my render has turned into a big black and white picture?

dale_larsen

complete newbie here,

I was doing the interactive tutorials and right around the part when I was in the render section of the tutorial they had me change things to Iray engine and view and since then I can only render out these "matt" images.

I have tried everything including reversing the tutorial steps to fix but no.

 

any thoughts?

Richard Haseltine

The editor tab of Render Settings may have some useful information. Also, go to Help>Troubleshooting>View Log, scroll right to the end and then look backwards to see if there are any 3delight error or warning messages in there.

dale_larsen

I just ran a render and this is what the log said.

"2018-01-12 15:11:15.530 WARNING: /src/sdksource/cloud/dzcloudtasknotifier.cpp(178): peer performed orderly shutdown errno=60
2018-01-12 15:11:18.224 Ran tdlmake on image /Users/Shared/My DAZ 3D Library/Runtime/Textures/Raiya/Georgia/RyGeorgia_torsoGenS_1002.jpg
2018-01-12 15:11:18.734 Ran tdlmake on image /Users/Shared/My DAZ 3D Library/Runtime/Textures/Raiya/Georgia/RyGeorgia_torsoGenB_1002.jpg"

 

I see WARNING, but the rest could be in Greek for all I know.

 

as for the Editors tab in render settings, I went through everything and it's all been reset (to factory defaults I assume)

dale_larsen

weird, I answered but the pst disappeared.

is there a long lag time on posts appearing?

 

the log says

2018-01-12 15:11:15.530 WARNING: /src/sdksource/cloud/dzcloudtasknotifier.cpp(178): peer performed orderly shutdown errno=60
2018-01-12 15:11:18.224 Ran tdlmake on image /Users/Shared/My DAZ 3D Library/Runtime/Textures/Raiya/Georgia/RyGeorgia_torsoGenS_1002.jpg
2018-01-12 15:11:18.734 Ran tdlmake on image /Users/Shared/My DAZ 3D Library/Runtime/Textures/Raiya/Georgia/RyGeorgia_torsoGenB_1002.jpg

 

after a render.

WARNING being significant to someone other than me.

thoughts?

 

as for the edit tab of the render section, all is reset to factory defaults

BeeMKay

Have you tried saving the scene, closing DS and then restart it, and opening the saved scene again?

dale_larsen

oh yes, I have tried a reinstal.using the unistal feature in the DIM but still happening.

BeeMKay said:

Have you tried saving the scene, closing DS and then restart it, and opening the saved scene again?

 

dale_larsen

for kicks I uninstalled both Daz and the DIM, searched the comp for anything with daz in it and deleted that.

 

reinstalled the whole thing.

did a render and have the same black and white issue.

it's like it's a reverse matt of some kind.

dale_larsen

FIXED IT.

It occurred to me that their had to be a preference file someplace and did not recall seeing IT when I searched.

sorted preferences by dated and found three.

deleted those and reopened DAZ.

had to re-enter login info etc.

problem solved.

no idea how I got the problem.

should I do the tutrial again and pay attention?

in the name of science.

 

Richard Haseltine

I can't think of anything that would trigger an issue like that, other than corrupt/missing shaders (which is what I was thinking the log would show, and what BeeMKay's suggestion of a restart would have probably fixed). Perhaps it was something in your settings, since a clear and rebuild fixed the issue, but I don't know what - rerunning the tutorial and seeing if it happens again might be interesting.