10 Render noise limits
  
  01:14 Post denoiser
  
  01:18 Post denoiser settings and recommend settings
  
  01:24 Proper lighting helps reduce noise
  
  01:29 Comparing Iray Viewport with Filament Viewport when looking at metallic materials.
  
  01:31 Karen Williams : challenge with displaying emissives in Filament
  
  01:37 Do mesh lights work in Filament?
Notes
- This product includes
  
  2 General Installers