Thanks a lot.

See attachment, I have this problem sometimes at my chars, but I have really problems to fix this hair problem.

When I push it in in the front, then it comes out in the back :(

Any adivse for me?

Happens with different hairs, at diff. chars, Adult and Child.

If I hide the head/body, there is nothing... O_o

Edit:

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/189111/scalp-on-certain-hairs-showing-on-face-as-grain-shadow/p2

Also reading there now.

Update: fixed with scaling, Smoothing modifier and a bit mesh grabber.

Any better advises for the future?

But this one is giving me a headache. This was not an issue in G3. When the knee is fully bent the back of the pant leg is pushing through the front. I know the model's calf is intersecting with the hamstring. This leaves the pants no place to go. so they wrap the front leg. I've tried a push modifier that didn't work. I've tried to do JCMs but that made this worse. It's not a skin poke-through. And not even sure what this is called.

I'm attaching an image.

any information would be helpful... thank you in advance

Im running Catalina and Daz 4.12.

Thanks!

2019-10-08 06:11:12.306 Importing File...
2019-10-08 06:11:12.308 Importing Heff.cr2 ...
2019-10-08 06:11:12.395 Reading Heff_Elephant.OBJ
2019-10-08 06:11:12.608 Warning: Wrong type of node for joint parameter on line 195 in /Volumes/My Book for Mac/Fin's Things/My Daz 3D Library/Runtime/Libraries/Character/Plushies/Heff.cr2
2019-10-08 06:11:12.624 Warning: Wrong type of node for joint parameter on line 213 in /Volumes/My Book for Mac/Fin's Things/My Daz 3D Library/Runtime/Libraries/Character/Plushies/Heff.cr2
2019-10-08 06:11:12.906 File imported in: 600.376 ms
2019-10-08 06:11:12.990 Loaded image Heff_Mask.jpg
2019-10-08 06:11:13.031 Imported file: /Volumes/My Book for Mac/Fin's Things/My Daz 3D Library/Runtime/Libraries/Character/Plushies/Heff.cr2

Clearly, it has something to do with the 'Wrong node for joint parameter on line 195/213', but what exactly, I'm not sure. The funny thing is that Boo-regard, another LLF Plushie I bought, loads up just fine and with no issues. I don't think it's worth it to get a refund (especially since Heff was only 0.32 cents in the BYOB), so I'd like to figure out what the issue is and how to solve it, if I can.

Oh yeah... Daz Studio 4.12 Beta, macOSX Mojave 14.14.5, AMD Radeon R9 M380 2 GB, 32GB RAM. 

The eyelashes too seem to be different.  A little glow along the lower eyelid edge has appeared looking like a tear before falling or a watery inflamed pink eye.

The question is: how may be occurred this? I never saved changes over the default figure. I have uninstalled the Genesis 8 Starter Essentials and manually deleted the "Genesis 8 Basic Female.duf".  Reinstalled everything back but with no solution.  I read the log and nothing is apparently warned.

Does anybody know how can I have back the default figure?

* Sorry for my english but it's not my first language :D

I tried to be as short as possible in my title but I will explain here in details.

I am working with a Genesis 8 female that I Tposed. I would like to export all the morphs for the head in order to animate in Cinema 4D.

I know I have to add the Morph rule "head export" in FBX export settings, it is working great and I can find back my morphs in Cinema.

My problem is that it generates a morph tag for each geometry elements, including the eyelashes...

I don't get why the eyelashes is a separated element from the head but it seems counter productive to have to keyframe both eyes and then eyelashes to animate a "eyes closed" morph. It makes things so much more annoying and time consuming.

I saw 2 or 3 threads on the forum where people have the similar issue, but every time no solutions were provided. Note that I am not talking how to export the eyelashes, I know I have to thick the "merge Clothing into Figure Skeleton".

Basically, is there a way to combine eyelashes and head morphs so that it come with only one track of blendshapes in Cinema 4D ?

Thanks a lot for your help ! :)

Jeremy

As the title suggest, is there any way to change the path where Daz Connect downloads the files?

I found and changed where Daz is installing the Connect data. 

Unfortunately the original data that gets downloaded, before it gets installed is still on my main drive, which I am trying to not overflow with Daz data.

Thanks

It may sound strange the issue i'm facing with. Many times, while rendering high loaded scenes, the result comes like the following images. I see only the bottom couple of line pixels are rendered when this happens. Also i have found a solution for this on my own. After i initiliaze render, i manually slide down to the bottom pixels in render window and wait there till the iterations start. Then, render starts correctly. Yeah sound weird. I wonder what may this problem be related to ?

I have this checked: Collect Textures to Folder 

I have uninstalled and reinstalled.

I can't think what else to do. Any help would be massively appreciated!

Thanks!!!

I understand that Daz Studio will only allow one version from the beta channel and one from the full release channel per operating system instance.

And when I upgrade one of those, it wipes out the prior version.

So I want to archive the prior versions before upgrading, just in case I need to re-install it for testing and what-not.

So where are the installer files so I can archive them?

I have a question; I did a morph(just the face) for a genesis 8 female in brush and then brought back the morph, everything works correctly at first glance. morph from 0 to 100, nothing else in the body changes, everything looks fine.

but then when i put poses, the fingers of my character get all messed up when i have my morph set to 100. How can i fix this? I'm pretty certain my morph doesn't move any verts in the fingers at all.

looking forward to hear your ideas

thank you.

So... trying to understand this is there always a key for a pose control if there's a key for the parent?  The inverse of their always being a key for the parent if there's a key for the child?  ... I think that's what's going on...

As i rotate the camera, i can see the iray preview start to render as a pixelated image. However as soon as i stop rotating the camera, it goes back to a smooth-shaded view.

The Iray preview will have worked fine up until that point.

Is there way to fix this?

But when I delete the parts, does my window implode/explode whatever... goes crazy!

Hiding the parts is fine, but it will reload everytime, when I reload the scene, I can (and do) hide it as seperate surface, but I also know hiding with Opac. on value 0 does not save render speed, and if I dont need that part I would like if I can hide it.

So... why in the Name of the Holy cow, does my window explode? >_<

Video (please click the image)

TYIA

- Greg

Most of my products are around the Michael / Victoria 4 era.

I've been looking for body morphs to allow Genesis 8 to match Michael 4, but have not found what I'm seeking.

My goal is to conform my existing Michael / Victoria 4 skeletons to Genesis 8 as it seems I am unable to install the Michael 4 base (it's in my Content Library window, but will not install).

Thanks

I am trying to attach pieces to the belt and am trying to understand how to identify which bit connects to which slot. From the image below you can see there are a dozen (identical ?) buttons and each seemingly can be added to go into a different belt slot. Is there any way to tell which one goes into which slot? As I am not a Daz expert it is entirely possible I am approaching this entirely wrong and if that's the case if someone could point me in the right direction I would be grateful for the knowledge. 

Also, Is there some way to directly contact the artists who have created things when questions such as this pop up? 
That might be a rather bad idea in hindsight....

Anyways, thatnks for any insights. 

I just spotted Aerie Style and I am loving it. 

Hopefully, Clacydarch will spot this, or someone who's already purchased.  I have a couple of pre-buy questions:

1. Is the cityscape baked into the windows?  I'm hoping so, because that's some terrific work.  And,
2. Is there a fridge behind the fridge door?

Thanks for any insights anyone can give.   Stay safe out there!

- 3W 

Regards

Is there a combination of settings that will improve the look of the fabric?

• Is there a way to stiffen the fabric so it looks like cotton or denim instead of Spandex?
• Is there a way to reduce the cling so that it looks like normal gravity is pulling down the clothing so it hugs only the parts of the body on the upper surfaces and not on the lower surfaces where it should hang rather than cling?

Can either of these be done within DS without having to export, adjust, and re-import?

I set up this lighting months ago but I really like the drama I get with it. Strangley though when it's not completed rendering you get this strange discrpancy from one side to the other. 

I hope you can see in a screenshot. 

Anyone any idea why this might be. It's just spots, nothing strange. 

Thanks. 

I would like to be able to see things like materials used daz sceene and charactor file info ect... on the rendered output to PNG JPG or TIF file.

Thanks

Because it has become quite long different sections are split into different posts.

Just jump to those sections which are of interest to you...

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@ Understanding the difference between HD-Addon morphs and maps and their usage

The basics:

HD morph:

 High Resolution. Used for objects clearly visible in the foreground of your image

Accurate physically calculated shadows are cast, works great with Physically based rendering (PBR).

For the best result dial in exactly the same (render) SubDivision level for the morph as it was created for.

You can improve system performance by adjusting the (render) subdivision to a lower level but then you will see less detail.

Allows export the model as .obj  . at the highest SubD level to use or render in 3rd party software.

Displacement map

High Resolution. Used for objects clearly visible in the foreground of your image

Accurate physically calculated shadows are cast. Looks great in PBR but you need to set it up properly.

There are different types of displacement, more advanced ones like vector displacement are not yet supported by DS or Iray

There are different types of maps (0 = black or mid grey).  Render engines feature adjustment sliders to make use of all of them

Bump map

Low resolution. Used for objects in the background of the image

Simulated simplified shadows can be detected in directional light situations. (clothing structure may look fake etc)

Versatile: Bump maps can be added to the displacement slot and with the help of adjustment sliders look great also in BPR

Normal map

Low resolution. Used for objects in the background of the image

Simulated simplified shadows can be detected in directional light situations. (clothing structure may look fake etc)

There are different types of normal maps designed by different software for different render engines.

Render engines may not feature sliders to quickly adjust normal maps.

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My problem is, if I use my Shader preset, it streches so ugly, so I would want to split it in 1/4 parts, 2 on each side.

Atm is each side 1 big "plane".

but making it into a half plane would be helpful, I could try tiling, but I dont think it would be nice.

Or what think you?