It's getting very frustrating and I'm not sure where to go next. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Rob

Edit: Somehow it was installed without showing in DIM... strange things are happening...

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I want to make a marble stone material preset that uses a different UV map.

Ya. Wood planks have parallel edges that look dumb when stretched near corner edges by a certain kind of UV mapping.

Whereas marble stone looks better stretched around corner edges, and looks dumb when sheared at corner edges.

So. Can I make two different UV maps for one object, and have my material presets control which UV map is used?

And if so, how can I make multiple UV maps for a single object in Blender?

For the male item, the blood looks too dark, doesn't look wet like it does in the promos, and also looks like it's embedded underneath the skin. The "fixes" included change the skin I'm using to the skin the PA included with the package. 

For the female, the gloss is also wrong, and the "fixes" included change the look of the skin I'm using, to the point where it's not recognizable. 

I'm using the LIE presets in both, and have had no luck with the geoshell either. 

Can anyone help? 

Here is the "as is" LIE preset for the guys. I was able to manually brighten the blood some (not shown), but I had no luck trying to get the gloss or SSS fixed though!

Here is what the female version looks like after I tried using some of the fixes... It's definitely not the look I was going for! (Ignore the male skin tone in this one- after applying a "fix" to it, it reverted to the PA's included skin tone, which is also not what I wanted)

I opened a ticket, but if anyone could help me fix it myself instead, that would be greatly appreciated!!! Alternatively, if anyone knows of a good blood product, I would also be interested in that.

I tried making my own blood decals, and they were alright, but the promos for this looked sooo much better. Part of the problem I had with making my own textures was just getting the blood smear/splatter to look right. Maybe someone knows of a good photoshop brush set?

(Edited to add Links)

However, the last thing I tried was changing my NVIDIA Studio drivers (which were updated a few days ago) to the latest Game Ready drivers. And after a lot of testing, doing the same stuff that previously caused a crash, I can't get D|S to crash with the Game drivers. Go figure. 

I've always been of the impression that the Studio drivers are more solid and reliable, and have been using them for years, but I'm starting to wonder if that may not always apply.

Now I'm sure that, since we're dealing with the insanely complex world of computer hardware and software, it all depends on a bunch of variables, but I'm wondering if anyone else has noticed something similar. 

I usually have a few panes such as scen on my second monitor so they don't crowd my viewport.

With my new monitor, when I drag panes over to the secondary monitor, they disappear.  They're just gone.  Toggling them in the tab menu does nothing...

Please help.  Thanks.

OldHD | CGI | DAZ Libraries |…

NewHD | DAZ Libraries | …

Can I just relink the old libraries to the new ones within DS? I have a lot of custom and non-DAZ content, and have used metatags for DAZ products that aren't part of the regular products, as well as adding new custom textures, so I don't want to just download my existig content from DAZ, but retain my current files/structure on the faster drive. 

Is this possible? 

help. Users using this shader

I can't see the effect like a sample at all, what should I do?

What i tried
・ Default dome
・ Other HDRI maps
・ Adding lights (spot lights, point lights, directional lights)

However, the effect like a sample cannot be obtained.

At the first 2 screenshots you see I rotate it, but the Twist dial stays same, at the last one you see I move it manually and... it works.

Any idea how to fix this? :/ (and what did happen it?)

This does only happen to that 1 bodypart.

btw. why are there those gamergirl poses inside the controllers?

I purchase this stuff in good faith and I just want it to work properly. 

I am trying to convert Dforce H&C Belted office Dress from G8 to G3 using Riversofts Clothing Converter however when I go to add the product for conversion it takes me to me Daz Cloud and a different item.  How can I locate the item I am seeking there for conversion?  I tried to look in my Daz Library but it doesn't show up there.  I right click the item to show my in my smart content and it show it under product the letter "D".  It looks like its in my cloud?  What am I missing?

Thank you for any help.

I have an issue when apply materials to the wing membranes; the lower right membrane detaches from its arm.

As you can see from the attched image he scrpt worked fine in appliying the approriate textures to the graft.

The steps 'what I did':

a. select G8F

b. added wings

c. ran script with G8F selected

d. applied arm materials

e. applied membrane material - lower right membrane detaches from arm

f. added the dress ... for decency ...

Thanks in advance for any advice or assistance.

[Edit: I have deleted the image]

Any idea what I can do to make it so that tool doesn't cover what I'm trying to work on?

previously u just increased bump map for making pores prominent over a distance, but I cant seem to get the same effect on 8.1:

1. theres no bump map anymore

2. increasing the detail normal has not resulted in the desired effect

I render at subd 4 with ddaz original figures with their hd details but they become invisible on the distance in which a normal sitting pose fits in the viewport height.

what am i doing wrong and what should i be doing right?

I'm going to move off Mac to PC. If I'm doing that I want the best experience I can afford.  

Does anyone have an opinion about this build?  

Can someone recommend a more inexpensive build (that's available)?

First problem:

I've installed the program, downloaded a model, and I've got the model, with grey boxes/cubes... (probably texture missing)

Second problem:

I've used the Daz to Blender addon, and worked, but the head is separated from the body, and the armature doesn't moved with the body.

How can I fix these problems? :C

Yes, I could still render smaller scene just fine. 

Yes, I could still use IRAY view to veiw the rendered version of the images. 

No, I couldn't view the larger scene in IRAY view, it would crash. 

No, I haven't installed any new program that would cause this (I didn't think this would be relevant, but I figured I'd mention it anyway.) 

Thankss head of time! 

I have a very big issue here, if someone could help me it would be amazing !

I'm trying desesperetly to open a file but nothing seems to work I continuously having this message : 

Error opening file
An error occurred while reading the file, see the log file for more details.

When I check in the log file I have this :
2021-06-19 16:29:57.118 Error reading file, see log for more details.

Which obviously is not helping at all... I don't see any reason why I can't open this file anymore, I've just rendered a frame from this scene and the only thing I did since then is to restart my computer. I try to merge, open, rename, copy/paste it else where ... nothing works and I always has the same message. Is there anything I can do so I don't loose all the work I did on this scene ?

Thanks for your help.