• I don't have the expertise ( or time, sadly ) to build a system, so I'd be looking for a something I can buy assembled. 
• My projects are more focused on rendering single large images for print  ( 4000 px x 4000 px or so ) - not too much animation work yet.
• I travel a bit, so I'd prefer a laptop, but open to a desktop if everyone swears by it.

I am a total PC newbie, and while I've tried to research and read the forums I'm still a bit confused. 
It seems like I need a machine with an Nvidia graphics card, which makes sense. 
But I'm seeing many different categories of Nvidia cards - plus there is this new(ish) RTX push? 

According to https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/studio/software/ It recommends the GeForce RTX 2060 or Quadro RTX 3000 for Daz3d usage. 

• Do users agree with that? And if so, do you have a prefence between the two? Is there a drastic difference?
• Is it safe to assume that anything in these two lines with higher numbers ( Ex. Quadro 4000 / 5000 ) offer better render times?
• Lastly, how much RAM should I be aiming for?

Any help / insight would be appreciated. Thank You!!!

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 almost $500. 
And helpful (read non snarky) suggestions are greatly appreciated. 

Thank you in advance for any assistance you can provide. 

-DP

I use Daz Studio to make comics.
That means that I often use characters after years. Probably on different hardware, with a formatted Operative System.
Needless to say, I often lose a lot of data, and I have to recreate my custom characters, at least in part.

With the years, I've learned to use mostly content from Daz Studio, so that it will tell me what's lacking, and install it.
But other times I need to create something myself, or to use other sources.
Plus, I've recently cleaned up my library, to make G8 figures load faster, and I don't want to slowly re-install everything as I check older characters where I've used that sclera or that morph.

So, what's the proper way to backup custom characters?

Is it enough to save the

• Character as a scene
• Shaping preset
• Material preset?

But I have the impression that those save files only work if you already have the related assets installed.
Does the scene file contain all those three data already?

What if I use Skin Builder 8 to backup the skin? What do I need to save exactly? Is the Full Body option enough?
(Of course it's for personal use only, and with assets I've bought).

Thank you in advance!

Thank you!

First of all, you have to update to 1.91 version. This can export meshes in obj format

I attach a capture showing where are the important options to export:

Once you have a fractal parameters charged in program:

1.- To open Bulb Tracer, where you can export the mesh.

2.- Import parameters into Bulb Tracer.

3.- Where you can choose the quality of this mesh to export.

4.- Resolution and oversampling. TAKE CARE OF THIS, it can generate so big meshes.

5.- Choose where you want the file exported

6.- Export ... and pray to your god, whatever it be.

If somebody wants to question something ...

I'm just... trying to figure out why this is happening to my figure's rigging? I just got a new hard drive installed so I had to redownload Daz and everything. All of my old files are backed up on an external and I can still load those up fine in the program (I didn't copy over all my files because it'd take forever and I was having glacial load times from "duplicate file(s) found" for both my G8 Female and Males. I think something happened during the conversions from G3 to G8 that caused it and I couldn't find the original source of files to delete so I figured I'd start new).

Now, this is happening. Can anyone tell me if it's a missing file or if I just need to reinstall everything (again)? Thanks in advance for your help! 

https://sta.sh/0kojha3p3k7

I don't know how to upload pictures.

If you have encountered such a problem and it has been solved, you can tell me how to solve it?

Example: If I try to load the 'Jai'  figure, I get:

'The selected files could not be found: data/daz 3d/genesis 2/female/uv sets/daz 3d/victoria 4/victoria 4.dsf' - 'May' is another figure that won't load due to missing V4 stuff. Obviously if V4.2 was a direct replacement for V4, I would never see messages like this, SO I look in the store, and I'm just about to bite the bullet and buy what appears to be V4, with this link... https://www.daz3d.com/victoria-4-for-genesis-2-female  until I notice these 2 little lines...

'Compatible Figures: Genesis 2 Female, Victoria 4'

and... 'This product contains only new shapes for Genesis, there are no user-facing files.'

...so it's it's not V4 but only merely compatible with V4, and does not contain V4? If it doesn't contain all her files, I'm still going to get the same errors, yes?

How do I get Victoria 4, the actual thing, with any required associated files and stuff? Is that link the real deal V4 or just a couple of morphs?

and he just not wantin' to show up in DS.  I realize he's a Genesis character 'n all, and apparently that confused DIM something fierce.

Product Icon shows up in Smart Content, but only materials after that.

Tried a manual install but still not right.

For example:

From the IM00018013-01_RibbitsforGenesis.zip      /data/DAZ 3D/Genesis/Base/Morphs/Joequick/Ribbits/FBM_Ribbit.dsf
& where DIM put mine:  D:\DAZ 3D\Studio\My Library\data\DAZ 3D\Genesis\Base\Morphs\Joequick\Ribbits\FBM_Ribbit.dsf

So what's the problem?

How do I correct this?

Anyway, every time something like this happens, I end up having to re-download everything. As I have roughly 7,000 products in my library, that's over a weeks worth of downloading on my slow internet connection.

I'd like to be able to just move it from the old location to where it's supposed to be without hogging all of the band width( hubby isn't happy when I interfere with his WoW),

I'd appreciate any help you folks can give me with this problem, and thanks ahead of time.

I'm new here and with Daz :D I love that software for now !

I just bough https://www.daz3d.com/husky-for-daz-dog-8 and https://www.daz3d.com/daz-dog-8 (I love dogs haha) 

But I have a problem, whenever I try to render (Iray) 2 Huskies with their fur, it crashes my Daz Studio :/ 

I joined the bug report, maybe it can help you !

Thanks a lot :)

Now I can select each instance individually.

The problem is there are over a thousand of them.

I can't seem to find a tool where i can draw a square around section some of them that will not be in my scene and hit the delete key to delete them.

I thought I might be able to use geometry editor I put them all into a group but it doesn't seem to be working.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Also, how do I make an instance of grass visible? Some of them are hidden in the wireframe viewport.

Thanks in advance. 

(I have meshgrabber too)

My current hard drive seems inoperable so i'm going to do a fresh install of Daz. I'd like to use the speed of my ssd, but it doesn't have the capacity to store all my downloaded items/mats etc., so i was wondering how bad of an idea it is to install the client on my ssd and everything else on a new hard drive. I'm concerned about constant read/write cycles wear and tear and on the time that would take over an ssd. Would it be better to buy a high-capacity ssd and install everything on that, and sending the renders to the new hdd? I'm looking into building a new pc soon anyway, so throwing in a 1tb ssd is an option (even if i only use it for daz).

Thanks for your consideration :)

Would like to take things one step further by trying to make some clothes for my characters and perhaps one day in the far future create 3D architecture, props etc.
Would anybody be able to point me in the right direction eg. what kind of software, plug-ins, etc? I chanced upon Blender which seems like a very interesting open source software but I am sure that it takes plug-ins or other software to start learning from absolute scratch how to make outfits for my Daz characters...

Any suggestions as I don't want to download 1.3TB of files again.

Thanks in advance.

I am new to DAZ so please bear with me. I am trying to save a .obj file as a head morph but I recieve the response of "Warning: Geometry did not match, failed to create morph."

I was able to save as a shape preset but ithe figure fails to apply to the head. 

How can I go about putting this .obj head on a figure in DAZ?

Thanks in advance, 

EDIT Seems to work now.

https://www.daz3d.com/ultrumarine-ocean

I have not used it until now. When I load it up and do an Iray render, it comes out all black.  I quickly realized that this is due to the fact that the pack has a skydome.   While I do know a couple tricks with converting skydomes to Iray, this one has me stumped.  After converting the skydome to Iray, this is what I get:

So yeah, it doesn't look anything like the picture in which I want to create that shimmering wavy look of the water surface overhead.  I would like it to be less blue and clearer like in the photos for the product.   I am curious if someone who has this pack has figured out how to use it with Iray and I could use some assistance it getting it to work for my renders.

Thank you,

Geo