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

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

installed post sgre goz and ds, do i need maybe to install something else?

So all week I've been busy creating shader presets for a project, everything has gone as expected, as always.

Today I opened up DS to continue my work, and THIS happened:

As you can plainly see, upon saving the preset, the thumbnail appears in OpenGL shading, NOT in Iray shading as selected in the viewport.

The shader preset itself IS being saved correctly, but the thumbnail will not appear Iray-rendered as in the viewport, as it always has. I can apply it to any surface successfully, but no matter what, I cannot save it anywhere from any surface with a proper thumbnail.

I've tried anything and everything I could think of; using a fresh scene, applying to/saving from different geometries, reset to default render settings, saving to different locations, modifying what is and isn't saved with the shader data, trying to apply stock Iray uber shaders to stuff and saving that etc. etc., but no matter what, suddenly DS wants to save the thumbnail in OpenGL texture shading.

I've blown several hours now trying to figure this out, and many more hours scouring Google for any mention of such a state, although any combination of terms (and my google-fu is quite good) only returns the same glut of basic shader tutorials and newbie mistakes in applying shaders.

The kicker is, I've done nothing I know of differently than I always have, and nothing I know of has changed between last night when I shut down DS and went to bed, and when I woke up and started DS again. O.o The last shaders I was working on last night were emissive shaders for neon tubes. The computer has not been re-booted.

The only interruption to my workflow was experimenting with IES profiles on an emissive sphere in a fresh new scene before closing DS. I can't image that would bork the renderer.

So, has anyone ever seen this before, or knows what the issue could be? I'm praying it's something stupidly simple, like a checkbox somewhere... The last thing I want to do is manually make thumbs and install them where they go (tedious!), and the VERY LAST thing I would want to do is re-install Studio.

Any help is greatly appreciated, and I thank you in advance :D

post script:

as I wrote this, I decided to close DS since I'm not using it... and got THIS

fml... >.<

I just opend and closed DS again, and the same thing happened. Crash log saved, submitting it to QC. I'll let this post stand as-is and link it in bug report. This may be related, this is totally new behavior.

When I right-click on the item in Daz, I get no deletion option. The file path no longer works because the file was deleted.

every time i try to dress the model it tells be this file is missing

/data/Ravenhair/EdwardianSuit/ES-Hat/UV Sets/Ravenhair/Base/default.dsf

how can i fix this?

I checked the data folder and I see there are eyelashes morphs in the Genesis8/Female Eyelashes folder,
but there are also in the Genesis8/Female. So how I create them for the head and not for the eyelashes? 

I had to make an End Task to free that memory . Any explanation? 

I am currently having a problum with creating a morph that will not expload. I tryed everything I can think of and nothing has helped.

I am currently working on fixing a shirt with some JCMs but just a simple sphere is having the same problum when i try to create a morph for it and i have no idea whats wrong.

So if I can get the sphere working correctly I can get my JCMs working correctly.

Anyways I attached some images explaining my problum, if there is anyone that can give me some advice for have had a similar problum and can share inside I would be very grateful.

With the sphere, I am using Blender as my modeling software.

I create a sphere in Daz3d then I export it out using the Daz3D preset option so the scale is all correct.

Next i import it into Blender, then I activate edit mode and pull out some vertacies. As seen here. So I havent added or taken away anything, just moved the verts around.

Next I export the 3D model out of Blender and uncheck everything so that it exports out as clean as possoble.

Next i open Morph loader Pro, and select the edited model.

I chose reverse deformation in the options, and press ok

I get a success!

then when i turn up the morph dial, my model Exploads!

Can anyone help please.

Thank you all so much.

Acharya

I purchased session 2 of..."Creating Incredible Line Art with Line Render 9000 : Creating Line Art from People". I don't see the .mp4 videos that are supposed to come with this tutorial. I already purchased session 1, and can view the .mp4 files with no problem.

The session 2 product package is also only 865.33.kb, but the session 1 product package is 437mb.

Does anybody know why I don't have the .mp4 files for session 2? Thanks.

Just finished a render and suddenly Zelara melted. seem to fix it on 'Mesh resolution' by switching from sharp edges and corners to soft, then back again

The inserts are from the previous render

after the first render I added the bike, then the vehicle in the background, which I decimated to 10% on everything. Has decimator got any issues like this? This is the first time I have tried it. when decimating, did I need to do something to Zelara?

Any ideas please?

Thanks,

There are several promo images with the product that appear to use the same makeup shown in the image attached:

https://www.daz3d.com/da-15y-lvl-4-hd-morph-for-genesis-8-females

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

--August

When you unfit a pair of shoes, they keep a weird position between themselves, and that doesn't look natural.

Is it possible to make them fall, without deforming like normal clothes?

I have tried removing the weight, but they didn't move of course.
The same happened when I tried getting the stiffness of the surfaces to 1.

Thanks in advance!

Hope you're all well, healthy and safe. I'm mucking about with the iClone facial mapping key for G3M. I got it to work by dragging some keyframes around, cause their .duf is disaligned. Anyhow the process relies on using their own set of .dsf to control parts of the face rig. (Raise inner eyebrow left etc.) But when I apply some fiberhair brows they don't autofollow their .dsf in contrast to, in this example, "Pose Controls > Head > Brow > Brow Inner Up-Down Left". 

Is there a way of setting up a (set of) controllers to force the eyebrows to behave as they do with the official pose controls for third party poses?

The oddest thing is I'm finding no indication anywhere on the eyebrow prop that it is in any way controlled by anything?? No hidden parameters, no sub-components or controllers in the parameters... The brows are "Fit To" G3M, maybe that's why...? I dunno.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks so much. All my best

xx

How can I get a detailed but monochromatic and evenly lit render like what you find in store previews?

My attempts so far have included transforming everything into the Clay Shader - Porcelain or Grey (https://www.daz3d.com/clay-style-shaders-for-iray), then various itirations of the Ghost Light (https://www.daz3d.com/iray-ghost-light-kit) - (natural light, daylight, all the luminescence) then rendering in Iray.

But what ends up happening is that the light simply drowns everything out, or the shadows swallow up the details. Even if I tried making the light source further away or futzing with the light itensity, the result is the same. 

Any ideas?

Some gorgeous examples of what I'm trying to achieve:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkDakjwPd7o

the problem is that i have an object file that replaces the normal Genesis head. i parented the new head (which is an obj file) under the normal head and everywhere else, in dz, maya, whatever program, it acts as the new head and moves/rotates as if it were the Genesis head with poses.

everything works out perfectly when i follow that video, except one thing. once the character is inside of Unreal, the head is no longer parented? i guess? it just stays in the tpose position and doesn't move.

basically, i have to use the target manager in unreal to target the Genesis bones with the Unreal skeleton which gives it all the correct controls and animations. when i target the "Head" is where, i guess, the problem lies here, because it doesn't work. i can only assume, because it is targeting the normal genesis head without the new OBJ head (the normal genesis head is hidden/invisible at this point). that could only make sense because the head bone is attached to the normal Genesis head and not the new OBJ head, but i don't understand why the fact that it is technically a child of the parent head is not sufficient.

i'm looking for a solution for this, because the customized OBJ head is completely neccesary for the project. the only thing that i can personally think of is if there is some way to directly connect the object file in Daz to the head BONE instead of parenting it to the HEAD?

is this possible? or can anyone think of a different, more sensible solution to this problem. thank you for any help that you can give me with this problem. i would really appreciate it.