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By cepheistudios - 4 Years Ago
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So this is my first time really messing around with Iray, despite having owned it for a few months. I did a render of a model and this is how the model looks in the CC3 viewport:
 Notice that her eyes are PURPLE.
This is how she looks in the Iray Preview window:
 And her eyes are now blue.
Why did her eyes change color?? I mean Iray does make the model look different - in a GOOD way - but the eye color is weird. I want her eyes to be purple.
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By 4u2ges - 4 Years Ago
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Iray does not deal with DH materials. Non of its features are transparent to Iray.
So you have to change the texture for the eye (Std_Eye_L/Std_Eye_R) material as well so that Iray renders it properly.
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By cepheistudios - 4 Years Ago
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Thank you. So, I did some research and I found there are LOTS of threads about Iray rendering eyes in Character Creator and it seems to be quite a mess - or at least very confusing. I'm going to go through those threads - I have one bookmarked - and see if that will help as well because they go into a lot of detail. That being said, the OVERALL sense that I got from those threads is that Iray doesn't integrate into CC very well. I know that when I did a render of my character it was very clean and crisp in some places, but overall she looked more plastic than she did in the viewport. Now I am a newbie to Iray and I haven't messed around with all of the options and I DON'T regret buying Iray, but it isn't very easy to use and it doesn't seem to produce the crystal clear, stunning renders that I thought it would. I mean I shouldn't have to spend three hours in the program and consult multiple threads to get eye color correct. I am hoping that CC4 corrects that integration with Iray. Anyway, I'm just writing these comments to keep them fresh as I see some of the older posts still have very relevant info.
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By jeffkirkland - 4 Years Ago
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Coming to CC3 from DAZ Studio, I bought into the iRay plugin expecting great things but as you say, it's a bit clumsy and poorly integrated in CC. It took me a while but I'm now getting better results using the built-in renderer than I ever managed to get with the iRay plugin. Like you, fingers crossed for improvements in IC8/CC4.
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