I have always approached rendering procedural fog plus tight camera focusing, with some trepidition. This was impossible with older hardware but is possible now; however, the render and scene settings need management.

Here are my solutions for a low specs render machine (NVidia 3060 RTX rig with 32 GB RAM, i7 11 gen intel core, Daz Studio 4.23.01). The last screencapture is of my own Atmospheric Fog settings and will vary from scene to scene.

so added a child bone to the hip

selected the tail and filled with weightpaint and smoothed junction

all fine, it bends

additional info CANNOT ever memorise rigging on my Mixamo FBX imports or it will destroy it so don't suggest that 

but

now it spins on the hip playing the animation

my other solution will be to create a morphloader tail morph but the rigging should have worked

Is there a list of what can be baked and the limits of teh options?

I hope that made sence;)

But in my tests, it didn't turn out well like this https://gcdn.daz3d.com/p/72921/i/ng-build-your-own-lying-down-poses-for-genesis-8-female-00-main-daz3d.jpg

Is this as good as I can get with DAZ studio? Or is there any other tricks to get better?

Thanks

https://youtu.be/CZBUV0y-D1I

All I did was copy all the keyframes and pasted them, nothing more, nothing less. I'm flabbergasted. For the time being, because I'm in a time crunch, I'm just going to have to create all the keys by hand I guess, but if anyone knows any ways to fix this or if I'm doing something wrong, please let me know. Thank you! 

When I start Daz Studio and when I switch view to "Wire Boundin Box" and when I load my scene, the VRAM is almost empty. When I switch the view to "Texture Shaded" mode, about 8GB VRAM is used. When I switch the view back to "Wire Boundin Box", no VRAM is released. How to release VRAM?

• D:\Documents on D\DAZ3D\My Daz 3D Library
• D:\Programs on D\DAZ 3D\DAZStudio4

But, my One Drive (on my C drive) is all clogged up with a lot of thumbnails and json files (about 13,500 of them!).

• C:\Users\mmitc\OneDrive\Documents\DAZ 3D\Studio\My Daz Connect Library\data\cloud\meta

QUESTIONS:

1. Is there a way to move that directory?
2. Can I do it without reinstalling the entire app and all content (which I am willing to do, but it's not my first choice)?
   1. If I do have to reinstall it, is there something I need to do to prevent this from happening again?

A side note: I need OneDrive for work, so disabling it is NOT an option.

Here are some pics (see attachments) to help:

1. Preferences > Content Tab > Content Directory Manager.
2. View of the directory with all the junk in it.

Thanks to everyone in advance for the guidance and help!

this is excellent information. I hope you can do this with all new releases, it's very helpful to not only discover what's new but how you can use it.

Why has it moved?

How do I get it back?

Then, when I opened my computer the following day, I couldn't do it anymore. My Thumbnail images became Shader preview image, like any normal day, although I had turned it to Rendering preview mode while saving it.

I hope someone can give me some advice :D

Richard Haseltine said:
"The 50x0 cards are not supported by the current version of iray. According to information I was given yesterday the 2024.0 version of iray (which may have had support) had bugs and will not be integrated, the new 2024.1 uses a different C++ version and so cannot be integrated into DS 4.x.x.x. 50x0 support will therefore have to wait for the next major version of Daz Studio, for which I do not have an ETA."

He also states that Daz Studio will work with any 50X0 GPU - but rendering won't work....?

This is so important that it deserves its own thread - I for one have been trying to get a 5090, but I have absolutely no use for one as long as it can't be used in Daz Studio.

I’m having an issue where some edges on my model are marked as sharp directly in Daz 3D. These hard edges are clearly visible in the viewport. The model looks fine in Blender, where no edges are marked as sharp, but in Daz, these unwanted sharp edges appear.

Here’s what I’ve tried so far:

• Adjusted the Smoothing Angle in the Surfaces tab
• Verified the geometry in Blender before importing (removed all sharp edges and ensured smooth shading).
• Checked the Geometry Editor in Daz but couldn’t find a clear way to reset or fix these sharp edges.

Despite these steps, the sharp edges remain in Daz. Does anyone know how to fix this? Is there a way to clear sharp edges or smooth them out directly in Daz 3D?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!

Atached photo showing the edges are marked 

Love esther

I have no idea what's causing this strange issue. I've purchased several different characters from various vendors, yet when I load them into Daz from my library, they all appear the same—only differentiated by their texture maps.

My older characters, both Genesis 8 and 9, work perfectly fine with no problems. It's just the newer models I've bought in the last few months that are broken. I've even tried reinstalling Daz and redownloading the assets, but the issue persists.

I've checked their parameters and found no sliders set to any percentages that the creator might have accidentally left enabled.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you.