Daz studio that is.  I submitted a ticket about this, but I thought I would ask here as well in case someone else has encountered this.

I'm having trouble opening the program periodically. As an example, this morning I opened Daz studio and worked on a scene for a bit. I closed the program, then tried to reopened it. Clicking on the icon from my start menu did nothing. Trying to open it from Daz Central did nothing. Opening the EXE directly did nothing. I tried running the EXE in admin mode and was told I need elevated privileges to open the software. What? Then, after clicking on the icon several dozen more times from daz central, the program finally opened. How does that even make sense? Anyone else had this happen - know what is going on here?

I have added position nodes further down the timeline but nothing is moving.

I am in shaded view.

I purchased i3d Valery's iv casual posses and when I go to use any of the poses I get an error, "An error occured while reading the file, see log files for more details."

Here's what the log file says:

2020-08-05 13:07:53.798 B:/poseruser/documents/DAZ 3D/Studio/My Daz Connect Library/data/cloud/1_66663/people/genesis 8 female/poses/i3d valery/iv casual poses/ivcp 01 full body/ivcp 22 m.duf (1,1): Syntax error - expected '{' or '['
2020-08-05 13:07:53.798 Error reading file, see log for more details.

In Smart Content, the icons all show the frame with the triangle-!.  In Content Library, the icons appear as they should, however, trying to apply them I get the same error, and the log file says:

2020-08-05 13:11:53.038 B:/poseruser/documents/DAZ 3D/Studio/My Daz Connect Library/data/cloud/1_66663/people/genesis 8 female/poses/i3d valery/iv casual poses/ivcp 01 full body/ivcp 22.duf (1,1): Syntax error - expected '{' or '['
2020-08-05 13:11:53.038 Error reading file, see log for more details.
2020-08-05 13:14:05.202 B:/poseruser/documents/DAZ 3D/Studio/My Daz Connect Library/data/cloud/1_66663/people/genesis 8 female/poses/i3d valery/iv casual poses/ivcp 01 full body/ivcp 01.duf (1,1): Syntax error - expected '{' or '['
2020-08-05 13:14:05.202 Error reading file, see log for more details.

Here's what I've tried with no results:

• deleted the product and directory from the Smart library as well as manually deleting the folder in Windows.
• updated meta data
• uninstalled, re-installed
• deleted the product directory from my content library, manually re-installed

Any other suggestions?

I normally export in OBJ for this very reason that I always have issues exporting FBX but I have a client that needs FBX file. This is a bit urgent and I can't find any posts or youtube that actually have a simple or straight forward solution.

Thanks.

This is something that happens every time I update DAZ, and I'm wondering if there's a faster way.  I create content (though I'm not a DAZ artist).  Every time I update DAZ, my content files lose their cute little tags that say "Wearable", or "Actor", or whatever the case may be.  So I have to go into the content DB editor for each product and tell it AGAIN what the product type, category, audience, etc all are.  This is incredibly annoying.  Updates aren't the only time this happens by the way, it happens if for instance I decide to move a folder or a .duf file from one place to another as I organize the product and make changes.

There HAS to be a better way.  Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

If I render twin sisters that have the same skin texture maps, but slightly edited surfaces numbers (e.g. translucency weight), does Daz Studio/Iray send only one copy of the textures to the GPU, or does it send two copies?

Sorry if this question has been asked before.

I'm relatively new to the dForce ecosystem, but not too much on the dynamic aspect of clothings.
I'm working with a pair of panties that are dForce. Loaded in a scene I move them and place them so that the hip part hangs from the chair and let the simulation do it's job in curving the rest down.

Only problem is that both hips parts remain stiff like a board while the rest simulate accordingly.
I did check in the surface about the Dynamics Strenght setting and it all set to 1 on all surfaces. It feels like there is a single hard point in the mesh that doesn't allow the cloth to fully flex or bent. It's like there is an invisible force holding it in shape and up.

Any idea what that could be?

On second render attempt it will, usually, just generate a native CPU code and render to that only.

- Unless it doesn't, in which case it renders the scene out on the GPU to well over 1000 iterations without a hiccup.

I then tested it on a complex scene of four Genesis 8 figures with clothing and props, which more or less maxed out the dedicated GPU memory, which it rendered to around 800 iterations without a problem. Literally not one burp, worked like a charm on the GPU.
I also tested it on a single untextured primitive sphere with default lighting - it rendered this fine three times, then dropped it to CPU on the fourth around 100 iterations. 

If I untick the "Allow CPU Fallback" option in the advanced parameters tab, it either cycles endlessly on the 'preparing scene' for Iray preview or simply refuses to render - either flipping to a black render or the checkerbox blank scene background as soon as it has finished calculating the scene. 

I have both installed the latest version of Daz and the latest version of the Nvidia drivers.
Then rolled back to Nvidia Driver 441.66 (I can't try version 430.86 as it tells me its incompatible with my system)

Absolutely no change.

The GPU temperature is fine and sitting in a moderate range, even when the card does kick in, so I know it's not a temperature issue on the card that's causing it to drop to CPU. 
I've ramped up the GPU fan speed, just to check, then dropped it back to default. The card is on default settings and not overclocked in any way. 

I am running Windows 10 with a GTX 1080ti 11gb Nvidia Card - displays are run by the integrated Intel  - Daz is set to use the Nvidia and can see it, and when it decides to render on the card, does so well and quickly. 

Daz version 4.12.1.118 Pro 64 bit, Nvidia 441.66

I'm saving the scene, and restarting Daz before rendering (and not touching anything, like flipping to Iray preview - literally load and render). Again, absolutely inconsistent as to whether or not it makes any difference - the complex scene rendered without a hitch even though I'd been fiddling around in it beforehand.

The GPU is not accreting a memory load - so it's not stacking up until it's full and then dropping out - it's just either rendering to the GPU quite happily, or then simply refusing to, or dropping after starting.

I've turned off every additional filter option I can find (Firefly, etc) 

I've tried it at 100 quality and 1. Average image size is 1000 x 1000 px

Heck I even took the sides off Merlin and cleaned him out! (There was an embarrassing amount of dust in there, but I've seen worse.) 

Still no change. 

It's the absolute inconsistency of this and the fact that I can't get a single change of parameters to do anything other than 'no change to random drop' or 'not render at all in Iray' that's really bugging me! 

As a last question, is there somewhere I can download an older version of Daz please, as that's the only thing I can think of that I haven't been able to try. 

If anyone has had similar experiences or has an answer, I'd love to know what I'm doing wrong! Card failure? (All diagnostics say it's fine) Windows update? Planetary misalignment? Failed to make the right ritual offerings? 

Many thanks 

 

On other figures, I get the not found message then try to browse to the file location but Studio doesn't know where it is so I'm then stuck. 

It's not just figures I'm having issues with but pretty much any type of object.  On some things it has the icon file correct but can't find the associated obect files.  In other cases, it can't even display the icon file.

How can I fix things so Studio knows where everything is?

I've tried to uninstall and delete everything and re-install but it doesn't seem to help.

I am using a MSI GF63 8rd Lap Top in the past it could render using the video card which is aNividia Geforce GTX 1050 TI with Max-Q Design on windows 10. I am using the curren beta version of Daz studio and it seems that it is not even trying to use the GPU. I have been rendering with Iray since 4.9 (I believe) and am familiar with out of memory problems and how to enable the GPU to render in the software. I have read the log and there seems to be no attempt to use the gpu and there are no errors related to the gpu. I have tried complex scenes and simple scenes.

I believe the problem has to do with it being a laptop, but I could be wrong. Many laptops like mine, allow you to chose which gpu a program uses. I have choosen that gpu in the NVida control panel, but maybe I need to change it somewhere else too.

In summarry I think I need to know how to make sure the laptop is allowing DazStudio access to the nvidia gpu, but there could be something I am missing regarding daz studio. Please help.

P.S. the view port iray seems to use my GPU at 10% to 30% according to hardware monitor

And a bit later in the clip you can see all was "clean", I moved the camera and then it did appeared again, just by camera moving O_o

It is also visible in iray, I did forgot to record the iray view.

I used 2,5x speed to make it faster ;)

Any idea what there is going on and why that can happen and is it possible to delete the polygons then?

Video:

I moved my Library to a new hard drive by moving "Content Database", "InstallManager" and "My DAZ 3D Library" Folders to the new HDD. 

After editing the path in Content Directory Manager under Preferences in Daz and the Cluster Directory in the CMS Settings everything works and shows up just fine. 

The only thing was that Daz Installation Manager was not showing my installed files anymore. That is because the Daz-Shared-XML Files (.dsx) in the folder ManifestFiles (which tell DIM where to find the installed files) now told DIM the old installation path. 

I believe the only way to fix that with the Installation Manager itself is to re-install all files. But that is only possible if the original zip files still exist. I deleted them all. 

Now searching in this forum a bit it seems that most people say that you have to download the zip files again so you can re-install it.
But since the .dsx files are basically .xml files I knew that you can edit them with the windows notepad (editor). 

So I made a backup of all ManifestFiles and tested it. Right click on the file, open with editor and then change the UserInstallPath VALUE from the old path to the new folder location and it worked, it shows up in DIM again. 

But doing that for all files I have would take forever. 

So I googled for an automatic way and found a tutorial video of how to search and modify xml files with a simple script. The video is in German so probably not helpful to you guys but here is the link https://germanpowershell.com/xml-dateien-suchen-und-veraendern/

I don't know anything about programming language at all but following this tutorial was pretty easy, all I had to do was change the script a little so that it works for the dsx files. 

So what I did was:

go to windwos search bar and search for Windows PowerShell ISE and open the program as admin
then click on new script (I recommend making a backup of your ManiFest Folder in case you do something wrong)
and then write or copy paste the script: https://gist.github.com/Jerem1ahJones/c5d767fa351a3dce0d2c0007d6c59f1a

the hashtags are my comments where I tried to translate the tutorial. Make sure to change the installation paths to your paths. 

I don't know if that was the best solution, or if there is an easier way, but it worked and I thought I share this here in case someone has the same problem like me and searches this forum in the future. Before downloading everything again this script could save a lot of time. 

So it appears DIM now has two file paths. My question is can I leave the thumbnail path where it is, but still move the content download path to another drive?

Thank you.

I have created a Strand-Based hair for my character. It was working fine, but at some point it stopped rendering. I think it was when I double click on a hair material with the strand-based hair selected. The lines of the hair are there, and I still can see the hair in the strand-based hair editor of Edit->Object menu, when I enable "Show hairs" on "Style" tab, for example.
Whenever I turn on "Preview PR Hairs" or just render the image, no hair is shown, I can only see the curves with "Preview PR Hairs" off.
I don't fully understand DAZ materials system "Surfaces"... that is a chaotic part of the application, without an "object" which represents the material, plus you don't know easily how many materials are applied. I come from Blender, not great, but much better than this on Textures/Materials managing. Anyway, I have "double clicked" on Iray Blended Dual Lobe Hair Shader with the strand-based hair selected but it didn't help.
I have been reading every post around with problems similar to this, but I found nothing exactly like this, and I have tried the solutions for other similar problems without any success.
If you need screenshots or scenes, just let me know, but the problem is just that: The lines are there, the hair follows the head, it is parented and it's "Fit to" the figure, so... I don't know what's going on.

I know that in Daz Install Manager I have the uninstall button which is nice, but for the others I have no idea how can I delete everything. I mean all the files are in plenty of folders: data, Runtime, People and so on. 

Does any of you know a way to clean my library nice without too much effort. I'm thinking to create a python script to clear the unnecesary files, but not sure which is the folder structure, cuz I was looking in some assets and some of them have data, Runtime, People, while other have more, so yeah...

Any idea is welcomed!

I'm now able to create content from scratch, rigg it, make it a follower, and so on... So I thought, now is the time to share content. I would do this for free, for it is mostly greebles ;-)

My short problem: My brain. I cannot memorize the correct paths, that is, where to put the geometry, where to put the textures, and so on... I have them ordered in my system, but not in a way it is easy to build it in a package. For example, I have a huge folder for own textures that I use, which isn't in the DAZ subfolder.

I recently read about this one https://www.daz3d.com/content-package-assist

My question is: Can this tool collect all files nessessary to build a package that works everywhere, even if textures and geometry are far away from the DAZ folder?

Best wishes

Ryselle

Do I really need to buy the full bundle to get male genitalia options, or is there another product on the daz store that has such an option?

Please keep answers mature and professional, and no, I don't need this morph/addon for what you think I need it for.

Thanks.

The face shape sliders ( and some others I see in the tutorials ) are doesn't appear in my program. What could be the reason?

That ss from mine:

And tutorial:

Here you can see. Does any of you know why this could happen?

The scene was rendered on an nvidia iRay server!

Where in the Iray surface nodes in the surface tab would I use Ambient Occlusion maps on an object? I downloaded a model with an AO map and wondering where I use the map. There were Albedo maps too but I ended up using those in the Diffuse map node. Thanks!

My idea was to give it a leather grip:

When I go to the UV view, its just empty :(

Thats the structure:

https://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/?item_id=40938

(it looks brown on her thumbnail, but after import its empty, but however I love to redesign stuff).

So.... how can I make it possible that it accept my shader styles? I did split the carpet beater into 2 parts in the surface Beater/grip (sadly its a little bit bad designed... with less love).

Some pokethroughs are there :/

Anyone can help and tell me how to make UV map on it or what I can do or maybe can make the UV map?

Among them, in the shader presets/omnifreaker/human surface, there are three assets :

Human surface base

HDR KHpark

HDR Kitchen

I've  no clue what they do. I tried to apply them on a primitive surface, and render in both Iray and 3Dlight, and they did nothing. I tried to apply them on a skin surface (since they're in a folder called "human surface") and in 3Dlight, they seem to make the skin very shiny, as if it was wet and reflecting several lights. 

Does anybody know what these "shader presets" are supposed to be used for?