Any Ideas on what is going on?

Thanks!

Without the Scene Optimizer, the image turns out fine.

But after applying the Scene Optimizer (really basic setting, only dividing maps by 2), the render turns out like this.

I see no problems or anything in the anti-virus quarantine, so I'm not sure what to do. Any help or suggestions would be great!

Could anyone tell me how to get the Categories container to show up or how to set it up if I need to do that?

Also, in the DAZ Documentation Center, I was able to navigate to the Categories container info page but it said I didn't have enough rights to continue. I was able to view the page with that link ( http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/referenceguide/interface/panes/content_library/container_view/start ). My regular DAZ Studio sign in info didn't work and I can't figure out if I need a special account for the Documentation Center.

Any help appreciated. 

Thank you, 

missy

I thought the whole point of a gray scale displacement map is that white creates a popout effect, while black creates indentations, and gray keeps the mesh at it's default height. So why is the sphere shrinking?

https://www.daz3d.com/celeste-for-teen-raven-8

Today I bought Celeste by Marcius

https://www.daz3d.com/celeste-for-genesis-8-female

After installing Marcius's Celeste, my character load icon for Celeste for Teen Raven was gone, overwritten by Marcius's Celeste.

This happened before with two characters named Juniper.

Short of policing each step and manually installing, how do I keep this from happening?

Or, why doesn't Daz keep artists from using the same character names as other artists' characters?

In some thread, forgot where, someone said to do this:

Right-click Content Library -> Content DB Maintenance -> Export User Data

This seems to be out of date.  Went there, no Content file:

http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/artzone/pub/software/content_manager/cm_backingup

I especially wanted to get rid of all the empty user folders in the lost and found folder. (At least I assume they are user created.) I am thinking that is not possible.

I followed Padone’s method, all steps including clean up of registry.   (Thanks, Padone)

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/28348/squeaky-clean-uninstall-of-daz-is-it-possible

Also deleted the CMS (via WIN 10 programs and features) and the DIM.  

I reinstalled.   I adjusted the location pointers as I wanted.  .  From there installed Studio (64-bit), PostgreSQL, default resources and scene builder.  (No Content.)  This should be a bare-bones clean install with no content pointers.  At least I assumed so.  (All the 'standard' scripts, light presets etc are in the content folder I pointed out for DIM.)

But I still see a ‘gazillion’ folders in lost and found.  I assume they are ‘user folders’ since they all have the letter u in the icon...Can't confirm nor deny if they were all created by me at some point in time.  

It appears I did not get a 100% complete delete of the content pointers and management files. 

What did I miss?  How can I delete all the user folders (there’s no files or content shown) in the Lost and Found in one operation? 

Also, when I look at the Scripts utilities folder - and others (for example Move scripts)  I see an exclamation point inside a ‘postage stamp’ frame.  Is that Normal?  It's not like an orphaned object.  Maybe there's not icon for such?  (Exlamation marks in a triangle usually is a warning in my 'normal' world.)

Thanks in advance for any input and assistance.

1) the ability to change lighting levels during a render, and

2) the ability to look through a mesh light to aim them (using a free add on)

Are there any solutions for these in Iray?  Preferably free ones...

thanks!

Thanks.

{
	"file_version" : "0.6.0.0",
	"asset_info" : {
	},
	"scene" : {
		"materials" : [
		],
		"animations" : [
			{
				"url" : "name://@selection:?extra/studio_node_channels/channels/Visible/value",
				"keys" : [ [ 0, false ] ]
			}
		]
	}
}

The following lines don't work:

"url" : "name://Genesis 8 Female Eyelashes:?extra/studio_node_channels/channels/Visible/value",
"url" : "name://Genesis%208%20Female%20Eyelashes:?extra/studio_node_channels/channels/Visible/value",
"url" : "name://Genesis%208%20Female%20Eyelashes/studio_node_channels/channels/Visible/value",

//none of these work

I'm trying to create a simple properties preset that hides a mesh without anything being selected, even if it's a child of another mesh in the scene.

Has anyone made functionality like this already that works from the content library? 

Clicking around in the scene window takes too long.  I don't want to have to select all, de-select arms, set visible to on or off, that's too much work and too slow. I need instantenous functionality for hide and show of G8F's body parts.

I'm sure one of you guys have conquered this problem :) I'll eventually figure something out, but I'm still new to DAZ.

i am using windows 8 64-bit.

How can you tell if Daz Studio is using the CPU or graphics card for rendering? And can you you choose which one to use or does the program automatically select?

Thanks for any replies.

nabob21

The denoiser works well but in some cases it takes away detail in some areas like hair. So what I want to do is take the denoised image and the original and take the best parts of both images in photoshop.

What I'd like to do is light up the interior of individual buildings. Could someone please tell me if it is possible and if so, how to do it.

Thank you............................Vacant!

Then I got to thinking, is that really going to help my render?

Bassically, will DS only load the texture once to the GPU if it's used on multiple objects, or will it load a new instance of the same texture for each object it's used on?

So here's the question. What about wave-like movement? Non-perpendicular push. An alien crawling under the skin, for example.

https://i.imgur.com/a3GJrSQ.png - visual aid...well, sort of. xD

Creating one singe morph won't work here so how does one do something like that? Can't google anything related to that. Maybe someone could point me to some place where I can read about it? Or, perhaps, give an advice? Techniques, software?

Thanks for the help!

I am doing a bed scene video with an animated genesis 8 figure sleeping. I'd like to make his body slip into the mattress and his face into the pillow with a smoothing modifier but the results are totally weird and unnatural. The area pushed by the figure is always too large and he always gets through the surface during the animation. Is there a way to obtain a more realistic result based on physics, using the volume and the density of the mattress and the pillow instead of only a surface and make them collide with the figure ?

Above the figure, I am using a dForce sheet, but when the character moves too much underneath, the result of the simulation becomes weird too.

If someone has a solution or a tutorial to make this simulation more realistic, it would help me a lot !

But now I'm wondering what is it about a piece of content that would cause a rendering crash? Also, is there some sort of update for that piece of content that I missed? Is it possible it was due to the combination with other things in the scene (the original West Park set, Ilsa Hair from RDna, Sapphira character from Silver/Jessaii, UberEnvironment2 and a couple UberArea surface lights) and the outfit would render fine in another setting?

Thanks in advance,

AJ

I just completed my Scene subset and... I just moved the wanted dress+figure to a new scene, now I imported all back and... realized I have to move the old clothes, Hair, bodyparts to the new figure.

For some reason I could not just use the "fit to" mode, now I applyed the hair again, but why can I not copy the propertys to apply them ? :(

seems like, nect time when I wanna use a subscene to use dforce I should use ALL connected objects :/ because import it back does not work good...