Thanks

when I chose convert poses the dialogue opens but nothing happens

I think I have done what Im supposed to0shown in image

thanks

https://www.daz3d.com/genesis-3-to-genesis-8-pose-converter

Basically, I've ended up with two separate installs of Daz Studio. One of them - let's call it Install A - seems to exist entirely on an external harddrive (G:), where Daz Central installed it without my knowledge. I set DC up to put my downloads there, so verything I install goes to Install A. (Including an extra copy of DS itself.) However, A cannot be launced, because apparently DS can't live on an external device or something? If there's a way to actually launch and use A, that would be neat.

The other one - Install B - lives on one of my two desktop drives, (called F:). B is completely empty. My online best friend walked me through how to make Studio recognize external directories. (I'm sorry if I mess up the terminology - I'm talking about the folder hierarchy where items are stored.) We successfully managed to get Install B to pull items from custom folders on G, the external drive. The problem is that I had already uninstalled around half of the Studio content I had in B, via the uninstall function in Daz Central. I needed disc space! So yeah, every single scene and subset is missing a few items. 

Now here's the problem. Install A is probably completely useless. Howevz, Daz Central installed a lot of the content missing from B into it, before I discovered there was another whole DS installation in there. I guess I could copy and paste all of that back into B, but I do not want it stored on my F: drive. I need space on there for my other things! I want it in the custom folders associated with B - which also exist on the external device but should be completely separate from Install A. Can I copy it from A into those custom folders, or would that make things just.... worse?

Also, I completely failed at getting things to install properly into my custom folder system, so I need to let DC do the job for me. I have really bad inattentive ADHD, and I mean really bad, I mean actual neuro-divergency level bad, and so I always have to try not to get confused to the level where the mess in my head carries over into other things I need to do during the day. That's why I have to do things certain ways that seem backwards to others. Either I have to let things go to A first and copy them from there, or I need to redirect Central back to the original file hierarchy on F: (which is still intact, just empty) and copy from there. Can I do it this way, without messing things up further?

Am I making any sense here? I've confused people while trying to explain much simpler things. Screenshots can be made, if there's any specific thing you want to get a visual of.

Thanks in advance for reading this and being willing to try helping!

Please help :)

So, I would be happy if someone could answer this.

Nevermind, there was a post about this, this is sadly a no buy for me :/ (I dont want to spend 2000 dollars again) Thanks.

I just downloaded and installed DAZ 4.21
Now calling the new Genesis 9, I get the message that the G9 Skin applying files are missing (for example: /data/Daz 3D/Built-in Content/Daz Iray PBRSkin/PBRSkin.dsf).
So I can't apply the skin settings.

So what's wrong?

Andy

I can load and conform a G8.1 hair on G9.  However, when I try to change the hair color using the hair vendor's mats, I get " Invalid hierarchy for selected node(s) and "preset_hierarchical_material" type; no root(s) found."  The mats work properly when the hair is conformed to G8.1.  I have experienced this problem using PhilW's "Suzina Hair" and Linday's "Classic Blowout Hair".  My log files are attached.  My procedure is:

1. Load G8.1.

2. Load and conform the Hair.

3. Change the haircolor using a Mat file.

4. Load G9.

5. Conform the Hair.

6. Attempt to change the haircolort using a Mat file.

7. View error message at the end of the log file.

2) Secondly, the problem with broken rig for arms and hands in Kids shape. After initial converting and rigging the morph I found that rig for arms is broken and original bent hands don't go for hand poses, so I replaced them with a regular straight version (thanks to new Geometry Editor, now we can exclude vertices from morphing). Because the most of the shape was already properly rigged and equiped with all JCMs, I replaced just hands via Morph Loader Pro by importing the mesh with the same name and overwriting Deltas Only. My settings for Morph Loader are shown below, maybe I missed something? It keeps all ERC links for unaltered parts of the mesh, and changed just hands. But after that I did Adjust Rigging to Shape for hands and arms only and found I cannot keep this rigging after resaving the morph. Every time when I reload the Studio or Genesis 3 Female, my rigging for Kids Female shape either remains broken as before or fixed bones disappear at all for this particular shape! What is going on and how to record rigging forever within the shape file? When I do adjust rigging I carefully pick the bones for arms and hands and influenced face groups too. At last I tried to re-rig all the shape, but the result was the same. Some times ago I did this trick (partial morph replace) with rigged G2 Male without issues, and could do it with G3M too, but it's first time I try it on the female figure and first time I encountered such a problem.
The last method I tested was Morph Rigger Pro, and I can say it works better than built-in DS rigger. It helped to place all bones correctly and even kept it after saving (but only with fully renamed morph and under a new name), but when I tested the shape in posing, I found that female poses more complicated, and cause problems with overtwisting forearms and legs and with "ribbon fingers" (mesh distortion of fingers). Joint Editor shows me that bones bent right, but they poke out of the mesh in arms and hands areas and cannot keep the shape of fingers (shown on the screenshot). If I zero the common pose and apply just pure hand poses, all work well. What's the secret? I feel I need some JCM to exclude overtwisting in Forearm Twist bones (now they look like snakes) but fingers are native for Genesis 3, just lessened in size. The rest part of the mesh (torso, legs) bents beautifully well and even all JCM work right, but arms became a sudden problem.
Some screenshots below illustrate the problem, and I hope someone know how to fix it. I like new possibilities of updated DS, which make creating morphs much easier, but I stumble upon such simple bugs so far.

I opened it today to see that there is a message that says:

3D Printing and fixing Daz3d models is no longer available.

What happened?

How do I make my Daz model manifold now?

I had Meshmixer but I could never get the hang of it.

Thanks.

just any explanation would be ok ..cause Daz has close dplugins and other content in the past.

There is no error message, no hang ups or crashes ... simply nothing happens when I click the button. Upon checking the "About Installed Plugins" window, I see that Reality is installed and activated, as it should be, but looking at the log file reveals a message just after the Reality_DS64.dll is loaded that reads "Error writing author data."  I closed Studio and restarted. Same thing. I then restarted the entire machine. Same thing. I then presumed that the file had somehow been damaged, so dug up the original install files for Reality, wiped the current install out and reinstalled. No luck.

My next, and loathesome, course is to reinstall Studio itself, but I'm not entirely sure that it's necessary or will prove useful in any way as there appears to be nothing else amiss with the program itself. So far as I can tell, everything else is operating as expected. I've poked around a few other plugin issue threads (some from the ancient past, even) but can't seem to find anything that actually aligns to my issue. Most report some sort of error that accompanies the plugin failure, but as I said ... I got nothing.

So, my hope is that someone out there may know a little something about what's going on and be able to lend a hand ... either through experience with Reality or just plugin troubles in general, I suppose.

Anyway, thanks in advance

Cheers

Edit:  As an aside, I did go ahead and reinstall Studio, but, alas, to no avail. As I feared, it made no difference to the situation. I'm completely stumped with this one ... as no information I find is applicable to this issue. I can't even find a definitive explanation of what "error writing author data" even means. I've tried everything I can think of, from running Reality as admin, Daz as admin (which, ironically, it says it can't be run with elevated permissions) to even running Studio on a virtual machine. I'm at an absolute loss here, and not even sure where to attempt to proceed next.

Tonight, and it simply does not work, When I select a figure and try to run any of the mirroring scripts I get this error. ...

Failed to load script: C:/Users/BB/Documents/Daz 3D/Studio/my IM library/Scripts/3D Universe/Scene Tools 3 - Flip Figure Pose.dse
OpenGL error while drawing to the viewport: invalid value
OpenGL error while drawing to the viewport: invalid value
OpenGL error while drawing to the viewport: invalid value
OpenGL error while drawing to the viewport: invalid value
OpenGL error while drawing to the viewport: invalid value
OpenGL error while drawing to the viewport: invalid value
OpenGL error while drawing to the viewport: invalid value
OpenGL error while drawing to the viewport: invalid value
OpenGL error while drawing to the viewport: invalid value

There is no mention of any required product or DAZ edition other than DAZ 4.* on the products page. So I am hoping the Vendor 3D Universe; might see this, and if not someone who has familiarity with the product might give me some guidance on the figurers or editions this product works on. Or whether or not this set requires the other two sets to be loaded to work.

I tried to open some of the scripts in notepad to see if I could get save information; but there is virtually nothing in the file at this not encrypted.

Any help would be appreciated. BB.

I had a conforming wardrobe item (a headdress) that I was having an issue fitting over some hair so I was going to parent the item instead of auto-fitting. My intention was to manually play with the scale options to try an get a better fit but when I tried to do that, I discovered that there were no sliders for the x, y or z scales, just one master scale slider. I tried showing hidden parameters but that didn't work. Does anyone know how I can get the x, y, and z scale sliders to show up, or have they somehow been removed from this item?

Thanks in advance for any replies.

nabob21

2022-10-24 11:59:28.948 [INFO] :: Error loading asset: E:/3D Artwork/!Daz Library/People/Genesis 8 Female/Clothing/Fantasy/Outfits-Sets/Mystique 2/Materials/M2 Pantyhose 1L Taupe Lace Pattern Nylons.duf
2022-10-24 11:59:28.948 [INFO] ::     Operation failed
2022-10-24 11:59:29.018 [INFO] :: Unlocking viewport redraw...
2022-10-24 11:59:29.018 [INFO] :: Viewport redraw unlocked.
2022-10-24 12:01:51.304 [INFO] :: Prepare asset load (merge): /People/Genesis 8 Female/Clothing/Fantasy/Outfits-Sets/Mystique 2/Materials/M2 Pantyhose 1L Taupe Lace Pattern Nylons.duf
2022-10-24 12:01:51.304 [INFO] :: Locking viewport redraw...
2022-10-24 12:01:51.304 [INFO] :: Viewport redraw locked.
2022-10-24 12:01:51.407 [INFO] :: Native format content directories: 1
2022-10-24 12:01:51.407 [INFO] :: Poser format content directories: 1
2022-10-24 12:01:51.407 [INFO] :: Other import format content directories: 0
2022-10-24 12:01:51.407 [INFO] :: Begin asset load (merge): /People/Genesis 8 Female/Clothing/Fantasy/Outfits-Sets/Mystique 2/Materials/M2 Pantyhose 1L Taupe Lace Pattern Nylons.duf
2022-10-24 12:01:51.418 [INFO] :: Determining missing assets...
2022-10-24 12:01:51.441 [WARNING] :: Invalid hierarchy for selected node(s) and "preset_hierarchical_material" type; no root(s) found.
2022-10-24 12:01:51.441 [INFO] :: Error loading asset: E:/3D Artwork/!Daz Library/People/Genesis 8 Female/Clothing/Fantasy/Outfits-Sets/Mystique 2/Materials/M2 Pantyhose 1L Taupe Lace Pattern Nylons.duf
2022-10-24 12:01:51.441 [INFO] ::     Operation failed
2022-10-24 12:01:51.512 [INFO] :: Unlocking viewport redraw...

Please educate me if you can.

Regards,

Brent

Deforce:. Why do I get this error and then need to close the program as it wont simulate a second time.

"2022-10-22 15:52:48.534 [WARNING] :: ..\..\..\src\dzopenclkernelfactory.cpp(32): Open CL notify: Unknown error executing clFlush on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (Device 0).

2022-10-22 15:52:48.534 [WARNING] :: ..\..\..\src\dzdynamicsengine.cpp(3293): ERROR: clFinish (-36)
2022-10-22 15:52:48.561 [WARNING] :: ..\..\..\src\dzopenclkernelfactory.cpp(32): Open CL notify: Unknown error executing clFlush on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (Device 0).

2022-10-22 15:53:24.389 [INFO] :: Total Simulation Time: 51.81 seconds"

every time I try to use dforce simulations?

Lighting: Why does the scene render black every time I try to add a light? There is nothing in the user guide about Iray lights, there is no option to create an Iray light. The more I add to a scene the darker it gets without lights. I need to be able to add lights. I need to be able to control where the light shines. I have even purchaed RSSY 3DL to Iray script that says it will convert tights, but it doesnt "see" the lights created but Studio.

I know it's not designed for G8.1F but it works for G8F and I simply want to transfer that over to a G8.1F skeleton.

Is there advice or an easy solution to transfer over G8F skins to G8.1F, and to convert G8F materials to the 8.1 PBR shader format? Thanks.

DIM downloads it to 99% and then says Download Faled.

I've tried to uninstall the version I have, but when I go to Control Panel - Uninstall a Program, Daz doesn't show up.

When I open my current version of Daz, I only get a white interface.

Any help would be appreciated.

Does the Genesis 9 character come with the new DAZ 4.21? And if so, where do I find it?