How do i set them to use the same content location so i dont have to keep re-installing content?

I am trying to enter my face transfer serial number into DAZ 4.12.1.117

<Help><About Installed Plugins> reveals the listing where I should be able to enter the serial number, but there is no field available into which I can paste my serial number

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Is it critical that postgres be installed or is there any way around this? If it really is necessary (poor show), can I set it up to use a different postgres database and schema that I provide myself?

What causes this thin black line to appear along the character's seams? Is there a way to fix this problem while using the Freak 5 displacement map? The thin black line does not appear if I apply a different character's skin material with displacement on, for example Michael 5.

In case it matters: I am using DAZ Studio Pro BETA Public Build Version 4.12.2.6. No doubt I am overlooking something simple.

Thanks in advance!

Is there some proper way to go about copying and pasting multiple keys at once?

Edit 1: I turned off any pins I had and tried again. This time I was able to successfully paste the keys without the figure transitioning or rotating oddly. However, now somebody parts have straight-up disappeared in some frames including the original 14. What's going on?

Edit 2: Thought I'd get cheeky and turn the loop into an aniblock and then just apply multiple copies of it on the AniMate2 timeline. Nope, the second loop causes the figure to turn 90 degrees for some reason.

Edit 3: Selecting an empty frame ahead of the 14 frames and doing absolutely anything with it such as bending a limb causes all frames between 14 and the current one to go dogshit crazy. Is my file bugged?

Edit 4:  Created an aniblock with the 14 frames. Deleted all keys and loaded the aniblock in and duplicated it. 2nd aniblock caused figure to rotate so used the positional offset in aniMate2 to fix this. :Merged the aniblocks and created a copy of the 28 frame aniblock. Repeated the position offset once again. Now I have a 56 frame animation with 4 loops. Problem is that all nodes now have a keyframe for every single frame. Have to manually go in and delete all keyframes for each node I want to make a new animation on. This whole process seems bizarre. 

See the images attached.

What could be causing this? Is it some setting I accidently changed? Why would there even be a setting to cause this?

Please help. I don't want to have to reinstall DAZ Studio if I don't have to in or order to fix this issue.

But how to check the number of faces of dForce hair?

For example, as soon as I import one of those dForce hair, the scene optimizer tells me that those hair got 0 faces and just 380 for the cap. But when I activate the option "Preview Render On", the number of faces explode and get to more than 1.830.000! 

Now here's the real question: is this very high number faces the one that the software will have to handle when I'll render the scene? Or it's so high because the software has to show me the preview, and later in the render it's number will be lower, and if so, how to check the actual number?

Thanks for the help!

My basic criteria:

Budget: somewhere in the $900 range... if that sounds reasonable.

Specs: I'm looking to speed up my 3Delight renders -- not Iray.  Unfortunately, being a tech doofus, I wouldn't know a core from a thread if one of them walked up to me and bit me on the arm, so some sage advice there would be greatly appreciated.

To the extent I do use Iray, which is occasionally, all I really need is a bargain nVidia card that can handle simple renders and let me play around with dForce. 

Hard drive, SSD all the way, 1TB or more. 

Memory: 32GB RAM if possible.... I know, that sounds like overkill, but a few of my older scenes are huge, and avoiding swap-to-disk whenever possible would be another needed performance boost.

Bottom line: it heats up around here during the summer months, often hitting 90 or more indoors, and air conditioning is not always an option. Therefore I need a reliable PC that can stay (relatively) cool in the most humid of times.

So as I start shopping around over the coming months, what do you suggest that I should be looking for? Thanks in advance.

I'm trying to fit boots made for Genesis 8 Male onto a Genesis 8 Female. 

When I check that video (at timeline 06:52)

The guy has a long list in his Auto-Fit Window when choosing : "What type of item is it?" and can choose footwear in this case. 

I just have None, Dresses > Knee-Length, Full Body, or short/Shoulder length hair. And that's all. That's quiet a short list compare to that ? And none of those options helped me to fit shoes properly. 

Weird thing : when the shoes load they are actually in the proper position. But then the Auto-Fit Window instantly comes up. And it's only after the fit is done that the shoes are linked/rigged but in a very wrong position.
Could someone please advise ? 

But sometimes I'll apply a pose to the figure, and suddenly the universal tool is dijointed away from the figure, and if I need to rotate the figure, they rotate on a much wider axis, making scene positioning that more difficult.

What causes this? Is there a fix? Thank you!

Someone a fix for that?

Any help with be appreciated. Also I rendered this completely once, the attached is a quick render just to show you guys what the issue is. 

Does anyone here know how to fix DIM when it does somethign quirky like this?

1) Is there something I need to do to make them work?

2) Is there a converter that does work with them?

3) Is there a way to batch convert hierarchical poses to non-hierarchical poses?

The dFroce result below almost looks works than the normal application of the item without dForce. This seems to be the case with many items I am buying lately. I tried multiple methods and even tried to use the timeline to choose just the right moment to save but it never covered the glut area at all for some reason. Great outfit btw. I am just wondering why I continue to run into this with the newer clothing items. Is it user error? If so can someone steer me in the right direction please?

Natually I know the graphics card is important as well.

Can you help me fix this?
I looked for where it could come from, but I can't find it.

Thank you in advance to all.

But when I invoke the Transfer Utility with the settings in the screenshot, and intruth, many other combinations, it stays fitting perfect for a split second, but then expands out as if a push modifier has been applied, ruining the fit.

Can anyone school me on why this would be happening?

Thanks

I did managed (finally!) to buy the Home One House and... I try to convert it to Iray to save it as Preset (and maybe I can offer the Scene subset then in the Freebies), BUT...

The iray Preview does show a brutal broken Tiling of the House Structure, it seems to be fine inside (first attachment), but outside not.

Update, during writing: I just see that the surfaces have a wall_stones with a opacity with 0..., no idea what that plan is.

See attachments.

Maybe @MacLean have any ideas? ;) And... sad its not even a 3DL Product, its a Poser Product, I mean in the end is my most wanted product the Attic ladder, which is great rigged! but, I love normal buildings, I live in a similar house :)

Any Ideas what I can do?

with iray Uber Base:

Original loaded from Poser Lib:

The right bottom corner looks different... I dont see much differences :/

I have this odd texture shining through, it gets large or smaller depending on the poste i use. Setting the MRL Warrior Scalp base invisible fixes the issue, but of corse it doen't render ...

Any idea how i might fix this?