I, unfortunately, went against my gut feelings and went ahead anyways and did the update for Daz Studio 4.5 to 4.5.1.56, thinking it would be safe. What a HUGE MISTAKE! If you’re a D|S person, DO NOT…I REPEAT…DO NOT use the current update! It will screw your GENS up and you will NOT be able to work, conform or individualize them at all.
Due to this, I’ve had to completely uninstall everything,program, content folder, everything and start all over fresh. This will take days to do and I now must begin the task of going through everything to see what I want to reinstall or have to, and what to leave out this time. This is NOT a task I look forward to.
As the old saying goes, “If it’s not broke, DON’T fix it”!
Again, for your D|S users, DO NOT install the current update!
Sorry, not true here. Just did the update and tried to conform the gens. It works, with all the custom morphs I made for it.
Depending on what version of the Genesis Starter Essentials you have it might be possible that there are issues. The latest version of GSE is 1.6 I believe and I don’t see to have issues using that version.
Is there an up to date explanation of the bone pinning system? It seems buggy and I have seen others say the same elsewhere but the issue doesn’t seem to register in the forum much. I can’t figure out a good way to animate without pinning the feet and once you get past basic up down movements it seems to fall apart. I am willing to admit I may be doing something wrong but can’t find up to date info.
Depending on what version of the Genesis Starter Essentials you have it might be possible that there are issues. The latest version of GSE is 1.6 I believe and I don’t see to have issues using that version.
Actually the latest version of GSE is 1.11 (Thats one point eleven which is higher then one point six) that is the one shipping with the current version of DAZ Studio and the DSON Importer for Poser.
It depends on how far you want to go for a clean install. I usually perform the following:
Uninstall DS4. Make sure you uninstall all the plug-ins, etc. Once everything is uninstalled, make sure you have no DAZStudio4 directories in either or both:
C:\Program Files\DAZ 3D
C:\Program Files (x86)\DAZ 3D
Also stop the Content Manager Service and uninstall. Goto
%ProgramData%\DAZ 3D\Content Management Service\databases
in Windows Explorer, and delete the database files.
Reboot. Before reinstalling, open Regedit. Do a search for Keys only, using this as the search string:
Studio4
Do a search in HKEY_CURRENT_USER
It should find the following:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\DAZ\Studio4
Right-click on Studio4 in the left pane, and select Delete.
Reboot once again, and re-install. You will need to re-import your directories, Metadata, etc, in DS4 as all the settings are now gone.
ONLY DO REGISTRY PART IF YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING!
I just want to thank DoctorJellybean for the advice above. It completely fixed the crashing problems I was having with 4.5.1.56.
I had previously tried uninstalling and reinstalling, but the extra steps above made all the difference.
The install file for Decimator (64-bit for PC) was caught by my Norton Anti-Virus saying it had a virus in it and promptly deleted the downloaded file. I didn’t have any problems with the 32-bit version. I don’t have any need for Decimator, but thought I’d mention it.
The install file for Decimator (64-bit for PC) was caught by my Norton Anti-Virus saying it had a virus in it and promptly deleted the downloaded file. I didn’t have any problems with the 32-bit version. I don’t have any need for Decimator, but thought I’d mention it.
If an .exe file is incomplete it can resemble a baddie so the AVs will delete them. So a reset, clear the cache and tell Norton’s to ignore the download ... and hopefully you could download a full installer. Either one needs a key though to work. Doesn’t come free with D/S4.Pro free although they give us those installers.
Is there an up to date explanation of the bone pinning system? It seems buggy and I have seen others say the same elsewhere but the issue doesn’t seem to register in the forum much. I can’t figure out a good way to animate without pinning the feet and once you get past basic up down movements it seems to fall apart. I am willing to admit I may be doing something wrong but can’t find up to date info.
i reported a bug report about this a while ago, it seems daz is working on this.
but, think we se this working in dazstudio 5.
Can any one tell me how to get the transparent background when I save a render as a png, I had it before but I don’t have it now and I know it has to be a setting I just can not find it! Thanks so much!
I thought the PNG generated a transparent background automatically. If you have the scene filled with stuff your not going to get any transparency but if it’s just a singular figure or prop it SHOULD save with transparency/no background fill.
It is a single figure, no background but when I save it using the png format It has a grey background, it never used too, it used to be transparent.
Pat
Yup, that’s got the default gray background. So when your render window is finished you use the side drop down and choose png after you name it and it’s exporting like that? That’s very odd.
Yes that is the way it saves, I used to give me the transparent background but that was several updates ago. I have to tube each figure to use it for what I want to use it for. I was hoping it was a setting I had not found yet.
