pwSurface Quality changer for DAZ Studio
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Just like extensive shadow calculation, the pwSurface shaders are known to
greatly extend rendering time. Now, this is a very bad thing for quick
test-renders, like for finding the optimal depth-of-field settings for the
current camera. Fortunately the quality of pwSurface - surfaces can be changed -
but if you got more than one figure with these shaders applied, this can be a
very tedious task. This is where this script will help you: It will set the
render quality of all pwSurface - surfaces to the quality level you select.

Note that 'older' pwSurface - surfaces (those assigned under D|S 1.3) will not
work with this script - there has been development in pwSurface, and the
update those shaders got included - among other things - new quality levels.
Thus, my script will tell you which surfaces in your scene need a Shader-Upgrade
to the newest version. For this, simply select the figure and the respective
surfaces and apply the new pwSurface shader (just like you would do when
assigning the shader for the first time). The settings you tweaked should be
unaffected by this. Due to a strange phenomenon, the new Quality levels still
are unavailable, even though they are visible in the GUI, they can not be set.
This is but a minor nuisance, as saving, clearing and loading the scene fixes
this. The Quality - settings unavailable without doing so are "Print Production"
and "Highest Quality". If you don't need those and are content with either
"Draft", "Normal" or "Production", the additional step of clearing and
re-loading the scene can be skipped.

This script is offered free of charge, and without warranty. I will not be held
responsible if the script deletes your scene, formats your harddrive or drives
you mad. The only thing I can honestly say is that they work properly and as
described above on my own system.

Installation is actually very easy - just drop the script (and the icon coming
with it) in any subdirectory within a DAZ Studio - content-folder (NOT a
Poser-content-folder mapped within D|S, but a Studio-folder). No additional
steps need to be taken.

pwSurface is (c) Poseworks, pwSurface Quality changer script is
(c) Guandalug la'Fay 2007. Don't bother Poseworks with bug-reports about this
script, please.

History:
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1.0: Released 2007-01-20
1.1: Released 2007-05-14, Speed up script, avoid Mac-bug