My question (finally): Given a particular character, how can I make a custom projection morph controlled by a dial that would not visually affect the figure (important if the cleavage is visible!), but have an effect on the clothes? I wouldn't bother to do it for each character, but I'd do it only once...

What did I do wrong?

So I'm building a livingroom scene in a house with big windows which means I can see in the yard, however the problem is that the yard has a bunch of objects and it might affect the render speed so I decided to build my own HDR with the yard, however the HDR I have built doesn't cast shadow. I'm not sure why... 

Here you can see both the HDR I was using to have light on my yard and the make HDRI out of it and the one I have created.

And below you can see the result of a primitive with the previous HDR and my own custom made.

Below you can see what it looks like in my scene. I managed to align the yard more or less... and it's working well, but the lighting is a pain... I will also add some emissive primitive to light the room better, but still, I want to have at least similar effect with my HDR as with the other one.

To be honest I was expecting some differences but I tought that with some work I could achieve more or less the same thing, however in my case I cannot get any light, shadows or so on. I tried rotating the dome on all the axis to see if there is a slight chance of getting a small amount of light....

So I'm not sure what could I do, or what could be the problem. 

Any ideas?

I have recently noticed that sometimes when I apply a predefined Pose on a character, his/her scale might change with no warning. If I don't pay attention a render might be ruined becuase a character is now shorter or taller than previous renders.

What is the cause of this? How can it be prevented? 

DAZStudio.exe caused ILLEGAL_INSTRUCTION in module "C:\Windows\system32\nvoptix.dll" at 0033:00000000633D1C81, optixQueryFunctionTable()+6641802 byte(s)

"A valid PostgreSQL could not be established".

it's incredibly frustrating. For reference, I'm on a Macbook Pro 2017 updated to the latest version of MacOS Catalina, 10.15.4. If anyone has suggestions I will gladly take them.

I purchased the Valentino Pro bundle on May 6.  DIM downloaded it all.  I went in to DAZ and installed it all (DIM always says it has installed things, but I always have to do it in DAZ).  I didn't do anything else with it then, but didn't notice anything odd at the time.

Today I purchased Cthuloid for Genesis 8 Male.  I checked and DIM says it is downloaded and installed.  However, I didn't see it at the top of my Smart Content (I sort by Purchase Date Recent), so I headed to Content Library and it is not there either.  I changed search order and back, I looked at the install/available/update/pending tabs and it was not there.  I was going to put a G8M in the scene and see if I could get it to show up that way, but then I noticed that I have no subcategories under All Products in my Smart Content. 

I exited DAZ and DIM and rebooted my Windows 10 PC.  Still nothing under All Products and no Cuthuloid anywhere.

So I headed to my bookmarks (from a plugin) to pull up G8M that way, but the bookmark plugin doesn't work.

So I headed to Content library / Figures to get G8M.  I can expand categories and products, but nothing shows up in the right pane at all. 

It seems that DAZ 4.12.0.86 64 bit has developed a pretty significant problem.  What can I do?

Thanks

Edit to add that I put serial numbers into some plugins that I had forgotten to do and I created some script shortcuts in my Scripts menu. 
I don't remember if it was before or after Valentino was installed - my days are running together.... :)
I have done things like this before, so this shouldn't be the problem, right?

Another Edit to add that Visual Menus works and I was able to load G8M from there, but it took about 4 times longer than usual.  I headed to the morphs and Cthuloid is there - it looks kinda strange, but it is hard to tell in human flesh tone :)    I tried several of the full body morphs and they seem to work as they should.  I tried ticking Filter by Context in Smart Content, but it still doesn't show anything.

I have a little problem.

Since today I suddenly can't see the right pupil of any of my G8 Males.

Yesterday everything worked just as normal.

The Female charcters are all normal. I don't know how this could have happened.

I hope anybody has an idea how to solve this problem.

Yours

Jax

if I enlarge pupils the one gets bigger.

I have reinstalled Daz, which doesn't help. and I don't know where to find the base to reinstall that.

Let's say I make a figure using FT, then close it. When I try opening the file again, a window pops up and says various files cannot be found. They are all .jpgs and some variant of:

c:/users/username/appdata/roaming/daz 3d/studio4/temp/face transfer/generate/950/g8mbasemouthmapd_1005.jpg

There are 6 total.

Where are these files? I moved everything for Daz in my D: drive. It seems like FT is trying to save things in the C drive. Is there a way to change this? Otherwise it seems I would be unable to use this program. Thanks!

Edit: Looks like it asked me the second time around where to save the files, and now it works.

I've been told that there is no work around for this and so my 500gb ssd is around half full now,can any be safely moved or deleted without affecting content?

Thanks

It says "The dForce Breast Add-on acts just like an Implantable silicone prosthesis. It can collide with the object / character itself, shake with the character's movement, while keeping everything is natural transition.It’s very easy to use: select the character with dForce, click to load the add-on (it will fit to any G8F body shape automatically, without any extra options) and watch it simulate quickly!"

So i have G8 and load the addon make poses then hit simulate and nothing happends DAZ just comes up saying "No objects to simulate -add a dforce modifier or object to the scence.

What am i doing wrong? The disciption does say "select the character with dForce" does that mean i have to make G8  a dforce object or something? If so how?  I know i'm missing something here, what is it lol?

Thank you.

Can someone help me what i'm doing wrong?

I did a ful 3000 x 2000 px render of my scene. But it come out very pixelated. is this something to do with settings?

Thank you very much for your help

I chose the character under "Files".

Under "Files" I don't find "Luc for Genesis 8 Male: Genitalia" in "Materials".

If I go to "Products" I find it. If I then double click on it, the penis is not attached to the body.

What am I doing wrong?

so I'm trying to get this external Intel Denoiser thing to work for me (https://openimagedenoise.github.io), since the DAZ Denoiser only works with NVidia GPUs and I'm on a Mac (meaning I have to use CPU rendering). I tried to follow the tutorial posted here (https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/334881/use-this-a-i-based-open-source-de-noiser-from-the-comfort-of-daz-studio) by the nice person that created a script for using that denoiser in DAZ Studio, but I'm totally stuck because mainly, I don't have the slightest clue to which executables I have to point the script to for Imagemagick and the Denoiser itself. Obviously, these are not named .EXE as they would be on Windows, but what else is their extension in this case????

Could anybody Mac-wise perhaps help me out and point me to the correct files? I would sooo appreciate it, I'm going slightly mad already, what with all the hundreds of extras I had to install, and making the usr/local folder visible in the first place, and all that jazz ...

Thanks very much for reading!

Edit: I guess I should add that I used to work on Windows PCs and only very recently aquired the iMac I'm trying to get to grips with now - so I'm rather okay on Windows but just starting out on Macs.

Are there options for node instance positioning on creation that I'm unaware of? I'd love it if they dropped into the scene with the same rotation values as the master, and very close in proximity. Any way to do this?

I am running a brand new Mac Pro. I am unable to load custom textures into backgrounds, backdrops, and shaders etc…

I can navigate to the files and select them but they do not load in preview window or show up in a scene..Also,If I click on a scene in "My Presets " It will open fine. However , if I try to open a scene through Carrera browser iit will not load.

Something else worth noting.... I have an old iMac running Carrera as well. It is loading textures no problem. If I save the the Carrera scenes on the iMac I can open the external scene from my desktop on my Mac Pro All my texture will load on the Mac Pro. I can also drag and drop textures from one shader window to another on the Mac Pro

I also own Poser 11. I have tried unsuccessfully to add th "runtime" to Carrera.

It seems as if / Carrera(myself) has a acquisition issue? Not sure i if all these problems are related. 

Thanks, JK

Apart from this, Daz Studio crashes all the time. Every day there's some new problem. Sometimes it doesn't even start. Opening an old project with only e.g. Victoria 8 can take ten minutes plus. The I often get the message of duplicate files. Opening the report file I can't seem to understand one thing of it, where to start etc.

So I understand absolutely NOTHING about computers. I have been using DAZ3D on my MacBook pro for about a year. It is...manageable. But it takes 3-4 hours to just render a naked character, let alone anything with clothes and I haven't event tried scenes because I don't want my computer to explode. It also takes up to a minute or two just to view something in IRAY in the program when building a character and I can't modify in IRAY view at all. I have to build and then view in the IRAY view to see how it looks, then exit out of that, make tweaks, and view again. All in all, the process is incredibly time-consuming. 

I would like to purchase a PC to make all this easier. This is honestly just a hobby, I make the characters and then pull them into photoshop to create artworks from them. So I don't need anything crazy and I don't think I want to do a custom build as I just don't have the computer knowledge and no one at any of the computer stores seem to know what I really need. They are all gamers. Listing specs to me is basically as useful as giving me advice in Chinese, which is why I have such trouble following the other threads addressing this. I was hoping someone could just say, buy THIS computer, it may not be the best of the best for this kind of thing but you will be able to build in the IRAY view and renders won't take hours and freeze up your computer so totally it can't do anything else while it is rendering. Basically, anything that will take this process from 8 hours to something more like 1 or 2 would be OK for me. And if it is good enough that I could then maybe start actually playing with lighting and scenes a little that would be pretty cool.

So any suggestions for specific computers would be helpful. 

Thanks!

I have recently purchased the bank vault set by Perry Wallinga and I have a question regarding some of the surfaces in the set. The model has a main figure called the vault that is all one piece and the visibility can be turned on and off in the scene tab. Unfortunately because it is one piece you cannot turn off individual walls or the ceiling. However, in the surfaces tab, there are individual surfaces for each wall but they are set up differently from other surface settings that I have seen because they have very few properties and no opacity settings.

So my question is, can an opacity setting/property be added to these walls so that I can turn them invisible? And if so, how do I do that?

Thanks for any help with this.

nabob21

Another newb question (I'm on a roll!).

I'm considering buying a specific WW2 bomber model from TurboSquid for use in Daz, as there's nothing similar in Daz.

I note that TurboSquid offer free conversions as part of their service, but they also list a string of potential issues with file conversions (it's a generic list for all their conversions, not specific to this model).

The particular model I'm interested in is listed as being available in FBX or OBJ formats.

I'm just wondering if any other Daz users have had experience with buying and importing these kinds of models from TurboSquid and - if so - could feedback on their experiences and - more importantly - how to do the import!

Any info appreciated and please bear in mind my level of newness to all this.

Many thanks in advance 

VBW
M

Total newbie here so please bear with me I have been dipping in and out of DAZ for afew days and today I closed it down and an error occurred (not clear  what) when I came to start DAZ back up it took me through various steps to download and install Hexagon 2.5 and then to re-install DAZ 4.12 when I load DAZ up now all I get is a grey screen with the usual set of tabs file,edit,creat,tools etc in the top left and then below that the advanced tab.

Anyone any ideas how I can get back to the view screen window with the files / access to my library etc

Thanks in advance

John

I can see my pic in nvidia iray  view ,however, during the render  it crash...........( i just put 3 people with some clothes , simple background and a boat..........)

 it shows "DAZStudio.exe caused UNKNOWN_ERROR in module "C:\WINDOWS\System32\KERNELBASE.dll" at 0033:00000000A9A8A799, RaiseException()+105 byte(s)"

can anyone hel ,thx?????