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Many Daz users find themselves scouring forums for posts like this one , as well as countless YouTube videos to find the very best Iray render settings. Even intermediate and experienced users may find themselves needing to brush up on some terminology now and again. It can be hard to remember which settings are best and what they do and these settings can be extremely intimidating for newer users.

Depending on the project, you may find yourself waiting hours for a render to complete. Sure, we could simply use the best settings and wait ages for it to complete, but this isn’t the most efficient way of doing things. We could also stick to the defaults, but then we might be missing out on improvements that could have been possible with our equipped hardware.

This guide is intended to be your last stop for everything Iray render settings related. Feel free to bookmark this article and refer to it often if that will help you master the art of rendering in Daz Studio !

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In today’s post, we’re going deeper into the NVIDIA Iray Engine than ever before! This is a post you don’t want to miss!

In Daz Studio, you have the choice between two render engines included for free: 3Delight and NVIDIA Iray. While 3Delight was essentially the original engine used in Daz Studio, the addition of Iray has opened up many amazing possibilities for users. Let there be no mistake, both of these render engines have realism and the best possible picture quality as their goal, but we will talk specifically about NVIDIA Iray and why it has become such a popular inclusion in Daz Studio.

Here’s the catch, as an NVIDIA product, Iray has a major requirement: you need an NVIDIA GPU to actually get anything special out of the engine. So, sadly, if you use another top-of-the-line graphics card like AMD, it’s not going to work properly.

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That said, if you have access to an NVIDIA card, and love to use Daz Studio, you will be very pleased with the Iray Engine. In fact, if you’ve got the card for it, then there really shouldn’t be any question: use Iray!

Iray has largely been embraced by the Daz community, so this means you’ll find the most support and the opportunity to stay at the forefront of rendering technology as new updates and compatible assets are released. You’ll also experience faster rendering times, the best of HDRI technology, and a full suite of expansive details you can control.

Now that you know what it is and why it’s worth using it if you have the right hardware, let’s take a look at that full suite of settings Iray provides. There’s a lot, so it can be overwhelming for new users to know how to get the most out of Iray without spending hours upon hours waiting for their first render.

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It’s important to understand that Iray will do exactly what you tell it to do! Some refer to this as an unbiased render engine. In other words, you need to specify when enough is enough and the engine can stop rendering. This is done solely through settings. Once the engine starts rendering, it will keep rendering until specific parameters have been met. This level of control is rewarding for skilled and experienced users, and likely frustrating for the inexperienced. A misunderstanding of settings could result in unnecessarily longer render times.

Hopefully, these settings should be straightforward. Of course, that makes them no less important. There are a number of presets you can use, however in many cases, users may want to set this to Custom, in which case you can use the pixel size and aspect ratio to set your desired resolution.

You have three options here, Still Image (Current Frame), Image Series, and Movie. Depending on whether you’re after an animation, or if you like to create animations using image sequences, you may prefer one of those options over the other.

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Largely a quality of life setting, you can decide if you want the render to open in a new window or not.

Unlike many of the other settings that are largely about the file, this is often an important setting overlooked by new users, and it can directly affect how your render turns out. Think of the headlamp as, just that, a light the user is wearing, so it always casts light wherever they are looking. This is usually on by default so that you can see the scene view even if there are no lights manually added to the scene. While this is helpful while working in Daz Studio, you’ll most likely want to turn it off when you render.

You can choose between Photoreal and Interactive (Biased) for the render mode. If you want the best results, stick with Photoreal. However, for fast iterations, Interactive is a good choice. Interactive uses different algorithms to calculate your final render result and is designed to be much quicker at the expense of the quality you’ll get from Photoreal.

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Note that the settings available to you will change, depending on which mode you are using. The settings discussed here are based on the Photoreal Render Mode, however, we will point out when changes occur and a setting is only available in Interactive Mode.

This includes Min Update Samples and Update Interval (secs). This sample number controls how many samples need to be created per render call. The interval provides key information to the render engine over how long it should be spending computing each render call. Longer times here will generally increase effectiveness, while shorter times will yield more frequent updates.

Here we have Min and Max Samples and Max Time (secs). The minimum number is an absolute floor for how many samples need to be rendered before the progressive render loop is able to terminate. On the other hand, the Max Samples tell the render engine the maximum number of samples it should create within each render loop. Adding more time per loop will of course increase render times, however, it will allow the render engine more time to process each loop before it terminates and moves on to the next loop.

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By default, these are set to 1 and 95% respectively. A higher quality setting asks for better-converged pixels, which means a longer rendering time. Render times will change roughly linearly with the given value, so doubling the quality roughly doubles the render time .

Note that setting this attribute to a value larger than the default of 0.95 can lead to extremely long render times. The rendering converged ratio is an estimate, and is only updated from time to time, not on every single render loop.

There’s much that could be said about caustics. Essentially, caustics refers to a coating of light rays reflected or refracted by a curved surface. Caustic-like effects will occur naturally within Daz Studio, however, if you want to enhance the effect, such as while working with glass or liquids, you can turn this setting on.

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This setting can, at times, be used to improve both quality and render times. If you are not using the caustic sampler, turning on Guided Sampling can improve render quality, especially when used in tangent with the Firefly Filter. However, using Guided Sampling can come at a high budget on your memory. NVIDIA recommends this setting to be used in the following situations:

When rendering, you may encounter white or very bright pixels randomly throughout your image. These are often referred to as “Fireflies” and typically occur in areas where difficult lighting occurs. This built-in filter generally works well to eliminate these undesirable spots. To learn more about improving your lighting, check out this post .

Iray has two different modes for handling filters, based on which render mode you are using. In Photoreal, you will see that the Noise Degrain Filtering can be set to a value of 1-5. There are five different settings you can use:

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A setting of zero leaves the filter off entirely. Modes 1-3 are the most conservative, and will seek to eliminate noise in the more difficult parts of a scene while trying not to compromise on image sharpness. Modes 4-5 should be considered the most aggressive and should be used with caution. Thus, some experimentation may be required depending on the needs of your particular scene.

Note, these controls are not available in the Interactive Render Mode. A simple filter is available which provides a general filter, set to gaussian by default. Essentially, this filter simply applies a subtle blur to the image to smooth out noise artifacts.

If you set this to On it won’t directly do anything to your image. It simply triggers the generation of all additional data needed for denoising to make sure it is available in case denoising is enabled later during progressive rendering. When set to true, this option may incur a small memory and performance cost, and thus should be set to OFF if no denoising is desired.

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If set, the denoiser will process the rendered image. If this option is not set, it will

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