I use V4/M4 poses on Genesis a lot. Now that I have Handy Dandy (I think that is what it is called), life is better.

I'm thinking of buying some partial pose packs. You know where there are only upper body poses or lower body poses.

Anyone have any favorite packs they use or can recommend?

The more the merrier.

As always thanks for your time and consideration!

I am using DAZ Studio 4.6.

I am having some glitches since migrating my content files to a new computer.

When I load a saved scene (pre-saved character usually), The figure comes in but not much else. Clothes, hair, props, etc, that were saved in the scene do not seem to really be there. Even though they are listed as being in the scene they are not visible.

I assume the scene file points to the drive these objects were in when the file was saved. Is there a program that I can use to load and edit the original .daz files AND .duf files?

Or is there a better way to fix these scene files?

Thanks for any help

So I was having some issues with Bot For Genesis and I saw on the product page it says I needed a newer version of Daz Studio. So I updated Studia via the download manager and I've got these strange artifacts coming from the elbows whenever I use the Bot for Genesis clothing items.

Is there any way to fix this? :)

Meanwhile back at the ranch, I have a desktop that sits here and does nothing all day.

I thought about this last night because I was going to try to do an animation for the first time. The normal scene takes about 20 minutes to render.

I put in the animation sequence, rendered. Got an error of some sort the first time. So I tried again and put the quality down to 2, just to see if something would render to see what it is like. I left it on all night and basically had to reboot the computer this morning.

Soooo...was wondering about having 2 setups.

Thanks.

So, the short question is can I create an IK chain goal, or parent the character hand to a null?

Is it possible to give a male Genesis character big Anime style eyes? Either through a product or through the settings?

I've looked for 'Eyes' in head morphs but I can't seem to find settings which help me achieve this look? :D

Thanks,
Debi

1. My first problem was that the render was VERY murky, not black, but very dark, when I rendered in the "4" (best) quality. The scene looked ok until I rendered it. I tried to add more light. That helped but instead my Victoria 5 model looked blotchy like she contracted som strange skin diseas. To save time when trying to solve this, I rendered the scene on the lowest quality and suddenly everything looked just fine. I got this above mentioned warning, but it worked out fine. Same thing when I rendered in the "2" quality. (Same warning). But then something weird happened which leads to my second problem.

2. When I rendered the scen in the "3" quality, same warning, but this time Daz crashed instantly. I have retried numerous times and restarted the computer. Daz crashes every time.

To sum it up:
Why does the scene look so dark when I render it in the highest quality? (i have tried to rendered it with no lights at all, besides the original Daz Studio light. No difference)
Why does the model look so blotchy when I add more lights?
Why does Daz crash when I render in the second highest quality?

More importantly than "why" the problem occurs is; what can I do to fix this?

Oh, and I don't obscure the viewport, (if that means surfing or doing something else while rendering).

then reimported her. But she comes with this Highlight color all over her body. Why?

Like there's no shading or nothing. it's weird.

I made bunch of other OBJs and they don't have this problem

PS there's no lighting in this picture but see how she looks lighten and FLAT color?
i wonder what that is about?

DAZ is looking for:
/data/DAZ 3D/Genesis/Base/Morphs/DAZ 3D/Base/FBMBasicFemale.dsf
/data/DAZ 3D/Genesis/Base/Genesis.dsf

DIM is telling me the files were installed to /data/DAZ 3D/Genesis2/...
However, under /data/DAZ 3D/ there is no Genesis2 folder. There is a people folder, under which what I think the Gensis figure is.
The files are .duf files and not .dsf. Are they what I am looking for? If so, how do I get DAZ to recognize them and the new directory?

Look, you see in this picture i can barely see the edge of the track and i can't access it no matter what.
In the picture the Track i want is that little white barely sticking out

One of the steps needed is Export the morphs to Blender via COLLADA file.

Oh well it just had to be that DAZ 4.6 takes loads of time, it's basically stuck with a spiinning beach ball(mac), and basically crashes when Exporting Collada even with only just one V4.

So basically useless, i can't do nothing. And then Blender itself doesn't support the collada files from DAZ.
Not for what i want to do(because i want to export all morphs )but i tried just exporting a few morphs to the Collada file and then that file did make iself and didn't crash but Blender says ERROR and can't open it.

So overall, i bought DECIMATOR and MEGAFIERS and basically I can't do nothing cause of the Collada Export.

Well, at least Decimator is great and it does work ,so if i can't get facial animation or nothing beause of inability to export collada to blender, at least i got Decimator which is great.

However, that still doesn't change the fact that i wasted 150 for Megafiers and the videos claimed the process is so easy and that all i need is FREE BLENDER that ONLY TAKES COLLADA!!! And COLLADA EXPORT is daz is Sluggish, crashes and is useless.

So yeah i'm angry.

look right now, simple Collada export of Base V4. it's been 30 minutes with the Mac Spnning Beachball and the fill bar hasn't moved at all. What a ** , oh you know what i wanna say.

This is what I do:

1- Load Genesis
2- I move the dial for Basic Female to 1 so genesis is now female
3- I load BotGen_All

Then it doesnt fit well on the hands.

I tried the mechanical joints dial but that doesnt make it fit.

Do you know if this is a bug or how can I resolve this issue??

Thank you.

Basically I'm wondering where I can find a good tutorial about how to pose people so they interact with what is around them. I know a lot of it has to do with fine-tuning and just fiddling... but what about clothing? These are regular V4 and Genesis cloths, nothing dynamic. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thank you

I managed to fry my 8800GT card last week, (which isn't the end of the world as I'll be building a new system soon) so I need to get it replaced, but I'm a little confused by some of the new technology and wondered if some of you might be able to help me work out what would be the best choice for a replacement.

Knowing that the graphics card can easily be upgraded in the future, I'm not so worried about going high end.

The kind of range I'm looking at is something like a HD7870 or a GTX660 with either an i5 or i7 CPU. (The CPU will be in a new build, whereas the GPU is a replacement for the melted card, but will be moved to the new build).

I've read in various places that you get better performance from OpenGL cards, but then I'm hearing people also talking about CUDA cores. I'm not sure how either of those impact performance.
The new build will be a Win7 64bit system with as much RAM as I can afford (should the RAM be DDR5 now?) running DAZ 6.4
I don't plan to overclock or have cooling.

Any advice gratefully received. Thank you in advance!

I will submit a but report. No being able to use collada is not acceptable and if I have to roll Daz back to 4.5, I will.

Just found out we have no more bug tracker! >:-(

Originally with my morphed V4. it didn't fit so i had to use "Transfer Active Morphs" and then Add Smoothing Modifier
from the Edit/Figure Menu

set those to Collision Iterations 10 or 15 and smoothing to 5

That's how i got my Jersey Dres to fit.

However, when i decimate, then the dres no longer fits perfectly and bodyparts poke through.

What can i do?

See screenshot. I have a cube.

If I leave it in the default position and drag the "Scale in Y" handle of the universal tool upwards along the world's Y axis, it stretches along that axis as expected. If I rotate the cube 45 degrees along the X axis, then try again, instead of stretching along only the Y axis, it stretches along BOTH the world's Y axis AND the world's Z axis.
What I want to do, in addition to understanding what's going on, is to stretch it only along the world's Y axis (see embedded Bryce screenshot to the right showing what I incorrectly thought was going to happen.)

I am using DAZ3D 4.6

I am trying to transfer my DAZ 3D and poser content from my dying laptop to my new desktop.

I thought I could just transfer them to an external hard drive and acess them via a standard system-wide search via DAZ3D content manager. It seemed to have found them BUT I am getting many errors when loading. It can not find many (if not all) the dsf files.

Some assets needed to load the files were missing

the figures load as primitive cube shapes.

This seems to be a problem with the newer .duf files. The older. daz files load. Some load with an error message that not all files could be found BUT the figure(s) load.

Can anyone direct me to the proper way to migrate and find libraries in DAZ4.6.

Thanks for any help.

Has anyone else encountered this & is there a workaround??

Any help is appreciated

File --> Save as... --> Support Asset --> Morph Assett(s)

which I never used. Is there documentation on this? What does it do and how does it/will it work with V4/M4?