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Giuliano Buffi
Giuliano Buffi
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July 5, 2023

anyone is having problems with the raytracing?

  • July 5, 2023
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Im trying to work but is imposible, every time i try to preview my work on raytracing to see the scene and the light if i move the light on the enviroment the software didnt show the real shadows or lights, i want to know if someone else have this same problems, as you can see in the photos the final render is ok but in the preview didnt show the floor reflection or shadow

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AlanGilbertson
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AlanGilbertsonCommunity Expert
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July 6, 2023

The Substance team are continuously working on the rendering engine to improve its performance, and there was a big change in the last (v2.1) update. The intention was to speed up rendering, and that's what I'm seeing. That you saw worse performance will be important for the team to know about. Send your Stager logs to substance3D-bugs@adobe.com with a description of what you encountered so they can check it out.

Giuliano Buffi
Giuliano BuffiAuthor
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July 6, 2023

thanks! yes i know but i just have this problem with the latest update, i re-install the earlier version and works perfect as alwqays but when i try to do the same with the latest version always have the same problem, maybe i just need to star working with real time render for the previews

AlanGilbertson
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AlanGilbertsonCommunity Expert
Community Expert
July 5, 2023

Only real-time ray tracing will give you an accurate preview of how the scene lighting will render, but unless you have a very powerful system it is very hard to adjust lighting and Stager may have difficulty keeping up with what you are doing. Every time you make any change to a light or the position of an object, the ray tracing starts from scratch. If you're on a system with minimum specs, that's going to be a very slow way to work.

 

It's better to make all your adjustments with ray tracing turned off, switch on ray tracing to check how things will look, then turn it off while you tweak light positions, etc.

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