Thanks
Kimberly

I have the DS 4.6 with stock Genesis and Genesis 2 figures. I understand I need Victoria 4.2 and the morphs++ .. what is the easiest & cheapest way to get what I need?

And will I be able to achieve the quality in the FWArt render (they used Poser...can DS4.6 be that good`?)

TIA!

Ed

-Kenny

/data/DAZ 3D/Genesis/Base/Morphs/RawArt/Laticis n Genesis/The Watcher.dsf
/data/DAZ 3D/Genesis/Base/Morphs/RawArt/Laticis n Genesis/LI Genesis SweetHeart.dsf

Could anyone tell me what set this might be from? I want to try and reinstall the files but I'd like to know what files I need to access.

Thanks!

Please help.

My newest project includes a bunch of real-world russian and american military vehicles including armor, air (Both jets and choppers). Their list is quite demanding on me.... Mostly financially since I DO NOT model... Which means I'm going to have to break out the old bookmarks and find which site sells what, and hopefully for not too much!

I need historically correct models for U.S. marine soldiers, as well as some russian special forces uniforms (not yet specified as to what which special forces, I know they're all different. But they will be whatever forces are more gurilla style fighting). here's what has been requested from me:

Apache AH-64, AH-6J Little Bird, UH-1Y Venom, WZ-10, Z9, Mi-28 Havoc and AH-1z Viper.

Planes include: FA-18 Hornet, Su-35 Flanker, A-10, Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, Su-25 Flanker. Full U.S. Marine core modern combat clothing, perhaps a few assault rifles. Also need russian models of current active special forces uniforms and hand-held rockets including: RPG-7. SMAW, Javlin, ATA4, Stinger, IGLA.

Then I need tanks: M1 Abrams (luckly, I already have a model.), T-90, Type 99, M1128, Sprut-SD

I put units that my friends clans have specifically said they really need for their front page in bold. Ugh, it's quite the list! Then we need launch points, either military hangers (runway and towers with the tarmac are the most important focus) and carriers.

Carrier models include:
USS Yorktown (CV-5), USS Enterprise (CV-6) and the USS Hornet (CV-8)

I'm curious:
If anyone here does DAZ/Poser work for profit and you get a request like this: how do you go about getting the models and charging (if any)? I am thinking about asking them to use some of our server donations to do the same for me, perhaps then we can all pitch in and get models quickly, of those we can find anyways... No profit what-so-ever will be made off the entire bits we make, and most will be small banners and etc. Headers/Footers for the forums, etc.

So far I have found 2 great apache models, the F-18, M1-Abrams, a RPG (Though it isn't the best, it looks more generic, but it may do alright). Carriers I have found 0 models so far. The two top models requested of me atm is the AH-64 and the F-35 Lightning II. I have yet to find a F-35 model as of yet. The Little Bird is also very much up there since we use them in-game a lot.

Lastly, and probably not used much will be the uniform outfits. I am thinking just taking in-game footage, and extracting snap-shots will work. Especially if I convert those images into backgrounds/IBL to pop into the photos of various vehicles. Lastly: Since aircraft carriers will be used extensively for the main ground, I need great looking ocean (makes me think that after setting it up in DAZ (I don't own Poser), Exporting to Bryce may be a good choice. Unless DAZ can do large ocean scenes?

I find it funny they asked me to do it, As I am just a casual 3d artist who does things for fun, I'm hardly very skilled at it. But apparently they like my work. So I suppose I'll try my best and get some banners going, etc. I found one site which has a lot of models on their site, but their prices are WAY too high for a none-profit type project, ranging from $300.00-$900 for a single artillary model... I'm looking for something in the range of $10.00~$40.00- per model.

This will certainly be a fun little project. I can see the price of this skyrocketing depending on which ones we end up using, as I highly doubt we will use them all.... at least for the sake of my wallet I hope not. lol.

I have a quick question. I am using WIN 8, and I can't seem to use the TAGS button under Content Manager. I click on the text bar, and I don't get a cursor for my text.

I am currently using a notebook (not an electronic one, but a composition book) to keep track of everything, and since it has a place for notes and tags, that would make things SO much easier for me.

Any idea of what I am doing wrong?

Thanks in advance for your help!

The reason I ask for this is I only use the program to download. I manually install my content as I have a runtime sorted to my own preferences and like to move my purchases to an sorted external drive. The way it is now, if I remove anything from the install manager folder it assumes I have not downloaded the item which makes it difficult for me to find my recent purchase(s) to download in a list of several hundred items.

I'm wondering if it is possible to make in DS an independent bone adjustment (i.e. not tied to any existing morph or joint bend) that also possible to make into ERC freeze.

The need for such thing arises when ghost bones aren't moving with figure scaling/bone ajustment. I thought that by providing some "height dials" for ghost bones that change the size/pivots of a bone independently from the size for the figure, it would be possible to work around this situation.

If this is possible, how to do it?

I'm trying to save a scaling-information-only slider. Creating a working slider isn't the big issue (create as empty morph, uncheck "Restore Figure Rigging" in the ERC Freeze Options). I save the slider as a morph asset and when reopening Studio, the ERC information of that slider is lost.

Is anyone familiar with this problem and knows what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks :-)

-Kennhy

Thanks a Lot
Tobias

Thanks in advance.

What is my problem you ask? Well, my problem is the missleading, and miniature-sized promo-product images in the daz shop. Here is my latest and favourite example: "a walk across water". (product page: http://www.daz3d.com/a-walk-across-water)

Look at the promo images: they are incredible small, even via zoomed lightbox: the promo images size in the daz shop is usually around*500pixel. 500 pixel in 2013, in the age of HD monitors!
So okay, you can't see anything from the mini-promo pix (my monitor is 1980*1020, so you can guess what I can see from an 500px image regarding texture quality, etc.).
So... you need to decide via these mini-pics.

And this leads to the main problem: the promo pics lies to you! After getting the product, and loading up the so called "ready to render 1 click automatic scene with lights" product, you getting crap, low resolution textures, sometimes without bump and displacement maps, also the rendered product is nothing like the promo image, even when they put "rendered in Daz3d" at the bottom of the (miniature) promo image.

Here is the proof: look at this promo image, and check out the somewhat nice, reflective water. Note: the set supposed to be "one click", with pre-made lights, material settings, etc. (And yes: I did apply everything in DazStudio Pro, it's not hard to click on 3 icons in smart content).

So please, please Daz - actual render (Daz and Poser) images in the shop in HIGH rez! ... without postwork.
That's what the costumer wants. Not uber-postworked-photoshop-uberenvironment light-rendered, miniature images (every render looks good in small size, we all know this trick:)

ps: no, I dont want to do magical tricks in the material editor, these scenes supposed to be "what you see what you get", that's why we buying them. If I want to work with materials for 3 hours, just to get the water on the promo pic, I have Maya or UnrealEd for that.

TyrannosaurusDR

http://www.daz3d.com/prehistoric/tyrannosaurusdr

I have a little problem with Daz studio I am hoping someone can help me with. First off the specs:

DS 4.6 pro
Win 7 64-bit
intel i-7 processor
12 gig ram
I have two hard drives both 1 tb
one is the main HD the other is internal for poser/Vue/ Daz content.

My problem is this I can install Daz studio just fine the problem is it can't seem to find textures for the poser models I bring in. Example: A car will load but then Daz studio asks me for every stinking texture for it this goes for the same for anything I bring into DS. However, if said model is a Daz model Daz studio has no problem with finding the textures for it. For example the Starship Stingray model in the Daz store it as well as the textures are one of the folders on the second 1tb drive with all my poser external runtime folders yet ds has no problem loading the textures. All the textures for my poser content are located on the second 1 tb drive where all my poser external runtime folders live.

So I am a bit baffled did I miss something in the install of DS 4.6 Pro? I have all the native Daz studio content in My Documents and there is no problem loading that content into Daz Studio. The only problem is that DS can't seem to find the poser content texture files for models I load into the program. Any thoughts??

Thanks!

I'm using V4 in a scene and for some reason some of the morph targets do not respond to the figure when I move the parameters for them. The parameters are not locked, they are not limited, some of them work fine, some don't, they are generally from either the V4 base or V4++ sets.
Removing and re-injecting the targets does not fix this and at this point I'm reloading the stock V4 into the figure and refitting dozens of things to it and applying generally about a half hour of pre-work into getting my scene to were it should have been when I loaded it and then potentially loosing it again when I save and reload it for next time.

is there an easier way to resolve this anyone can think of?

Then, when just exporting a Genesis female directly from Studio to FBX, and opening it in C4D, the transparency and alpha channels are wrong. As far as I have understood, it gets wrong in Maya too, and Maya definitely knows what the FBX format is about.

Is there any chance that we will get a new improved FBX exporter in Studio?
Or - can it possibly be that someone has a quick fix for this: Studio -> FBX -> C4D

-Ingvar

data/DAZ 3D/Genesis 2/Female/Genesis2Female.dsf

Any body know How i can fix this?

Thanks,

I used to have Lightdome Pro (or it might have been Lightdome Pro 2) but this was never updated to work with Studio 4. Is Lightdome Pro R similar to this?

What description there is goes on a lot about Photoshop. Do you need Photoshop to use this?