I was following a tutorial that said I needed to export the G8F .obj in base resolution, with no SubD. I did it, loaded the morph with loder pro with a success, but...

When I apply the morph, and ten turn G8F back into high resolution mode, it looks like this:

It seems like the Catmark SubD alghorithm is trying to soften up the edges of the cut, which I don't want. The problem goes away when I switch to Bilinear, but then the rest of the geometry is too "jaggy" or "boxy".

Is there a solution to this?

Thanks in advance

Here's the problem; I've have today installed Daz 4.12.1.117 Pro on a machine that has been happily running an earlier version of 4.12 and I use it for rendering images. Since the install, all I get is a black image. It starts the render, finishes quick and produces an entirely black image. I've been through as much as I know to go through.

Nvidia 980 GFX card, same as before. Everything is the same as before but for not producing a render.

HELP!

Thanks in advance.

Can anyone help ?

Other problem I ocasionally have is that sometimes when I click the render button the render ends after 3 seconds and nothing is rendered, but I just press render again and it renders normally. I don't know if this has any relation with my problem.

Thanks

I'm not sure what the problem is but if there's a problem with these certain products then other peope should get this error as well!

Is there a solution to this problem that I'm experiencing?

Any idea why the gen 8 female is loading like this? 

I have already uninstalled gen 8 female essentials and power poses and reinstalled them to no avail. 

I've been using DazStudio on my desktop pc for quite some time now. I'm on my new laptop currently and i'm wondering why it takes 2 hours to render ONE image. As a side note, if i render inside the viewport and move things around, it works fine.

Today I rendered a 1920x1080 image(for a wallpaper) and I walked away for 2 hours, I come back, the image seems to be 'getting there' in terms of quality, but the render was still at 5%.............?

Basically what I am asking is, what can i do to lower the render time, is my hardware good enough for Iray or am i just asking too much out of this system and thats why its taking so long?

Here are some pictures... i just threw all the info i could out there so we can figure this out. :)

Thanks!

First I start with the canal, works fine. But then when I go to add the material to the water it gives me an error message that it can't locate the file. So I go locate it and add it in. Then I try the candles, those work without any problem. But when I try the boat it gives me several dialogs that it cannot find several files and I can't find them either.

1) Am I doing something wrong? Is there a simple way to fix this that I'm missing?

2) Is there a way I can check if the one I manually located loaded in? I can't tell in texture mode and setting to IRAY just clocks for me and never loads anything. Only other way I know is to render but it would be painful to sit watching for twenty minutes or more just to see if this is working.

I'm pretty new to Daz 3d so I understand this may be a user error but I'm not sure. Any help that could be provided would be much appreciated. :) I've attached images so you can see exactly what I'm seeing.

It looks like it's the hair that causes studio to stop responding. Is it in some way possible to select what parts of a scene file to merge

Recently my viewport iray preview will start refreshing every 5 seconds.  I'm not sure whats causing it but the thing is that it doesnt do it all the time.  A few weeks ago i was messing with some settings that had to do with the render refreshing even if there wasnt a change that was done.  I was almost certain that i turned the setting on, didnt like it and turned it back off.  But i may have forgotten to turn it off.  I dont remember where the setting was, but it may have been in the render settings window.  I'm not sure if thats what it is because like i said the constant refreshing doesnt happen all the time.

EDITED: i dont think i was in the render settings, it was the surfaces window. I clicked the options at the top right of the left hand cluster of windows and found the autorefresh option and unchecked it.  Going to see if that was it or not...hopefully it is, but i'm pretty sure that just in the last 2 weeks i reset all my Daz settings to default.

anyone have any ideas?

Or has this always been like that??
Now I'm getting really confused. Went back to DS 4.9 and it looks like the imported bone names are already different from the original G8 figure.
Strange.. I could have sworn that these were usually the same DS names for the bones.

Thank you!

Edit: Never mind, I had to turn off the dome of my HDRI.

I have had the manager on this computer since Christmas of 2018 (when I bought it) and I routinely download free content and some bought items biweekly. I know it was working perfectly until the last update.

Weirdly, when I trouble shot it, and checked compatability it said it runs on Windows 8. I've been on Windows 10 the whole time I've owned this computer, so that means Daz's site downloaded a Windows 8 version the first time I downloaded it from the site on this machine.

How do I even get to the manager DL page again? Would it be in my content page? If I go to it is there a Win 10 version I can select? Thanks in advance to any responders.

The centaur has a double.

One is white and the other regular tan skin color and the legs are protruding out of one.

I have tried to figure this one out to no avail.This is exactly how it comes in when I click to add the figure.

(I figured out this only happens when I am in geometry edit mode.)

Otherwise, the figure magically melds itself back together. (for now)

Does anyone know how to fix this? I'd really appreciate the help thanks.

Hi, I placed here an invisible Lightpoint to highlight the stool a bit, because in the full scene is there a person who blocks the light.

Profi drawing skills! :D

So, back to the first image, it causes a block shadow at the wall, because there is a plane casting the light.

Is it possible to make it not causing a shadow? because yeah... thats the best way how I can make there a bit more light.

In the render is there no lightsource visible.

I'd hate to reinstall Daz Studio 4.12, as I'd need to reinstall all the content files as well.

Can someone help please?

Kind regards

So, if you haven't installed any updates from the install manager today, I highly recommend you DO NOT INSTALL IT!

if you've gotten the same message and have fogured out how to fix it please share

I'm so frustrated. :(

I have an issue with morphs where the center of the different Vertex groups moves. Once I load the morph, the center of the groups stays at the original location which makes the result unusable.

In the attachedexample I just scaled the figure and then used the exported obj on the original. You cans ee how the origin of the selected part is at the level of the original.

I am using DAZ Studio 4.12

Can anyone tell what the issue is?

The Viewport NVIDIA Iray preview no longer works. 

Do I just uninstall the update from the Install Manager? Will that uninstall the entire program? 

Is anyone else having the same issue?

I dial up Aiko 8 character morph on the Gen 8 model. Then I export the clothing that is on the model to a modeler, fit the clothing correctly then import back as a corrective morph or whatever it needs to be to correctly fit gen 8 when dialed back up to Aiko 8.

Any help anyone can provide is greatly apriciated as I can not find any information about the process.

many thanks and I hope you all stay healthy.

I was going to set up a vignette to mirror the scene by basically reconstructing it with other assets that did not have the wall, but wanted to stop by here and see if there is an easier way to knock out one wall via some other means.

Just to be clear - there does not seem to be a way to adjust the surface of the one wall – all the walls are one object and surround the entire room (as opposed to being separate walls that can be manipulated independently).

Thanks!