When the renderer reads the image into memory, it is decompressed and stored at raw resolution and bit depth. So it will always use the same amount of memory for a given pixel resolution and bit depth, regardless of the size of the input file. E.g., an 8-bit RGB 4096x4096 texture will always use 49152MB of memory.

Surely they mean 49152kb of memory... Anyway, if true, is there a graph showing the increase in memory usage per texture  size and bit depth.  I couldnt find one.

Is there a hard limit of texture size we can use?

Dell XPS Studio 9100
i7 x990 @3.47 - 22BG ram

GeForce RTX 2060 6gb

Win 10 Pro/64bit
Studio Drivers - version 442.92
Daz Studio version 4.12.0.86

When rendering a scene, ocassionally something will go horribly wrong and somehow cause a cascade failure of nearly every component in my system. I've test rednered simple scenes and complex scenes and there doesn't seem to by any rhyme or reason to the crashes.It starts at any point after a render begind when the clock in the task bar stops updating. Shortly thereafter, the Daz interface will freeze, but not fade as apps normally do. I run dual displays, and the screen that Daz is living on has no other symptoms than large area refreshes don't seem to be working. That is, I can't move a window on that display, but i can still click through the menus and other buttons, but to no effect.

On the opposite screen, I can open and select items in the start menu but nothing starts or stops. Selecting shut down does nothing. Starting the task manager lets me select and force stop Daz, but the force stop never goes through. Eventually the task mager also stops, but the mouse conitnues to work more or less for a few minutes until it too ceases. During these episodes I've tried to log in ot the computer remotely usin anydesk and although I can get past the password screen, the app hangs on 'waiting for display' Eventually I have to force restart.

Whis is when it gets intersting. The Daz log file has no errors at that time and the last entries are:

2020-06-19 15:09:32.503 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Received update to 00368 iterations after 1305.893s.
2020-06-19 15:11:08.917 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Received update to 00386 iterations after 1402.306s.
2020-06-19 15:11:45.071 Iray [VERBOSE] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend progr: 37.93% of image converged
2020-06-19 15:11:45.681 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Received update to 00401 iterations after 1439.070s.
2020-06-19 15:13:28.914 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Received update to 00422 iterations after 1542.303s.
2020-06-19 15:14:04.421 Iray [VERBOSE] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend progr: 39.12% of image converged
2020-06-19 15:14:05.018 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Received update to 00438 iterations after 1578.407s.
2020-06-19 15:15:58.721 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Received update to 00461 iterations after 1692.110s.
2020-06-19 15:16:43.097 Iray [VERBOSE] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend progr: 41.33% of image converged
2020-06-19 15:16:43.716 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Received update to 00479 iterations after 1737.105s.
2020-06-19 15:18:44.290 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Received update to 00504 iterations after 1857.680s.
2020-06-19 15:19:29.980 Iray [VERBOSE] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend progr: 43.90% of image converged
2020-06-19 15:19:30.604 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Received update to 00523 iterations after 1903.993s.

The last entry there is two minutes before the task bar clock stops.

There is a huge 50 line break in the log and it picks up where after I've reset everything and start Daz up again:

020-06-19 16:43:21.468 Platform bits: 64
2020-06-19 16:43:21.468 Qt Version: 4.8.7
2020-06-19 16:43:21.468 OpenSubdiv Version: 3.0.0
2020-06-19 16:43:21.468 Running on Windows 10, Build 9200, No Service Pack Installed
2020-06-19 16:43:21.468 CPU Information:
2020-06-19 16:43:21.468     CPU String: GenuineIntel
2020-06-19 16:43:21.468     CPU Brand String: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU       X 990  @ 3.47GHz
2020-06-19 16:43:21.468     Cache Line Size = 64
2020-06-19 16:43:21.481     L2 Associativity = 6
2020-06-19 16:43:21.481     Cache Size = 256
2020-06-19 16:43:21.481     Stepping ID = 2
2020-06-19 16:43:21.481     Model = 12
2020-06-19 16:43:21.481     Family = 6
2020-06-19 16:43:21.481     Extended model = 2
2020-06-19 16:43:21.481     CLFLUSH cache line size = 64
2020-06-19 16:43:21.482     APIC Physical ID = 2

So I go into the System Eventviewer:

Error    6/19/2020 4:42:22 PM    EventLog    6008    None
Information    6/19/2020 4:42:06 PM    Kernel-General    20    (6)
Information    6/19/2020 4:42:06 PM    Kernel-Boot    32    (58)
Information    6/19/2020 4:42:06 PM    Kernel-Boot    18    (57)
Information    6/19/2020 4:42:06 PM    Kernel-Boot    27    (33)
Information    6/19/2020 4:42:06 PM    Kernel-Boot    25    (32)
Information    6/19/2020 4:42:06 PM    Kernel-Boot    20    (31)
Information    6/19/2020 4:42:06 PM    Kernel-Boot    153    (62)
Information    6/19/2020 4:42:06 PM    Kernel-General    12    (1)
Information    6/19/2020 2:03:09 PM    Service Control Manager    7040    None
Information    6/19/2020 2:00:45 PM    Service Control Manager    7040    None
Warning    6/19/2020 1:28:04 PM    DistributedCOM    10016    None

The eventviewer complely misses the entire issue. Task bar clock stopped at 3:21, and the event viewer skips from 2:03pm (approximately when I started the render) to 4:42 (when the system started the report.

I've tried various configurations of drivers, Studio, Gaming, older, newer, and the problem only happens on random iRay renders. Games, video editing, streaming video, or anything else I've put the card it doesn't miss a beat.

Anyone heard of anything like this?? I'm close to returning it to the vendor and requesting a replacement.

I followed the install instruction from the blog and although things didn't match what I saw on screen precisely, I was able to export .duf and fbx files from Daz according the instructions in the manual. 

The add-on appears to install fine in Blender 2.83, but when the importer tries to import a .duf file, it gives back a bunch of error messages and nothing comes into the program. I'll attach a screenshot.

Note: in the process of getting Diffeomorphic, I installed Dropbox, which has behaved in nightmarish ways. Could this have something to do with it?

Oh, I forgot to mention: the dialogue for importing doesn't show the 'operator presets' on the left as in the instructions, instead there is button on the upper right, but opening it doesn't offer any options. It does say *missing paths* though.

I'm trying to use the Shipwreck Survivor set I purchased a little while ago, and have found a serious flaw with the model. The windows on the cargo containers aren't actually openings. The vendor put square objects on them and made them black, to appear as a window from a distance. The problem is that you can't put people up in the windows look out (or shooting or mooning, whatever), and you can't put a camera inside looking out on the scene below.

So, I need to cutout those windows somehow.

I tried the geometry editor, but the polygons on the sides of the containers go from top to bottom. I understand why, to save system resources. Ok.

So I'm trying a cutout in the texture using an opacity map. The problem is it's all trial and error (mostly error), in getting the position right. To compound the problem, DS isn't picking up changes to the opacity map in the viewport, either in texture shaded or Iray. I have to do a render to see if anything changed. VERY frustrating.

Is there a way I can force the viewport to see the material changes without reloading the entire scene each time?

Here's the error message.

"A file required by the "iii - adding an environment" interactive lesson can not be found. Check that the file is installed correctly to a mapped directory and try again.

The missing file is provided by the following product:

Genesis 3 Female Starter Essentials"

But the link goes to Genesis 2 Starter Essentials

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

1) Uses all the scene lighting + environment lighting but has these hidden from view

2) Shows shadows interacting with the background environment but background environments are completely hidden from view (e.g., background is an invisible shadow catcher)

I ask because my Scene tab has all items set to visible, meanwhile, I only have the foreground items selected as nodes in my canvas Node List,  however, the whole canvas just renders completely blank.

Not sure what im missing here.

What I'd like to know is how I can check how much memory things use so I can maximize efficency. For example, I use RawArt3D's Nosuit G8 figure a lot, but I also use regular G8. I don't know which figure uses more memory. Similarly with clothing, I'd like to see what pieces use more memory, which ones less, so I can then decide on designing from there. HOpe that makes sense.

Thank you!

I was using the latest Skin Builder 3 and it gave me the option of previewing the brow color I had changed, but it did it in a way I did not expect. I thought it was going to show me the color change inside the Skin Builder script but it actually did it on the figure itself as a preview render (wow, who knew!), except it did not stop even after I closed Skin Builder.  I could not figure out how to make it stop so I closed out Daz Studio thinking it would stop but after starting it back up again, it continued preview render anything I put into the viewport!!  It won't stop, but I did notice a new icon on my view port (and, no, I am not in auxilary view port). see attachment. It's a tiny square icon that wasn't there before.  So I thought, Ooh, problem solved except when I hover my cursor over it, it does not identify itself like all the other icons on the interface.  I can click on it and nothing happens, right or left.  I can't make it go away.  Know what I did next?  Real neophyte.  I uninstalled Daz Studio.  Yep, took that sucker right out.  I had 4.8 anyway, time to upgrade, right.  So I uninstalled 4.8 and installed a fresh 4.9 as of tonight.  And guess what happened?  Yep, that stupid icon is still there and my viewport keeps preview rendering everything I put into it.

So which one of you super intelligent people can tell me how to stop my scene from automatically preview-rendering everything I put into it.  I know you guys can do it because you're all super, super smart.  I'm pretty smart too but...obviously not tonight. 

Moon Baby

I've been having some trouble with the denoiser for some reason and I can't figure out why. I'm running Windows 10 on an i7 with 64GB of ram and a GeForce RTX 2080 and I've tried using both 4.11 and 4.12.

While creating and designing a scene, I will periodically switch from 'texture shaded' to 'Nvidia Iray' mode in the viewport draw settings while testing lighting and shadows and to get an overall idea of what the render will look like when complete. When I turn the denoiser on and select Nvidia Iray mode (regular default filter settings other than selecting the two denoiser apply buttons) everything works fine and the denoiser activates in 8 iterations. Within mere seconds, my image looks great and nearly complete with absolutely no noise. However, anytime I actually go to render an image, the denoiser doesn't do anything, at all. It never seems to engage and the image looks noisy and grainy. This is even after 8-16 hours of rendering while I am at work. If I stop the render, the denoiser stops working completely, even in the viewport when I go to select 'Iray'. Almost as if initiating the render turns of the denoiser completely. If I close Daz and then bring the scene back up, the denoiser begins working again, but only in the viewport. I have only the RTX 2080 selected for the hardware devices in both interactive and photoreal. I've tried this with dozens of different scenes, get the same results and can't figure out what's going on.

So to summarize, Denoiser works fine in the viewport when Iray mode is selected, but does not work at all when actually rendering an image. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance.

I tried a commercial converter from daz store but it only deals with legs and arms. There is another converter in deviantart but it doesnt show up in my DAZ pose controls unfortunately. I was wondering if you guys know of other ways to deal with converting G3 to G8 hand poses?

https://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/?ViewProduct=130078

https://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/?ViewProduct=130138

https://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/?ViewProduct=129767

I knew that they might not work, but the lack of realistic uniforms pushed me to try it anyway. 

Is there anybody able to make these items work for Genesis8? I'm also willing to pay something to have these items converted to G8, since I'd really need them!

Thank you!

Thank you!

I'm hoping someone might be able to help me with a question about hair in Daz Studio.

Most hairs seem to have a selection of colours which often includes grey or white hair, but is there a way to add some grey to a coloured hair?   Streaks or a 'salt & pepper' look both work.   I'm looking to create older but not elderly characters who still have some/most of their hair colour but are starting to go grey.   Is there a (easy) way to do this in Daz Studio, or does it require new textures being made?

Thanks for any help you can give,

Lossow

Prior to this, I successfully rendered out four other, similar scenes using Batch Renderer with the exact same combination of shaders without issue, so I know it's capable of this task. I therefore assume it's memory-related. However, my system has 64 GB of RAM, which I would have thought would be more than enough to cruise through this task. I need to be able to use Batch Renderer because I'm soon going back to work and will need my PC to be able to continue rendering my animations while I'm not home to maintain productivity. Any assistance or info would be appreciated.

I just installed the Harpwood Trail https://www.daz3d.com/the-harpwood-trail-for-daz-studio and have a problem with rendering.

When I load the scene and use the light preset and the render preset, my render is black.

I tried differend cameras but it's still black. I also tried different settings.

I only get a render, when I start a new scene,load the product and start with a seperate lighning, from another product ( I used the setting from the Bend of the River for example)

file not found

data/daz 3d/genesis 2/female/morphs/daz 3d/evolution head/phmeyescorneabulge.dsf

The product page doesn't say that it needs anything other than Genesis 2 or the Belle 6 character.

I've looked for a product in the Daz store and found a Genesis Evolution Head Morph product but not one for Genesis 2.

If I click OK the character loads, no doubt minus the one property.

A similar problem occurs when I load the Cormac character that I purchased as part of the Elios 8 Pro Bundle except the file is different:

data/daz 3d/genesis 8/male/morphs/daz 3d/landon 8/fhmlandon8.dsf

Again the product page doesn't say that anything other than Elios 8 is required.

It is possible that this was unintentional on the part of the content creators or perhaps the store listing is missing a required product. Either way it is a tad frustrating!

Does anyone know if there is/was a Genesis 2 Evolution Head Morph set? I can't seem to find it in the store.

Here's what I've tried...

• Deleting product and re-installing
• Updating Metadata, and then selecting Install updates

It is also important to note that many other updates work just fine.

Here's what my log file shows...

2020-06-20 11:02:42.969 Beginning Update of "Sea Shanty Props"
2020-06-20 11:02:43.318 WARNING: ..\..\..\..\..\src\sdksource\cloud\dzcloudtasknotifier.cpp(178): Could not find URL for file Zero Bodhr¯n Beater.png props/merlin/sea shanty props/3delight/zero bodhr¯n beater.png in product Sea Shanty Props 70141
2020-06-20 11:02:43.318 WARNING: ..\..\..\..\..\src\sdksource\cloud\dzcloudtasknotifier.cpp(178): Could not find URL for file Zero Bodhr¯n.png props/merlin/sea shanty props/3delight/zero bodhr¯n.png in product Sea Shanty Props 70141
2020-06-20 11:02:43.318 WARNING: ..\..\..\..\..\src\sdksource\cloud\dzcloudtasknotifier.cpp(178): Could not find URL for file Zero Bodhr¯n.png props/merlin/sea shanty props/iray/zero bodhr¯n.png in product Sea Shanty Props 70141
2020-06-20 11:02:43.318 WARNING: ..\..\..\..\..\src\sdksource\cloud\dzcloudtasknotifier.cpp(178): Could not find URL for file Zero Bodhr¯n Beater.png props/merlin/sea shanty props/iray/zero bodhr¯n beater.png in product Sea Shanty Props 70141
2020-06-20 11:02:43.334 WARNING: ..\..\..\..\..\src\sdksource\cloud\dzcloudtasknotifier.cpp(178): Could not find URL for file MRLN_Bodhr¯nSkinS.jpg runtime/textures/merlin/sea shanty props/mrln_bodhr¯nskins.jpg in product Sea

... lines deleted for space...

2020-06-20 11:09:33.633 WARNING: ..\..\..\..\..\src\sdksource\cloud\dzcloudtasknotifier.cpp(178): Failed to download output file "B:/poseruser/documents/DAZ 3D/Studio/My Daz Connect Library\data\cloud\1_70141\props/merlin/sea shanty props/3delight/genesis 8 female bodhr¯n.duf.part"
2020-06-20 11:09:33.894 "Sea Shanty Props": Update Failed.

Is it possible to lock this resizing? The option "dock/undockable" does not inflict this, I did try that already.

Thanks.

Or change names into icons like blender does. It has like 10 or 15 panes and they don't take 2/3 of the screen. 

Now I've got even more panes with the addition of graphmate and keymate in hopes that it will stop daz from deleting every keyframe value that it's been doing for more than a month already.

So is it possible to rename panes? Change them into icons? At least make the font smaller?

But when I try and view the boat through the view of a stock Daz Studio spotlight so I can focus the light in the right place the boat completely vanishes.

It reappears when I switch back to camera view.

Any help on this would be much appreciated, thanks in advance! 

I am working on organizing my huge collection of items. One thing I would really like to do is be able to list on the Daz Studio Shop page my owned items based on the full price (not the current sales price) from high to low. I can get my stuff to list and I can get high to low to list ... but I am unable to figure out how to get it by full price. What type of code or search parameter am I missing? Thanks for the help in advance.

Pi Man

(I'm Max-S but new name cause a PA now)

What are the right procedure (steps) to save character along with custom eyelashes? Post Load I know, but it saves the base eyelashes. While my product has a custom morph eyelashes.

Thank you and have a great day! 

Upon further investigation, it seems that the morphs that Auto fit does not work well with are Heavy, Voluptuous, Weight, and pear figure of Genesis 3 Female Body Morphs.  Also, the morphs of Heavy, Voluptuous, Weight, pear figure of Body Mixer for Genesis 3 and 8 Female are working.(https://www.daz3d.com/body-mixer-for-genesis-3-and-8-female) First I want to know if this problem is my personal one or a global one. 

Is it an Autofit product (https://www.daz3d.com/wear-them-all-autofitting-clones-and-clothing-smoothers-for-genesis-3-female-s) problem or a G3 problem? These morphs are in heavy use and are looking for a radical solution.

I have here one expression which doesnt work.

@Zeddicuss

Product: https://www.daz3d.com/z-actions-and-reactions-poses-and-bonus-expressions-for-genesis-3-and-8

Not working on G8M. At G8F does it work.

btw: sad again, that G8F get more options as G8M :( not even all sliders.

To start with, I have had to transfer my entire My Library onto several different computers over the course of ten years with DAZ when one would break down. Last week, my power chord on my primary laptop (that had all of my DAZ content) quit working completely so I had to redownload all of my things onto another laptop I had (I couldn't just transfer like I usually did because my laptop wouldn't stay charged long enough for the 1TB transfer). I thought everything was working great until I transfered my saved files over and went to open them only to get this image repeatedly. All of these morphs files have been installed on the new computer and are in the correct folder. They're all showing up in Parameters and Shaping, but DAZ is not recognizing them for my figures. DAZ is also not recognizing some the People I have used morphs from, either (Salvator, by Darwin's Mishap, as an example), even though they are also installed properly and showing up in the correct folders. I can click and drag on their parameters with no issues, as well.

I'm really frustrated and not sure what is going on. I have never had this issue before.

Please, someone have a solution. I had so much work I needed to complete and needed to do things with my own character that is now...not my character. Literally looks nothing like any of them. And it is any of the files I open--this is happening.