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Greetings again,

I have Reality 2.11.2.120 64-bit for Windows, downloaded as of a couple days ago when I first purchased it.  I have been unable to get it to utilize any of the ACSEL information, and I'm wondering what I am doing wrong.  I have a few different things for which I believe it should be matching up ACSEL information.  For example, I have both The Library and Sacrament.  (I also purchased Mortis for Sacrament, but I'm assuming that won't get recognized because its using replacement textures.)  I also have Victoria 5, so I was expecting to see the Bree textures get matched.  However, loading any of these into a scene, the Materials tab does not indicate ACSEL was matched.  In testing, I'm starting a new scene in DAZ (File -> New) and then dropping in a couple items from the respective set (e.g., The Library) with zero parameter/etc changes, and then launching Reality.

I have gone to the ACSEL tab, clicked Refresh to get the list of available materials sets (where I've seen the above items listed), select all, and clicked Install.  I then get a message saying that they have been installed.  However, exiting and reloading Reality still does not cause anything to show as matched in the Materials tab.  Further, if I click Refresh in the ACSEL tab, it shows me everything all over again.  However, with the "Include installed shaders" UN-checked, I would expect it to show me nothing, since I should already have all of these items installed.  (Or am I miss-understanding what the "Include installed shaders" is supposed to filter?)

Is there a way to see what is actually installed in our own ACSEL database?  Also, does Reality also understand saving/matching ACSEL presets for lights (like the candelabra light presets that come with Sacrament)?

And any insights on how to get Reality to matched materials up from its database would be most appreciated.

Thanks!

Is the Sacrament set also based on DAZ 3?  If so, that would explain why neither is recognized.  (I have DAZ Studio 4 Pro.)  But I would expect the V5Bree textures to be recognized (and I am not attempting to do anything like map them onto a V4 character).

Where should I send the database ZIP file to?

I've just sent along my ACSEL2 database file.

But it occurs to me, is the V5Bree ACSEL entry dependtant on how the Genesis sliders were configured when it was made?  E.g., it will only recognize the model when the V5 slider is at "1.0" and all others are at 0/default.  Or should it work even if V5 plus V5Supermodel plus .3 of Aiko4 (for example) have be dialed in?

Since I have DAZ Studio 4 only, would it be possible for you to write up what you did for the candlelights in Sacrament, since Reality doesn't recognize Sacrament because the ACSEL database was based on version 3 of DAZ.  I am working on a scene using Sacrament now, and would like to at least get the candlelights working until you figure out how to make the ACSEL database DAZ-version agnostic.

Thanks

Yes, the candle flame.  Plus them providing illumination for the scene in general.  I've done a render having loaded the candle lights using DAZ's internal renderer, and the candles are enough to light the scene.  However, if I load the scene into Reality and start rendering, I basically get a black framebuffer as output.  There is an IBL lightgroup that shows up in the list of lights in Lux (but I'm not sure where Reality generated this from, since there isn't a lightgroup for the IBL listed in the Lights tab of the UI — just a generic "use IBL" checkbox on the right).  In order to see anything in the scene, I have to crank the gain on the IBL lightgroup basically to max (10,000) which seems wrong to me.  And it's still overly dark when I do that.

Suggestions? Thanks!

Candles, especially when there are a bunch of them, can be quite powerful lights.  (I've been doing photography for years, and own a lot of professional studio lighting gear as well…)

But I'm not sure the lights in Sacrement are really even being picked up by Reality.  They do not show up in the lights tab at all.  And the IBL is really just one single light for the whole scene, is it not?  So while I'm not sure what in my scene caused Reality to turn it on, I don't think it's actually meant to be the lights from the candles.

In DAZ, when you load the light group for the altar, you get a new group object that then has four lights and four objects around them.  My guess is that he's creating a light inside a flame "object" for the light to shine out of and be affected by.  But I don't see any of these lights show up in the lights tab in Reality.  And I can't figure out which items in Reality's materials list corresponds to the containing flame "object"s that would need to presumably be set to Matte Translucent for the radiating light effect to take place.

Another observation: I changed the Spotlight to RGB colour mode so I could get the orange I was after.  But when I do that, I get no light contribution in the rendered image.  The spotlight is the only light in the Spots group, so by turning every other group off, I can check it.  With all the other light groups turned off, the scene is 100% pitch black.  If I change it back to colour temperature, then I get light contribution, but it is white in colour, not orange.  Thoughts?

The spotlight is meant to provide a glow from an Angel's hand toward the person she is healing in my scene.  Does making an object into a light hide the rendering of the object?  E.g., assuming I can pick just the palm of the hand (I've not checked how the hands are built), if I converted the palm to a light, would I get the light effect and still have the palm?  Or would the palm itself disappear?  (The answer to this question might be a good one-line sentence to add to the RUG in the section where it talks about converting a material into a light.)