This time DAZ studio installed normally, progression bar and size 1.1GB. But this time Valentina was the one that was dissapearing from ready to install to installed, showing its size as 0. I uninstalled it and tried running Daz but it still hangs on upgrading CMS. 

Any help would be greatly apperciated and I hope I gave enough details on my problem. I have sent a ticket and waiting but also thought I would ask here to.

I have bought Tesla Study Room from the shop and i have one big issue. When i export to blender as .obj with mtl file the mtl file is missing a lot of textures where it´s only blank. Seems it only exports the files that came with the room but many normal textures like aluminium and glass and others are not exported but the room looks fine when i open in daz3d with all needed textures. Is there anyway to fix this so all textures gets exported not only the ones that came with the room becuase it doesn´t have all needed and seem to use some of daz3d:s own default built in textures that doesn´t get exported.

TiA

is there anything except for installing windows again?

In contrast, if I hide an item in a new Selection Set in the Tool Settings while using the geometry editor, when I load the scene again later, all those hide settings are gone (the eye is open again) and I have to go through the scene finding all the different items and re-hiding them (there are sometimes dozens and this can be quite time-consuming).

Is there a way to retain the "hide" setting in the Tool Settings pane when the Scene is re-loaded?

https://imagebin.ca/v/5HLGZzjLsy34

Mimic Live looks like a good option but absolutely nowhere can I find out if it allows me to import a pre-recorded .wav file. Some may assume that would be taken for granted, but if I'm going to pay $50.00, I'd like to see that facility in writing beforehand.

Does anyone know the answer to this?

Thanks in advance.

Bonus Question: When importing to Daz from Marvelous Designer, what's the lowest Particle Distance Simulation Property you can get away with before Dforce gets all cranky? It defaults to 20mm but is that the best setting in general for Daz? 10mm seemed fine, it did not like 5mm (lol), or is it dependent on the indvidual garment?

Thanks in advance. 

I am re-categorizing my content in Daz Studio. The goal was to put items in "my" categories, and simultaenously remove them from the default categories, so that the default categories would only contain items that I had not moved to my own specific categories. However, unchecking the boxes in the Categorize screen that map an item into the default categories will not actually remove it from said default categories, nor will clicking the "Remove from all Categories" button. The categorize box will make you think that it's going to work how I want it to, but as soon as you bring the item back up and pull up its category options, it's back in default categories again.

There are two ways that I can see to get the effect that I want. Either by being able to remove the item from Default Categories, or by being able to pull up a listing of all items that are ONLY in default categories, not my special ones. Insight as to how to achieve either methodology will work. 

I click a prop in my scene.
I select the Joint Editor.
I'm looking for a button that automatically places the pivot at the very center of the prop automatically, but I'm not sure where or what it is.

there's a method for transferring clothing from G3 to G8 by using the Edit>Scene ID.... when I try that the arms and, sometimes, legs go weird

  as if the rigging is off or something. I've followed all the steps 

Adjust pose to match G3, Load unparented, Edit> Scene ID, Edit>Transfer Rigging then fit. but every time the arms and, sometimes, legs go weird. The arms worse than the legs. I've tried tweaking the starting pose to match exactly but it makes little difference. I've tried different clothing with similar results. I finally tried just zeroing the G8 pose and, as expected, that didn't help. See Attached. 

Anyone got any ideas.

But I have searched and searched in vain for any video tutorials on how to animate a character in a dForce outfit. Everything I find about "animation" and dForce is talking only about using animation frames just to get a simulation run and draped on a SINGLE pose. But even that just creates its own major problem: The ENDING frame is what I want for a BEGINNING frame, yet there is no way to delete all the frames from frame zero up to the ending frame. It also dosn't work to copy the ENDING frame and paste it to frame zero; the dForce result doesn't transfer with it. Wut?

So here is my question: How in the world do you ANIMATE a CHARACTER in dForce clothes, changing the character from pose to pose across many frames, and have the dForce clothes do their dForce thing? Do you have to re-run the simulation for every pose change?

I think (hope?) I can get the character into the pose I want on frame zero using the dForce "current frame" operation, and having it start from the default pose. But then what? How do I get the character into a completely different pose at frame 15, and yet another different pose at frame 30, and so on?

Does anybody here know of any good spoken word video tutorial on this specific question? Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Is there a way to get my HDRI ground to show up on anything but a vanilla beauty canvas?  My environment mode doesn't make a difference, and besides the "with ground" thing makes the HDRI look wacky.

Yours truly,

Puzzled

My question is can I just plug a 2080ti into my system using the same power connectors?  My old card is a 1070.  My PSU is some Thermaltake 750W model.

I've attached a text file with my current system details from CPU-ID.

Any caveats would be much appreciated.

Whenever I move a character joint, even a finger, I have to wait for "Applying Mesh Smoother". What is this? A clothing effect? Can I select all nodes in the scene and turn something off in the parameters to stop it? Thank you.

I just bought the 'MRLdForce Long Morphing Hair for Genesis 8 Female. I have two issues that I can't figure out.

Firstly when I render the scene with IRAY the hair is not visible (all you get is the scalp cap!). This seems to be related to the second problem, there are no polygons to the hair (execpt the scalp cap). I can not get the hair to hang right. I can't grab the hair and move it (because there are no polygons) and the dForce part doesn't seem to work (the hair does not hang down towards the floor if the character is leaning over.

Can some kind sole please point me in the right direction, what am I not doing right?

Thanks

I've just gotten the said Character Converter [G8F to G3F] because I'm mainly using G3, but still want to make use of the lovely G8 characters out there. Right now, I'm trying to convert some Mousso women to G3, and I'm always running into the same problem. When the settings are just right for the face and body - tolerance 0, "hide eyes" unchecked - there are ugly break rings appearing in the eyes, I don't really have a clue how this happens. You can see them in my attached (half-baked) renders of Mousso's Albany character. They are specially clear with the dark eyes, but quite noticeable in the lighter ones too. Now, if I check "hide eyes" instead, the irises become totally distorted, so this doesn't seem to be an option. Anyone have any ideas what's causing this, and especially, how to avoid / fix this? Because otherwise, I'm really happy with the results!

I've seen the original thread on this version of the character converter (https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/351696/released-character-converter-from-genesis-8-female-to-genesis-3-female-conv-jcms-too-commercial/p1) but I'm not getting much better results with the legacy process as recommended there. Also, I would just really like to know what is happening with the eyes, technically speaking. Maybe there's a way to simply fix them afterwards?

Any help would be much appreciated, thanks! And stay safe, everyone.

I have noticed that the distance to the horizon in Daz Studio seems to behave differently depending on what is in the scene. If it is an empty scene and I try to zoom out the ground plane very quickly seems to get clipped off at the back. If there is an item in the scene (large or small) and I translate the item a long way back (say -100000 on the z axis) and then zoom out the ground plane doesn't get clipped at all. (See attachments).

I have also noticed that if I have an extended item that makes use of transparency maps for things like decals and labels, if I zoom out far enough to see the entire item then the transpareny maps don't seem to work and the entire map is shown as a black square.

Can someone explain to me how zooming and the horizon are working? And if there is something I can do regarding the transparency maps?

Thanks for any replies.

nabob21

I'm attaching an image to show what I'm having trouble with (see technical-term title). This is a WIP, so please ignore anything else in the screen grab, such with her pose and position right now: If I can't get the dress to "drape" sensibly in the pose with her leaning over looking at the jukebox, then I'm going to have to back out and try something else. I can't find any controls/morphs for the dress that fix this. 

I also need to have her stand up from that pose, turn around, and look at a camera dollying toward from behind, so I've got to get some control over this dress somehow.

Anybody know any magic tricks for this? Or even just down-to-retro-Earth tips?

ETA: It's also frustrating how the texture "stretches" and gets distorted with the dress shape. Anybody know any way to overcome that, too?

What do you all think is "THE BEST" Graphics Card out there in 2020 for the fastest 3d rendering for stills and animation, people are telling me a Titan, but which Titan...? , but I am also reading for the money a Nvidia RTX 2080 TI is pretty dam good as well and half the money.

I will take everyones thoughts on this,

Thank You 

Hoping everybody is fine,

I’ve got a problem with morphing one leg, not always but with some specified poses (No problem with standing poses) The result is just ugly. Any help is welcomed.

Best regards

This is a G8F figure in DS 4.12 Pro. A smoothing modifier has minimal effect.

• I remove the weights from each toe, the toes group, and the metatarsals.  I apply the now missing weights to the foot.  The foot map now covers most of the shoe, except where the shin has influence.
• In order to model the shoes easier, I initially pose the thigh bends to 8 inward, and 8 inward twist.
• Once the shoes are fit to the figure, I restore the default pose and export an .obj for updating the base geometry.  This puts the shoes in the G8 default pose.
• I added a zeroed jcm to eliminate a jcm that was driven by moving the big toe.

I get to the point of "Saving out a Wearable Preset" around the 27 minute mark.  When I attempt to load the wearable, the toe area is warped.

Original, pre-save, version is shown in WearableProblem1.jpg.  Now I only have access to WearableProblem2.jpg.  After closing Daz, even my previous saves have this geometry distortion.

I feel like I have to be doing something wrong given the vast amount of high heel content available in the store.  Any thoughts, ideas, help, etc is appreciated.

I have transferred some Genesis 8 figures from Genesis 3 figures using morph loader ability, not RSA's converter script. I chose morph loader because it gave me the best result in resemblence between the figures copied and transferred.

Unfortunately not everything was perfect. I have some irritating bone rotation problem. Some of the bones/joints rotate in wrong direction.

1. Eyes : Eyes X/Y axis are inverted. When I roll figure's eyes toward right in [posing] tab by setting [Eyes Side-Side] dial, they roll left. When I roll them upward they roll downward.

2. Fingers : The finger bones were supposed to bend on Z axis, but thumb bones(Right Thumb 3) are not bending, but are bending on y axis.

Does anyone know why this happen? Is there an in-the-scene solution(Like changing rotation axis)? I really don't want to stop using morph loader method.

Thank you.

I finally just did a "Download" and manual install. I have no idea what I'm supposed to do with the "Manifest.dsx" and the "Supplement.dsx" files that came in the zip file, and only can hope it will work now.

I know, I know: file a ticket. I may at some point. Right now I'm too fed up with the whole mess.

I recently purchased the "Bloody nurse fantasy costume set for G8F". When viewing the model and choosing options everything looks great, but when I go to export it, this package doesn't emit any files into the textures folder. Other items within the project export textures without issue. I also went as far as creating a new scene with just one of the articles of clothing to test, but no luck their either. 

Has anyone seen this before and if so, how do you go about troubleshooting why certain textures aren't exported?

Thanks,

Cody

edit added a screenshot of the error.\

edit: Error still exists after I uninstalled LAMH after Uninstall with DIM.

Yet another edit:  I uninstalled and reinstalled so I can uninstall it with the error keep coming up.