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

Floor Grid

leo04 — Tue, 19 Dec 2017 04:51:29 +0000

I would like to reposition the floor grid and change or know how to change the floor grid.

I can't seem to find anything on it anywhere.

Thanks.

Using billboards without taking up disk space?

DefaultName — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 05:04:19 +0000

Hello. I'm trying to use this product https://www.daz3d.com/now-crowd-billboards-modern-city-life

But whenever I install all 15 parts, I'm left without disk space on my disk drive. This may be futile, but I guess I should ask, is there a way to *partly use this product, in order to save space? I mean, it does have 15 parts, so could I install a few and only use part of the product? Or is it all or nothing? Thank you.

Interactive Update goes Auto on

Loony — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 11:20:12 +0000

Hi,

I have the problem, that my daz Studio enables automatic the Interactive Update on my Clothes when I load my scene. I have this only in my current scene, I was first really confused why its so hard to move my char, then I checked for the Update and yes it just turned on, on both used chars in my Scene.

I did never enable it by myself, what can cause this?

Thanks :)

Is there any way to constrain to a surface?

Reality Hack — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 16:51:53 +0000

I know you can get a prop to constrain to a character's hand, but I'm wondering if there's any way to constrain a character's hand (or even just a node) to the surface of another character. For instance, if one character were to grab hold of another character's arm. Or are you basically relegated to having to keyframe that entire interaction, repositioning the arm, hand, and fingers for every single frame?

Thanks in advance.

Easy Feet For Genesis 8 Setup

SkyTheChimera — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 10:59:57 +0000

The product said I just needed DazCentral, turns out the creator forgot to mention that they didn't supply an actual integrated download for it. It's a manual download... and I don't know if this is correct or what. If so, could someone please help me make it work with DazCentral some how?

https://www.daz3d.com/downloader/customer/files/prod/45409/

EDIT: I only just now learned that Install Manager is no longer used, therefor rendering the download for it useless. So my question now is, can someone please guide me on how to make this DazCentral compatible i.e. turning it into a compatible file or something so that it sits neatly in my Central database?

Smoothing modifier to react to inside of primitive (like a cube)

shootybear — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 04:01:09 +0000

I am trying to figure out how to get the smoothing modifier to react to the inside of a primitive, like a cube or a sphere. I tried inverting normal of the primitive (cube) but that didn't seem to do anything. Is there something I'm missing?

Since updating to 4.12 load time are incredibly long

thebombad — Sun, 12 Jul 2020 00:25:13 +0000

Since updating to 4.12 load time are incredibly long, new G8 figure, morphed etc.. Anything. Just clocked for the 3rd long time, 27min to open any figure. Im running AMD 9 3900X with 64GB ram, 2080 Ti, these figure should open in a flash. Ive re loaded Daz, reinstalled a few times not sure whats going on. Anyone have issues with load times on figures?

User Presets save locations

fastbike1 — Sun, 12 Jul 2020 18:13:49 +0000

I would like to have a separate folder for my custom presets in Presets>Character, Presets>Wearables, Presets, Material etc. Yet when I do so, these presets do not appear the next time I open Studio. If I move them oiut of my folder and into e.g. Presets>Character they appear. What am I missing?

Studio 4.12.1.117, Win 10 64

OpenGL rendering not working

Reality Hack — Sun, 12 Jul 2020 23:37:52 +0000

When I play the animation in the viewport, everything looks fine.
But when I render, it just renders one frame that doesn't look like any of the frames from the animation. It's zoomed-in and off-center or something. It doesn't matter which frame I render, it always comes out the same.
If use Intermediate OpenGL (image series or movie, and whether I use GLSL or not), Daz Studio freezes.
If I render using Basic OpenGL (image series or movie) it renders (and the marker does advance across the timeline) but only the one frame over and over which does not match any of the frames from the actual animation.

Also, where did the option to not skip frames go?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Urab Sprawl 3 Daylight/Nightlight options not working

johnbushell70 — Sun, 12 Jul 2020 12:08:56 +0000

Hi,

Has anyone else had issues trying to load either the daylight or night time options that come with Stonemasons Urban Sprawl 3?

The error I get when trying to apply the light setting(s) states; An error occurred while reading the file, see the log for more details

The below is what is detailed in the log file;

2020-07-12 10:15:28.962 WARNING: ..\..\..\..\..\src\sdksource\cloud\dzcloudtasknotifier.cpp(178): recv failed errno=10054
2020-07-12 12:46:46.545 WARNING: ..\..\..\..\..\src\sdksource\cloud\dzcloudtasknotifier.cpp(178): recv failed errno=10054
2020-07-12 12:53:30.805 File loaded in 0 min 0.1 sec.
2020-07-12 12:53:30.805 Loaded file: us3 multi layer road surface.duf
2020-07-12 12:53:47.991 WARNING: QFont::setPixelSize: Pixel size <= 0 (0)
2020-07-12 12:58:58.327 Loaded image DTHDR-RuinsB-500.hdr
2020-07-12 13:00:38.729 Invalid hierarchy for selected node(s) and "preset_hierarchical_material" type; no root(s) found.
2020-07-12 13:00:38.730 Error reading file, see log for more details.

Any advice would be greatly appriciated.

Thanks,

How to make a environment map blurry (Hdri map)

crazelman — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 18:35:59 +0000

Hi i think everything is on the title but to explain more in details.

I have a car scene with two characters chatting. The camera is inside the car so to avoid a heavy background i just set a Hdri map as environment. But the map i have dont fit perfectly to my needs.

So i have the idea to make it a little bit blurry so we cant see the map details. I try with a camera with depth of fields but the map dont become blurry enough.

So if you have ideas???

Creating Material Preset for Multiple Items

mcwright80_9e17ad66fe — Sun, 12 Jul 2020 16:17:13 +0000

Hello. How can I create a materiel preset that applies to multiple clothing items? For instance I paired a dress from one outfit with footwear from another. I want to save the separates as a whole outfit and a number of material presets. Then, I can load the outfit with one click and change the materials with one click.

Hagar figure issue.

manieknww — Sun, 12 Jul 2020 14:18:46 +0000

Hi,

I've just purchased the newly released 'Hagar for G8F' figure and on attached file you can see what I'm getting.

This only happends with Hagar figure. I've tried applying Hagar body and head to G8 base female and that worked fine. It's when I loaded the MAT the thing occured again.

It is visible only in Iray.

Anyone else has got this issue?

Genesis 8 to iclone

TheKD — Sun, 12 Jul 2020 12:41:16 +0000

I need some info from someone that already uses this pipeline.
1)Tutorial that shows exactly what you need to do to get genesis 8 into iclone working. I want to be sure a dope like me could even do it lol.

2)A list of everything I would need to buy to use the pipeline. I want to be sure I can afford everything I need before I start throwing money at it, don't want to be 3/4 there and find out I need a $10,000 program to finish it all off lol.

My lighting does not render how it appears in the lray preview?

oliverallen — Sun, 12 Jul 2020 14:17:22 +0000

I am really struggling with rendering a scene.

I have just a livingroom scene. When i use the lray preview in window, it looks great, nice and light etc.

When i click render - it comes out really dark and I am unsure why.

Why is there such a big difference between the two?

Vigilante Outfit for Gensis 3 female auto fit to Genesis 8 female

gcannon — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 08:38:23 +0000

I am trying to autofit the Vigilante Outfit to a character that is based off of Genesis 8. The jacket hangs the computer for a moment but eventually fits. The other items except the boots fit fine. The issue with the boots is that the poes of the character's feet will will be adjusted automatically to form to the original shape fo the boots, but tip of the toes downward of the boot will be pushed down below the shape of the character's feet. The character's toes will protrude out of the boot. If I manually adjust the boot to match the foot it seems fine except the the size of the boot appears to be. The foreground boot position is the result of AutoFit, the background boot was adjusted manually but still doesn't fit quite right.

Any suggestions on how to fit these boots to my character?

Clear animation from an environment?

vagans — Sat, 11 Jul 2020 20:51:45 +0000

I'm using https://www.daz3d.com/lovable-bathroom and setting up a character than I needed to use a timeline animation on for some dForce and suddenly found 151 frames of animation tied to the objects in the environment, with a key for each object on each frame. Advancing a frame makes everything collapse into the middle. Part of the dforce animation is to use the objects in the scene to interact with the clothes.

How can I remove all the frames of "animation" for these scene objects, keeping them where they are, then start with a new set of fresh keyframes for me to work on? The correct layout of the scene is all on frame 0 also, not at the end of the animation.

Can't move hair - solved!

deathbycanon — Sun, 12 Jul 2020 01:17:06 +0000

I auto fit historical hair for g8m to my g8m figure. The model has an extream morph and I need to move the hair forward, but using the z translate button does nothing. I have unparented the hair, and even loaded it in not on the figure and still none of the translate sliders move anything. They only time I can move the hair is if I use the hip node, it then moves but not correctly. For example y causes it to flip and z causes it to go up and down and rotate..... I have also tried unparenting the hair and moveing the model back, but the hair continues to move with the model.... Anyone out there able to help me out with this?

Converting a MMD .vmd file to a format Daz can Import Without breaking the bank.

Digital Panther — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 12:27:23 +0000

I have been looking for a way to import a motion file from MMD (Mikumikudance) to use with characters in Daz Studio. Specifically Genesis 8 females.
I found an older post regarding it but the programs it is suggesting to use are insanely expensive.

There has got to be a better way.

The original post I found was:
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/56420/share-solution-how-to-convert-mmd-s-motion-data-into-ds

But the post is several years old and the cheapest of the programs it lists to use is almot $500.
And helpful (read non snarky) suggestions are greatly appreci

Exporting with maps

harrisnolan — Sat, 11 Jul 2020 21:33:29 +0000

I would like to make a game model using some of the daz3d genesis models as a base, but I'm having trouble exporting it in a way that I feel comoftable working on it. When I use the Blender .obj export settings, the model shows up on its back, and there are no normal or material maps that get exported with it. Additionally, the UV maps export in such a way that they aren't all within the frame, so I can't paint them in substance. Does anyone know how to rectify these issues?

Turn ground object into a height map image file?

EZ3DTV — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 06:41:30 +0000

I have a uniquely shaped landscape plane in DAZ and I would like to export it as an image file so i can load it into ultra scenery.

What is the easiest way to do this?

I was thinking about using Bryce, clearing my scene in Daz and opening it in Bryce and seeing if I could load it into the landscape editor but I thought I would ask first.

Is there a way I an just export or save a ground plane object scene subset as a jpg heightmap?

(I tried Bryce, it did not recognize it as a native landscape.)

rendering image sequence doesn't stop

Aki3d — Sat, 11 Jul 2020 20:25:41 +0000

When i'm rendering an image sequence, DS will start after the last frame again with the first frame and will delete the former ones.

I'm rendering with Iray in Daz 4.12. Does someone know a solution for this problem?

Installing Vue content with DIM

bytescapes — Sat, 11 Jul 2020 14:57:53 +0000

I have various bits and pieces of content for Vue, purchased from the DAZ store.

When I try to install them, DIM reports 'Install Failed', and puts up a dialog that says "This package requires one of the following application paths to be defined." The dialog has three pulldown menus -- Name, Version, Bit -- which are all blank, and a path selector.

I'm running Vue Creator R5, which is the latest Vue version. I've tried to set up Vue as an application in the Advanced Settings->Application pane (where Vue Creator is not an option; the choices seem to stop at Vue 2016), but that doesn't seem to help. The pulldowns remain empty, and nothing I can do seems to make a difference.

Setting it up to install to Vue 2016 (which I also have) doesn't seem to help either.

Is there an approved way to use DIM to install content to the current version of Vue, or would I do better just to unzip the zip archives by hand and install manually?

Genesis 8 thumbs are distorted

Chenova — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 10:07:49 +0000

I've noticed that I can never create a proper fist pose because the thumbs won't bend at the correct angle. They simply distort and don't bend the way they should. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance! :)

Back up

drafter69_696b99e42b — Sat, 11 Jul 2020 19:16:55 +0000

If I wanted to back up all the items I have gotten for Daz over the years to an external hard drive I would back up My Daz 3d Library but are there other files I need to back up as well?? A friend recently had his hard drive go bad and I don' want to d/l thousand of files again.

Thanks

Default settings for Primitives

Those Things — Sun, 05 Jul 2020 14:23:18 +0000

Ok, I've looked everywhere, and I can't find this answer, so if someone knows, please tell me. When you start Daz Studio for the first time, what are the default settings for the primitives in terms of size and faces, etc? Also, is there a way to reset the primitives once I've made changes? If necessary, would reinstalling Studio work?

nVidia GTX 1050 TI not available in DS 4.12 mac

eltigre — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 18:21:08 +0000

The GPU in question is an MSI GTX 1050 TI with 4GB VRAM. I know it's not the ideal GPU but it's what I have and what I plan to use.

System Specs:

OS: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 (17G13035)

nVidia Web driver: WebDriver-387.10.10.10.40.137

CPU: Intel Core i7 4690

RAM: 16GB

The GPU is available within DS 4.12 on my Windows 10 installation but is not showing up inside DS 4.12 within my macOS installation. I have the onboard GPU enabled and the monitor is attached to same. I have also tried disabling the onboard GPU with the sane results. DS and the GPU work fine in Windows and I am able to do iRay renders using the GPU.

What am I missing?

Cheers,

Can't reset/delete animation to 0 frame no matter what I do

windli3356 — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 18:41:29 +0000

Animation system in Daz is supremely annoying. yesterday i tried to extract 1 frame from an animation, made 10 scene(single frame scene) out of it and saved. little did I know even after manaully deleted the animation block from the bottom, Daz still carry over the entire animation duration to all 10 scenes I saved, now all my 10 scenes' starting point became the first frame of the animation instead of at the frame I saved, and without keyframe data(animation block is gone) I can't relocate my scenes! took me 7 hours to make those and now it's all gone.

Any gurus on here have any idea how to reset/delete animation so I won't carry them over to my saved scenes? And why Daz's animation system has to be so annoying?

pink renders freeimage.dll problem?

TheCediz — Sat, 11 Jul 2020 00:53:58 +0000

So some products, maybe 15%, render on Iray totally pink/magenta even tho I have the correct maps. I red I had to do with some Anti viruses and that I had to look into the quarantine section to find freeimage.dll But there is nothing in quarantine and the pink rendering happens on some products not all. This happens since I moved everything from a MacBook pro to my new PC. All seems right beside this problem. Also I

Thank you

Missing save options

Gonzo1 — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 09:32:18 +0000

I opened Daz today after not using it for a few days and after throwing together a quick modification of V4, I went to File->Save As-> and was expecting to find "Scene Subset" which I use all the time but it wasn't there. I notice I no longer have options for saving: Cameras, Characters, Heirarchicial Materials, Lights, Materials, Poses, Properties, Render Settings, Wearables and Scene Subset (possibly others, but these are the ones I actually used). I rarely need anything other than saving Dformers (which is still in the menu) and Scene Subsets, and I can make do with Scene Subsets if I can get that option back.

I've already searched as much as I know how to. Window->Workspace-Select Layout didn't help. I saved a custom layout during this because I messed up my layout fiddling with that, but none of the options brought back Scene Subset to the Save As menu.

I have had a couple hard crashes while rendering and one while opening Daz3D. If I need to pull from a backup, I may be able to do that, I just don't know what I'm pulling and don't want to carelessly copy over old files.