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Daz Studio 4.12 Install failed

ilonabrink — Thu, 14 May 2020 19:11:57 +0000

Hello everyone!

I tried installing Daz to my laptop to try it out. The install manager installs everything except the actual program itself. It just says install failed, and I don't know what the issue is.
I've restarted my laptop, updates c visual, got enough free space on the laptop.

I run windows 10 64x

I hope someone can help me? Is there an option to install the program without the install manager?

Thanks in advance!

Daz has become very unresponsive.

surv0101 — Thu, 14 May 2020 18:30:07 +0000

Sorry for the lack of technical descriptions, I am very new to Daz Studio. Basically everything was going fine, actually great, I was very happy with just about everything I was doing, then it seems like overnight everytime I do anything using the program, I get the Daz is not responding, the blue waiting circle and eventually after a few seconds or so kicks back in. It can be while posing a character, loading a prop, setting up camera's, its all over the place. I didn't think I did anything different or changed any settings, but.....now when I try to render something, even something simple, it takes hours sometimes. And here is where something has changed....when I close out Daz Studio, there is always a error box for Adobe Cloud saying it crashed and needs to be fixed. I say ok, and everything is fine until I try to render something in Daz and then it says it crashed and needs to be fixed again. I don't even use Adobe Cloud that I know of. I don't know how they are even related, but it happens everytime. So I don't think its anything to do with Daz, but I don't have a clue how to go about trouble shooting when the two programs are not even related. Any advice would be very much appreciated, but I know I'm not giving people much to work with. I'm very new to everything Daz Studio, and until a couple of days ago, I didn't even know I had Adobe Cloud on my computer.

EuropApt Lamp without Structure

Loony — Wed, 13 May 2020 14:19:21 +0000

Hi,

I have this appartment:

https://www.daz3d.com/european-style-apartment

And I wanna use that Lamp at the roof (which there have also no light):

But it is empty inside:

And well, the emission make nothing :(

Interesting is, it HAVE a emission map:

And yes I did turned the mission off there, cuz it doesnt work.

I made the emission now on the glass:

I use Watt for the inside, but... it doesnt look as good as it should.

Any idea what I can do? Also... it have 2 surfaces with 44polygons in the geoeditor but both are not there.

No bulb no emission.

Can't run more than one DAZ

Drogo Nazhur — Wed, 13 May 2020 22:23:01 +0000

I just recently upgraded to 4.12.1 and I can't lauch a second copy of DAZ. Did something change or is it an issue with my PC?

Roadkill and Hexagon

pfunkyfize — Wed, 13 May 2020 21:13:25 +0000

Hi all, Anyone use the free stand alone app Roadkill to unwrap mesh for textures? I use the Maya stand alone version. Don't need Maya to use it.

http://www.pullin-shapes.co.uk/page6.htm

I think it does a great job at unwrapping meshes and easy to use but when I bring the resulting OBJ and open it back up in Hexagon the faces that I used to be able to loop select can no longer loop select. Also I am finding that mesh used from Roadkill doesn't seem to work at simulation time. The dForce modifier can be added to the mesh but when simulation starts the simulation just haangs there and never completes initialization and hangs (but not crashes) Studio.

Two part question:

1) Why do faces in Hexagon that are able to loop select no longer can be loop selected once Roadkill has unwrapped the mesh?

2) Does dForce have requirements on the preexisting mesh before it can be simulated?

I love the unwrapping capapbility of Roadkill which I think does a better job than Hexagon's unwrap but it's annoying that I can't loop select previously loop selectable meshes or that DAZ chokes on dForce items that were unwrapped in Roadkill.

Thanks!

I have two DAZ's

larrygilman — Thu, 14 May 2020 18:22:19 +0000

Hi All,

I have two folders, DAZ 3D abd DAZ3D should the be combined and one deleted or do I need to keep both??

Please see attached

MANY Thanks

High Number Processes by DAZ

mlominy — Thu, 14 May 2020 16:13:04 +0000

Hello!

My Task Manager shows 11 processes associated with DAZ (DAZ simply lauchened, no scene loaded). Is this high (?) number normal?

eGPU not showing up for rendering in DAZ

tsroemi — Thu, 14 May 2020 12:10:19 +0000

Hi everyone,

I somehow can't get my eGPU to show up in DS. I believe I have set up everything correctly - here are my steps summed up real quickly:

I'm on a Mac running High Sierra which was the last macOS to support NVidia --- I have installed the appropriate NVidia Web Drivers for this OS, have installed the CUDA library --- have set up an external display which is run by the external GPU and is set to primary so that all apps must use it --- I see the eGPU (GTX 1050 Ti) in System Preferences connected to the external display and working. Still it doesn't show up in DS at all.

The weird thing is, DS DOES in fact use the eGPU, i can see it running in the activity monitor when I open DAZ. It doesn't have a choice really because it is running on the primary display which is driven by the eGPU. But it still doesn't reckognize the card as one to be used for Iray. The card doesn't even show up in the Advanced tab while I can see it working away merrily in the activity monitor.

I know I must be missing something, but I just can't figure out what. I'd love any help, suggestions, hints, whatever! Thanks in advance, and stay safe.

Render>Advanced>Hardware... my dedicated graphics card does not show up?

DMax — Thu, 14 May 2020 16:41:09 +0000

Render>Advanced>Hardware... my dedicated graphics card does not show up?

I had the impression that I could select my dedicated Radeon graphics card but the Render Advanced settings only offer one option box "CPU" to check. Is this correct?
Was hoping that render times will improve by using the graphics card instead of the CPU.

Shrunken Pupil

manorthern — Thu, 14 May 2020 16:30:56 +0000

Hopefully this is in the right place, but if not I apologize.

Yesterday I loaded the basic G8M and noticed that the left pupil had shrunk to a tiny spec. I tried loading Michael 8, restarting the program, and restarting the computer but the problem remained. There doesn't appear to be anything wrong with G8F or any G3. I'm really at a loss at this point.

7.0.1

[Solved] Shaders suddenly broken

glennsmith — Thu, 14 May 2020 16:27:12 +0000

Hey everybody,

I've been using DAZ for a while now and today I opened it up like any other time but suddenly, upon loading a genesis 3 figure, it just appears gray. The shaders tab only shows General/Lines/UV Maps/Smoothing.

I then added hair and loaded a preset iray shader onto it, which seems to work fine in the viewport but when rendered it just appears completely gray with no opacity. However, other hairstyles using iray seem to still work fine.

Then I also added a piece of clothing using an iray shader and it worked fine. After a few more tests every piece of clothing worked like it did yesterday, only the one hairstyle seems to have problems as well as all 3delight shaders.

I hope someone on here knows what it could be because I didn't change anything and it worked fine just a day ago :(

can't access pose controls in daz 4.12 mac

joealbinclark — Thu, 14 May 2020 00:07:39 +0000

on older versions of daz i could access pose controls like Eyes Closed and Face Pose Presets but in 4.12 i can't see them at all. i just installed daz on my bootcamp and i can see pose controls there, but not on my mac, anyone got a solution? (there is no section within Parameters, or Posing, and when I load previous save files that include Eyes Closed it doesn't show at all, i move the slider up and down and the eyes stay wide open) thanks

Looking for a tutor

numan_medow — Thu, 14 May 2020 13:43:49 +0000

Hi.

I hope posts like this are ok and not against the forum rules.

I have a short time to pick up Daz on the mac. I learn much better with one on one tuition as opposed to video tutorials.

Are there any mac users who'd be willing to skype/screenshare with me for a couple of one hour sessions to help me out?

If you're interested, please drop me a message with your hourly rate and examples of your work.

I'll be working mainly on character characters, hair, posing and lighting.

Many thanks!

GPU Not rendering

bueller1998_df4ca4b697 — Sun, 10 May 2020 18:33:54 +0000

After the most recent DS update, the program will not render from my GPU> I have an nVidea 2080Ti. I have attached screen caps showing my version an dthe fact that it is seeing my 2080, but not using it. Please help.

BLANK MISTAKE

bolmes66 — Thu, 14 May 2020 09:37:48 +0000

I ask for patient answer please,and acknowledge my ignorance wholeheartedly.Being new to Daz, I was in utter disbelief checking out the complexity of the controls yesterday but had a try at posing a figure,when I did something dumb.I clicked on something that has left me with a blank screen, apart from the control around the edges. I cannot get any figures to become visible try as I might...anyone want to help me? thankyou...

Genesis 8 Female: modified body parts costantly intersect clothes in a dForce basic cloth animation

cmaran7 — Wed, 06 May 2020 09:19:09 +0000

Hi, I'm pretty new to DAZ Studio, in any case I've tried a very basic thing and it drives me nuts that does not work even if I tried all the basic-to advanced tricks to make it work. I've created a new instance of a basic Genesis 8 Female character, works right. I've added red Toulouse hair, works right. I've tried to deform the character using basic Genesis 8 (Posing) controls (for example: Right/Left Pectoral > Scale > 110.6% , Right/Left Pectoral > X Scale > 125.6%, Right/Left Pectoral > Y Scale > 105.5% ), so far so good. Then I've added a dForce Bardot Outfit and it fit the figure very well. BUT when I set some poses the breast comes out of the outfit! "That's rigt" I thought, because I need to simulate the the dForce movement. So I succesfully created an animation of 90 frames at 30 frames per second with 4 preset poses (Base Pose Standing A, Base Pose Walking B, Base Pose Walking A, Base Pose Standing C). Then I set Bardot Top > Parameters > Mesh Smoothing > [ Collision Item = Genesis 8 Female ; Collision Iterations = 10 (I have used also 100 iterations in another test !) ] . Then I set Simulation Settings > Start Bones From Memorized Pose = On and Frames To Simulate = Animated (Use Timeline Play Range).

The result (after a long calculation) is a beautiful animation where the female character walks with a breast constantly out of her Bardot Top... I mean... this is certainly sexy but it is NOT what I supposed to see in a so basic test!

I hope someone could help me finding out how to contain all that esuberance of my slighty modified Genesis 8 Female character. ;P

Mac constant crashes since update

lou_harper — Sat, 09 May 2020 18:25:37 +0000

macOS High Sierra 10.13.6
3.4 GHz Intel Core i5
16 GB 2400 MHz DDR4
Radeon Pro 56 4096 MB

DAZ 4.12.1.117 Pro Edition (64-bit)

I've never had major problems with DS before but the latest update made it unusable. I filed a ticket on Monday, but got nothing but the automated response.

I've spent hours testing the conditions of the crashes.

When I first save a scene ALWAYS two save windows pop up. I can either cancel or use the top window–the bottom will close after hitting save on the top–doesn't seem to make a difference in the proceedings.

If I put a figure or prop in the scene and do absolutely nothing to it after a few saves–five or six on average–I get a "Failed to Save" message. I click ok and can save normal, but after a few save get the same message.

Making just a couple pose changes, like bending arms, will result in continuous "Failed to Save" without any regular saves.

If I do anything–change pose, rotate, add light, add camera, change anything in Render Settings–I get and immediate "Failed to Save" and after clicking ok DAZ crashes.

If I have an empty scene with nothing in it after a few saves it will fail and crash.

Sometimes the crash makes the duf file disappear. Other times it doesn't.

I have absolutely no idea what's going on but it is extremely frustrating.

PS. Does anyone have an installer for 4.10 or 4.11 mac version they could share?

Powerpose facial options incomplete

Second Technician Rimmer — Tue, 12 May 2020 12:40:41 +0000

I only get the very bare minimum dots in PowerPose facial section for G8F, to otate the eyes and the head. How can I fix this?

Figure Setup bones order doesn't match

AscendedJoy — Thu, 14 May 2020 01:59:55 +0000

Hello, I have a question regarding Figure Setup utility. When I import a model, I can observe that list on the Geometry List and Relationship doesn't match the order

While I can handle this with objects with less polygroups, certain objects that have so many groups that are not arranged, this is bit too much work.

Is there way to organize figure setup hierarchy?

Thanks!

Genesis 3 Female : Black Face

guillaume_em — Wed, 13 May 2020 11:16:50 +0000

Hello everyone,

I have a problem with my female model genesis 3.

In this scene (environnement is Antebellum) everyytime I try to render a scene with her, her face, or part of her face like in this image are totally black. Is that because of her skin color ? I try different places in the environnement and it's the same, just other part or the totality of her face is black. But when I don't load her in other environnement everything is fine.

I didn't touch the surface data and other model wortk fine in Antebellum.

What can I do ?

Thanks for reading.

Z Natural Breasts - Shape and Pose Mega Set

rumpot — Wed, 13 May 2020 23:10:54 +0000

How do you use the shape? When I apply "z nbs !natural breasts shape apply.duf" nothing happens on my G8 char.

Baby Oh Baby Shader Problems

Loony — Wed, 13 May 2020 19:40:52 +0000

Hi, I just wanted to make a cute Pyjama and get now this Problem:

The ugly boxes.

It use the cutout via the diffuse color:

I just used the 1-Click settings, but... I don't know, its not working as it should :/

Edit: i just throwed an Mask over it:

And its fixed, so... I assume the PA of that product made it wrong? I am still a beginner with surfaces, but for me looks the Premade version just bad :/

[Solved] Latest Update Might Disable Measure Metrics in DS4.12.0.86

Tynkere — Tue, 12 May 2020 20:54:52 +0000

Edit:
Update to Measure Metrics may require updating to Daz Studio 4.12.1.117 -- this version might also require driver updates via PNY or Nvidia for iRay to preview or render.

Can anyone help with this?

Requested tech spt ticket, but it's been a while. Don't know if they're even open with virus & safety at workplace.

From log file:

"C:\Program Files\DAZ 3D\DAZStudio4\plugins\dzmeasuremetrics.dll failed to load. Cannot load library C:\Program Files\DAZ 3D\DAZStudio4\plugins\dzmeasuremetrics.dll: The specified procedure could not be found."

---
sys info.

Win-10 version 1903 build 18362.778

Default paths from DIM:

(C:) > Program Files > DAZ 3D > DAZStudio4 > docs > Plugins > Measuremetrics.dsx
(C:) > Program Files > DAZ 3D > DAZStudio4 > docs > Plugins > MeasureMetricsInLineHelp.dsx
(C:) > Program Files > DAZ 3D > DAZStudio4 > plugins > dzmeasuremetrics.dll

need quick fix

father1776 — Tue, 12 May 2020 19:41:19 +0000

my shopping cart is bugged

- put free item in while logged out (unintended)

now said items are in cart and not in cart...bugged

would love to have my shopping cart emptied...thanks

Auto fit hair issue

andrewsmj1 — Wed, 13 May 2020 13:47:28 +0000

I'm new to all this, so bear with me! I have a genesis 3 hair that comes with optional styles and such. When I auto fit it to a genesis 8 figure, it loads up all the options at once, and changing styles won't make the other options go away. Is there a setting that can fix this? Thanks!

Timeline Questions

Loony — Tue, 12 May 2020 20:49:33 +0000

Hi,

I have 2 questions for the timeline, I wanted to make a little showcase Videoclip and did try if I can change the bodysurface with the LIE, but it seems like the timeline dont save it for that timestamp like at Frame 90 does the skin change to red from Human color, is that Possible to save as timeline Savepoint? So I can make brown, white, yellow, green skins or whatever, I mean this can also be interesting for anything other with the LIE, like showing a pillow with different designs, can I change the Surface with timestamps?

And next with that, i did try to hide clothes, just by visbility, but not even that worked, I created a key and then hide the towel, but it was then hidden always, before and after that key.

Anyone got some experience with that?

Docking with Multi-Monitor Setups; Split Panes

randlemanp — Tue, 05 Jun 2018 22:11:41 +0000

Demonstration of what I'm talking about (written info at bottom of page)

Demonstration of what I am unable to achieve

In the main daz3d studio window

(as opposed to a secondary [created by undocking pane then making it undockable] type of window, one that you would say put on a second monitor and maximize)

I'm wondering if we can achieve the slpit pane type areas in a secondary daz window (reference image immediately above with the purple title bar) To see yourself, if you chose the layout 'City Limits' and expanded the right side properties-type (but split into two) pane group (one consisting of 'Aux View', 'Scene', 'Enviroment', the second lower consisting of 'Posing', 'Surfaces', etc.) you will see what I'm trying to achieve.

Simply cannont produce the yellow bar in a secondary window similar to that of the one produced in the daz primary window.

If this is not the case and not a feature, anyone have a better solution that autohotkey window positioning and killing of title bars to create a persistent state upon daz load?

Thanks a ton!

Daz Studio crashing whenever I tried to open or load anything

mavante — Thu, 07 May 2020 22:13:47 +0000

Suddenly today, for no discernible reason, Daz Studio suddenly crashes no matter what file I try to open, or no matter what product I try to load into a new scene.

I have not changed anything on my computer since last night when I was using DS just fine—until it crashed the entire computer and I gave up and went to bed.

Today I got up, opened DS, tried to load the file I was working on last night. The little dropdown progress window dropped down, then disappeared back up, then dropped down again, and then...GONE. DS just disappeared. This happened several times. Then I tried just opening DS, picking a product at random in Smart Content to load into a blank scene. GONE. Crash. I tried this several times with sever different products. Boom. GONE.

I have since tried everything I know to get it working. I did a full "Reset Database," exporting User Data. That went as expected. Then I did a full reimport of all metadata. That went as expected. I quit DS. I restarted the computer. I restarted DS. All Smart Content appears as expected. Tried to load a car: BOOM! Gone.

Here are the last few lines of the dblog.txt, if they will do any good for anyone to help me figure out what is going on:

========START dblog.txt EXCERPT========

LOG: database system shutdown was interrupted; last known up at 2020-05-07 15:39:28 CDT
FATAL: the database system is starting up
LOG: database system was not properly shut down; automatic recovery in progress
LOG: redo starts at 0/9C882018
FATAL: the database system is starting up
FATAL: the database system is starting up
FATAL: the database system is starting up
FATAL: the database system is starting up
FATAL: the database system is starting up
FATAL: the database system is starting up
FATAL: the database system is starting up
FATAL: the database system is starting up
FATAL: the database system is starting up
FATAL: the database system is starting up
FATAL: the database system is starting up
FATAL: the database system is starting up
FATAL: the database system is starting up
FATAL: the database system is starting up
FATAL: the database system is starting up
FATAL: the database system is starting up
FATAL: the database system is starting up
FATAL: the database system is starting up
FATAL: the database system is starting up
FATAL: the database system is starting up
FATAL: the database system is starting up
FATAL: the database system is starting up
FATAL: the database system is starting up
FATAL: the database system is starting up
FATAL: the database system is starting up
FATAL: the database system is starting up
FATAL: the database system is starting up
FATAL: the database system is starting up
FATAL: the database system is starting up
LOG: record with zero length at 0/A37FAA00
LOG: redo done at 0/A37F9ED0
LOG: last completed transaction was at log time 2020-05-07 15:37:49.271776-05
LOG: database system is ready to accept connections
LOG: autovacuum launcher started
LOG: received smart shutdown request
LOG: autovacuum launcher shutting down
LOG: shutting down
LOG: database system is shut down
LOG: database system was shut down at 2020-05-07 16:06:41 CDT
LOG: database system is ready to accept connections
LOG: autovacuum launcher started
FATAL: pg_hba.conf rejects connection for host "[local]", user "xxxxxxxxxxxx", database "postgres", SSL off

========END dblog.txt EXCERPT========

Thanks for any help.

Rigging and Weight Mapping is so bugged... How can peop1le work with this?

alex86fire — Mon, 11 May 2020 13:46:43 +0000

Seriously,

I am trying to rig a simple prop.

I went into weight map edit mode to edit the weight. Holding alt to remove weight is not really working where the weight is 100%. Have to smooth the margins first to be able to remove them and so on....

This is taking forever so I thought maybe fill with weight would work.

Of course not, if you want to add, fill to 100%, it's easy.

If you want to say 0 to fill everything with 0 so it removes what already exists of course it doesn't work.

Thought next, ok, I'll just clear the weight maps and start with cleared ones.

Clearing was easy.

When I add a new general weight map though it hides the object.

Seriously, how can anyone work with this and how is this not fixed yet?

I got so annoyed I had to clse Daz and leave the computer not to damage anything.

Smart Props G8M to G8F

Saint — Wed, 13 May 2020 10:39:47 +0000

Is there a method to spawn G8M smart props, such as rings and bracelets, in position for G8F? It wears me out having to precisely scale and translate them each time. Thanks in advance!