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

How do I change the length of just part of the leg

addm3online — Thu, 08 Nov 2018 09:46:50 +0000

I already know how to change the length of the legs, but how do I change idivitual parts of the leg like the thigh's length? What plugin can I use for this. I am not seeing anywhere with the morph plugin, that I am able to do this. I want to make the thigh a different length by not having it always the same proportion as the rest of the leg. I hope someone here understands what I am saying and can tell me if there is a way to do this. Also I tried scaling. Scaling does make part of the leg longer, but the part of the leng say its the thigh comes out massive in proportion to the rest of the leg.

Another face generate question

wayneout_edeaad0859 — Sun, 19 Jul 2020 04:11:46 +0000

The face texture is darker than the rest of the skin texture. Looks like the face got a dark sunburn. Is there a way to
correct this? Thanks.

Maybe I don't understand aspect box

wayneout_edeaad0859 — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 22:13:53 +0000

I am talking about the box in the viewport. For example, my aspect box is 900 x 600. This is confirmed by the pane in the upper right hand corner.
I lay a figure down on his back and move his head to the left hand corner of the aspect box. There is x amount of room from the bottom of his
foot to the right hand corner of the box. I then go to "render settings" "general" and change the aspect ration to 1500 x 1500. Again, the pane
at the top right hand corner shows 1500 x 1500 but in the aspect box, the distance between foot to right hand corner is still the same. I then
change it to 1600 x 900 and I have the same results. It is hard to get furniture, props, and people in that small space if it will not change.
Am I doing something wrong? I have the latest version of Daz Studio.

Daz Studio 4.12 won't render with my graphics card

novelist999 — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 10:40:00 +0000

Daz Studio 4.12 won't use my video card for an IRAY render. I have a EVGA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti. If I check the render setting for the graphics card, an empty render box comes up. The "rendering image" box doesn't come up either. If I try the Nvidia Iray preview, the model remains white.
I just updated my drivers and the problem remains.

I found these two errors in the log. I don't have the Optix Prime Acceleration selected.

2020-07-13 05:31:21.186 WARNING: ..\..\..\..\..\src\pluginsource\DzIrayRender\dzneuraymgr.cpp(305): Iray [WARNING] - IRAY:RENDER :: 1.0 IRAY rend warn : GPU 1 (GeForce GTX 1050 Ti) with CUDA compute capability -1.-1 cannot be used by iray photoreal.

2020-07-13 05:31:28.446 WARNING: ..\..\..\..\..\src\pluginsource\DzIrayRender\dzneuraymgr.cpp(305): Iray [WARNING] - IRAY:RENDER :: 1.0 IRAY rend warn : The 'iray_optix_prime' scene option is no longer supported.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Photoshop brushes?

EZ3DTV — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 03:58:50 +0000

I seel a lot of products in the Daz shop with "Photoshop brushes"...

Are these for post production?

Imported OBJ moves location after using Transfer Utility G8F

jonjochens — Sat, 18 Jul 2020 16:54:16 +0000

• I created a obj in Blender.

• I imported the obj into DAZ and it's in the proper location.

• I ran Transfer Utility and fit to G8F

My issue is now the obj moved out of loction?

Missing Shader Lists Now?

Saint — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 08:02:03 +0000

I used to have all of my shaders categorized here, where did the lists go? Thanks in advance!

Mesh Grabber not appearing in DAZ

zededd2000 — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 17:51:19 +0000

I can't seem to find any trace of Mesh Grabber in the DAZ aplication. I used it before, but have since updated (something I regret deeply)

Anyone know why so many things seem to be missing or broken now?

4.12.1.118 Problems

Nick_1939 — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 11:13:02 +0000

Hello! I've been expirencing issues with IRAY render. Still can't figure out what's going on with that nor recieving any help. My new issue now with this update is that my files aren't being recognized when clearly they are located exactly where they need to be. Upon launching DAZ I have the genesis 8 male load and It loads perfectly and is in the same location as my other files but when I try to load a different character this is the message that comes up. Any suggestions as to what may be the problem?

Growing up plugin

katherine_4a0d2c0d5e — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 20:56:42 +0000

How can I get the "growing up plugin" for Genesis 8?

It's mentioned in the Headshop tutorial

Daz white screens after Windows Update.

tkdrobert — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 23:12:38 +0000

Installed security updates today and now Daz keeps locking up. Do I need to roll back?

Scene Optimizer missing from Daz Central

vagans — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 16:57:18 +0000

I picked up Scene Optimizer finally during the sale and went to install today to find that it's not in my Daz Central. It does appear in DIM to install.

[Solved] PW customizable pirate ship - missing content

Lothar Weber — Sat, 18 Jul 2020 07:13:31 +0000

Is there something missing with that product? DIM Download tells me only 3 of 4 parts are available. Manual download tells the same. File 1 of 4 is missing.

https://www.daz3d.com/pw-customizable-pirate-ship

edit: added the link to product page

2nd Edit: Now installed and not working or being seen in Products - so the first Part of it is missing in downloads.

Model Lighting Glitch?

draenenart — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 21:02:46 +0000

Heya folks. I've been using Daz for about a year now, and I've gotten pretty good at it. But recently I've noticed my model's faces are a pain in the ass, if not completely broken, when it comes to lighting (see below).

For the sake of showcasing the extreme of this example, I have a spotlight DIRECTLY in front of the model's face. As you can see, for whatever reason, most of the side of the face on which the light is on is incredibly dark and not lit at all. I thought it could be a few things with the model but its a problem I've had with other models, wardrobes, hairs, etc., and for whatever reason it's a problem here too

I do have a sort of stylistic render I generally do with a few secret settings to give a soft, almost illustrated vibe, but tweaking those settings doesn't seem to help either.

Any suggestions?

HDRI Background creation not working.

lustfulrain — Sat, 18 Jul 2020 16:53:15 +0000

Hi pepz, Just following someones tutorial on youtube about how to make a hdri background to save on rendering time, Thought it would be a good idea for animations but I have a problem. When he tells me to change the lens to spherical I have weird side artifacts. It may be because my room is a bit small .. Have tried moving the camera in different directions and such but it's not working ? idea's? many thanks.

Purchased Stephanie 4 Elite - Not appearing in Figures

Exitof — Sat, 18 Jul 2020 08:58:19 +0000

Okay, I've reviewed the Stephanie 4 Elite details (https://www.daz3d.com/downloader/customer/files/prod/9357/) and see there are 9 character morphs (head and body separate) in total:

Stephanie
Caitlyn
Grace
Isabelle
Ella
Lily
Madeline
Natalie
Paige

In trying to add Stephanie 4, I've found that you have to add Victoria 4.2, which then will popup a dialog for selecting Stephanie. This, though, will not load Stephanie, it will load Victoria 4.2. In order to make her Stephanie, you have to then needle down through the Shaping tab morphs looking for Full Body, then slide it to 100%. This only changes her body, so then you have to click her head and then slide to 100%.

Body that is just a body morph, but it also shows different skin textures in the product shots, so I'm not even sure if there is a Stephanie 4 texture that should be applied instead of the base Victoria 4.2 textures.

Ultimately, I want to be able to just have Stephanie 4 appear as a figure in smart content area. Right now, it's a pain in the butt, and worse is that it's easy to overlook all the characters that are available. I want all 9 to appear in my figure area.

I've tried Save As -> Support Asset/Prop, which forced me to first do Edit -> Figure -> Rigging -> Convert Figure to Weight Mapping

I also tried Save As -> Character Preset.

Neither of these did anything that I can tell. I search through the Content Library, but didn't find these presets/assets anywhere.

On top of this, I have a bunch of other morphs for Victoria, Stephanie, and a host of others which do not appear as "Actors".

Help?

skin builder 8 An error occurred... Asking for help

guihuo0324 — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 15:25:57 +0000

Error running skin builder 8, unable to start

skin builder 8 an error occurred while restoring the file see the log file for more details

Keyframes disappearing after saving an animation

Cervcity — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 17:56:59 +0000

I got really frustrated after saving and re-opening a scene I made. It used to be a pretty complex animation (for my skills), now all the keyframes for several items in the timeline (not all of them, some parts of the figure are still being animated) are gone. Vanished. I read about a similar issue a few posts back, but not completely sure it relates to my case. Is this a known issue with DAZ 4.12? Or is it not correct to save an animation as "scene" when I use the timeline?

Missing .jpg's from face generate

wayneout_edeaad0859 — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 03:53:34 +0000

Sorry about the terrible title.

I generated a face and then saved it in a scene. When I load the scene, I get all thiese error messages saying that about 8 .jpg's are missing. They are suppose to be
in my AppData folder under roaming Daz/temp. The folder is empty. I haven't bought the software for it until I find out how good it works. When I first make this one,
I saved the textures in a ljson file but when I try to load it, I get the same error messages. Is this because I am using the temporary software? If not, then I do not want
to buy the software because of this problem. From the size of my AppData folder, nothing seems to ever be deleted but these files are gone if they were ever there
to start with unless when I close Daz Studio, they get deleted. The face generate tab says I have three tries left but it has been saying that for quite some time.

Thanks

Deforming skin with tight clothes

Tsuba — Wed, 03 Apr 2019 18:57:26 +0000

Hello again !

I'm trying to get tight clothes to slightly deform the skin like so :

Perhaps a little less than that but you get the idea. Because as of now I get this :

Which doesn't look very realistic.
Any idea how to do that in DAZ ?

Thanks !

Help with exporting DS prop to use in Poser

Jan_Scrapper — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 16:23:34 +0000

I love the Create a Room series. https://www.daz3d.com/collective3d-create-a-room-xpack-3

I am trying to use one prop window in Poser.

I don't think I am answering all of the questions properly to export it as an obj. I tried exporting a cr2, however nothing happened.

The Poser render below is the obj imported.

This is a work in progress...please excuse the mess!!!

Selecting genesis 8 female in scen tab deley

mats76 — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 19:34:46 +0000

I just notied that when selecting G8F in scen tab there are a 2 second deley and the windows blue spinning circle appering. I guess the massive amount of morphs is a factor but I can't remeber it behaving like this yesterday. Everything is installed on a samsung 2tb ssd. Does anyone else experience this 2 second deley.

Thanks in advance

Mats

Daz studio can´t find the path to my old files/scenes.

Ghostride — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 15:36:27 +0000

Hi! Asked before but my question is gone so I ask again. Daz studio can´t fin the path to my old scenes and files. Otherwise things works fine. I have made proper installations and the content in the databases can find

the things in my databases (daz, poser). Does anyone have any suggestions how to set the right paths so that Dazstuio can find the content in my old scenes/works.

Thanks

Dforce Distortion by all settings (Primitives)

kayto93_073094d40c — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 14:44:00 +0000

Hi guys i have a problem with dforce. I used in the past a lot of dforce and it all works fine and i found a lot new ways to get good results. Now i just want to simulate some primitives and i cant. It explodes directly.

I used plane and sphere (Plane: i tried to get plasters or a tape to close the mouth or just to cover sensitive areas of a body)(Sphere was just to try some tight effects)

But already with default dforce settings it explodes.

Someone have an idea why and how i can fix this?

Great

K4YT0

Remove all simulations from Figure

MegaGothmog — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 13:42:29 +0000

I need some help with the simulations you can use for objects and figures like Gen 3 and 8

I ran some dforce simulation on some cloth (or a plane acting as cloth) yet for some reason my Gen 8 model was caught in the simulation as well.

I use the 'Animated (use Timeline Play Range)' in the settings tab since that one worked better for the cloth, though i am not sure if this makes any difference.

I just want to remove all simulations from the Gen 8 figure, yet nothing seems to work. I tried all the options from this thread:

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/377466/clearing-dforce-simulation-on-one-item-while-leaving-the-others

but my Gen 8 figure is still animated. I don't want to loose the pose i put her in since it was quite difficult to get her in there.

So my main question is how to remove all simulation settings from a Gen character... or even all simulations from all objects, since even the 'Clear' option in the Simulations tab doesn't seem to work.

Exporting to Collada still crashes Daz

cold4ire — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 15:25:00 +0000

Been reading on forums but doesnt seem like its solved, trying to export an animation morph to collada(dae file) but it keeps crashing. movement animation works in fbx format but not the face morph. The morph appears in the animate timeline which i have baked.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Need help autofitting these boots

greghornart_8fc0930be1 — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 07:12:29 +0000

I'm trying to fit Gen 8 Battleworn armor to Freak 5. When the auto-fit prompt appears it does not give a figure option for Gen8, so I opted for "unsupported" and got this bad result (see attached file). Just need help getting the clothing to appear in the proper position. Thanks!

render screen all grey in preview, won't matter if i change Tone Mapping

zx96 — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 20:02:42 +0000

Hello everyone, I am a newbie and I am stuck a bit. I have placed 3 objects in my scene and the render just won't happen. I post a screenshot so that you can see what i have to work with and perhaps help. I wouldn't want to restart the scene from scratch especially because it's painful to zoom out to such a distance for the image i want to render.

Non related to the problem but, is there a way to quickly zoom far far away with my point of view? As if i close and re-open the program and load the scene the POV is not as it is in my screen shot and it takes like a few minutes spinning the mouse wheel to get to the view I want.

Thanks for any help :)

Genesis 8 Left eye

westcala — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 13:30:35 +0000

Hi to all Can anyone solve this for me Please, when i load Any genesis 8 figure the pupil is always missing from the left eye.

Many Thanks in antisipation.

Removing add-ins

sberlins — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 05:45:23 +0000

How do you remove add-ins you no longer need? Searched the forums with no luck, and the menu Windows don't lead to anything that removes them.