Technical Help (nuts n bolts) - Daz 3D Forums

GenX issue...Poser figure not supported?

ZaganSebastian — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 20:00:37 +0000

Forgive me if this has already been answered. The Daz search engine is hard to navigate through. I got the GenX plugins over the holidays and just now trying to use them. Following the steps I've seen and read, I export my Genesis figure to a cr2 file. However, when I select "Load Figure" and open the cr2 file, I get a "Poser figure not supported error." At first, I thought maybe it was the custom morphs that prevented them from being suported. Just for the sake of saying I tried, I attempted to load some base figures by Daz like Lee 6, Freak 5, and Michaels 5 & 6. They all gave me the same error message.

What I am trying to accomplish is to bring some of my old custom Genesis and G2M figures to G3M without having to rebuild them from scratch. What am I missing or doing wrong?

Thanks in advance!

Where did all my Smart Content go?

pectabyte — Sun, 26 Apr 2020 15:53:45 +0000

My figure is selected and most of the smart content isnt showing up. I've ran a Content DB Maintanece and reimported my meta data, i've stopped and restarted my CMS but nothing helps. What do I do?

Victoria 8 Makeup Does Not Export

cdhorrigan — Sun, 26 Apr 2020 19:02:05 +0000

I guess there's a known issue that when you change Victoria 8's makeup in Daz, her face looks the same in the editor and the makeup is only visible in the render (discussed here https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/176111/victoria-8-makeup-not-changing).

However, I think this might be related to another issue which is more than just an inconvenience. When I export the basic Victoria 8 character as an FBX, the makeup does not get exported with the other textures. So I end up with a character with no eyebrows.

I have "Collect textures to folder" set in my export settings and I can see that when I export a character based on V8, like Elizabeth, I get a texture for the base face (FWSAElizabethFace_1001.jpg) as well as a .tif of that, and then also the makeup (FWSAElizabethFaceMU01_1001.jpg) and lips (FWSAElizabethFaceLips03_1001.jpg). With base V8 I just get the face jpg, which lacks eyebrows.

It's only a minor inconvenience that Victoria 8 makeup only shows up in the render, but if it doesn't export that makes the character unusable. Does anyone have any insight into what might be causing this? Hopefully one of these seemingly related V8 makeup issues can shine light on the other, and I hope there's some workaround that will let me retrieve the face texture for V8. Thanks.

crash by opening

evandezand — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 17:48:59 +0000

when i click th daz3d icon, its loading and the i get a fatal error, ihad it fixed but now my pc was crashed, i had to install it again and now i dont know what file must be deleted to fix the crash, it was in the help section but i can find it anymore, please help

Bought a model for David 3 how do I convert it to one of the standard genesis people?

garygfletcher — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 21:45:07 +0000

Bought a model for David 3 how do I convert it to one of the standard genesis people?

LayLo3DPoseLibrary Help!

joelcolbourne — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 13:35:04 +0000

I just recently bought LayLo's Pose Library for Maya and I cant find the license key anywhere ! Its a bit uppestting to have paid for this and want to use it but cant just because I wasnt given the license key! Does anybody have any idea how to get it or find it ?

Perspective view get unsharp/blurred

Loony — Sun, 26 Apr 2020 21:44:22 +0000

Hi^^.... (yes I'm active again ^^)

I wanted to take a look at my scene, but... for some reason, its blurred:

I used my old render preset but that didnt fixed it :/

I will now restart Daz Studio, maybe it helps, maybe not.

So far I know, does a Perspective view not have any kind of Blur.

Update: restarting Daz did fixed it... Still crazy WHY.. O_o

How to cascade all folders in content library? how to add tags to some items in content library?

KINKYGR2014 — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 05:23:34 +0000

This is a two fold one,

1. is there any way to open or cascade all folders and subfolders in the content library?

2. I noticed some items in the library dont show up,eg when i search for clothes not all clothes show up. Is it possible to add some tag to these items so when i search they show up so i dont have to open 5-6 folders to get to them?

Setting to show only merchant resources? (morphs, shaders, etc.)

jeylien — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 00:27:39 +0000

Is there a way to create a setting option so that when I go to shaping tab and related, only select morph products are shown? Similarly, any way to elect to show only select shaders?

I have a lot of installed content and am looking to get into creating custom characters for sale; it'd be very helpful if I can hide the assets that aren't merchant resources when working on an intended commercial project, to avoid accidentally applying any resources against its usage rights. I have too many morphs and shader sets to be able to keep track of which are merchant resources and which aren't without some automatic identifier or filtering. I would be able to go through my resources once to determine which are merchant resources or not, but it's too much to do every time I open Studio. Similarly, I'd prefer not to uninstall the non-merchant resources entirely, since I still like to use them for personal projects.

Basically is it possible to create a filter or category to separate out merchant resources from the rest?

Changing a mesh origin position to a new location

unused account - glossedsfm — Sun, 26 Apr 2020 18:45:43 +0000

Hi,

So i have a daz model that is at lets say x y z = 0 50 0. But whenever i try to rotate it with the rotation widget in the viewport the widget is not on the model it might be at lets say 0 0 0. When i try to rotate along any axis the widget location or origin is the pivot point and so the model does rotate to whatever new orientation i input, but it also makes a huge arc across the space so it also does a bit of translating which i have to adjust for. How do i change it so that when i try to rotate a model the rotate widget in the viewport is on top of the model. That way when i try to rotate the model it will rotate in place?

Is there a way to save a pose which zero's the hips out?

Serene Night — Sun, 26 Apr 2020 04:27:53 +0000

I can save poses that zero other body parts, like head, hands, feet, but the hip stucture seems to be the root of the figure, and I can't seem to save just the hip like I can the other body parts. I can however, click on the hip, and zero that selected part, so I am wondering if that can be saved.

The reason for this is it is useful to remove some of the dramatic hip sway on female figures, and am wondering if this is possible to make a pose that just affectst he hip bones, and not the rest of the figure?

Gen 8 Female to Male- Creepy hand results- solved thx!

sunnyjei — Sun, 26 Apr 2020 21:38:45 +0000

Tried to describe the problem in the title. I had a gen 8 female that I really liked and wanted to create a 'dad' figure by duplicating her and going to the hidden option in parameters and cranking it all the way to male. 'Dad' looked great (except for a slightly weird chest) at least until I posed him and his fingers got creepy. Is there any way to pose him without his hands going on all Edward scissor hands on me? Thanks in advance!

daz is always in "preparing scene" mood with iray mode

Schatzie — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 20:58:34 +0000

Hi everyone !

Hope your are well !

My problem is that i've installed last week the newest version of daz, 4.12 and since, each time i need to iray render my scene, even if there is nothing in the scene, in fact each time i open my daz, "preparing scene" is on and never ending !

And if i want to render a scene, the picture is entirely black.... so i can't make anything

I didn't changed any parameters in the render settings.... so i don't understand where is the problem because before that, daz 4.10 worked perfectly....

So if you have an idea... it would be great ! it is so frustrating !

Thank you !

Intel(r) Core(tm) i5-7300 HQ CPU 2.50 GHz

RAM 6 - windows 10 -64 bits

Ge force GTX 1050

Measure Metrics no longer seems to be working in DS 4.12.0.86

billyben_0077a25354 — Sun, 26 Apr 2020 20:08:17 +0000

Needed to measure a few models for a project and went to the Measure Metrics pane and am not getting any measurements. Also no nodes are showing up when I select the model (starting with the base Genesis 3 model) and it is not generating any measurements. Am I missing a new setting o0r something? I checked the about plugins and it is showing green but is not working.

SSS Map?

shavonnew — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 16:08:45 +0000

Hello!

I've seen people talk about having an SSS map and using it for their models in this forum but I am not sure in which section do I insert the SSS map.I also found AJ's blood vessel maps but similarly am not sure which section to place them in.

Do I need double the usual RAM if I have 2 GPU's?

mwasielewski1990 — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 21:52:13 +0000

Sup everybody!

Like in the thread title. Currently I'm running on 1080ti with 32gb RAM. In a ~10GB vram scene, DAZ consumes about 23GB RAM. Do I need another 32GB if I shove another GPU in my system, or will the 2 GPU's share the data loaded into RAM upon render?

I can't find my IRAY button

Angel designs — Sun, 26 Apr 2020 10:21:45 +0000

I want to render my daz characters but I cany find my video Iray option to preview my render. Where do i find it?

G3 to G8 Morph Transfer Distortion

casarice_867d61f08a — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 23:21:18 +0000

I haven't seen a prior discussion that answers this adequately.

I have used SickleYield's Morph Transfer method for G2>G3 successfully, but when I attempt it for G3>G8 I get distortions, at the fingers and shoulders variously for different FBMs. Yes, I know about the Riversoft product; I purchased it and it works fine, though SY's method gives a more exact result.

This is the procedure as I know it:

Load G3 in zero pose, set Mesh Resolution to Base, Level 0, Scale 100%. Export as obj file. Load G3 base figure, go to Edit > Morph LoaderPro > Choose Morph File: select obj file. Accept. Here I switch to Joint editor tool and go into the tool setting window >Edit > adjust rigging to shape. Then, save as File > Support Asset > Morph Asset. In the Parameter Tab add the Morph Slider to Favorites.

Load G8 base figure in zero pose. Match the G3 figure's arms and legs pose to the G8 figure's at -50% and 6% Up/Down respectively. In the Scene Tab go to Options (little upper right arrow thing) > Assets > Transfer Utility. Select the G3 figure as Source, the G8 as Target, item shape as Current. In General Options select Morph Targets only; right click this to open Extended Options; select From Source Favorites, deselect everything else in General, Extended and Post Transfer Options. Accept.

Test the morph slider and if everything is good, joint editor again and save as a morph asset. So, my question is, what am I doing wrong/missing? Whether the rigging is adjusted or not seems to make no difference as to these distortions. Can anyone help?

Adjusting Skin Color

Loony — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 16:00:57 +0000

Hi,

I wanna create a new Mother & Daughter but, the skins looks very different from the Promo Pics.

Mother: (looks fine)

https://www.deviantart.com/3dcomic123/art/Yang-Lin-For-G8F-726567269

Daughter: (looks too brown)

https://www.daz3d.com/hikaru--dforce-lingerie-for-genesis-8-females

Is there a way to adjust the daugthers skin more brighter?

Render Settings are set to Default.

At her Promo images is she not so brown. The Folder does not contain different skins.

Anyone have a good recipe to make a volumetric flame shader?

TheKD — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 22:24:16 +0000

I am making some stuff, with flame geometry, anyone know of a good way to shade something like that?

Re-Installation tip?

Angel designs — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 21:57:54 +0000

What happens to all your downloads and purchases when you uninstall your DIM, reinstall and login. Do you still see all your previously installed products or will you have to download them all over again

DIM log in issue.

mepaganporleer — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 21:36:54 +0000

Just tried to download and update DS since I'm still on 4.11 (haven't used DAZ in a while), anyway, thought maybe I should update DIM first, but now it's saying "unable to login to the specified account. verify the email and/or password and try again" when I try to log in from there. Also now I have two DIM's installed, DAZ Install Manager and DAZ Install Manager (64-bit), is that ok or did I screw up and why can't I log in?. Should I download DS 4.12 from DAZ's website and install it or wait for DIM to get fixed if it is a DAZ issue and not my install that's effed up?. Thanks in advance.

Single lane graphics cards?

EZ3DTV — Sun, 19 Apr 2020 09:45:06 +0000

I just thought I would mention this...

What a great day it will be when the graphics cards companies can get all of the needed electronics and fans on a single PCIE lane. Something as powered as a 1080ti or better.

Imagine having the ability to put 4 or 5 (even 6) graphics cards in a PC instead of just 3 or 4.

Perhaps if they could break apart the graphics card and have part of it tethered and in a remote place (maybe a hard drive bay) other than right above the slot.

This change would certainly increase productivity, more than likely, double it.

Why do they use those shortened PCIE slots? It can't cost that much more to simply just only use full sized slots.

I have been reading that 8x lanes can supply most graphics cards with enough bandwidth to reach their full potential...

Just thinking forward...

Yossarian's soldier who saw everything twice and Smart Content

mavante — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 20:50:40 +0000

Okay, that title is an allusion to the novel Catch-22, but I am beginning to feel like Yossarian's soldier who saw everything twice; my Smart Content has started giving me two—count 'em: TWO—thumbnails-with-names for each item inside a product.

I can't pin down exactly when this started. I don't know if it is happening with every product because I haven't tried doing an in-depth checking of a lot of products (not able to get into DS right now to do it, either), but I just started noticing that I would double-click on a product in Smart Content to get inside it, and I was seeing two of everything. This decidely is not the situation of having an iRay and a 3Delight version of something. I know what that looks like, and how to differentiate. No, this is TWO of exactly the same thumbnail, exactly the same name.

Very weird. I know that several times recently I have used DB Maintenance to reimport all metadata, import the metadata queue, and condense the database.

Has anyone else seen this phenomena? (I sure hope so.) Any idea what causes it and what I can do about it?

Copying Surfaces to other Surfaces without changing maps [SOLVED]

lilweep — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 18:41:44 +0000

Is there a way to copy>paste surface parameters from one surface to another without overriding maps

Can anyone help with design this kind of character

soufianelkouissi — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 08:40:12 +0000

hello everyone thank you for all help .

please can anyone help me to know how to design this kind of charcter quality its not realistic like iray quality its meduim

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9zPqaIxXmM

No "light presets" folder even though I do have light presets?

ShortlegDoggo — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 13:17:03 +0000

I purchased the Click N Render IBL Set this morning, which comes with light presets. However, even after installing, I have no "light presets" folder in my content library. I have light sets, and lights, but no "light presets" like all the light preset tutorial videos have. Any ideas? Thanks!

Weird jagged lines in render

doorknob22 — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 12:19:28 +0000

Hi all.

I'm not sure why this render has these weird jagged lines on the door's wooden panes. Any ideas?

Program always uses "Save As"

cheznous2029_28ab1adedc — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 11:48:11 +0000

I receintly ran into a problem after re-installing DS. Whenever I have a scene and go to save it the program forces me to enter the file name even if I have already saved the file. I am using the "save" file option not the "save as" option.

Issue with body surface?

Johnathanbriscoe98 — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 10:32:41 +0000

Hey everyone. Out of nowhere with one certain model I have, I noticed a deformity on her stomach or lower pelvis. I didn't think much of it till it started really showing up with renders and lights. Below is what I'm talking about. I used the polygon tool to grab onto the surface to see if there really was something up and it wasn't just the skin map somehow. Nope, Definitely something wrong with the actual body in terms of being deformed in this spot. Anyone know of a way to flatten this out or pull the skin out somehow? I have no clue how to go about it. Please help.