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

it seems that animation has a big update??

1234MATT — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 12:52:02 +0000

So in order to getea batter grip on the new features and how they work together....is there a discussion here on that?

Animation issues

janemzen — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 09:12:41 +0000

With the latest version (4.12.1.118) Daz Studio is now completely useless as an animation tool.

And no help from the support team. Just a loooooooooooong silence!

Can anyone help me how to revert to a previous version. thanks!

Recept to previous version of Daz

janemzen — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 08:55:27 +0000

How can I revert to a previous version of Daz Studio? Please help! Thanks!

Are animations broken now in Studio?

mumia76 — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 07:53:54 +0000

Since they added "keymate" features as standard to Daz Studio, the whole thing seems to be broken.

Whenever I try to animate something some properties won't be controlled by keyframes. I always end up having to do hours of extra work because despite copying keyframes, the figure won't be the same. Unless I go in and find the offending properties manually that are not being carried over. When I cope / paste keyframes.

Plus some properties seem to change on their own in the timeline, on keyframes I never touched. Like keyframes aren't actually keyframes even if I manually create them.

Animations are completely borked at this stage, I wasn't able to do anything successful in months, the scene always ends up being broken beyond hope of repair.

This all worked flawlessly while keymate was a separate product.

I'd recommend the animation tool as a property randomizer at this stage.

Is there a way to delete individual proxy objects? (Ultra Scenery)

EZ3DTV — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 07:55:44 +0000

I use ultra scenery quite a bit and there are proxy trees. I am able to select most geometry with the geometry editor and delete part of an object or scene

but these proxy trees won't let me select them.

Is there a way to select these proxy items and delete them individually?

Thanks in advance.

Updating

a16der_9ecbf630c5 — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 23:58:07 +0000

I went to download the latest version of Daz3d and I could only find the DazCentral_1.5.0.6_Win64 file, do I have to install DazCentral now to upgrade my version of Daz? I have spent 20 years making sure all my files are the way I want them and really don't want anything doing what I don't want.

Why Would DZ Crash When Rendering a Large Scene?

neoman — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 22:28:07 +0000

Hello!

I have created a large scene with about 15 characters in "The Collesseum" prop.

If I try and render two times in a row Daz always crashes the second time. I must always save the scene, restart the computer and it will then render again... once. So everytime I want to render a second picture I must restart my computer.

What in the memory is causing this?

My computer is an MSI gaming laptop

i7-7700HQ CPU

64-Bit OS

32Gb RAM

NVIDIA Quadro

Running DazStudio 4.12.1.118

Memory usage questions

droidy001 — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 12:54:52 +0000

Hoping someone can answer is simple terms to feed my curiosity. I had 16gb of ram and 8gb of vram. When rendering with gpu ony, Daz would use around 12-13gb with a scene using around 6.5gb of vram. When I started to do other thing with my pc while the render was running I would hit around 15gb of total ram usage. I decided this was the point to add more. I've upgraded to 32gb. Now with the same scene Daz is using 18gb of ram. Where did that extra 5gb of data come from, and what was it doing before? My assumption is that it was swapping a lot of data with my ssd, is this correct? If so that's a lot of extra writes on an ssd. Thanks.

Forum interface broken

Loony — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 20:45:19 +0000

https://i.imgur.com/FC2kSOq.png same here: https://i.imgur.com/IFsr3Sf.png Where are my buttons to insert a URL/Image etc... Someone can help? @ Richard maybe?

Where is Victoria 4.2??

kylumi — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 14:00:56 +0000

Hello guys,

I have recently istalled reinstalled Daz after a 4 years or so, and there has been many changes.

I have a reasonably large collection of shop stuff which I have just started to reload. Then I came up against the MISSING Victoria 4.2. I have no clue where where she's at or why she's not there...lol

Any help would be good, please.....thank you

How to go back to a previous version of Daz Studio

janemzen — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 17:23:32 +0000

Does anyone know how to go back to the version before 4.12.1.118? This version seems to be full of bugs when it comes to animation and the timeline.

I tried to get some answers from Daz support, but so far only a looooooong silence!

Thanks!

IBL Master for Daz Studio

EZ3DTV — Sun, 19 Jul 2020 03:42:38 +0000

Is this a product anyone here recommends?

It looks pretty cool and I always struggle finding the sun in my HDRIs, that alone seems like a reason to buy this.

Also having the boost/ghost lights would be helpful in lighting the scene.

This is an old product though... The YouTube video is from 2017!

Does it still work with all of the Daz updates?

Is it compatible with other Daz lights and 3rd party lights?

Does anyone use this all the time still?

It seems like a product I would use every time I incorporate an HDRI into my scene (which is not every scene).

I render in IRAY exclusively, what are your suggestions on this product?

https://www.daz3d.com/ibl-master-for-daz-studio

[EDITED] Constantly disappearing mouse pointer in DAZ 4.14

mwasielewski1990 — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 11:32:17 +0000

Thread edited. I updated DAZ from 4.12 to 4.14, and the good o'l disappearing mouse pointer returned!

Problem happens kinda randomly, when I manipulate the viewport with my mouse.

I've read numerous threads about this problem which dates back to years ago, but no reaction from the developers yet?

I am aware of the "workaround" (blindly navigating to the viewport draw options), but seriously, it's not that easy on a 4k monitor

Also, "showing mouse pointer when clicking CTRL" windows option is cumbersome, as I have to turn it off everytime I'm launching a game.

Any other ideas on how to get rid of it?

Cheers! :)

take items

werty23432 — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 09:18:33 +0000

how can I take an object from the table like a glass that sticks to my hand?

An error has occurred while opening a file

wayneout_edeaad0859 — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 07:23:56 +0000

And it adds see log for details.
1. I don't know where the log is that I am suppose to look at.
2. This occured when adding the Basic Mat for G8 female. The mat file is one that came with Daz Studio. I have used
it before with no problem at all. This was on a Face Transfer figure if that matters but again I have used it with a face
transfer figure before.
3. I have had the same error message when trying to add color to a hair that I bought here at Daz
Thanks

Drape image over an object?

dvyd — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 10:24:55 +0000

I'd like to drape an image over an object such as a body, body part, or other object in a DAZ scene. I'd like the image to be deformed realistically by the object as if the image were cloth and the object were solid. Can anyone explain how to:

1) Setup the drape to cause the deformation?

2) Set the image to be transparent for specific RGB values or a range of values

3) Render the scene with both image and object visible

4) Render the scene with only the deformed image visible (not the object causing the deformations)

5) Export the deformed drape image and mesh for rendering in different software

If there is a tutorial that addresses these questions, please feel free to link to that instead of explaining in detail.

Thank you!

-da'ud vyd

Scene .duf file suddenly got huge on save

enbismain — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 21:18:28 +0000

I had a scene with a character and some clothes and stuff on it. It was around 2mb thorugh most of the work today. Then suddenly on another save it got to over 1GB size. That's just making it impossible to work, since it takes like 10 min to save. I tried to google the issue, and apparently it saved some assets to the file, as they were changed(?) But I don't recall changing anything like model's polygons, it was mostly sliders work. All I could think of is that dForce simulation, but it never increased the file size this much before. Neither did assigning other textures or changing colors, etc.

I tried deleting items one by one and saving, and deleting everything but the naked avatar seems to fix the problem. But seems like every cloth items attached to it is contributing to the file size, i.e. deleting hair would cut size from 1GB to 800mb, deleting a coat in addition would make it 700mb, etc.

Can it be set back to not saving everything inside the file? I haven't touched any toggles in fist place, it was saved as simple save as -> scene and then just saved.

I really don't feel like re-making the whole thing from scratch.

Timeline erratic - spacebar works for "Play" but not "Pause"

janemzen — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 19:19:25 +0000

Having a lot of issues since I upgraded to 4.12.1.118 / 64 bit for Mac. Now "Pause" won´t work in the timeline when I hit the spacebar. "Play" works fine as before. If I change the short cut to another key it works again. But only until I open Daz the next time. The program also chrashes a lot when I save (command + S) The changes are saved but I have to open Daz again. On the whole there are lots of differnt issues, I can´t move some of the key points, for example, in the new timeline, but I can move others. Some of the time it works, sometimes not.

Are these bugs in this version of Daz or could it be something that is conflicting with my assets in the content library? Or something else?

Anyone who came across these problems? Help!

My Content Library is not showing anything of my products

urattributesaremine — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 17:12:22 +0000

I recently reinstalled and redownloaded DAZ 3d on my D-Drive to make the most of storage space. All of my smart content is showing up, but in my content tab there is a bunch of different folders, but nothing in them. Did I not create a proper pathway? I have recently bought the scene optimizer and it appears the only way to access it is through the cotent tab. Any help is appriciated, thank you!

Figure is showing Architectural options. WTF

pectabyte — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 17:31:52 +0000

Hey guys,

Been using Daz for just over 2 years. Have a weird issue I've never seene before. When I place my figure in a scene and have "Filter BY Conten" Selected, I'm only getting architectural options. WTF is going on?

Screen shot included.

White Yeti?

vonHobo — Sat, 28 Dec 2019 19:42:45 +0000

I purchased the Yeti HD and it only has two materials: Glacier and Woodland Sasquatch.

I thought the Glacier would be white as in the promo images, but it is a dark grey when I render it (see third image).

Is there a way to turn the Glacier version a mostly white material as in the promo?

Swapping body parts of figures? And across genders?

supercarter — Sun, 19 Jul 2020 11:35:12 +0000

Hello! I am looking to create a sort of frankenstien's monster character where each body part is clearly from different people and I was wondering if there was a way to essentially transfer the head or arm or any part to someone else? Or a simple, clean looking way to make appear as though they've been swapped? I'm still new to Daz so sorry if this is a simple thing.I've tested hiding the parts of the different bodies and manually translating and rotating them to the right spots, but there's usually a gap or weirdness at the intersection. It also seems inefficent to have Daz load 6 seperate characters just to appear as one character.

For same genered characters I figure it's probably not that difficult to copy the specific morph values and edit the UVs together, but it seems overly tedious so if there's a faster way, that'd be cool.

The part that really trips me up though is opposite genders, like a man's head on a woman's body or vice versa. I'm used to blender and it seems like there should be a way to cut out the guy's head and delete the female's, and just connect the nect vertices on the woman body and man head, though there doesn't appear to be... Is there a solution for this?

If this isn't possible as one character, then I'd be willing to "cheat" it and find a better way make multiple characters appear as though they're just one. Thanks!

Massive distortion after applying mocaps

riochild_663b64339f — Sun, 19 Jul 2020 23:56:09 +0000

I've been trying to apply the Carnegie Mellon mocaps to some of my figures and I'm getting massive distortions on the chest (the elf ear morph I have also expands a lot, as you can see in the picture). I've been able to confirm that it has to do with some chest morphs I've applied to the figures. (Figures without these morphs don't have this "explosion"). I've tried a lot of things, like turning off AutoFollow for the chest morphs and fiddling with the BVH import options, but nothing works. Locking the chest morphs does do something, the chest looks more normal though not quite the way it should, but then the sides of the figure get distorted instead. Any ideas on what I could do to fix this?

Shape Splitter loosing subdivide

Anki — Sat, 18 Jul 2020 20:05:10 +0000

I'm trying to use the Aura morph but only on the arms, so splitting the morph with Shape Splitter.

Problem is the split morph looses subdivision level (from 3 back to 1). Is there any way to correct this ?

Lighting problem

dennisgray41 — Sun, 19 Jul 2020 14:57:57 +0000

How do I get my lights to work correctly, without creating the blackout shadows. This is with the headlamp and the lantern.

Geometry has gone missing from model

javoralex — Sun, 19 Jul 2020 17:42:54 +0000

Hello, I am not new to 3d but am new to Daz. I have a Gen3 model that I export to Maya. I noticed after importing into maya that part of the geometry has gone missing. It is not hidden, it is actually gone completely, both in maya and in Daz too.

what is the difference of those save options? [solved]

HighElf — Sun, 19 Jul 2020 17:46:18 +0000

Hello. I struggle to understand the difference between those save options.

save as pose preset

save as hierarchical pose preset

save as properties preset

They all seem to save the exact same data. I try to save character-specific facial expressions, and I can't figure it out, which one should be prefered. :(

model becomes weird after importing into c4d

erikhultfeldt — Sat, 18 Jul 2020 21:32:13 +0000

Hello, I just animated and created a model in Daz3D. And when i went to export it and import it into c4d the legs and arms go everywhere for some reason. I exported with .obj. from daz3d. I'll attach a picture so you can see what happened to my model. Sorry for bad English :)

[links removed]

Here was my Export / import settings:

https://gyazo.com/a83b82cf8ce863ccbd553c1a59c037ac ;
https://gyazo.com/1c2ebc7860901b759c2912ba2169b88e

Heels fitting issue

narutobleachonepiece0 — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 00:21:28 +0000

So I have 2 images below, 1st is before transfer utility and second is after, so is there any way I can make these heels fit on my mesh? I have a pair of heels, and they just fit on genesis 8 when I apply them. But I don't know how to do that with mine.

Best Video Card Upgrade

hrife_f2ec83ecb8 — Sun, 12 Jul 2020 20:53:00 +0000

All

I currently have an nVidia GTX 1070 which is doing okay, but run out of memory on some of the scenes I play with and then my processors ramp to 100% which I am trying to avoid. The new CPU Load Limit settings do not seem to work well for highly scaled processors (dual Xeon 2680 v3). I have been using Process Lasso to keep my workstation from going into "jet engine" mode and it works, for the most part, pretty well.

I have been looking heavily at an older Quadro M6000 24GB, but am concerned the speed hit would make renders unbearably long. I have also been looking at an nVidia Titan XP, and the Quadro RTX 4000.

Budget is around $1300.

Of the cards listed, what do the experts here think would give the best "bang for the buck"

I'd like to try the raytracing functionality in the RTX cards, but am concerned there would still be a memory issue.