Can I increase the interface font in DAZ Studio on Windows 8.1?

                    I have been trying to install the movie maker ds4.6 on my computer. it does not work through the install manager and i tried to do it manually but have no luck. can any one help? even access my computer to assist? this is very frustrating

Does anyone know if Posemaster (or Poser Format Exporter or some other product) lets you batch convert folders of animated poses, retargeting from one character to another?

From the old video for Posemaster 1.4, you needed to load the donor's animation into the timeline - and then use Transfer - so I'm assuming there's not a way to batch process animated poses in Posemaster.

Thanks

So, I've run out of disk space to store my content library on my main 1TB drive.  A long time ago, I uninstalled all V4-specific stuff, but I've found that I still am running out of disk space as I bought more stuff.  Sadly, my computer can't take an upgrade without extensive surgery, which I'm just not willing to do.

So I connected a sweet 480GB external flash drive, and moved a few Runtimes over to it that weren't controlled by DAZ's software.

Then I copied the entire 'My Daz Connect Library' onto the flash drive, and made a soft-link to it, and lo and behold DAZ Connect handled it just fine.

This is where I need help:

DAZ Connect and DAZ Install Manager aren't playing nice together.  ~94% of my DAZ stuff is installed using DAZ Install Manager (or predates Install Manager).

There's a lot of products where I have both DAZ Install Manager installed versions (in My Library/...) and DAZ Connect installed versions (in data/cloud/...) and I'd like to uninstall the DAZ Install Manager versions.  I want to do that, because the DAZ Connect versions are on my external drive, and that would free up disk space.

Is there any way to automatically 'true up' DAZ Install Manager and Daz Connect so that there's only one install of a given piece of content?

I can manually do it, if I must, searching for each SKU that's in the data/cloud directory and removing it from DIM, but I feel like there has to be a better way.  Also, it seems like DIM doesn't 'recognize' when something is installed in Daz Connect, so I'd end up with a ton of uninstalled items in DAZ Install Manager.

Help?

--  Morgan

Seems like I have done this before...

Am I missing something? Or did something break in the Iray Uber base shader?

This time ... I am hoping a DAZ wizard can help me fix this piece of  lovely program. I've had no problems installing Bryce or any other software programs, just Daz Studio.

i put a texture on the top of a simple box.the box was made on 3dsmax also the UVmap.

in daz,i tilling the texture with the 4 button made for that,and at the screen it correctly sized.

but when i rederer it in iray,the vertical tilling is shift.

i had others same box in one other size and place and they all had the same bug.

i miss something ?

DS 4.9.4.117 pro, nVidia driver 382.53, Windows 8.1 x64

The texture memory consumption reported in the log is wrong. I'm pretty sure the bug is it counts the textures multiple times even if they are used once. But please verify it.

steps to reproduce the bug:

1) Load G3F and render with iray. The log reports "Texture memory consumption: 354.251 MiB". That seems good you can verify it with the GPU-Z free utility to monitor the card.

2) Now load another two G3Fs so to have three of them on the scene. The texture memory consumption must be the same since the textures are shared. You can also verify that with GPU-Z. Nevertheless the log reports "Texture memory consumption: 1.03784 GiB". So it seems to me it counts the textures three times even if they are used once.

Having a good measure of texture memory is essential in production to plan the scenes so that they can fit the card. Without a good measure you never know if the scene will render or will roll-back to CPU. So please fix it.

1. Point A, set up the camera position and rotation
2. Point B, move here, point here
3. Point C move here, point here
4. and so on.

Set up the render, 600 frames and go.

What then happens (45 minutes later, thank God for cartoon render) is the camera does the move from point A to B with a 360 degree x axis roll.  In fact, with about 25 points in the chain, the camera did 3 rolls, and one time doing a 30 degree vertical axis rotate went 330 degrees in the wrong direction.

I was using "Timeline" animation, not anim8 lite or anything,

I ran across some tutorials for taking your quaded MD output and running it through ZRemesher, then projecting the clean topology onto the MD shape. However, when you do that, the quads at the seem areas are mismatched and don't connect (see below). ZRemesher is run on each piece, so they each have different number of faces, so if you wanted to match them, you'd have to do quite a bit of cleanup.

If you just use the mesh that MD outputs, the quads at the seems will line up nice (1), but the topology is all crazy with swirly patterns everywhere (2).

So is the ZRemeshed method in the first pic OK as far as DS is concerned or will the mismatched seem topology cause problems when rigging/morphing/posing? I'm not sure my OCD would allow me to release a product with crazy MD topo, although if it 100% doesn't matter in DS, then I guess it only makes sense to save time. Anyone have any experience they could share?

The new files show up in my Windows explorer in the .duf format as expected - and I can apply those new poses in Carrara via File import or in DAZ Studio - but even after rescanning directories, they don't show up in my content manager within Studio or Carrara.  Any suggestions?

i must be doing something wrong.

I've noticed that any sort of morphing modification to the genesis 3 female's breasts (and on extreme leg bends, the glute area as well) tends to bring a rather pronounced deformation of the breast/chest area when the collar joints are bent in any direction, and I'm looking on ways to fix that.

In this case, I'm working on an android/robotic character which is mostly rigid (think plastic body segment exterior panels over flexible cabling). The main issue I'm running into is with the way g3f's JCMs interact with the character morph I've created, the rigidity of body parts like the breasts and glute "panels" doesn't work yet since the JCMs will deform the body part and alter it's shape when differing from the original zero T pose.

So, my question is if it's possible to adjust the JCMs (or turn them off somehow, coming from a poser background morphs could sometimes be told to not mess with specific body parts) to have them not affect the chest area when arms are bent? 

Additionally, is there any way to have the pectoral bones move/bend the breasts while still having them retain their exact shape?

I have read a little bit about attenuating morphs but am not entirely sure on how to go around into implementing them in this case. Would I need to go through each and every collar/pectoral bend (forward/back/up/down/side-side/twist) and create a morph for each to reset the shape? Or some sort of reverse morphing?

I have considered just doing all the panels as separate objects attached to the character's body parts, but I'd still like to learn more on doing this straight on the g3f geometry without any attachments if possible since it could have future applications for other ideas, so any help would be appreciated :)

I use DAZStudio from the beginning I even paid for the pro version ,which was not free 

Today  my DAZStudio folder contains

291 GB and 604 737 files

I remember having them up until this version. But they seem to have dissapeared from my "Send To" etc......and if I try to install them from my product page on DAZ (where they are listed as available as a DIM dpownload/install), howvere DIM starts looking them, then returns a blank! Nada.

I have always had Photoshop and Zbrush installed ever since I started with DAZ Studio properly with Ver. 4.5 on my iMac.

I run DS mainly on my iMac where they have just dissapeared. However, on my Windows PC running DS 4.7 they are still there and active???????

Any assistance greatly appreciated.

Anyone know of a way, outside of going to Photoshop and doing it manually?

Thanks

Also i want to know where to put different maps i.e.- Normal, Roughness, Metallic etc

Just want ot use Open GL (Basic or intermediate) and save a .png sequence - but I don't see the option under render settings.

I set up a simple 1 second animation in the timeline, which plays through if I hit play.  

Haven't used DAZ Studio in a long time so probably missing something simple./  Thanks. 

I come back on 3D renders from 2012 and all change !!

I used Poser and now I try to discover DAZ studio 4.9. I have a big question about lights. I try to resolve by myself but I can't ...

This is my question :

Whatever light I use I have allways the same render with nvidia Iray. It's beautifull but ... how to apply light effect ?

If my light is blue, on left or right side and even without any light I have allways the same result : a beautifull right white light render.

Can you explain me what I have to setup ?

THANKS  !!! 

Okay Now that we have what Four different Render Engines for DAZ Studio, we have Multiple Materials for those engines

• RSL = RenderMan Shading Language
• MDL = Material Definition Language - nVidia Iray 
• LXM = LuxRender Materials
• MC6 = Poser's Material
• OSL = Open Shader Language or it could be Octane Shader Language, seeing there is an Octane Bridge for Studio.

I understand those and use them. What I don't understand is why there is a 3Delight and NVIDIA Iray; unless the terms above are used for Shaders only and 3Delight and nVidia Iray are used for Materials? Are 3Delight and NVIDIA Iray current terms and should used for the materials for a dress; while the previous terms should be reserved for Shaders and Shader Presets; OR are 3Delight and NVIDIA Iray defunct types, which shouldn't be used and replace with the above during any update?

Next:

Also.. I understand Hierarchical Poses, as they pose multiple items at once, as long as they are parented to a singe Asset. The knight walking into the Great Hall, his tabard billows out from him as he walks, as well as his sword moves, not ot mention his long hair.

So I am guessing Hierarchical Materials would apply Materials to the parented Props as well as the Parent?

Comments please.

Can anyone tell me, if it is possible to add a custom tab/pane to Studio, where I can place my own stuff?
Like the "Content Library" pane or the "Scene" pane and so on - I'd like to create my own and put things inside.

1. Is that possible?
2. If so, can it be done with scripting or do I need to go for a plugin?

Thank you very much!

-mork