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Parenting a Character?

poorman_65 — Sun, 17 Dec 2017 23:25:41 +0000

I have a third party Scene and Poses that I am trying to use. I have the Scene opened and have added my Character to the scene. The poses all have a Scene element called "cylinder" that they are suppose to be associated with.Basically all of the poses have the Character touching the cylinder in one way or another.

There is a note that came with the poses that says:

"Parent the Genesis character under the cylinder (drag the character onto the pole in the Environment tab) for instant posing"

I was assuming that by Environment Tab that they mean the Environment Pane, but the Environment pane is completely empty.

I tried changing the Characters parent in the Scene tab to be the "cylinder", but that just causes my Characters shape to become distored.

Can someone explain how to make this work?

Female clothing for male figures (Unisex)

Noah LGP — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 10:32:34 +0000

Hi,

I found some female outfits which could be worn by the male figures and I'm looking for more clothes. Do you know other interesting items ?

Below what I already found :

Everyday :

Vacation Style Set (Shirt)
EveryDay (Pants)
Sexy Librarian (Shirt)
Proxy Outfit (Pants)
Racy Bodysuit (As top)
Sheer Greatness! (As leggings)

Sci-fi :

For example, Sexy Librarian shirt

Difference between NPR shaders?

nocforweb_9420025c24 — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 12:02:57 +0000

Hi everyone - total newbie here to this tool (I mean I've used Max, Maya, Photoshop, Lightroom, Illustrator, done simple 2d shaders based on normal directions - but never used Daz3d beyond the intro tutorials)

I'd like to get into it more but before going deep I just want to make sure I can get a look I could be excited about - doing away with anything that look 'CG'.

Btw, to my aesthetic this looks CG:

In my perfect ideal world I'd love to get looks like:

Or (if I were to look at non-CG I'd love to reach, I'd shoot for stuff like)

T.Bradstreet http://art.cafimg.com/images/Category_4508/subcat_7559/Bradstreet_155x125.jpg
Toonbox https://img00.deviantart.net/f64e/i/2012/052/e/a/cherry_pin_up_by_toonboxstudio-d4qhaug.jpg
(SinCity stuff)

But I get that's unrealistic for starting out and that all those took a lot of work and deep knowledge past 'out of the box'... So I'd be happy to just go noir style and get stuff like

Or other 'over the top' stuff versions of NPR like that that go far enough people don't think of them as CG.. I guess if I had to define it, it would be stuff with non-uniform line width on strokes, and either no shadows / all black shadows / textured shadows.. Stuff like that.

There seem to be a few popular shader tools there, but at $20ish a pop I'd rather not buy every possible shader just to see which (if any) I'd like. For that matter, trying to figure out 'what is the difference between what these do', 'what can each of them not do', and if at all possible 'what have you done with these that pushed them without breaking out scripting'

Visual Style Shader - https://www.daz3d.com/visual-style-shaders
Manga Style Shader - https://www.daz3d.com/manga-style-shaders
Sketchy - https://www.daz3d.com/sketchy-toon-edge-and-art-style-shaders-for-iray
pwToon - https://www.daz3d.com/pwtoon

Thoughts?

tutorial

dannagiusy64 — Sun, 17 Dec 2017 19:25:39 +0000

Who can help me? I started the interactive tutorial to practice but once selected the character "genesis3 female" it does not make me go any further.

Then I do not know why the screen starts blinking ...

This is the point where I arrived and after that it does not let me go on

How to get store search to work

andya_b341b7c5f5 — Fri, 15 Dec 2017 20:25:40 +0000

I'm searching the store for a product I saw a couple of days ago, Anagenesis for Genesis 3. I start typing in the search box and get several options in the drop down, thus:

anagenesis - select this and I get just one result, Brahm for Genesis 3 Male

anagenesis 2 - returns everything with a 2 in the name

anagenesis for genesis 3 - everything for genesis 3.

and other with equally useless results.

What am I doing wrong or is it really this broken?

Does Look at my Hair work in Iray?

alex_bb8aa5da — Sun, 17 Dec 2017 00:19:28 +0000

A bit confused about how Look at my Hair product works, but it seems the only option to make Big Cats 2 cute and fuzzy, right? I'm on a mac if that matters.... Thoughts? :)

How do I get the hair to show properly?

ilseturnbull — Sat, 16 Dec 2017 18:35:34 +0000

This is a genesis character with genesis hair - catwalk hair and andrea character - I played with it a little but not much. How do I get the hair to fall over the hoodie, or under it, either one would be fine. Right now it falls in the hoodie and out of it,

Account Issues

cropcirclesstudio — Thu, 14 Dec 2017 14:20:36 +0000

I recently installed a new hard drive on my computer and that means installing all my old software. I however cannot get back into my other account. I presumed I changed the email address to accommodate for my yahoo mail accounts being deleted however I seem to have been in error. Now I cannot recover my other accounts password or am even sure of the exact email address I used. Anyway to remedy this issue since it does have my software on it.

The guys here insist on using a help ticket but it has nothing to do with a bloody help ticket.

Clearing DIM Content

Tynkere — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 15:07:54 +0000

Hi everyone,

If asked before or in a readme, please redirect.

Already have 55 products I don't really use that have been uninstalled in DIM.

Problem is that it seems to keep track of them & every time visit the store, wants to dL and install these items. (Don't really need Poser content)

Is there a way I can clear this through account settings or 'Products Owned?' Gets confusing sometimes. Will order one product but it will display "6 ready for download."

Mac - Changing content directory to a external HDD and renderosity not working on DIM

proeditorialdesign — Sat, 16 Dec 2017 04:03:09 +0000

Hi,

sorry of this is a usual question but i am a noobie on daz and need some expert help since i got stuck.

I installed Daz3d on my mac ssd internal drive but i got very few Gb left in it. For work I use external HDD's for libraries, templates and non essential files
Tried moving the users/shared Daz folders to another drive and now Daz Studio doesn't find the content. Can anybody tell me how to fix it in a easy way
If possible pointing also the installer to those folders

Another problem i bumped into was i bought 2 female genesis 3 clothes from a site called renderosity and DIM it doesn't even recognize them, is there a workaround, do I need a special installer? There are so many files inside the .zip files i don't want to mess up again.

Thank you in advance

Missing Content In Various Pane Views

tristanthorne1997 — Fri, 15 Dec 2017 16:50:14 +0000

For certain items (Poses in this case), there's missing content with empty "exclamation point" thumbnails. How does this happen and is there a fix?

Thank you.

3Delight rendering with Nvidia Pyshx Issue

kadirkose — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:05:35 +0000

Hello, firstly I searched all the parameters for using 3delight and have a nice knowledge about it. My issue is, I am opening daz studio with Nvidia processor and rendering with 3delight. I am having good results as how I want my renders, but when I change my PhysX processor from nvidia control panel (changing auto selection to Nvidia) everything still find in renders but the character skins maps is not appears in that renders, it is all white... eyes, eyelashes etc is ok, but skin is all white.

My question is:

Is there a way to fix this problem while I am still using the nvidia physX without changing the PhsyX to auto (which I think when I change it, it uses the processor or integrared graphic of Intel)
Is this about the skin textures that I choosed (I choosed all 3Delight skins) thank you for the answers for this newbie ))

Saving props to to the Daz 3d studio librarys

Cool Blue — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 19:49:09 +0000

Hello:
My question tonight is rather simple, but I can't figure it out. I have created an obj prop that I want to save in the Daz 3d Studio library. Myu question is: How do I save the prop I have created to the Daz 3d Studio library so that I can use it fore later use. ?

Thanks again
Michael :coolsmirk:

Several different versions of blMilGirlPT.obj ??

nikkelly — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 03:27:23 +0000

Returning to Poser after a decade out of CAD, I've been collecting modern figures etc for P11Pro between trawling my P4 archives.

Some of the 'classic' clothes & characters are PCF or RTE encoded, rely on having the necessary original file. Unfortunately, it looks like there may be several versions of those. For instance, there are at least two blMilGirlPT.obj versions about, variously dated 12 and 31 July 2001.

My Win10 says the 12 July's CRC32 checksum is F218D38F, but that version will not work for several RTE encoded figures.

If any-one has MilGirl handy, could they please check her date stamp and CRC ??

Former with eg WordPad or Notepad, latter with FileExplorer, CRC SHA...

Thank you.

Nik

Shaders mysteriously not working.

mike_42547761 — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 03:28:29 +0000

seems like none of my shaders are working? No matter which one I choose tender seems to be the default shader. I always select character and items in th surface tab then double click shader. Am I applying it wrong? Could t be a compatibility issue? Working with Genesis/Freak 5/Mr. Hyde, Michael 3 and Michael 7, not in the same scene, just trying to get shadersvworking with same results, or lack of results on all those models.

save a file

dannagiusy64 — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 11:13:02 +0000

I'm new in 3D in general. After rendering my work is saved at a very low resolution and with a size of 91 x 91px. Is not there a tutorial that explains the first steps for document design, settings to be given etc.?

At the moment I did not make purchases because I'm practicing with the default products

Strange looking iray textures

Camthaleon — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 13:57:24 +0000

Hey, I have this weird issue. When my DStudio used to open up it loaded a default figure, which I assume is genesis 3 female. The entire skin textures of it looked very off though, no skin tone, almost like a mannequin shiny look. But I still have this problem with other figures if I use any iray preset (see attachment).

In edit mode, the skin looks weird, in rendered mode it looks just extremely colorless and lifeless. I tried to use the default iray shader first, then applying the iray texture presets but that didn't seem to have much effect.

Also, if you have any tips & tricks to make hair look better and puffy, please do share.

How do I get a bigger picture...

hhglick — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 03:17:36 +0000

So I make a pic that I like and render it through a camera and edit it on PS... then I decide I want it printed out on canvas but the max size I can go is 16”x20”. I wanted something bigger... how can I get a bigger picture to render up for me?

Rendered Image not Displaying

thegflash777 — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 11:15:19 +0000

I'm a newbie to daz studio and I followed some lessons to learn the program better, but I ran into a problem where I click the render button, it renders out a blank page with no models or anything on it, even my scene has got a model on it. Any help would be apprieate it.

Where are the files?

gdijedi7 — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 04:02:56 +0000

Greetings!

I have recently migrated over from Poser, and I am trying to change the textures on some 3d models. In Poser, it was very easy. The Materials Room would let you handle all of that very easily. If you wanted to permanently alter some textures, the Materials room would take you to the right file, and you could simply save your new version on top of the old one.

DAZ studio...doesn't seem to have anything like the Materials room. So I decided to go looking for the files in Windows Explorer. All I could find were the icons DAZ studio uses to show you which skin you're choosing. I thought I remembered hearing that DAZ studio doesn't install things the same way Poser does. Any ideas on where it would normally put textures once something is installed by the download manager?

Hero FX - No clue how to use this..

jmlynch2k — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 04:33:03 +0000

Bought it. Bought the Sci-Fi expansion too. I have actually put some time into looking for where this stuff is located and how to make use of it. I've accomplished nothing at all. I'm obviously missing some crucial step here. Help me obiwan!

How do you use templates? - Yes, I know, I'm a newb

mike_42547761 — Sun, 10 Dec 2017 20:00:26 +0000

Okay, so I went a little crazy and downloaded tons of free content online to play with in Daz. I got a bunch of templates. They appear to be jpgs. No idea how to use them or what to use them for. Can they be installed as character skins? or would I take them into a modeling program and use them to make a new item? Some of them are really cool, but I'm totally not proficient at modeling yet, so if there's a way to use them as a skin or texture that'd be wicked. Any tips?

Cant figure out how to use DS 4.10 at all

deeahr2169 — Sun, 10 Dec 2017 22:57:58 +0000

I have been using DS for years and have gained some experience in it, although I am by no means any sort of expert. My Mac crashed and burned about a week ago, and the upshot was that I lost just about everything, well things like Daz studio itself for example. I am pretty sure i was running 4.9 prior to the crash and had not bothered with Daz connect or indeed installing content using DIM for some previous versions, preferring to add content manually.

Anyway having been forced to clean install the latest mac operating system High Sierra OSX 10.13. i was left with an almost virgin machine, and had to install Daz studio from scratch. The version available was 4.10, couldn't see any other version on offer. So I did that and since then have been totally lost. The previous format for the content was through my library and then using the poser and dad options, but I can find nothing anymore. Where for instance are my base figures, like V4 and G2 and so on. How do I load Victoria or Genesis? How do I access my daz purchased content and use content from third parties and freebies.

I can't even find any guide for this version to give any clue how things work.

So any help please, guides tutorials explanations would be really useful

Texture Templates available through the Product Library

Dareshiranu — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 04:58:40 +0000

[Texture Templates available through the Product Library] Except... Upon looking at Romi for Genesis 3 Female, an item I was considering doing a little editing to and which the description plainly includes the phrase

Texture Templates available through the Product Library

Yet, when I look at the product in my Product Library it clearly has no Texture Templates available for me to download. Only Connect files... and a DIM installer that I unzipped. Textures, but no templates. Lame.

I confess that I'm a little disappointed and disturbed by this lack.

V7 Expressions& Poses on V8 Figures

poorman_65 — Sat, 09 Dec 2017 20:30:57 +0000

I am using G8 Figures. How well will Expressions and Poses from V7 work for me. I am looking at a package that has 100 Essential Expressions but it is for V7.

**** Just discovered that it also requires Genesis 3 Female Expressions. Please add that to your answer.

How do you delete a shader?

ilseturnbull — Sat, 09 Dec 2017 20:41:54 +0000

I'm just starting to play with shaders. I can get some of them to actually load. If I apply a shader and don't like it, how do I delete it without starting over? I've looked in the scene port but shaders don't seem to be listed like clothes and other stuff that you put on your character.

Wonky limbs

phillip_gould — Mon, 11 Dec 2017 12:12:00 +0000

Hi everyone!

I tried to unsuccessfully parent a 2nd G8 to another G8's lower chest in order to get a 4 armed character - now everything worked great until I started to try and pose the second set of limbs. The arms, elbows, hands and fingures go completely wonky whenever I try to alter their pose. like in the attached image.

Is there anyway I can stop this? I don't know if there are any products yet for G8 to give them 4 arms, and I remember doing this way back when with M4 - but that was yonks ago.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Character mesh to another skeleton

bob_east_94a8c8cd19 — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 15:36:43 +0000

Do anybody know if transfering Daz 3D character mesh to Unity character skeleton can be done?

Ambient lighting

SeniraM — Sun, 10 Dec 2017 18:59:58 +0000

Hi, I need help understanding Ambient lighting in Daz Studio. I've been using spot lights and primitive panes with emission shaders, but my Iray renders seem to be taking way too long to render. I'm using an 1070 ti and even with what I would consider simple scenes, render times take several hours. My question is can ambient lighting speed up my renders and if so how to use it in Daz?

Thanks!

Issues with Shadows

amuletofdelilah — Sun, 10 Dec 2017 01:56:09 +0000

Hello, I'm running into an issue with shadows. I'm trying to do a sequence of images, and after posing and rendering the first few, I have to step away for work, sleep, etc. So I create a camera to save my view positioning. When I reload the last scene and press on, any further renders have a tons of shadows. Is this from the camera or is there a setting I'm unaware of?