Is there a way to get around this? 

And when I try to render a scene with it Daz3d instantly uses up all available memory that's insane for a single hair prop.

Most useless product ever.

I'm really new to working with DAZ. and I'm learning using the octane plugin. I'm doing some test making a skin shader (just on the face of the model right now) and I notice some "odd texture" on some parts of the model, looks like a mesh. 

Can anyone help me figure out what can this be please?

I've attached an image to show the problem.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NulGDcQQfZNu3TwnIqCQM0aF7atwZm_i/view

I hope this is the right forum to ask this kind of questions. 

Thanks in advance for your time

My understanding is that to make the transfer utility work the figure needs to be in the T pose so I imported it into MD and made the shirt but the problem is because of his raised arms, the shirt is all bunched up over the shoulders and when brought back into Daz, the bunched-upness remains on the shoulders and it looks like plasticine horror.

Does anyone know of any solutions to this?

Is anyone having this issue? I've upgraded from the previous version and didn't have any issues. Wanted to mess around in this version today only to set up a scene to render and nothing happened. I got a blank screen. I checked the error log and this is what I pulled out out of all the other messages of errors I didn't understand. IRAY   rend warn : There is no CUDA-capable GPU available to the iray photoreal renderer.

I see that there is another update available but I am not able to download that through the DIM. What's going on? DAZ 

Thanks! 

I've backed up all my data, runtimes, data, all of it.   Do I just restore textures under runtime or is there other areas I should do.  Geometries seems to be somewhere else, but I don't see user defined Geometries.  

This is for personal use only, not for distribution in any form. 

I've watched some tutorial but they are either too old or totally off-topic, and couldn't find anything useful even here in the forums :-) 

Thank you in advance for ant hint or help ;-) 

Ren

Sorry to ask what is no doubt a bit of a dumb question... 

When I opened DS, I found that my many and complex Visual Menu custom preset menus wouldn't work. Checked Workspace/Customize/Custom Actions and found that all my hot key assignments for the double digit Visual Menus I previously created had been removed, somehow, by the install process of one or both of the EJ products. I used several of them just this morning, then did the EJ intalls, and they were gone.

Luckily, a Windows System Restore gave me back my Visual Menus hot key assignments.

I have no idea which one or both of these EJ products overrode or erased them, since they both play games with the interface.

I have to say that I didn't find any significant Install instructions for the UIs and Styles product, as regards the zip file containing the AppData folder. There's no real path, or only half of one, just AppData/Daz 3D/Studio4, which I don't have on my machine. So I put it.in the only appdata folder I know of, my own, Users/AppData/Roaming/Daz3D/Studio4 folder. The specific EJ files are still in there, but not functioing ( I presume) because I haven't rerun the Install from the content library icon. That's a guess. I'm just relieved that i got those VM hotkeys back.

I also find that I have an apparently new, never-before-noticed folder on my system drive now: C:/Daz 3D/Applicaitons/Data/Daz3D//Content Database/ContentCluster... Don't recall ever seeing that one, as all the DS program files on my machine go in C:/Program Files/Daz 3D etc. or Users/AppData/ etc. I hate when this sort of thing happens.

Does anyone know if these Emma & Jordi products can be installed without deleting existing Custom Action hot key assigments for other products?

As shown in pic attached, for example, when I select the right arm to edit, the arm in shaping tab shown gray on the right arm I selected, and the editor window on the right refuse to recongize the part I selected and force me to morph the whole body instead. 

Now the only way I get pass this is to open those gray tabs one by one which is super inconvenient and very time consuming

I don't know what triggers this bug, but it's surpemely annoying and won't go away after I restasrt the program or restart my PC, Any debuging advise? 

I'm relatively new to Daz and I'm having a bit of an issue with my renders. For some reason when I do the rendering, my eye colors/materials get weird.

You can see if you zoom in on the eyes, that there is seems some kind of white/yellow halo around the iris and I simply do not understand where it comes from.

I reset and reapplied the material, tye putting on/off the spotlights I had, the key light is not on Render emitter mode.

The interesting bit is that when I do a preview with Iray Interactive mode, it works fine, but as soon as I do the rendering in Photorealistic mode, it renders like this.

Does anyone have any idea why this is happening ?

Thank you all

I know I can move all those properties but that's not really an ideal solution.

These kitties behave:
Noodle
Hivewire House Cat
Catoon

I created a fresh scene and the same cats misbehaved.  One cat in the scene by itself will swing it's legs.  The amount of movement of the legs can vary each time they are moved.  I did find that I could move them in Parameters / xTrans without their legs flying around. 
I haven't seen anything like this before.  Is there some setting I am missing?
I am using DAZ 4.12.1 and Windows 10. 
 

It has been almost three years since I started using Daz Studio.
I have acquired the habit to close an instance to quickly close a scene, and to immediately open a new instance of Daz Studio.

With the new changes, this is not doable anymore.

Until the old instance has been shut down in the background, I can't open a new one, and this takes very long, we're talking minutes for complex scenes.

I didn't have any problem with the fact that Daz was closing the previous scene in the background, while I was starting working on a new one.
My system has nice hardware, so I couldn't notice a difference in performance even if I wanted to.

So I'd prefer to not have to wait for 5 minutes for Daz to close in the background, and to not arrest it by force in the task manager.

The script I had found to open new instances requires Daz to be already opened, right?
I could look for the script, use it to open another instance, then close Daz. But the whole process would be counterintuitive, and surely slower than what we've always done.

So, how can I solve this problem?

Thank you in advance!

The only thing I can fix it in is Carrara.

iClone and Poser I am pretty much stuffed unless I use a Carrara export which tends to lose all my map paths.

It seems to occur on some props not others and I am sure the same issue occurs in other softwares like MAX, Blender etc.

It ideally needs to be fixed in DAZ studio or in the exporters.

What happens is textures are wrapped in the UV space and the UV mapping is destrroyed on export.

As I said I can fix it in Carrara, in the Vertex room there is an untick U option in UV mapping that fixes it

or more often I do a notebook hack on the Carrara scene for large files Kakman discovered finding replacing ABoo 23 with ABoo 3 

I have no solution for iClone sadly and it bugs me immensly as I never know buying something if it will work or not.

First Bastion's divided Highway the latest disaster.

with so many parts fixing it in Carrara then reapplying all the maps on the export is daunting.

Thing is the vendors are not at fault IMO, its a DAZ duf issue as Poser files all work fine using a geometry folder, a pp2 or obj/obs etc

its the duf format or dsf that breaks it somehow and exporting back to obj the information is wrong

surely not everyone just uses DAZ studio

there must be others who export DAZ content that this warrants some investigation?

https://www.daz3d.com/mrl-dforce-long-morphing-hair-for-genesis-8-females

...and while it seems to be very detailed and configurable - and a MASSIVE power hog, using almost 1gb of resources for a single unclothed figure plus the hair - in the viewport it only shows an untextured silhouette which makes adjusting the finer details a bit hit-or-miss. (see pic)

i have other iray-only hair sets (e.g. Dallas Pigtails, Various Age Bob etc.) which do display texturing in the viewport, unlike this set.

rendering seems ok and i'm guessing it's all installed correctly, so i was wondering if anyone knows of any trick or hack to make it a bit more workable during setup and pre-vis, that won't break it for the final render.

https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-rozarie-hair-for-genesis-8--3-females

I've set a spin animation and simulate it but the hair doesn't move at all, like it's frozen on her head. I'm a complete noob at Daz, and I don't know what else there is to try.

I've set the simulation settings to "Animated (Use Timeline Play Range)" and turned off "Start Bones From Memorized Pose." I've set both the Hidden and Render scalp to "Add dForce Modifier: Dynamic Surface." I've tried adjusting gravity and air resistance and that doesn't change anything. I've made wind nodes, and those have an effect. And it falls on the ground, when she's lying down, so there's gravity at least. It's just the animations that don't seem to be doing anything. Or maybe I'm just not seeing it.

I've got it to work once before but I have no idea how I was able to do it. I don't remember doing anything else to get it to move but now I can't seem to repeat it. I must have Simulated a hundred times, trying different settings, and each one comes out with no movement.

None of the tutorial vids I've watched didn't have any answers. I appreciate any help.

I have tried everything i can think of, meshes grouped together, grouped singly, grouped singly then together, linked and unlinked, many many different combinations... nothing has worked yet. For every other 3d app / 3d game / 3d engine i've used in the past, linking was usually enough to establish hierarchy but not so with DS it seems.

pic shows the settings i'm using. Multi-ID materials export properly, as do my one-part meshes, so the exporter itself seems to be working ok.

How do i get DS to recognise the separate parts?

p.s. i did search for an answer but every answer seems related to other 3d programs not max, OR is concerned with going from DS to max rather than from max to DS

I tried out the new Post SSIM in Progressive Render settings for DAZ Studio 4.12.1.118 Pro Edition (64-bit) and once I turned it on it made everything blurry. I turned it back off and the same result occurred, nothing changed. I am now very frustrated because now I literally can't render with Iray. I've attached images below of what I am currently experiencing. I can not turn off the Post SSIM. I've tried turning it off in Draw Settings, turning down the target % to 0 (which bumps back up to 50%), turning off Post SSIM Enable then Available off.

If I could just manually turn off Post SSIM that'd be (hopefully) a quick temporary fix.

Mod Edit   Attachments removed due to nudity.

Please use this as feedback and also to help me .

I'm not quite understanding what SubD is. To my understanding, it's the number of polygons in a object/figure but if the SubD level were to go down would it significantly lower object resolution. Can someone give me a side by side comparison or what not.

Thanks.

I've attached a screen shot because I see a lot of white speckles, or artifacts in the fur ( I don't think I see them anywhere but on the fur) This is still at zero percent done and I'm wondering if those will fill in and disappear as the render completes, or will they still be there after a 24hr or longer render?

I used iRadiance HDR resources for the lighting, along with a mesh light rig around the kitty.  I have the firefly filter on and I played with the denoise settings per a thread I found in here and that seemed to help a tiny bit (there seem to be less speckles than the first time I tried it) 

Any advise you can offer will be appreciated and if this has been asked and answered somewhere and I didn't find it, please point it out to me.

Thanks in advance.

Ultrascenery has these "instance files" and if you right click on them Instaedit gives you the option to break apart these instance files.

Ultrascenery has solid boxes in front of some groupings and then it has some grayed out boxes (cubes) marked "instances".

Now I am working with a different product "Tropical Lagoon" and there is no grayed out boxes just the solid ones. So Instaedit won't work.

How do I create grayed out instance files from the groupings with solid boxes?

Thanks in advance for any help on this.

There are no grayed out boxes (cubes) in the image I sent.

I just put together a new computer with an RTX 2070 and it's hooked up to an LG 27inch 1440p monitor. Everything looks great except Daz. For some reason Daz looks funny both in full screen and windowed mode. Anyone have any ideas what is causing it? Thanks.

only lighting is Orestes sky hdri

I'm using a 1080p monitor and initially tried rendering at 4k. I brought this down thinking that might be the issue, but it's just the same.

Daz Studio maybe got too much sun!!!!!! Give numbers!

I've installed DS 4.12.1.118, cause I got from Daz3D the MLP HD Tool. I tried to render my new character HD at built level 3.

After some try, cause it's a laptop with a GTX1050 ti onboard, anytime rendering anything also not HD, start and stop immediately.

Can you explain me that in the log file? Look at the attached pic! There's a way to reset anything?

Thanks