Thank you.

So, is there any way to restore my previous settings? I have a number of old backups for everything but I don't understand which files I should copy

1, Base Color. Works fine.

2, Normals. This one is one of those maps that integrates several chanel maps in one image by means of differentiated color chanels.

At a minimum, I'd like to extract the opacity map from this integrated image. Can a program like PhotoShop do this? And if so, how? Any tutorials out there?

I'll be honest, I'm more of a novice Daz user. I primarily render images for use in interactive stories. 

It may be a trivial question but I didn't find how to.

I just did a fresh install of Windows 11 & DazStudio the other night.

I keep all of my content on a non-OS drive, but when I try to add my existing content through "Add Base Directory" or going into Preferences > Content > Content Directory Manager and setting that drive, it still won't load any of the content (e.g. clothing, textures, etc.)

Any help would be appreciated!

I was able to open and close Daz succesfully this morning but when I tried again, the splash screen pops up

and generates progress on lower left of splash but then it hangs without opening to main window. It doesn't

even show in Task Manager (Windows 11 24H2), It ran just fine before this with no problems. This never happened before.

It also says "not responding".

Any hints? Your help is appreciated.

Robert

My model is unable to close eyes properly. I applied some face morphs but resetting those morphs revealed the issue lies on original model.

The original model required growing up tool to work. 

I assume it is for Iray but no mention of it other than texture references. 

XI African Wildlands Gorge

https://www.daz3d.com/xi-african-wildlands-gorge

How should I solve this problem, is it my daz that has a problem or is it the same for everyone?

Im not super advanced with daz, but I've been working in it for some time.

Ive purchased a model (gen9) that has an issue with morphs. The head morph will only work properly when the body morph is applied as well. The thing is, I do not want to use the body morph.

I tried so far: exporting the body under the influence of both as an object, (I made sure the resolution is at base, I toggled off all the eyes, mouth etc.) when I loaded it back in it had the exact same issue but now with the distorted body. I tried head shape splitting, but its incredibly hard to make it look good because the model is so stretched. my first attempt made a giraffe, my second made a small head with incorrect neck placement. Im willing to use Zbrush if I must, but I need to know what I might be doing wrong. 
Ah I also used shape rigger plus to check if the issue is with armature, it did nothing to fix it. 

What I did;

1) Export user data from old computer/library

2) put new library on new computer

3) import user data/metadata on new computer/new library

The results is that I get my custom categories all out of whack and a bunch of newly categories as you see in the firt picture attached. All official smart content from the Daz store is transferred over fine, but all of the third party content that I created through Content Package Assistant are the ones that aren't being transferred correctly. I can see the thumbnails, but twith no actual content inside. (First picture is old library and how it's supposed to be)

How to I make dforce simulate off the current figure, as I've currently posed it, without reverting and ruining the simulation? Thank you

This is in both Chrome and Firefox and one more that one PC using Windows 11 and Windows 10.

I am guessing this is a site problem but not sure.

Does anyone have any idea what is going on?

Saving as Morph Asset(s) is not accessible anymore.

Is the functionnality still there? If not, major setback!

Thanks!

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Its has all the dforce settings & fibermesh settings but when you hit simulate it thows up the following error "Error Preparing Items to Simulate and Collide"

https://www.daz3d.com/directors-lights-and-camera

I am using manual conversions following Jay Versluis' method but tried ManFriday's converter as well. With same results obviously.

I would also like to use the Smart Content "Available" tab as a browser for my purchaed and not-yet-installed content. So far, though, I don't know how to keep that tab updated with new purchases. I got the initial set of purchased products to appear by letting Studio go online and update metadata. After the update, I fixed all the individual missing icon errors by adding or resizing the product images in the data/cloud/meta folder. I am afraid that If I let Studio update the metadata again to capture all my new purchases, it will overwrite my custom metadata. So I need a way to update Available content without overwriting my curated metadata.

Getting images for the products' 1_<product ID>.jpg is not an issue.

Is there a way to get/download the matching .json files that are also in the data/cloud/meta folder? It seems that the pair of files, .jpg and .json are all that's needed for Smart Content to grab the product info and display its icon in the Available tab.

Thanks in advance for any help or insight.

All my content library is on an external hard drive, so it could be easily plugged in, but I'm struggling how to tell Daz where to look for it: I set the install directory in DIM, and I added a path in DS as well, but it doesn't appear in the smart content, and DIM still considers this content as "uninstalled," so am I clearly missing something. Will the plugins work? Or am I just better off re-downloading everything?

Also, is it possible to transfer a saved workspace somehow?

I thought maybe there was too much going on in the scene but my test render with the large torch VDB (it was an abandoned hallway with 8 separate torches, countless decals, spiderwebs, two g9 figures with dforce hair/clothing, and 2 hanging fur pelts made out of strand based hair.) went just fine. Despite being much, much more complicated/ model filled, it didn't crash once and render time for a still image was 30 minutes, while a short video was 2 hours for 120 frames. 

Does anyone have any ideas on what's going on with the campfire VDB and if so, how do I fix it? The spefic error is an access violation??

 Oh, and my system specs are, if it makes a difference, Intel core i9-14900k, 32 GB ram, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 super, win 11 and Daz is updated to the most recent version.