Technical Help (nuts n bolts) - Daz 3D Forums

DAZ install manager

jamesl767 — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 23:06:14 +0000

I'm trying to move my insulation to a new PC without the redownloading so I move my packages from the download file on the old machine to the new machine. Usually this works just fine but I must corrupted something when I tried to rewrite my old poser stuff over the installation..\ it says I have 250 install products and only 2 that need to be installed from the download folder. even though the download folder has about 20 more gigabytes of content in standard DAZ format. for some reason it's just not seeing the install packages or it thinks it's installed it already. Is there something I can delete some sort of preference file that may have gotten corrupted so I can just reinstall everything from the download folder?

OCTANE no face!!!

Acudia4151 — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 20:58:26 +0000

Any users that know Octane that can tell me why im getting this?

Regarding breaking of figure after using morph loader pro to load morphs

LordGeneral — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 15:37:11 +0000

So I exported the g8f base mesh to zbrush and did some pretty major sculpting and then imported those details as a morph using the morph loader pro. The only issue is that when applying the morph it seems to break the jaw pretty badly. Her teeth for some reason pop/stretch out of her mouth. I can't seem to understand what went wrong. The sculpted base mesh did not have such an issue.

Also and this is a more minor issue compared to the above I forgot that the gen 8 figure default pose was the A pose and not the T pose. So I sculpted the base gen 8 figure with the T pose instead of an A pose so now when I load the morph she always starts with a T pose instead of an A pose. is there any way I can correct this?

Emitter for Hair

Alien Alloy — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 16:24:00 +0000

https://www.daz3d.com/gilrundi-for-genesis-8-female

^^ I am looking to do something similar to this product.
Some time ago I think I've seen an addon in the store that would produce such results, but I cannot find it anymore, nor I've an idea under what keywords to look for.

Does anybody have an idea?

Also sorry if this has been posted in the wrong forum section!

Problème de téléchargement avec Daz Central

PascalRouault_16b4ec7535 — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 09:58:35 +0000

Bonjour, je viens d'acheter le nouveau bundle "Get in the ring wrestling bundle" mais Daz Central ne le télécharge pas. j'ai recharger Daz Central plusieurs fois mais le problème est toujours là.

Un peu d'aide serait bienvenue, merci.

Pascal Rouault

Keyboard Not working at all

schumilex123456789 — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 11:17:00 +0000

Hey there. I had this problem before so i moved on to the beta version of the software.

Now i have it again, i didnt update anything, it was working just an hour ago. My problem is that the program doesnt recognise any letter that i press on my keyboard.

For the record i can close it with alt+f4. The keyboard is fine, every other app is functioning well with it. But in daz the F3 etc. doesnt work, as if it doesnt even take in the input. It is pretty difficult to move around without wasd, and i dotn know what could have i possible pressed to get this behaviour.

Edit: I cant set shortcuts either with my keyboard, it doesnt see the input from pressing the letters.

To freeze a shape from Smoothing

Second Technician Rimmer — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 13:14:01 +0000

Is it possible, for a clothing worn by a figure, to be smoothed up and then for a morph file of the shape obtained to be created and loaded separately afterwards?
Example: a character wearing a device under his shirt (a wire, with its control box). The outline of the box is visible thanks to smoothing iterations. If I keep the character in its chosen pose, can I create a morph of the shirt with that bulge from the control box, then get rid of the actual box, load the morph on the shirt and thus, have the shape and spare on the polys?

How to get rid of lines

Wendy0616 — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 08:47:39 +0000

Hello!
It would be helpful if you could help me.

I want to get rid of these three colored lines that are displayed for each object in viewport, but I don't know how to do it.
If anyone knows how to do this, I'd appreciate it if you could let me know.

Hair Shaping not Working

LBSTHL — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 18:46:29 +0000

Hello everybody,

I sadly have another issue with Daz3D that I cannot resolve. This time, it's about hair.

I've dowonloaded several hairstyles that feature shaping options, such as https://www.daz3d.com/karla-hair-for-genesis-8-females.

The shaping options are there but when I try to apply them - nothing. I've also checked my parameters and shaping window but do not find any options that could be used in a comparable fashion

I've tried reinstalling the hair and to use it on different figures but that did not resolve the issue, sadly. Strangely enough, I have similar issues with https://www.daz3d.com/pascale-hair-for-genesis-3-8-female-s and https://www.daz3d.com/matilda-hair-for-genesis-8-females, among others.

Any ideas what I could do to fix this?

Many thanks and best wishes,
LBSTHL

Issues with Gen x 2 and 3 installation...

wizallah2000_25b58e8fa0 — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 08:41:15 +0000

Hello everyone, I recently purchased the Gen x 2 and Gen x 3 pluginswhat does studio 4.12 does not seem to recognize them. I have tried installing them pretty much every way possible... Uninstalling and reinstalling multiple times. The plugins are not listed amongst my registered plugins list... I'm search the internet and these forums for solutions but none of the responses others were given has helped my particular issue. I have put in a ticket with das tech support but no response as of yet... If anyone elves has had or have this problem I am very interested and how you solved it... I am on a Windows 10 PC thank you everyone and I appreciate your attention.

Wet and tanned skins for gen 8

dennisgray41 — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 01:57:30 +0000

https://www.daz3d.com/wet-and-tanned-skins-for-genesis-8-females

I set 2 identicle figures so I could see how the tan changes. The fig. in the left is supposed to be changed. The figure in the right was not selected and should have stayed the same, But it turned darker than the other. In the second figure I removed the tan corrections, hue, sat etc. In the third figure I went back to what the figures looked like without any changes, Just like they first opened. What is going on?

Porcupine fur problem

Doc Acme — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 20:05:08 +0000

I'm not able to get the Crested Porcupine https://www.daz3d.com/rodents-by-am-crested-porcupine to generate fur from the LAMH editor. I've had this figure for years & must never have check out it's fur.

Whether in the Editor & use the Fiberhair, or just the panel & click to OBJ, it crashes DS almost instantly. I've re d/led & reinstalled but didn't help. Tried starting with the base figure & adding the preset & have the same problem.

Perhaps this is a tech support question but thought I'd check here first. I've dozens of LAMH figures & this is the first time I've come across this sort of problem & not sure where to look.

Thanks,

Figure not showing up in different camera views

wayneout_edeaad0859 — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 21:40:33 +0000

I had two figures in a scene. The camera was set to front view but when I rendered the scene, one of the figures was not there.
I stopped the render and make sure that the figure was visible in renders and it was. Then I checked the scene in all of the
other cameras but the figure was not there. Again, I checked and the figure was listed as being visible in viewport. I went to
the top camera and zoomed out and still couldn't find the figure. So how can a figure be visible in front view but not show up
in the render and not show up in the other camera views? I was a little upset so I deleted the scene but it still puzzles me
and I want to know what to look for next time. Thanks.

Grainy image problem

mightguy15 — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 17:40:19 +0000

So ya boi was trying to render the following image. Let me explain.

I'm working on a comic called Bazooka girl (which you all should definately not decline to check out here if you are interested in not hurting my feelingshttps://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=bazookagirl) And the story so far is that a super intelligent technomancer, mechanical engeneer, and gunsmith breaks out of a lab that was experimenting on her and raises some hell (she is actually a clone, but enough about the debatably awsome and original story).

The issue here is a can't get the grain out of this image for the life of me. I have tried everything from tampering with the render settings, adjusting the light sources, working with spotlights, and even trying to edit out the grain using GIMP (which worked a bit, but it also made the noise super crisp too). Do you guys have any suggestions....like all of them perhaps? I don't think the issue is my machine, I have what I feel is a servicable 8gb of RAM and 1tb or memory with an additional 1tb of memory thanks to an external hard drive. These are the only models in the scene, and I was told 4gb would have been enough to render this. Is the issue that I don't have enough memory are am I simply not tinkering with the settings as effectively as I could be? Thanks in advance for any helpful information you guys can provide and be safe!

Crash when loading character

jimu-dono — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 00:49:14 +0000

DAZ Studio 4.12.1.118 crashes to the desktop whenever I try to load a scene or charecter. I am genrally using Genesis 8 derived charecters with morphs. Such as 200 Plus Head and Face Morphs for Genesis 8 Female(s), Genesis 8 Female Body Morphs and Genesis 8 Female Head Morphs

I am runing Windows 64 bit

Intel i7-8700K, 32GB

Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti - Studio Driver 451.48

Generaly I find Daz Studio to be unstable. It frequently crashes to the desktop without error message or warning. Then seeingly crashes more frequently.

I have uninstalled and reinstalled the Geneis 8 basic files and all the morph products - same result..

Does any body know how o fix this and stabilze the software ?

Attached is a log file of most recent crash.

Thanks in advance for any help.

dForce RockZ Hair

shinkei7_c002d6ca71 — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 17:27:35 +0000

Let me start off by saying I adore the dForce RockZ Hair. It's beautiful and has a ton of options!

That said, I have noticed every time I use it, it puts a tremendous strain on my system (GTX 2070, and i9), causing the computer to stall while it crunches data, and more often than not crashes the render/Daz out to desktop.

Is there some way to optimize using this hair? Is this strain a problem anyone else is having?

View Controls in the viewport...Right vs left

wscottart — Sun, 19 Jul 2020 16:05:40 +0000

Is there anyway to get the cube view controls or even the docked view controls to sit on the left side of the viewport screen. Every time I open the scene tab the view controls (viewport) get covered over this has finally just become overly annoying. I need a solution other than opening a view tab itself, although I guess that works its just an ugly solution.

What's a good way to animate firelight?

lancelmartin_cf51987037 — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 19:11:32 +0000

don't need the fire animated ... just the light ..

I'm thinking of a cylinder that rotates around the fire that has .. I don't know... a flame looking cutout as a transparency map?

Render solely attacking CPU while leaving GPU resource isolated

windli3356 — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 05:43:13 +0000

I hope you guys can recongnize the problem and tickle it at least. I bought $1k worth of content from daz cause it's easy to use and cut my character creation time by so much, but it will worth nothing if the render of Daz only work to kill my PC when it constantly put my CPU to 100% stress for EVERY SINGLE render I made while completely ignore GPU

So to provide the stats again.

My Daz Version: 4.12.1.118

System spec: i7 5820K 16G Ram, RTX2060

Driver Version 451.67

As you can see, my GPU never pass 20% while perofmring the rendering. and CPU always put to 100%, slow my whole PC to unuseable state.

used the advanced mode in rendering setting and marked off CPU fall back and workload but it didn't change a thing.

Face Transfer - red brows, red red brows

clivewil2 — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 15:12:06 +0000

i've been having a bit of fun with Face Transfer lately but there is one particular issue i haven't been able to solve, and maybe might never solve - very red eyebrows and eyelids in iray (3delight doesn't seem to do it, but has its own set of problems)

it seems to be distance related, i.e. the closer the camera is, the more noticeable it is. most of the figures in my lineup pic are straight out of the box (click to open - there's 7 figures, the forum crops out 4 of them) but on at least one of them i edited the brows in photoshop - first i tried grey to completely de-saturate them, and when that didn't work i went to pure black, which still didn't work (see close-up pic)

i can sorta kinda get around the eyebrows thing by giving them all reddish hair, but the eyelids just look plain weird in some cases - one thing i haven't tried yet is trying to overpower the redness by applying a colour exactly 180 degrees opposite (blue/cyan, i guess) but my hopes aren't high it will solve it

has anyone found a fix or workaround for this? i did search, but didn't see anything for this specific issue - mainly stuff about the skin tone overall, or entirely red faces etc.

Daz Studio on Catalina suddenly won't open any DS file, even one freshly saved

mavante — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 20:11:15 +0000

This just started suddenly overnight, after a long animation render. I had reverted to DS 4.11.0.383 because of all the animation bugs in 4.12, and it was working in Catalina, 10.15.5. Now, today, after absolutely nothing was changed, DS refuses to see, acknowledge the existence of, or open ANY of its .duf files. In the "Open ..." dialogue, ALL files in my saved DS files folders are greyed out. If I try to open one of them from the Finder, either by selecting "Open" for that file, or dragging it to the DS icon, DS opens but only with a blank new scene.

Yesterday it was working and I could open files. Today suddenly it isn't working.

I tried opening Read & Write permissions for everyone on all my saved files folders and all enclosed contents. Accomplished nothing.

The DS content, including Smart Content, is available and working. As a test, I loaded a car into a new scene, then immediately saved it. Then I selected "New," and when the scene cleared attempted to open the file I had just saved. It was greyed out in the "Open ..." dialogue.

I did this three times, each time saving to a different hard drive/folder, including my own Documents folder on the System drive. Nothing.

I uninstalled and reinstalled DS 4.11.383 on the Catalina computer. Same thing.

As a "control" test, I just ran DS 4.11.0.383 on my old iMac, running High Sierra, and it is able to open ALL the files that the same version of DS on Catalina 10.15.5 won't see at all, except as greyed-out files.

Does anybody know anyway to overcome this madness—that is NOT installing DS 4.12 on the Catalina computer?

Why doesn't the water planes work in Fluidos?

mister-movie — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 22:22:48 +0000

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Post Denoiser is on but won't kick in

Dafa — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 03:46:55 +0000

I'm having a weird issue where the Post Denoiser won't activate. I thought that maybe the render finishes before the Denoiser could kick in, but that's not the case. The render hits max samples limit with the Denoiser never kicking in. Maybe it's because there isn't enough VRAM for the denoiser? I'm using 5.8 GB/6 GB before the denoiser kicks in, but there's a catch, the denoiser has kicked in during these circumstances.

Current render settings:

Post Denoiser Enabled
Post Denoiser Active
Post Denoiser Start Iteration: 1000
Firefly Filter Enabled
Max Samples: 1500

Is there a way to teleport an object to another object?

Dafa — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 05:01:39 +0000

Let's say I want an object like a Phone that's spawned into the scene at zero position...and instead of me manually dragging the phone across the scene to a Gen 8 character I want the phone to magically teleport to the G8's hand. Is there a way where I can specifically "teleport" the item to their hand and then I'll handle the rotations and whatever need be.

Female Gen 8 bad deforming

champx2345 — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 17:23:53 +0000

I've noticed for a while now that the Genesis 8 female character is not accepting poses well. I'm only using poses for genesis 8 female. Here is an image of the issue. The issue is specifically in the legs area. It doesn't matter what GEn 8 character I use I get the same issue. I've opened a ticket with Daz but they have not helped well. They asked me to update to 4.12.118 believing that would fix the issue but it hasn't and I don't hear back from them for weeks. I am now starting to animate the character and I notice the bending issue in the animation as well. The representative of Daz stated that they cannot reproduce the issue on their end. If anyone can help it will be greatly appreciated.

simulation doesn't work only waiting

mmetehanbaydar_77b0078348 — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 16:14:16 +0000

,why it's waiting to %0

Errors in Toon Generations 2 (Genesis 3)

Dan9000 — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 18:17:41 +0000

Hi, everybody.

I have a problem with Toon Generations 2, in male and female:

- In Male, the hair and mustache usually give me image problems.

- In female, the heels don't fit well as you can see.

Any solution please? I've tried a lot of things and I can't find it.

Thanks in advance.

Backup Daz settings

vagans — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 21:02:21 +0000

I need to replace my OS drive and for the first time in a number of years I'm going to have to start from scratch and re-install everything. All my library content is on a 2nd drive. For Daz/Central/DIM etc. if I backup my c:\users\username\AppData\Roaming\Daz3D directory and restore it once Daz and Central is re-installed, will that set everything back to the way I had it?

dForce Hair and grey boxes.

voodoomaria_6f1d9226b8 — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 08:39:32 +0000

Simple enough question [I hope]:

Whenever I load a dForce Hair [For example, the hair sets for Underbelly for G8Male] Instead of getting hair [before rendering] I get grey boxes.

So, question is:

What have I NOT installed, or not installed Properly, or not switched on?

Thanks in advance.

RSSY Hair Converters

nelsonsmith — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 13:11:56 +0000

Has anybody tried the RSSY hair converters on hair pre-Victoria 4? I have always liked the Petite Fleur Hair, but it was made for a Victoria 3.0 base. I've seen promo renders where PAs have used it on older figures but I've had little success with that, and as the generations got older it's just taking up space on my HD. I saw the RSSY hair converters for different generations, and wondered if the one for Victoria 4 to Genesis 8 might work.