Any suggestions?

I discovered that when importing the clothing item in to ZBrush, it requires you to convert polygons which have more than 4 sides into triangles or quads and triangles. Thus the topology changes. However when the import to ZBrush is done from DS via GoZ, it does not tell you that this change has been made, it just does it automatically. Thus, if an item has non standard polygons, though DS can cope with this, Zbrush can't and GoZ doesn't tell you that it has to change the topology.

How many hours of work has that cost me and others over the years??

Now the question is; is there a way to get Zbrush to change the topology back to what it was originally, so that the item can be sent back to DS via GoZ (or another way) in order to be used as a morph?

Of course, all this palaver would be competely unnecessary if DS had some simple Smooth, Move, Push and Pull brushes that could be used directly on the mesh in real time. (the D-Former magnets are, to say the least, blunt tools)

How would I set up a geograft hand figure if I was going to have it with a second thumb instead of the pinky? 

In other words, I bring the Genesis 2 Female hand into Lightwave, cut it in half on the centerline (down the middle of the middle finger), and mirror the side with the thumb over...So...Two thumbs, one on each side, with Mid, Index and Ring the same.

• I've tried naming the second thumb parts as: 'Thumb2 1, Thumb2 2, Thumb2 3'...THAT didn't work. Studio renamed it over to 'Pinky1, 2 & 3'.

• I've tried naming the second thumb parts as Pinky, but, when I fit the geograft, it forces the Geografts 'Pinkys' to fit the ones on the figure.

I'd want to translate over the joint info on the OTHER fingers, but NOT this special finger.

Are there any import settings I should be using? Anything I'm MISSING?!

This thing is driving me to DRINK, and I don't drink! 

Thoughts?

I have here a pose set and get in my Error log this:

2020-05-28 22:12:57.581 	D:/daz3d content/Studio/My Library/People/Genesis 8 Female/Poses/Sleeping And Napping/SAN Her Sleep 11.duf (1,44): Syntax Error - expected ',' or '}'
2020-05-28 22:12:57.582 Error reading file, see log for more details.

I checked now the pose files, One file is working.

The left file is workign, the right not, the right looks very... crazy.

https://www.daz3d.com/sleeping-and-napping-for-genesis-3-female

Maybe the bed is needed for the poses? (I would hate that ;( ) but for some reason did the creator forget that at 1 pose?

(I really hate this object connected poses)

Please help me to find an easiest way to make my custom make vehicle wheels to spin on a spot. So far the zbrush model is looking like a statue.

I want static car to move a little bit, doors and trunk can opens as well, but wheels are glued to the floor.

Any suggestions?

My question:  Is there a way to make clothing honor geo-grafts?

For example, if you use a geo-graft that gives a character additional breasts (think Star Wars-style aliens); is it possible to make it so that clothing would conform to that geo-graft without the clothing having to be modified in another program?

I made a purchase. I clicked on the usual download and install button and DAZ Install Manager found nothing to install.

The items could be found in DAZ Central and installed individually.

Is this the new normal?

The FAQs seem to claim otherwise:

"Does DazCentral mean I can’t use Daz Install Manager (DIM)?

You can use DazCentral and Daz Install Manager together! DazCentral can detect what content is installed through Install Manager. It will also detect that path Install Manager is installing content to and will automatically read and install to this path."

just installed the DAZ last version, all items downloaded and installed. Programs works fine but no rendering available... 

I still use win XP (without internet ) because I use Poser8 and a lot of pgs working fine on win XP.  

I 've tried to install DAZ on another machine with windows 10 and it failed...

Dana

https://www.daz3d.com/idg-dforce-ponchos-tabards

https://www.daz3d.com/the-brute-8

Other clothing loads correctly, the tabard claims to work with Genesis 8 Males - however it ends up piled on the floor at the model's feet.  It is also not parented to the model properly in the hierarchy.  When loading, it is not detected as compatible, so I get the "Fit To" dialog when loading.  "Genesis 8 Male" is not an available option when I go to choose what model this was designed for - and I can't figure out what kind of template would be closest (knee length dress?).

It is also unusual that the clothes are in the "Props->Wardrobe" section of Smart Content (where no other clothing is).

Phew!

Any help would be much appreciated - thanks!

Chad

dexterward

I know that it depends on the cuda cores,but I do not know much else.

I was told something like this was good as it had 2080 equivalent cuda cores.

https://www.amazon.com/EVGA-GeForce-Gaming-Backplate-06G-P4-2068-KR/dp/B083GH7LXW/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=EVGA+2060+KO&qid=1589661545&sr=8-1&th=1

I was editing parameters of a figure, when I must have pressed the wrong combination of buttons. All of a sudden, every figure loads completely disappeared with these brackets around them. I've tried almost everything I can think of short of reinstalling.

Can anyone help me get things back to normal?

For some reason her head is not part of her body and is instead on the ground.

I have had a few friends say it might be an issue where her head has no root bone so the lowest level bone went to the 0,0,0 point.

I'm doing the art for a comic book featuring the Water Woman character I created. Below are a full body shot and portrait of the initial character design. The relevant bits of her story: during a sailing trip in the Bermuda Triangle, her soon-to-be-ex girlfriend knocks her out and throws her overboard, leaving her to drown. Magical beings transform her into a non-Newtonian fluid, basically seawater with variable viscosity. Her scientist mom makes a suit that helps her have a more human form. When the suit is at full power, she appears fully human. At partial power, she's more fluid and, without her suit, she's just articulable water.

I've sculpted a geograft to replace her legs with a single limb, for when she's in more fluid form. Below are front and back screenshots of the geograft mesh.

In Blender, I've assigned vertex groups for 6 bones: Hip, Pelvis, Upper, Lower, Base, and Tip. I want the Hip and Pelvis to match the rigging for G8F. The Upper bone will replace G8F's thighs; the Lower will replace G8F's calves; the Base will replace G8F's feet; and the Tip will replace G8F's toes.

Ultimately, I need to use either morphs or rescale/ERC Freeze controls to reshape her lower body into a:

• Tail - Reduce the Z (front-to-back) scale of the Base and Tip, so the sphere becomes a manatee-like tail for swimming.
• Puddle - Reduce the Y (top-to-bottom) scales of the Upper, Lower, Base, and Tip, and increase the X and Z (front-to-back and side-to-side) scales of the Lower, Base, and Tip, so it looks as if she's rising from or sinking into a puddle.
• Funnel - Reduce the X and Z (front-to-back and side-to-side) scales of the Lower, Base, and Tip, so it looks as if she funnels down to a near-point. I can then twist her Upper, Lower, Base, and Tip so it looks as if she's swirling from or into a drain or pipe.

As I understand the geograft and rigging process, I need to:

1. Use Figure Setup to import the obj file and create the bone hierarchy: hip > pelvis > upper > lower > base > tip
2. Use the Joint Editor to adjust the Upper, Lower, Base, and Tip bones if necessary.
3. Use the Weight Map tool to change triax to general weight, clear triax weight, fill by bone selection groups, and smooth the weighting of the Upper, Lower, Base, and Tip bones.
4. Use Transfer Utility with 'Merge Hierarchies' to transfer the G8F rigging to the Hip and Pelvis bones, then Memorize Figure Rigging.
5. Use the Geometry Editor tool to select the top ring of the geograft geometry for grafting, and to select the G8F polys below that ring for auto-hide.
6. Create morphs (if needed) or (better) rescale bones as described above and ERC Freeze to create the Tail, Puddle, and Funnel controls.
7. Save As > Figure/Prop Asset to save the geograft as a G8F modification.
8. Apply the saved geograft to my Water Woman character.
9. Verify that the geograft bones adjusted to my Water Woman's body morphs (Height, G8F Body Morphs, Cartoonized morphs). If necessary, Adjust Rigging to Shape and create an FBM. (I'm not sure how to do this.)

Do I have those steps in the correct sequence? Or should I use the Transfer Utility before I make adjustments with the Joint Editor and Weight Map tools?

From tutorials I've watched, it seems I need to set both G8F and the geograft at Base Resolution (Subdiv 0) before I do steps 2-4, and un-parent the geograft before I do step 5, then re-parent the geograft to G8F before I do Step 7?

What else have I missed?

Thank you all for your help!

Crissie

I AM logged in. I've done more logging than a Canadian Lumberjack.

Is there some procedure I need to be following to make these things work?

It this really what DAZ understands by advancement?

I tried using the geometry editor to hide the polygons outside the region. But that had no effect. They moved if they were in the sphere of interest whether or not they were invisible. Then I used the geometry editor tool to lock all the polygons outside the region. No matter. They all moved.

Is there any way to do what I want with mesh grabber? Any other way?

When I enter my login in DAZ 3D it closes.

When I enter my pwd in install manager it closes.

I have a HP Corei7 laptop w/8gig of memory.

The program seems to run fine if I could just get some assets loaded into it.

Basically, I have two morph sliders, both go from 0% to 100%. I want to 'connect' them somehow, so when I put Slider 1 to 100%, Slider 2 goes to 0%, and when I put Slider 1 to 0%, Slider 2 goes to 100%. How do I do that?