When I install my products I keep a copy of the install files.

Do I have to keep install files or will discontinued products always stay in my account and be install/download manager ready?

Will the install manager still install products that have been discontinued?

Will they still appear in my Daz account even if they are no longer available in the store?

Thanks for any help on this.

 :)

No problem logging into Daz3d its just the DIM?

Looks like I have hit another error, though this never happened to me before.

I textured a clothing item and it rendered fine in the test. Now I have opened the scene again today, I tried another spot render and for some strange reason, I kept receiving a series of error messages during the optimizing images process.

Here are the log entries:

2021-03-08 16:41:46.817 ERROR: 3Delight Process exited abnormally: "C:/Program Files/DAZ 3D/DAZStudio4/bin/tdlmake.exe -colorspace srgb -mode periodic -deflate C:/Users/Public/Documents/My DAZ 3D Library/Runtime/Textures/Hinkypunk/Misc/HPFabric01D.jpg C:/Users/Me/AppData/Roaming/DAZ 3D/Studio4/temp/d56_HPFabric01D.tdl"
    cannot read JPEG file 'C:/Users/Public/Documents/My DAZ 3D Library/Runtime/Textures/Hinkypunk/Misc/HPFabric01D.jpg' (error: unsupported format feature)

tdlmake: cannot open input file 'C:/Users/Public/Documents/My DAZ 3D Library/Runtime/Textures/Hinkypunk/Misc/HPFabric01D.jpg'

tdlmake: error while making texture file

2021-03-08 16:41:46.817 tdlmake failed to create tdl for image C:/Users/Public/Documents/My DAZ 3D Library/Runtime/Textures/Hinkypunk/Misc/HPFabric01D.jpg

What is strange as this rendered fine yesterday while I was applying textures to the clothing and creating my scene character. Now today this particular texture refuses to render. It is a simple white cloth texture that I manually applied to Skyler's dress in 3Delight. (Essentially replacing the existing texture in Diffuse with this one).

So it seems 3Delight does not recognize some jpg color formats. I noticed other pattern tiled textures fron this set render white. My only workaround so far has been to load the texture in GIMP and them immediately export it as a new jpg file. Presumably GIMP changes the jpg format into something 3Delight can read.

Is this a bug?

DIM installed it in my F:/Users/Panthera draco/Documents/DAZ 3D/My DAZ 3D Library folder.

DAZ Studio is set to look for that directory path, but nothing of the product is showing up, even in searches for the words "griffin" or "grypho" 

What's up with this???

i purchased this room for blender i while ago

https://www.cgtrader.com/3d-models/interior/living-room/modern-living-room-a0429be9-979d-479c-abb5-71a06375241b

it seems that it is possible to import the fbx file into Daz 3D without all objects floating around.

im planning to rebuild this room in Daz 3D

problem is that i need to add all textures to iray for every object.

most of them i know about such as normal maps/bump/spec but there are others like these that have strange names.

where do you think these texutres will go into the Iray uber shader?

This is from one of the Curtain objects

You have 5 textures. fabric/fabric bump/fabric dark/fabric mask/fabric sc

First, I have to say that english is not my native language, so please be indulgent. As I said in the title, it's perhaps a stupid question but, well... As one of my teachers said a long time ago: "the only stupid questions are the ones you don't ask".

So. I am a really newbie with Daz used to using Blender instead. It looks awesome and powerful so I just decided to explore it. I bought few components as Genesis Pro Bundle and few things to have "things" to try with, during the tutorials I saw.

From time to time, I have not been able to find certain options, certain parameters shown in the tutos, such as on hair for example. Not having the same products as those in the tutos, I thought it was normal. To be sure, I made a test with the only product from my library that I also found in a tutorial, the "female Genitalia", which comes with the Pro Bundle. And the same thing happens: some parameters are visible in the tutorial and not on my version. I enclose two screenshots to illustrate this : "Youtube demo" which is menus sawn on Youtube and "MyOwnOne" which is menus sawn in my version.

I may have missed something, but I don't understand what. Thank you for your help.

Best regards.

Phil.

right now I have a room light this:

https://www.daz3d.com/christmas-dinner

but I removed already a lot props, because there are just 2 people so we dont need it decorated for 6 ;) and yeah 2 people siitting there normal full dressed.

he saving time for the scene is around 3-5Minutes.

In the past I had a saving time for 20sec.

I use a HDD for daz, will a SSD improve loading/saving ?

And is there maybe any hidden stuff that changed?

It also happens to other scenes/rooms.

Then, I'm going to share you a solution to fix it Immediately.

1.Unselect Genesis 8 Female, load dForce HS Lurys Sweater directly.

2.Edit->Figure->Transfer Utility

3. Source item is yor character, target item is sweater,uncheck weight map,click acept,done!

Here is the vedio link:

I will add a G8F version to update. You can also wait for my update,but the QA of DAZ is very busy, I don't know how long it will take them to complete the test.

I recently started using the face transfer plugin and it is kind of working but it is making the faces mostly black. Anyone know where I even begin to fix this? I've got my output and the test image I used to generate the face.

For some context I am using a Mac and have Daz Studio working through a wine wrapper. I set it up this way as a work-around for the Big Sur compatibility issues that Daz has with Big Sur.

When I import an object that was created in Blender (tried exporting from Blender as both .obj and .dae), the setting for diffuse/base color doesn't match.  I was curious if it just "read" the rgb values diefferently so I exported the object from Daz3D, but it does indeed write the .mtl file with different values under Kd.

Does anyone know if there's a setting or something that causes this to happen?

I'd like to 'paint' on a textured wall. Could be graffiti on a brick wall, a painted logo on a stucco wall, whatever. I know I can use an Iray Decal Node to project an image but, so far as I can tell, it also projects its own Bump and/or Normal map onto the affected area. What I'd like to do is project ONLY a Base Color, leaving the underlying Bump and/or Normal maps in effect ... as if I were painting on the wall.

Is that possible with an Iray Decal Node?

Thanks, Crissie

Is it possible to hide part of an environment/set and have it stay hidden when saving and reloading the scene?

The hiding part I can do, either by selecting parts of the geometry then right-click -> hide selection, or via the groups in the Tool Settings pane. But when done that way, the part I hid gets visible again when I load the saved scene.

Is there a way to have the geometry stay hidden?

Thank you in advance for your help!

Edit: to give an example, I'd like to do this is for products like rooms without seperate walls in the scene tab, just one "room" prop

An error occured while reading the file. Please see the log file for more details.

Opening the log file reveals this message,

2021-03-06 19:08:28.423 Invalid hierarchy for selected node(s) and "preset_hierarchical_material" type; no root(s) found.
2021-03-06 19:08:28.423 Error reading file, see log for more details.

The clothing materials presets apply as they should when a G8 figure is wearing it, but as soon as I convert the clothing to another figure, I get that error pop up and can no longer apply the materials. Which means doing it manually.

I seem to get this on some pose presets too. I am unable to apply certain G8 poses to G3 so I can then correct them using the G8-G3 pose converter.

I am at a loss as to why this is happening. It is incredibly frustrating,

The last time I had to wipe the whole system clean, I uninstalled the DIM, Daz Studio, removed the whole library, then I reinstalled everything in its latest version. I used it for a few hours, this error message came out again. I restarted the program, and then restarted the machine, nothing works. The iray in the viewport still works. I just can't render to a file or a new window, or render using canvas.

My Nvidia version is 461.40. GPU 2060.

Daz Studio is 4.15.0.2 Pro 64bit

After I restarted the computer, I didn't run any other software, ONLY the daz studio is running, and it's not rendering anything in the viewport or to the file/canvas.

I am so exhausted. It was working fine this morning. I don't want to wipe the system and do it again and only work for a few days and get the same issue back.

Please help me!!!

The error log is attached.

The log file just says:

2021-03-05 22:49:44.405 Loading script: C:/Users/DelForceOne/Documents/DAZ 3D/Studio/My Daz Connect Library/data/cloud/1_80505/scripts/riversoft art/anaglyph3d/marsa anaglyph3d.dse.enc
2021-03-05 22:49:44.406 Failed to load script: C:/Users/DelForceOne/Documents/DAZ 3D/Studio/My Daz Connect Library/data/cloud/1_80505/scripts/riversoft art/anaglyph3d/marsa anaglyph3d.dse.enc
2021-03-05 22:49:51.249 Loading script: C:/Users/DelForceOne/Documents/DAZ 3D/Studio/My Daz Connect Library/data/cloud/1_80593/scripts/dial fusion/dial fusion.dse.enc
2021-03-05 22:49:51.257 Failed to load script: C:/Users/DelForceOne/Documents/DAZ 3D/Studio/My Daz Connect Library/data/cloud/1_80593/scripts/dial fusion/dial fusion.dse.enc
2021-03-05 22:49:55.693 Loading script: C:/Users/DelForceOne/Documents/DAZ 3D/Studio/My Daz Connect Library/data/cloud/1_79911/scripts/v3digitimes/maps copier gatherer renamer/v3dmc maps copier gatherer renamer.dse.enc
2021-03-05 22:49:55.694 Failed to load script: C:/Users/DelForceOne/Documents/DAZ 3D/Studio/My Daz Connect Library/data/cloud/1_79911/scripts/v3digitimes/maps copier gatherer renamer/v3dmc maps copier gatherer renamer.dse.enc
2021-03-05 22:50:01.532 Loading script: C:/Users/DelForceOne/Documents/DAZ 3D/Studio/My Daz Connect Library/data/cloud/1_79911/scripts/v3digitimes/maps copier gatherer renamer/v3dmc maps copier gatherer renamer.dse.enc
2021-03-05 22:50:01.533 Failed to load script: C:/Users/DelForceOne/Documents/DAZ 3D/Studio/My Daz Connect Library/data/cloud/1_79911/scripts/v3digitimes/maps copier gatherer renamer/v3dmc maps copier gatherer renamer.dse.enc

I tried unistalling them and reinstalling, because that's helped me once before.  I read up on how to use them to make sure I had everything selected properly.  Though I haven't seen anyone else having an issue in the forums so it doesn't seem to be a common issue.  If anyone can help, I so looking forward to using these products.

Thanks.

2. I can no longer open multiple scenes with Daz3d.  After opening an initail scene I go to open a second scene (second daz window) the first window asks me if I want to save before it shuts down.  It won't open the second scene/window until the first is closed.

Any thoughts on what is going on?  Thanks everyone for any help you can provide.

Are the anatomical elements called "Genesis 8" that come with the 8.1 bundles not the same as the existing Genesis 8 anatomical elements? Have they been modified to fit G8.1 in some way?

Daz Studio auto-fit asked me to select the figure the old G8M gens were originally designed for. Should that be happening?

I struggle right now a bit and... that frustrates me :(

I use this:

https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-peasant-dress-for-genesis-8-females

When I use any sitting poses, the bottom part of the dress doesn't angle.

It have a JCM for sit, but that seems to not work correct.

Changing from autofollow to redirect does also not help.

I loaded the prop new, maybe the weightmap was wrong but... nope, it still happen.

I can try to move the regions manually but that also doesnt look good.

Any advice for me?

Anyway, this product for Michael 5 or Genesis is supposed to load with a cowl or cape or a kind of batman mask and cape. Then, with Dynamic Clothing, I should be able to get it to fit and drape more properly on the character. But, whenever I click to load a mask and cape, DAZ Studio (4.15.0.2, Pro, Macintosh, 64-bit) immediately crashes. Now, I also realize that the product was developed well before the current version of DAS Studio was released.

But, anyway, the product no longer works. Does anyone know why? Or, is there something I can do to get it to work? 

Hello all - 

Just yesterday I (finally) upgraded to the latest DS 4.15, after using DS 4.5 for a while. I have an old Genesis character that I've been using for years, as I didn't want to spend a lot of time messing around to upgrade her to later versions (she works just fine as-is). However, after upgrading, I loaded her today and discovered that her torso length modifier is causing some weird problems. It appears that it is scaling her arms, neck, head and hands along with her abdomen(s), chest, and pectorals. I've checked the parameter settings, and all seems to be in order. Can anyone help with this? Or am I simply stuck adjusting each region manually?

EDIT: I've discovered that this torso length modifier does the same thing with any Genesis 1 figure. I also discovered that I can scale each region to achieve the same effect, because it always treats the scaling as if it is propagating.

EDIT 2: After more digging, I realize that any time you scale an individual body part on the Genesis 1 figure, all the other body parts that are rooted to it get scaled as well. This is what is breaking the torso length modifier, as well as several others. This is brand new behavior with this latest version.

These are the only kits I have this problem with, has anyone else ran into these issues or a solution around this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

On a side note: I opened a ticket for this issue, but the confirmation email mentioned a turn-around time between four and six weeks, too late to make use of the return policy, hence me opening this topic.

This reference: https://www.daz3d.com/aer-future-firearms-energy-weapons-for-the-genesis-8-female

Could be used only on genesis 8 female or also on "The Outlander HD for Genesis 8 Male", "Greylien HD for Genesis 8 Male" and other genesis 8 males aliens ?

Thanks, Xavi

The attached images about the same character have different tones like more colorful, medium or pallid.

How can I get this different tones ?

I just tried to change Distant Light settings but I also get the same results.

Maybe changing some character settings or only using different HDRI sets ?

Thanks, Xavi