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If you haven't already, get your serial number from yor Daz Account under serial numbers. Then in Daz Studio, go to Help- Installed Plugins, find the catalyzer and paste in the serial number. When you reinstall you should be able to locate it in Window-panes- Iray Catalyzer
Hello I believe you need to activate it, see the instructions here: http://www.alessandromastronardi.com/blog/lamh2iray-catalyzer/
Thank you both very much for the immediate answer (amazing, it was completely new to me I had to add a serial number after installing plugins).
It worked.
... but it seems to have problems. Every try to render something with the raccoon in it (e.g. some woodlands) caused DAZ Studio to crash immediately or in some or the other phase of the render. The raccoon alone renders fine. I tried "Harpwood Trail" two times and "Through The Woods" also two times.
Crash info says
"DAZStudio.exe caused ACCESS_VIOLATION in module "C:\Program Files\DAZ 3D\DAZStudio4\plugins\LAMH2IrayCatalyzerPlugin.dll" at 0033:000000000B2EBCEA, DzMatrix3::getFlags()+67658 byte(s)"
Machine is a Dual Xeon (16 Cores, 32 threads) running on Win 10 64, 32GB Ram, Nvidia 1070.
If you need more info, let me know.
Edit: Tried "Abandoned Temple", immediate crash when I click "render" in the Catalyzer pane.
I find that if I place the animal first, then load in the environment, I get better results. That is, it won't crash. As much. I love this thing but its either a huge memory hog (understandable), or a little unstable (with a fix on the way). What algovincian said above - once you can get a good work flow around it, the benefits far outweigh the annoyances.
I'm really looking forward to a new cat and dog. I've been on the fence about the Hivewire model. It's cute and all, but I'm more of an alley cat guy. I'd rather see something along the lines of AMs rodent series; A base model with morphs and furs as add-ons to the product.
@Xanathon, the issue you are experiencing will be addressed in 1.1 update (which I already provided DAZ and should be made available shortly). In the meantime, as some guys said, load first the Catalyzer item(s) and later merge a scene or environment presets.
Thanks for the reply, but that's what I did. I first loaded the raccoon and the environments after that, crashes anyway.
Ok, so it crashes during the render? Have you tried enabling the 'Safe mode' option in the Catalyzer pane?
If you are using DAz Studio 4.8, it will crash no matter what (at least, that's what it's doing on my PC). I've stopped trying to make it work in 4.8.
It's working somewhat okay in 4.9 Beta, though I get crashed when I save a file with an Iray LAMH in it, and then reload it, and then try the slightes pose change of any of the involved characters.... I hope this will also be fixed by the upcoming update, though.
Thanks, jakiblue - glad you enjoyed it. Alessandro's wolf really is wonderful (it's one of the included poses, too). Before Catalyzer, LAMH was just too time/resource consuming in Iray. Can't emphasize enough how much of a game changer this is!
- Greg
I tried another experiment with "LAMH 2 Iray Catalyzer" with DAZ Studio and Iray. This time I wanted to continue exploring combining a Catalyzer animal with a LAMH animal in one render. I went for a more complex scene with "Rodents by AM: Squirrels of Eastern Hemisphere" and "HiveWire House Cat". I only used Photoshop to get rid of some of the fur poking through the armor.
Awesome, Joe!
- Greg
Agree 100%. The catalyzer is definitely a game changer when it comes to using Alessandro's gorgeous furry animals in iray.
I know people are still experiencing crashes and getting frustrated, but I just wanted to say HANG IN THERE. Alessandro is working on the issues - have faith in him. The Catalyzer is absolutely worth it - if we have to weather the bumps and bugs while he sorts it out, then I am very happy to do so.
Joepingleton, that's wonderful!
I agree with jakiblue. The Catalyzer is so worth it.
Another experiment with "LAMH 2 Iray Catalyzer" with DAZ Studio and Iray. This time I wanted to continue down the line of Big Cats 2 with "Black Panthers for DAZ Big Cat 2". No post work.
It's still crashing a lot and it is frustrating, but I can't beleive how fast it is and the quality and control of the hair.
Thank you all for the kind words on my experiments
I should have come in here a couple of days ago. I've been having the same lag issues as others are reporting. I didn't know what was causing it. Never occurred to me it could be a plugin. I have the original LAMH pane docked, but not the catalyzer pane. I will have to undock the LAMH pane and see if it makes any difference. I can verify it is a memory leak problem. I've been keeping close tabs on my memory usage via Task Manager, and have noticed the memory creep up as I do things. Closing the program and reopening clears out the memory. I tried just loading a new scene, but that doesn't clear it.
I've already shut down the beast for the night, and am headed to bed. I'll report back tomorrow if closing the original LAMH docked pane has any effect.
I've uninstalled LAMH Catalizer for now as it slows down DS to the point where I can't use it, even when I'm not using Catalizer. Seems to be back to normal without it.
Laurie
Hello folks, I didn't receive any information as to when the Catalyzer 1.1 update will be available through official channels, so for the curious one I am anticipating it:
Windows 64bit: www.alessandromastronardi.com/QA/Catalyzer/1.1/LAMH2IrayCatalyzerPlugin.1.1.Win64.zip (copy and overwrite the zip content in your '\Program Files\DAZ 3D\DAZStudio4\plugins\' folder)
macOS: www.alessandromastronardi.com/QA/Catalyzer/1.1/LAMH2IrayCatalyzerPlugin.1.1.macOS.zip (copy and overwrite the zip content in your '\Applications\DAZ 3D\DAZStudio4\plugins\' folder)
If for some reasons you need to revert to version 1.0, you can obviously use the DIM or the original installer again.
This update should fix the lag issue (with the beta-testers we didn't catch this issue altough I think to know why it happens for some); also, now it should be safe to load Catalyzer item(s) on an existing scene.
In case of issues please email me at [email protected] sending a brief description of the problem and:
Thanks!
Thank you Alessandro for the update
I had to try an experiment with the updated "LAMH 2 Iray Catalyzer" with DAZ Studio and Iray. I wanted to continue using the Big Cats 2 with the "Cheetah" and Rodents by AM's "Gambian Sun Squirrel". Adding the squirrel used to crash DAZ Studio everytime. With this update NO CRASHES on rendering and opening the DUF files
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I also used Arrogathor 's free models " Cards, Dice and Games" [https://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/cards-dice-and-games/72059] ;
No post work.
Cool - thanks for the update :)
I'll have to try it later as I'm off to work soon.
The LAMH 2 Iray Catalyzer has given me beautiful results. But after recent updates with the LAMH player and Studio, I cannot get my LAMH player to go beyond this Authorization task to edit anything. Have done it and restarted almost 20 times. Not too sure when this began, but the player it's self did do an update in the IM around the release of the LAMH 2 Iray Catalyzer. I am sure there will be a simple explaination.
This question should be of no detriment toward any of your great products. Just keen to get back to using them all again :)
I had to try another experiment with the updated "LAMH 2 Iray Catalyzer" with DAZ Studio and Iray. This time I wanted to see how many Gambian Sun Squirrel's I could squeeze into one render. This scene would crash DAZ Studio every time I tried it before the update . NO CRASHES on rendering and opening the DUF files
. No post work.
17 August 2017
Sorry for the confusion, I added another fix and so version 1.2 comes here:
Windows 64bit: www.alessandromastronardi.com/QA/Catalyzer/1.2/LAMH2IrayCatalyzerPlugin.1.2.Win64.zip (copy and overwrite the zip content in your '\Program Files\DAZ 3D\DAZStudio4\plugins\' folder)
macOS: www.alessandromastronardi.com/QA/Catalyzer/1.2/LAMH2IrayCatalyzerPlugin.1.2.macOS.zip (copy and overwrite the zip content in your '\Applications\DAZ 3D\DAZStudio4\plugins\' folder)
If for some reasons you need to revert to version 1.0, you can obviously use the DIM or the original installer again.
In case of issues please email me at [email protected] sending a brief description of the problem and:
Thanks!
I love this picture. I've just given it the thumbs up in the gallery.
Cheers,
Alex.
There doesn't seem to be any LAMH presets for the Beaver and the Skunk.
Cheers,
Alex.
Cool image Joe, wow how many critters in there :D
Hey Alex, I think it's a store quirk, there should be Catalyzer presets for both, maybe they aren't just showing in your account. Send an inquiry to support, they should be able to fix it. Or maybe try with the DIM?
I love this plugin. It works great after the first update you posted.
Haven't tried the second update yet.
I don't know about the Skunk (one of the few of Alessandro's animals I don't have!) but the Beaver (and some but not all of the other animals) has the Iray version in the single DS installer, so that's all you need.