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Multiple or single UV map?

BradCarsten — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 19:43:04 +0000

*I've edited the question*

1x4096 map would be the equivalent of 16x 1024 maps, correct?

imagine I have 16 different trees each with a UV map that is 1024x1024 and I then stitch all those 1024 maps into one giant 4096x4096 map.

Now when I load 16 trees into the scene, will the system have to load in 16 instances of that 4096 uv map, or will it only have to load the map once into memory?

Screen resolution - scaling

ACue — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 13:26:52 +0000

I am hoping someone has an answer. I have researched evrywhere but found no satisfacgtory answers. All of of a sudden, the screen resolution on my Daz Studio workspace has shrunk to super high resolution, with tiny fonts that is making it very difficult to use the sofware. I've tried the windows scaling adjustments but it is not working. I am running both the 4.11 and 4.12 versions and this change is in both versions.

Is this an NVIDIA issue? I have the very latest NVIDIA Studio drivers.

Ghost Dynamics

jesusaramenes — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 08:23:33 +0000

hello to all ;)
first of all sorry if I express myself badly, but I use a translator.

I'd like to know what else this product brings?
whitout this product, if I use a glove that collides with a character's body, does it have the same effect?

or with this product is it more efficient?

in advance thank you

Where is my purchase ?

hansmolleman33 — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 11:09:31 +0000

I purchased West Park Ward Iray Addon and it does not show up in my Daz Central to be installed.

Whats happening ?

Help Understanding using Dual GPUs

mblackx9 — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 20:40:13 +0000

I have been using Daz3D for a little over a year with a GTX 1070 before upgrading a few weeks back to RTX 2080Ti. I saw a big difference in render times between the two GPUs.

I am moving my system to a new case, where my initial idea was to use the 2080ti and also an RTX 3080. With the 3080 been used primarily for rendering while using the 2080ti for gaming. Or using both at the same time when I am away from my desk. My question is, when it comes to using two GPU's and check marking them to be used in Daz, does Daz use the cuda cores of both GPUs or only the one that is using the VRAM for the scene?

So, for example. Let’s say its a 4GB scene. Will it be rendered only by the 3080 with 10GB of Vram or by the 2080ti with 11GB? Let’s say it’s the 3080, when rendering will Daz use the cuda cores of the 2080ti or second gpu to help with the rendering at all?

Build or Buy new PC

AndyAkins — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 14:59:54 +0000

Greetings all,

Sometime in probably mid-late November to December, I plan on getting my first PC in over two decades - I've been a Mac user for that long. I intend on staying a primary Mac user, but I'm looking to get a PC to use as a render box, as I have been really enjoying learning/working with Daz, but haven't enjoyed the render times with my bigger scenes :-)

As the subject says, I'm curious about peoples opinions around:

Building a computer
Hiring someone/company to build it for me
Buying a computer from a company (which may be a glorified version of 2)... think Alienware, Titan, Digitalstorm, etc.

I'm well aware that theoretically you can do #1 cheaper, and the resulting computer won't have company bloatware on it. However, as I noted, I haven't messed with PCs in over 20 years, and I don't have a lot of experience in building them (and any experience is probably 25-30 years old). At least with #2 (and maybe #2) - there is tech support (which may be good or bad) and warranties... with #1, if I jack up some expensive part, well, its a loss.

So, for a hardware noob like myself, is #3 worth the extra money for simplicity and support? Or is the cost savings so good with #1, I should build it myself? Or is #2 a good compromise?

Followup question - for #2 and #3, any good companies/people to recommend to either build for me or buy a box? For the record, I'm in the southeast United States (GA)...

Thanks!

Just purchased Alexandra 8, hangs on load, will not load

dru_494f0ac36e — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 17:02:59 +0000

Hello everyone,

Just purchased Alexandra 8, and installed through daz connect. Product just hangs when attempting to load.

Any help would be appreciated.

I left for an hour, and when I came back, it was loaded. I don't know why it is so slow. At least it is working now!

Stuck in Preparing Scene loop + not using GPU

colinbarnes79 — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 12:49:08 +0000

Hi all. I have an Nvidia 1080ti and can't seem to get it working with Daz. I unselected the CPU from the advanced rendering settings and when I select Iray (or try to render), it just stays blank and is stuck in a preparing scene loop. I have updated the GPU to the latest Nvidia Studio drivers. For about 1 hour, it worked. Then, when I loaded up Daz today, it's back to the same old problem. I've also downloaded the latest Public Beta version of Daz Studio to see if that'll fix it to no avail.

This happens regardless of what's in the scene or what model I use.

I'm not using any other 3rd party plug-ins other than the LAHM Catalyzer from the store. Even when I disable that, the issue remains. This is driving me crazy as I can't seem to find any help on the forums or via a google search, so any help to fix this would make my life many times better! Thanks.

Convert object transformation to 0

Caxar — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 12:57:06 +0000

I want to transfor an object and set the current trasformations as the new 0

Meaning if I move and object in the axis Y 20 units, I want that new positon to be the new 0

The only way I can do it is exporting and importing as OBJ, but there is a way of doing it without it?

I dont use "memorize" transformations as it yert remember the older 0 and will give the wrong results when trying to use tools as trasnfer utiliy as the trasnformations will be ignored.

How do I freeze a smoothed bit of clothing as a morph?

richardandtracy — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 14:12:59 +0000

I have a bit of V3 clothing that's not designed for the body morph I'm using, so 'Autofit' doesn't work - V3 is too early to benefit from Autofit. So, to get the clothing to fit I have reduced the clothing scale to 90% so it's entirely within the figure, and applied a smoothing modifier to the clothing. This moves the clothing (in 34 steps or so) so that it's outside the figure. This takes a fair time. That's fine if it happens once, but it happens every time I pose any body part, which is frustrating. I don't wish to pose apparently naked figures, so turning the auto-update off isn't an option.

Is there any way of freezing the smothing modifier altered shape into a morph?

I have tried making the character invisible, saving the clothing as an obj file & then loading it in using Morph Loader. This almost worked. Except... when I hid the character from view, the clothing shrank back to the 90% size, and all the resulting morph did was to shrink the clothing by 10%. Not quite what was planned.

I'm sure there is a simple solution, but it isn't covered by any documentation I have downloaded onto the machine. How I wish there was an adequate help file, it would save me hours.

Regards,

Richard.

The actual case I'm trying is AS Elvenstrapped bikini on Glamorous Vickie as shown in the attached image - with the 34 odd smoothing iterations.

Install Manager Failing to install dForce Classic Long Wavy Hair.

jd641 — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 21:52:45 +0000

I had forgotten that I had [dForce Classic Long Wavy Hair] for months because it never showed up in the Smart Content tab. I tried reimporting meta data and that didn't help so today I uninstalled in via IM, then tried to reinstall it. When I do that, it downloads the file, goes to install and says the install failed.

I've tried downloading and reinstalling about 40 times and it's still failing. Trying to install the hair directly inside Studio just shows a broken shortcut that doesn't allow me to do anything.

Edited for Please put your question in the post body and the title - Daz 3D Forums

Fresh Install

babybuick2691 — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 21:36:24 +0000

Hello Everyone,

I have a new computer with two hard drives. One is my 1TB C drive and the second is my 6TB D drive. I want to install DAZ 3D on my C drive and load from C drive and install all content such as characters and props on my D drive. How do I do this?

DIM beta install failed

TheKD — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 20:54:29 +0000

Today I decided to update windows, did a clean install. Installing all my graffix stuffs, was going well until I got to DS. Downloaded the beta with DIM, DIM just keeps failing the install. I installed the cms crap first, after the first fail. Here is the illuminating DIM log lol

2020-10-06 17:44:39.011 Installing: 12000-2 : DAZ Studio 4.12 (Win 64-bit) Public Build +BETA+
2020-10-06 17:44:39.639 Install Failed: DAZ Studio 4.12 (Win 64-bit) Public Build +BETA+

iRay render fails on GPU [solved-- update driver fixed]

crocodilian — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 19:20:05 +0000

iRay rendering on my GTX 1080 worked well for a long time, but recently it no longer works-- seems to be around the time of the 4.12 update (I'm running 4.12.1.118 on Windows). It fails on all scenes -- something small with a simple primitive like a few cubes, or a zillion polys, doesn't matter, just get a blank scene. No "compiling shaders" message, nothing . . . blank scene pops up instantly, eg render never seems to begin

When I render the scene with the CPU, it renders correctly, if slowly-- so its not that the scenes aren't set up correctly.

Tried the obvious things, reinstalling Daz. Checked out that other applications can see the GPU OK, and Daz itself reports the card, so it can "see" the GPU . . . but for some reason now it won't render with it.

The log shows a failure:

"2020-10-06 13:46:36.789 WARNING: ..\..\..\..\..\src\pluginsource\DzIrayRender\dzneuraymgr.cpp(353): Iray [ERROR] - IRAY:RENDER :: 1.0 IRAY rend error: Cannot render: found no usable devices.
2020-10-06 13:46:36.789 Iray Render error: Invalid parameters (NULL pointer)."

Any ideas?

@PerspectX door+door :

Loony — Sat, 18 Jan 2020 02:11:57 +0000

Hoi!.... me again -_-'

Urban Kitchen + Space Corridor have both a "door" file... it seems like, the Contentcreator self doesnt use his own items? so.... he would see the problem, I think when I just rename it, it will make problems with preloaded sets, because the files are looking for a "door.png" or duf.

Also funny, that my windows says its the same size... because it isnt...

I am happy I did really random checked the double files.... normally I just say overwrite -_-

So... how do I handle this now? :/

https://www.daz3d.com/urban-kitchen

https://www.daz3d.com/spaceship-corridor

The 2 conflicting products.

I got some other from him too, but yeah no idea if I did overwrite already others.... (and funny the files got changed last time 2016, atleast does my windows say it, so since 3+ years did No ONE see this?....)

(okay, how much people put a urban kitchen in a space corridor ;).... )

Blank Thumbnails

chiefarchon — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 14:59:28 +0000

Can someone please help me sort this problem.

I'm getting blank thumbnails for products such as V4, also Hiro 4 base is giving me a "file does not exist" warning.

There are a number of products giving me these two problems.

DAZ STUDIO FREEZING AND CRASH WHEN STARTING

yFerreiradesenhos — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 13:59:44 +0000

I'm having problems starting Daz Studio, whenever I start, after some time using the program it just freezes and closes automatically, my computer is not one of the best, but apparently it doesn't suffer from an overload. Here's the log file, I don't know how to decipher it.

Having trouble with RSSY Clothing Converter

Sand3 — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 03:31:41 +0000

I'm trying to use the RSSY Clothing Converter Genesis to G8, but when I go to load clothing into it, it keeps telling me that the files don't exist after I select them.

I wasn't sure if something might be wrong with these particular files, so I tried a different clothing pack from a different creator, and this time it loads into the window, but if I click "Convert Items" it tells me they're not selected, despite all being checked, or if I hit "Execute", it proudly tells me it converted zero items. I think I've followed the instructions, and I'm not sure what's going wrong.

Here's my log, and I've attached images of what I'm seeing.

20:20:10 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time): Executing Script
20:20:10 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time): Selecting Preset: C:\Users\Owner\Documents\DAZ 3D\My DAZ 3D Library\People\Genesis\Clothing\Fantasy\Defiant\Unisex\DefiantBoots.duf
20:20:10 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time): Converting clothing from C:\Users\Owner\Documents\DAZ 3D\My DAZ 3D Library\People\Genesis\Clothing\Fantasy\Defiant\Unisex\DefiantBoots.duf to C:/Users/Owner/Documents/DAZ 3D/My DAZ 3D Library/People/Genesis 8 Female/Clothing/Fantasy/Defiant/Fantasy/Defiant/Unisex/DefiantBoots.duf
20:20:10 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time): DefiantBoots () is not a clothing item of Follower/Wardrobe,Follower/Accessory
20:20:10 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time): Selecting Preset: C:\Users\Owner\Documents\DAZ 3D\My DAZ 3D Library\People\Genesis\Clothing\Fantasy\Defiant\Unisex\DefiantPants.duf
20:20:10 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time): Converting clothing from C:\Users\Owner\Documents\DAZ 3D\My DAZ 3D Library\People\Genesis\Clothing\Fantasy\Defiant\Unisex\DefiantPants.duf to C:/Users/Owner/Documents/DAZ 3D/My DAZ 3D Library/People/Genesis 8 Female/Clothing/Fantasy/Defiant/Fantasy/Defiant/Unisex/DefiantPants.duf
20:20:11 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time): DefiantPants () is not a clothing item of Follower/Wardrobe,Follower/Accessory
20:20:11 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time): Execution Complete.

[Solved] Clothes Converter 4 License Key Not Accepted

docbother — Sat, 02 May 2020 22:52:01 +0000

I am trying to re-install clothes converter, but it won't accept the license key. I made sure I am cutting and pasting the whole thing. No joy.

It is a pecular key because it begins with "userkeyname####" where #### is a number, then a space then the normal sequence of characters you find in a license key.

I've tried it with and without this prefix and substituted my name for userkeyname. Nothing works.

Anyone know what the trick is.

Illumination of different object in a scene

acharyapolina — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 15:06:23 +0000

Hello, I was wondering if it is possible to iluminate an object in a scene without casting a shadow? With the direct lights it looks impossible? In other 3D software for example, in 3DS Max if you want to iluminate an object but do not want to cast a shadow, you can just turn of cast shadow and that helps a lot when you want to create an overall effect of global ilumination from one light source.

Any help would be great to understand if you can do this in Daz3D.

Thanks

Genesis 8 to maya

brownedave2 — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 00:08:03 +0000

trying to use this plugin, unsuccessfully. I export the FBX file through the script in Daz. Trying to open it manually or through the script in Maya yeilds a situation where some enormous amount of data gets written to my C drive, 20+ gigs, then maya crashes before opening the character. I guess it doesn't work?

Using latest version of Daz, windows 10, with Maya 2020.

Utilities for converting G3 figures to G8 figures?

wsgentry — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 11:51:29 +0000

I know there has to be something out there, but I don't know where. Is there a utility for converting G3 females to G8 females? I've got a G3 character that I'd like to move to G8, particularly the face, but haven't had much luck. I've even gone as far as using Facegen, it works, but the result doesn't look the same.

Thanks in advance,

Scott

When rendering, it automatically turns to CPU. How to solve this problem

793043235 — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 03:14:30 +0000

Version 4.12, graphics card model is 2080ti,The graphics driver is up to date，Not checkedCPU，Only one character is rendered, no scene

The rendering log is as follows：

Rendering in NVIDIA Iray

Compiling Shaders - 0/1

Rendering image

Rendering...

Iray (Statistics) : Geometry memory consumption: 145.450 MiB (device 0), 0.000 B (host)

Iray (Statistics) : Native CPU code generated in 0.094s

Iray (Iteration) : 1