Basically what happens is that when I convert these models to a figure and transfer weights to them from the Genesis 8 figure, they either disappear completely or are very distorted in appearance. I have noticed that it might be related to me needing to rescale and reposition them after the initial import, but aside from that I can't figure out the problem on my own.

data/ravenhair/universal dress/universal dress/morphs/ravenhair/base/apronwrinkles.dsf
data/ravenhair/universal dress/universal dress/morphs/ravenhair/base/dressgeosleeveseams.dsf
data/ravenhair/universal dress/universal geo sleeves/morphs/ravenhair/base/geosleeveseams.dsf
data/ravenhair/universal dress/universal geo sleeves/morphs/ravenhair/base/sleevewrinkles.dsf

And i own dForce Universal Dress for Genesis 8 Female(s)

It is typical.
-It gives me an account or password error (they are well written and exceeds the minimum characters for the password)
-I can connect perfectly to the forum and the web
-Neither the antivirus nor the router are blocking it in any way

Any suggestion?

I upgraded to Daz Studio Version 4.12.  I also just started to use the new Face Transfer app as well.  Now on one of the renders I did, I have noticed that sometimes something peculiar happens with the eyes.  They say a picture is worth a 1000 words, so please take a gander at the photo below:

If you notice the woman's eyes there is some kind of haze over them in which you cannot see the irises clearly.  Her eyes are supposed to be a greenish blue.   It seems to only happen when I do a Face Transfer and yet it doesn't happen all the time either.  Sometimes changing the eyes out helps, sometimes it doesn't. Yes I have tried other faces and the same thing happens every now and then.  I would like to know if anyone else experienced this issue and moreover, if there is a fix for it.

BTW, in case you are wondering, yes, that is Vanessa Williams.

Thank you,

Geo

When I load up the Environment into my viewport, the whole program is extremely sluggish when zooming, panning, and turning the camera. This is even before I have enabled IRay. So, it is almost impossible to get the cameras, lighting, and figures set up how I want.

Does anyone know if there is a way to speed this up? Scaling the environment down maybe? I'm stuck. 

Thanks!

I've just done reinstall and after all the hassle of getting everything working as normal again, I think I ran into a problem.

The rendering history box no longer mentions the GPU processing the scene (it is mentioned in to troubleshooting log, so I guess something was changed in how things are reported) and the taskmanager doesn't show Daz utilizing the GPU. The latter is what I'm worried about.

It may have always been like that and I just have a case of reinstall anxiety.

Thanks for any help.

To start, I set up a scene with a sphere (8 cm diameter) as my light source. I set the Environment Mode to Scene Only, so the sphere will be the only source of light. I also add a box around the to simulate having walls on all sides to reflect light back (the set did not come with 4 walls). 

I want the sphere to simulate a 100 watt light bulb, so on it's surface I set the Luminence Units to lm (lumens) and the Luminance value to 1600. That matches the value indicated on the packaging on a light bulb I'm looking at now, but I could get the same result by setting the Luminence to 100 W (watts) with a Luminous Efficacy of 16 lm/W.

To use reasonable camera settings for poor indoor lighting (a single 100 W lightbulb), I go to the Tone Mapping tab of the Render Settings and set the Exposure Value to 5.70. I acheive this by setting F/Stop to 1.8 and a Shutter Speed (1/x) of 16, but it turns out it doesn't matter which combination I use as long as I arrive at the same EV.

When I render, I get this:

Now I want to understand how the cd/cm^2 units work. the cd stands for cadlepower, so to convert lumens to candlepower I divide 1600 by 12.57 to get 127.287. The surface area of my sphere is 4π 4^2 or 201.06 cm^2. So to get my value Luminence it's 127.287/201.06 to get 0.633 cd/cm^2. I put that value in and set my units to cd/cm^2 and I should get the same amount of light, but instead I get this:

Does anyone know what I did wrong?

(Sorry for the huge gaps; I have not figured out this editor and how to embed images the way others have.)

When I save a project as a scene, only a part of the keyframes are saved. Keyframes in the "Other" cathegory (or in the "value" cathegory from Keymate Tab) are not saved for some reason.

I've load an old scene and all the keyframes are there so it's not a loading problem.

I've tried many solution, even uninstalling and installing again but it doesn't solve the problem.

Has any of you ever encountered that problem?

I click on Product Support and says the same thing. Please help. 

But sometimes I wish I understood how to fine-tune the mesh points to be influnced. In the current project, the figure wears two sets of pants: Sword of Time and War Dog. In the latter, all the polygons except belt loops and pockets were deleted. I need to pull each cargo pocket away from the leg just a bit. But if I reduce the Y and Z scales of the field enough so that no part of the rear pockets or belt loops are also affected, the remaining selection is largely yellow. I want the entire cargo pocket equally red so that it's all uniformly affected by the D-Former. I know there's a way to do this, but I can't find details either on YouTube or in the forums. What I do find in the forums is that any discussion of Weight Mapping (which I think is how this trick works) almost immediately goes over my head. I don't understand the vocabulary. So please... talk to me like I'm four.  :)

Oh and btw if I simply reset the collision item, the cargo pockets distort in undesirable ways and I'm still left with the dilemma because some vertices need to be pulled closer to the figure.

How do you speed up this process?  More RAM? Multiple graphics cards?  Often my computer will seem to freeze at this stage of loading the scene.  I feel like i wait as long for the scene to load as i do for it to render.

Specs:

RTX 2080TI

16GB Ram

Ryzen 3 1300x (4 Cores - 3500 MHz)

On a side note, I was wondering can I use my laptop to help run my PC at all while rendering?

My laptop has:

GTX 1060 with 6GB VRAM and 16GB ram

iray preview takes 30 or so seconds to preview until I repose, and a single figure with no environments take 5-10 mins. Some more complex renders have take 2= hours and leads to a very hot mac.

What paricular features should I be looking for to reduce preview and rendering times, with Mac or Windows.

My budget is not unlimited within $2000-$3000. 

Thats the base I have atm.

So a 2 character scene (picture not animation) with genesis 8 with a not too fancy enviroment, what can my render time be? 

Many thanks.

I am using Daz Studio Pro 4.12 but I did this on previous version too and it worked just fine. 

I used a Gen2 in mixamo but I also did it with other figures, exported it in every form mixamo allows and still getting the same error. 

I would like you to give me your opinion, I will explain the situation:
-I'm making a video game.
-I don't know anything about 3d or edition.
-I want a solution as easy and complete as possible to mainly develop static character portraits in 3d (such as in Crusader King or Imperator Rome, example: https://i.redd.it/1ynu0su6l6t21.png)

At the moment my conclusions are the following, I would like to hear yours:
-Character Creator 3: complete. expensive extras store. possibility of animations the day you are interested. it requires some skill to wear things (like clothes) not designed directly for character creator. Beards seem to be a problem (it would be great if they worked as an add-on)
-Daz 3d: It has a good quality too. animations cannot be made but the things in the store are really cheaper.
-Others: I have ruled out adobe fuse because it seems quite abandoned and limited. I have also ruled out UMA for similar reasons (and because I don't know if the final project will be in unity or own engine) but things for Unity in 3d stores are really cheap :(

And speaking of stores, I have found many, sketchfab (it seems the most famous), I see that from them I can download things, but usually they are for Unity or Unreal.
Is it a good idea to purchase these designs for use in Character Creator 3, Daz 3d, or others? Where will they give me less work to implement them? Should all work?

And those are my conclusions and questions after a couple of days researching on a subject that I know nothing about and are probably wrong, any detailed and instructive opinion is welcome.

I have some issues with the rendering of some scenes. When I use some models, like Murphy HD, my renderings leave many blank pixels. I joined a jpeg file to show you the result.
I've tried to modify the render settings, but it didn't change anything (probably I didn't modify the right settings...)
My graphics card is a Gigabyte GTX 1060 and my CPU a Intel i5-9600K LGA1151 3.7 Ghz/9M.

If someone could help me to improve my renders, it would be much appreciated.

It seemed to happen fairly quickly, but I noticed that both the base G8F and all the many purchased G8F characters were taking extremely long to download.   The base G8F takes about 30 minutes to download, and a saved scene with more than, say, 4 G8Fs would take literally several hours to download.    However, all other figures, environments, props, content, etc. loaded in fairly reasonable time.

I get errors when the G8F figures finally load indicating that duplicate formulas were found, to check to make sure installed properly and check the log (see attached).   I then got a second error message the genesis8female.dsf file could not be found it the location indicated in the attached image (I went ahead and copied the original .dsf file and put it in that location also, but it still indicates it is not there).

Finally, I downloaded the log.   I saw, literally, thousands of WARNING messages all tied to Auto Face Enhancer I installed, pointing to this location (see a small portion of the log attached):

data>Daz 3D>genesis 8>female>morphs>D.Master>Auto Face Enhancer

I'm fairly sure the propblem is AFE installed.   If it means I can simply uninstall it and have G8Fs load in reasonable time, I'd like to do that - if that is in fact the issue.

Does anyone know a good fix for this.  What needs to be done to uninstall AFE?   Thanks in advance.

Has anyone else seen this/know how to fix it?  It's not using anywhere close to the max GPU memory, so I don't know why it would stop like that.  I have an RTX 2080 (8GB memory) with updated drivers (445.87) and Daz 4.12.1.

Just downloaded Reality 4.3. All went OK on manual download. However, when clicking Reality Installer the following error file appears "file /private/var/folders/v1/t_ms46tn1b39jyq8rzf1shkh0000gn/T/AppTranslocation/819B59B3-7DE1-449A-B9D0-03206CB4D59B/d/RealityInstaller.cfg"

I suspect the issue is with the Reality Installer.cfg file cotained in the downloaded folder.I did try to import RealityInstaller.cfg viat network settoing but am unable to select it.

Anybody have any ideas on how to resolve this issue?

I have recently picked up the Clinical Therapy product for G3F and in the product description it says that there are four morphs for the dress but for the life of me I can't find them. Can anyone who has the product please tell me where the morphs are?

Thanks for any help.

nabob21

​Whatever it is, it keeps crashing the program to desktop.

​It says cloud.  To my knowledge, it shouldn't even be running anything in the cloud.  I think all my materials are installed locally.

Inside view:

I also did try to add a primitive sphere to let it collide, but it ignores all. I checked also already the weightmap, everything is red, so there is no changes there. In the Surface is the surface visible for Simulaiton.

Here is a ~30Sec Video:

It worked on the other hooks: