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Trying to Decide Between G9 or G8.1

AAronBAlAkAy — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 09:40:25 +0000

I’m wondering if I should go with Genesis 9 as of April 2026. How much heavier is the performance cost for Genesis 9 compared to 8.1? And can it be mitigated to match 8.1? Also, what about viewport performance and load times with Genesis 9, any way to mitigate this as well?

Genesis 9 Feminine

Laandan — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:10:20 +0000

what is Genesis 9 Feminine

Can anyone identify this figure

damoncvp — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:29:50 +0000

Hello, I was wondering if anyone can help identify the figure used in this pose group- 101-series-pure-elegance-ballet-poses-for-genesis-8-male, or what mods have been used to create it. Thanks

Partial rendering a scene / "Spot rendering" to File

Scavenger — Sat, 21 Feb 2015 16:53:47 +0000

Is it possible to only render part of a scene?

I don't mean using the spot render camera tool to see something on the screen how it'll look.

I mean, just like ...selecting a section of the scene, and rendering it out to a file with the full settings and resolution hitting "cmd -R" would give you? Not moving the camera to only focus on the object...same camera distance etc...

using built in renderer....

The situation:

I'm doing a three picture sequence. I've decided while doing the third picture, I wanted to change the label on a wine bottle in the scene.

Rather than having to do an entire re-render, I would like to just be able to render an area surrounding the bottle, then composite the two images in photoshop.

(I can do similar if I screen shot from the rendering image, and pasting that into Photoshop works really well, but only time saved because in that situation, the new changes were in the center of the scene so spiral rendering had them appear first. The wine bottles in the current situation are not that easily placed.).

Various questions

qweretrretet — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 11:55:24 +0000

1) I bought some Banhsua models. They are great, but some of them are so white. I tried changing the Relectance Tint property and I get a nice result, but this way even the color for lips and eyebrows change. Now I have a character with black hair and brown eyebrows. What can I do?

2) Sometime I buy some products that have the movement/rotation arrows VERY far away from the model itself (usually the arrow are near the floor when the model is in another position). It woldn't be a problem, but rotating the model this way is such a pain because a very small rotation makes the model go somewhere else. What can I do here as well?

Thank you

Question about custom poses WITH props.

DDCreate — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:33:35 +0000

Hello! I am trying to make some custom poses for my M/F characters using a Camcorder, cameras, video cameras ect... There are some existing poses I bought that are able to pose the character/load the prop at the same time. How can I do that? Or is that higher level Daz magic? So far all I'm doing is posing the characters with the prop but when I load a new character they would only have the pose and not the camera ect...I hope I'm exlaining this right. Something like "Save Pose w/Prop"? I doubt that's what it's called if it exists but that's what I'd call it haha

Any help would be appreciated!

Trouble with Converting Genesis 9 Character Shapes to Genesis 8

nyasiguto — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:50:33 +0000

I'm having some trouble converting Genesis 9 character shapes to Genesis 8.

I followed the steps in The WP Guru's video, "Converting Genesis 9 Character Shapes to Genesis 8," but the legs of the model end up being spread apart.

Since English isn't my first language, I'm wondering if I missed something in the tutorial. I was able to convert from G8 to G9 without any issues.

Does anyone know why the legs might be opening like this?

Ungroup button?

omvendt — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:19:27 +0000

Dear experts,

Background: I purchased a sofa. It has pillows on the seats. I cannot select the pillows. It looks like they are part of the sofa, even if they have a different surface. The pillows must have been made separately and added to the sofa at some point.

My question: Is there an "ungroup" button in Daz? Some way to release or delete the pillows?

Thanks!

Shadows and parts in sun are flipped.

andreas.e.petersen — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 14:57:45 +0000

i im trying to render a simple scene from inside a house, but the shaddows outside the window look really bad. the parts that are in shadow are brighter than those that are not.

the scene is built in blender and then imported into daz, i have tried replacing the grass plate with a daz 3d plane, ive tried different textures, ive tried different hdri, but nothing has helped.

has anyone had a similar problem?

Measure Metrics

majikboxman — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 21:30:11 +0000

Whats the magic formula for opening / applying / using Measure Metrics in 4.24 ? The "super short" vid that is out there on the product page does nothing ... can't bring up any measurment tool.

As well ... is there a way to measure / know what the measurement of a figure or prop is without Measure Metrics ?

My goal is checking and possibly changing size "with conforming restraints" of figures and props.

Discovering the limits

maravthemaker — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:35:38 +0000

Hi all,

I am still quite new to DAZ (using the new beta version) and on one of the sales I got this environment:

https://www.daz3d.com/pw-millionaire-mansion

I have 32 gb RAM and 5080 16 gb and when the environment loads it immediately horribly lags. is it just that 16 gb vram 5080 is not enough for such a big map or is it my settings not being set up properly? Is there any chance of using it in addition with several figures and some props or is 5080 simply not enough for the task? Wondering if I went past the limit for my GPU.

Cheers,

How do I restore characters back to XYZ zero while keeping the pose?

gnomeshole — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 17:57:15 +0000

Every now and then I will come across a pose that I want to use and will bring into my drawing where it's not at XYZ zero position. This is frustrated me for the past several years and I have yet to find a way to restore my character back to its original XYZ position without losing the pose I have chosen. I'm hoping it's something simple.

Piggy Bank prop sought

omvendt — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:35:32 +0000

Hi, I was looking for a piggy bank prop that I could make transparent, a la "Squid Games". Searching the Daz store didn't yield any results. Any ideas?

Shenandoah and Genesis

majikboxman — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:56:47 +0000

I've tried Genesis, Gen2, Gen3, Gen8, Gen9 and none of them are giving me options to use "compatiable". The download for it mentions "Genesis" but gives no #. Am I to take it that it is to work in all Genesis figures ? Have reloaded and same results. Is there a Gen figure that I don't know about that it works with ? Is there a setting that I am missing ? New user to daz.

New PC Specs

omvendt — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:15:34 +0000

I am thinking of getting a new PC with a RTX 50xx card. I know that that GPU doesn't work w the current version of Daz, but soon they probably will. My question is, should I prefer Intel CPUs over AMD CPUs?

Thanks in advance
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Gen 9 Pose Question (newbie)

darksayr — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 21:02:19 +0000

Hello. I have a new Gen 9 female and no matter what pose or animation I apply, only the bottom half poses, her top half does not. I tried this with various Gen 9 and Gen 8 poses, same result. So any suggestions are appreciated.

And I included a clip of my animation. Not sure what's going on there LOL

Here is link to the animation. For whatever reason this site doesnt like mp4s. You can preview file before you download so you know it's legit.

https://we.tl/t-8nUnbWZhOYbsaSnD

How do I change lip color on Genesis 9 Ralynna?

darksayr — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 07:50:08 +0000

Hello, I purchased this model. I was able to change her eye color but cannot figure out how to change her lip color due to there not being a separate lip option. When I click Makeup, it just makes whole face white. I dont want to change all of it, just her lips. Any suggestions are welcomed.

System Requirements and older DAZ downloads.

majikboxman — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:46:38 +0000

So I was here around 10 years ago. Coming back and got some questions.

I have a TON of older content. Used fig’s and props in Poser.

Looking to do the yearly Daz Premier and will be grabbing new content / props / figs “etc..”.

I’m sure I’ll have other Q’s as time rolls on but these are what I have to start with before buying / downloading.

Thanks

Questions:

Will the older DAZ content I have still work in the software ?

System requirements. Is a ... 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-12400 (2.50 GHz) ... and a Nvidia rtx 3060 going to drive Daz / Genesis “Daz Premier Edition” ? “Windows 11 Home latest update”

Anyone know what could be causing these artifacts on toes? SOLVED

zacharymeyer64 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:13:44 +0000

I have a weird problem with one of my models, every time I render i get these weird artifacts on toes, almost like there are extra toenails growing out. Its not visable in my veiwport, doesn't show up on any of the veiwport modes, fillament, iray, text shaded, ect. In wire frame there is no visible extra geometry or planes. I've put down a new model zoomed in toes normal, copied my figure to the new one toe problem came back, I switched skin materials, clicked every reset/zero nail option i have reset all feet shape perameters and its still there no toenail geoshells so idk I am a total loss.

SOLVED: I posted on the daz reddit as well and we ended up figuring out it there. it was an HD morph, a navel one i believe from this pack (https://www.daz3d.com/hd-essentials-nipples-and-navels-for-genesis-9) it was under waist and the parameter was LNA\_bs\_Navel08\_HD05 zeroed it and fixed.

Window wont resize and is too big for my screen

fccolby — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:12:56 +0000

I tried every window resize button, right click, shift click etc i could think of, but there seems to be no way for me to resize the window. I cant get past the new scene step in quick start because of this.

Applying [anatomical elements] on G9

da_kovacs — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 02:25:08 +0000

Hello everyone!

This might be a sensitive topic, but I really need some help with genitals for G9. I've added the genitals for both male and female characters, all good. However, when adjusting, shaping etc. them, I've realized that there's no anus included in these elements and that sucks to be honest. It's not realistic. I've tried several options like Golden Palace, NGG to add the anus, and in case of Golden Palace it worked, but for me, it is returning errors when trying to apply the material. It seems to be a script issue. So, at this moment I'm lost between how to apply the anus itself and how to apply the skin material afterwards.

Can someone walk me through a complete, detailed instruction on how to apply the anus to a character or suggest a 3rd party app? I've been searching through the entire internet for solutions but nothing worked so far and my brain can no longer cope with failures.

Many thanks in advance!

Wet Skin Geoshell Causing Black Spots/Smears

Lexabeth.berry22 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 21:51:54 +0000

Hello Everyone! I've recently gotten my hands on MD Wet Skin for Genesis 9 and I've run into a problem with the geoshells making these strange black spots where the water droplets should be. For lighting my scene I'm only using an HDRI. I'd really appreciate it if someone could explain what's going on and how/if I can fix it. Cheers!!!

Cant buy anything I need help

rugeyohe — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:55:14 +0000

Yeah for some reason I cant buy anything but before I bought some stuffs now its not working.. I contact support all they said is delete your payment method re write them bla bla. I have tried everything even tried some of my family members cards but its not working and looks like daz support wont care about me. Like I said I have bought sutff with same card same adress everything was same but now I cant! I talked about it with my card customer and its not because of card my card is fine I can use it on anywhere it just doesnt work on here.. I dont know what to do really paypal also blocked on my country(yeah stupid) I litrealy have no other options.. Can you give me some ideas like can I buy daz gift cards from other sites or from anywhere so I can use it by myself? Im so annoyed Im trying to fix it like for whole week and Im really getting mad here.

Create a command in the Settings panel

blanco1754 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 16:42:48 +0000

Hello, I created a hydraulic cylinder in Blender and imported it into Daz using Collada. Everything is working fine. Now, I'd like to be able to control the cylinder rod within the Daz parameters, for example, by creating an "up-down" (or in-out) command. Can anyone tell me if this is possible, and if so, how to do it?
Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.

Exporting shirt from Daz to CC5

kylewalton2018 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 07:45:19 +0000

Hey there!

So I'm in the middle of completing my CC5 character by using Daz clothing, but am running into an issue with this shirt. I export the G9 figure with the shirt to an fbx file, and then import it into CC5 using the transformer tool. Now you have an option of using the 'default' skin template, and the 'original' skin template. When I use the default skin template I get weird deformation on the shirt under the armpits, but when I use the original I don't have that issue, except for that while the left arm is perfect, the right one isn't. This is because for some reason when importing to CC5, the right arm is also mapped to the left arm, and the right arm has no weight painting. Does anyone know what's causing this issue? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Movie cap

mateskulala — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:48:57 +0000

https://www.daz3d.com/mocap-live Does anyone own this product? If so, please answer. Is it necessary to have the smart clothes and smart gloves that are in the product description? Can the program work without them?

Mocap- Live

mateskulala — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 16:21:12 +0000

Hi people, does anyone have the Mocap Live plugin for Daz? I would like to ask if I need to have the gloves, suit, and helmet for it to capture my movements, or are 2 cameras and a Rokoko membership enough?

Wounds PLEASE HELP

z_stefani — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 19:37:00 +0000

Heeey how is everyone? I need help Daz fam. I need a deep chest wound for my g9. I have bought every wound, scar, injury pack i could find, spent big cash & I still havent found what i'm looking for (yes i sang that last part U2 style ;) At this point i guess i'm going to have to do it myself. Does anyone know any good tutorials or advice, tips, etc on how to make my own wounds? Also if anyone knows any good wounds, horror, scary, bloody, gore stuff, i would truly appreciate it!

EDIT: Not sure if this is in the right spot. Let me know if theres a better area fr this question <3

I need a suitable HDRI for an Environment

Halcon Bluesky — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 04:28:04 +0000

Hello, do you have this product?

https://www.daz3d.com/night-and-day-city-for-daz-studio

I am looking for a suitable HDRI one for Day and one for Night to use with this kind of environment.

Please, I would be very happy to have some suggestions, thanks!

Edit: I saw one of the promo pics using an ocean, this "iREAL Animated Ocean Water System" requires AniMate2, suiatable for ananimation but not still image

White anatomical parts

Inviernoalsur0 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 08:42:26 +0000

I tried copying the torso surface to the anatomical model, and while it improved things [over being white] somewhat, it still didn't look right. How do I apply the skin tone I'm using? Is there a tool or script that can fix this? I'm at a loss; I'd like a solution for both female and male anatomies.