Sometimes when I do a dark, moody scene it renders fast and clean, while other times it's a serious noisy mess. I've never really understood why sometimes I can and sometimes I can't make a clean, dark render. What trick do I sometimes happen on while other times it's missing. Also, and this is the weird bit, sometimes you get a render with nice clean bits then on the same figure a dividing line of serious noise almost as if they light you had used caused it. 

Any tips and tricks for clean, dark renders anyone?

Since the new graphics renewal of the store, I can't check the daily promotions anymore.

I'll attach the screen of today and yesterday promotions.

Basically, all I see is infinite grey lines.
It says the page is already loaded, and it never loads the other elements.

I'm using Opera.
I've already cleared the cache etc.

If I use Chrome it's okay, but I use Opera for work stuff.

Fortunately, my Daz library was stored on an external drive and is safe, but there's a load (100's of gigabytes) of stuff in this directory:

    C:\Users\Public\Documents\DAZ 3D\InstallManager\Downloads

It looks like when DIM downloads a product, it stores the files concerned in this directory - one or more pairs of a .dsx and a .zip file for each product - and there they sit for ever.

Do I actually need these files for anything? Can I safely refrain from restoring these files and from backing them up in the future? Is there perhaps a setting within DIM to tell it not to retain these files, because they take up a lot of space that doesn't seem to be necessary. I suppose if Daz went belly up, and your content library was then corrupted somehow, you'd still be able to restore your library from these zip files - but that seems quite a long shot.

(In my case, I made a staircase, so there clearly must be a correct orientation for it !)

Does anyone besides me have a problem where RockZ hair is crashing their computer?  I have isolated this to a generic G8 female, no morphs, props, clothes, anything, using perspecitve view with ONLY RockZ hair applied.  It displays properly in preview, but when rendering, the computer crashes with DPC Watchdog violation about two minutes into the render.  The mouse freezes for about one minute, then blue screen.   All diagnostics have been run (including disk, exhaustive memory), all drivers are up to date.  Bios is up to date.  My comuter is this:

Alienware R3 17" laptop

32 gigs ram (ram use is 32 percent before the crash)

4TB SSD storage over three drives (one SATA the others are M2)

RTX2080ti connected via Alienware Graphics Amplifier (didn't move the cable at all during crashes and subsquent tesitng)

4k built-in display.  

I have a ticket with Daz support but I figured I'd ask here, too.

Settings are tessellation 2, PR Hairs on, HD enabled (crashes no matter what these settings are), Spectral Rendering. 

Note that regardless of the scene, basic or not, removing the hair allows renders to complete.

Thanks in advance!

Scott

There is no problem with rendering, but Daz Studio itself is too slow. Daz's slowness has been hypothesized, and experiments have narrowed the possibilities. However, I am having a lot of trouble solving the problem because I can't figure out a solution to this problem.

I have so many 3D items (duf, obj or etc). Most of the 3rd party assets are, but only compressed files before installation reach 1TB. The number of these items reaches 4,000.

While checking the hypothesis I mentioned earlier, I identified two possible causes. First, it slows down because of so many assets. The second I think is caused by the first problem, but because of storing and writing too many assets (even though there are not even 10 objects to render!!!), the SSD reads/writes as it rises above 85 degrees Celsius. This is because the speed drops below 1/4 of the original performance, creating a vicious cycle.

I was able to check the two causes I mentioned earlier very simply. I simply modified the path of the content library folder and used only 100 assets, so there was no problem. I tried experimenting with various changes in the number and capacity of items to confirm this hypothesis, but in fact, I confirmed that the two causes mentioned above are correct. I could see that it heats up in a shorter time. Of course, at each step, I turned off the computer, waited until it reached 28 degrees Celsius, and then turned on the computer again before performing the experiment.

So I thought. "I'm planning on what assets I need before rendering, and after creating a separate path to store only those items, should I change the content folder path in Daz studio and use it?" Obviously, this is absolutely impossible.

Previously, the explanation was long and verbose. I ask for your patience in this regard. I have 2 questions on this issue.

1. Is there a solution other than a very incredibly cumbersome method of simply changing the content path each time and storing and using only the necessary assets?

2. Is there a way to speed up Daz studio without changing the path or number of assets I have? For example, can the intended purpose be achieved through separate software or third-party methods for managing assets?

Thanks for reading. We are looking forward to a wise answer.

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PC specification (with liquid cooling system)

OS: Windows 10 Pro
CPU: Intel Core i9-9980XE
GPU: NVidia Titan RTX * 4way
STORAGE: Samsung 970 EVO PLUS 1TB * 2
RAM: Samsung DDR4 PC25600 16GB * 8

Does anybody maybe have some tips to share how to best do this?

Especially:

- Which ocio profile to use (I assume ACEScg might fit to what iray outputs, but I am not sure. I tried input = scene linear, output = sRGB)

- Setting the blend modes in Affinity (e.g. add or multiply)

I tried a few things but did not get a usable starting point so far.

Can anyone advise pls?

Yaz

I would really appreciate any help anyone can offer!

So I have been using Daz and Zbrush pretty well for a while now. I can send an object out of Daz into Zbrush, alter it, and send it back to Daz as a morph using GoZ with no problem.

Now, though, I am hiring a much more skilled Zbrush artist who doesnt use Daz to do a couple of face morphs for me. It seems to me that these are my steps:

Export the model, in this case G8F, out at lowest subd level, as an OBJ

Send the OBJ to the artist who will then do the face morphs (preserving the number of vertices, of course)

The artist will then send me the altered OBJ back.

This is where my questions lie:
Do I then load the OBJ into Zbrush, and then use GoZ to send it to Daz as a morph?
I'm not super familiar with Morph Loader... will that do the trick?

Thanks again, any and all help is greatly appreciated!!

I don't want to use DazCentral and I want my Smart Content back what the hell is up with this??? How do I fix this??

I am assuming that it definitely does require a fog/haze layer... but does one then put a light source (eg. spotlight) behind that layer?
Or do you render several different layers of an image and then bump up the luminosity of the sky/lighted render layer? Or something else? :P

Thank you for your insights!

Please help! 

I always have the same problem when I developing my daz figures.

Everything seems fine when it is processing, but I always find that some parts of the body are missing each time.

I have no idea why it happens again and again. 

it is frustrating to me as it always happens when I nearly finish my work. 

Would you please tell me how can I prevent it? And is there any ways to find out the missing  body parts? 

Thank you very, very much in advance. 

-lin.

I don't think I like it.

Thank you,

Denise

I'm using Vivy Hair for the first time, and I'm getting this weird horizontal line across the forehead.

First I thought it's part of the hair clipping into the forehead. But there is a morph that moves the bangs away from the forehead and even with that turned all the way up, I still get this weird line.

Can anyone guess what's going on here? If you own Vivy hair yourself, do you have the same issue?

The issues are numerous, for one thing, my account won't stay logged in, when I open the website on any browser, the site logs me out, despite me logging in with the "stay logged in" feature selected. I have to manually log in again every time I open the site.

The other issue is that I can't delete comments in my gallery. A friend asked me to delete one of his comments for privacy reasons, and I tried, but editing the art piece and deleting the comment doesn't save it, the comment is still there and visible to everyone.

These are issues that have been going on for a long time, and Daz refuses to fix them. I'm getting a bit peeved, and Daz support is completely useless. Dies anyone have a workaround for this? I'm using the latest version of Chrome.

Whenever I load a prop from this set, I notice I then can't just pick the prop as a 'whole' and move it around.  The only solution I have is to re-parent each part of the prop onto something I can select, then move that part.

I'm relatively new to Daz Studio, so I know I must be missing something simple, but I don't know what.

Can someone point out how I can load such a prop, and then move it around without the 're-parenting' procedure (limits the functionality of the product for me)?

Does it lower the size of the scene file with it deleted? 

I deleted geometry from TerraDome and it threw off the geometry of my figures too.

Suddenly their scull caps were off and thier I eyes went black.

I am saving my figures and other objects as scene subsets doing the TerraDome editing and reloading them back into the scene to see if that works. 

I load the skin textures from any other character and it still shows I put on a different hair and it still shows.  :(