Thanks guys, Ian

https://www.daz3d.com/mystical-cave

Loadning it all I get is dry rocks and boulders . I assume there should be some vet texture, water prop and light cone included, but I'm missing it

Hi, I wanna use billboards for a Street Background, but they confuse me, the Trees are behind the house, but from the frontview, are the trees in front of the house, HOW does that work/happen? I want the trees as a background for the Neighbourhood.

I'm playing around with HDRIs and I've been trying to make my own. But I'm having alot of trouble with lighting. 
Does anybody know if there is really good software which you can make your own HDRIs? 

I use my iPhone for the photography and I use Photoshop trying to make HDRIs but it's a bit of a challenge. 

I have some (non-Daz) clothing .objs made for a slightly different A-pose (legs a bit closer, arms a bit more T) that I would like to get to work with genesis 8. I lack the artistic eye to sculpt those from zero (for now anyway), but am not averse to learning rigging etc. I'm a relative noob and I've tried some of the seemingly applicable tutorials etc, but to no avail for the moment. In addition to Daz, I currently have access to Blender (which seems designed by aliens, but I'm learning) and Marvelous Designer (free trial ftw.). Will consider other software, if necessary for this project. Only limitation is am a mac user.

Current solutions attempted:

1. Marvelous designer (imported obj and genesis 8 at correct size): clothing blows to shreds (apparently the seams are not connected)

2. Using Blender to automatically connect parts (remove double vertexes was the command, I think) and then simulate in marvelous designer: buttons and zippers still pop off

3. In Daz studio, posing a genesis 8 figure to match, baking transformations, transfer rigging, then reversing the pose in the item and again baking transformations: already at rig transfer stage double thickness, crazily deformed sleeves

While I was assuming I'd have to really start learning stuff to fix deformation when posing, I'm already falling flat on my face at the first hurdle. Should I just give up and start knitting, try again in a year or three or is there an actual tutorial for this somewhere? :)
 

N

Hi, I have socks here, which i wanna give a dirty touch, but they have sadly 2 Layers Base color 1 and Base Color 2, for the pattern.

How can I easy copy the stuff Base Color 2 to Base Color 1?

I have to do that for 3 areas front/mid/back and that for 3 Layers, Base color, pattern and something more...

Any idea how to do it?.... on big sizes is the editor sooo slow :(

And IF the copy does even work... (from image 1 to image 2). it would not:

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/385026/lie-copy-paste-does-not-work-as-intended

because it doesnt work there.

Iray view:

Atm it is under the pink colors and under the hearts.

Update; I made now a new own layer based on the texture and just load it... thanks to Gimp.

Any suggestions on how I might do this?

Thanks.

My Genesis 8 Female base model is UGLY. Then when I go to apply ANY morphs for any character (don't get me wrong, there are a lot of good looking Genesis 8 female characters), the model gets even uglier and looks NOTHING like what I bought.

I bought Lana For Genesis 8 Female today. Attached is a screeen shot of her head rendered out. The link shows the product page. Why doesn't my model look like her? (minus the makeup and other lighting.) Take note of the angular shots; why does my look like a duck and the advertisement photos don't? Is there something inherently screwed up with my base model that's causing construed morphs? (if so, how do I find them?)

The first is the base model with the skin applied, no morphs. Second is from an angle.  Third is with Lana's head morph applied.  The first link here is to her product page.

https://www.daz3d.com/lana-for-genesis-8-females

the second link is a straight on shot of her

https://www.daz3d.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/l/a/lana-for-genesis-8-females-01-daz3d.jpg

the third is her at an angle.

https://www.daz3d.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/l/a/lana-for-genesis-8-females-02-daz3d.jpg

How is it that my morphs do not look anything like the product of which i bought? Minus the hair, the makeup, the lighting, blah blah blah. Why does my model's facial structure not look anything like the model of which i spent money on?  Don't tell me it's because i have extra morphs on; I DON'T. I loaded a base model in, threw the lana head morph and that's what came out.  Can someone please upload a picture of what their base model of Genesis 8 female looks like?

And btw, attached is what my base genesis 8 male model looks like with no morphs loaded.

Am I missing a panel that shows hidden morphs?

Updated: See Edits in RED.

So here's what I'm trying to do:

1. I have a female character who I want to be able to put into many different "setting" scenes, with many wardrobe changes.

2. I want to be able to "dress" her in a DAZ scene all by herself, in many different wardrobes—all using the default g8F pose—and save each wardrobe change as its own DAZ scene (or subscene) that I can then merge into different "setting" scenes.

3. I then want to be able to pose her in the various "setting" scenes, and possibly animate her motion somewhat.

So my question is: In my individual "wardrobe change" scenes, can I run the dForce simulation on the basic pose, and have that "hold" when I later merge that character/wardrobe combination into various "setting" scenes?

Be gentle. Remember: n0000000000b!

I have attached the log fie if that is any use

Any help would be great

Thanks

Nigel

I am rendering a scene in Daz3D, and I notice that the texture is sronger and more visible in the viewport; however, in the render, it gets washed out. Also, the eyes are too glosy. I tried to reduce the values of refeletiveness and glossy through the sliders but it did not work out.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1erlWuVpCieIevjK-aYOdCsRk4X25i9vt/view?usp=sharing

Having an issue with FSL Ultra Layered Makeups for Genesis 3 and 8 Female.  Some of the files are showing up in smart conten as "lost and found" and others seem to be missing thumbnails so I can't tell what I'm putting on the figure. I've attached a screen shot.

Thanks!

One of the characters I made into morph sliders, and once i apply that morph, the base character also looses the 'smart' associations.

Has something changed in an update, or am I doing something wrong? as far as I know I'm not.

Start with blank scene, merge in saved character (saved as scene), go 'smart content' and there's no wardrobe, hair, only a few poses...

Does anyone know which product has this particular lantern?

This alert displays despite having entered the correct user name and password.

Could AVG TuneUp or Avast have done something to fault my DIM?

I've tried uninsalling DIM and reinstalling DIM- obviously something remains that needs deleting - any clues?

WARNING: ..\..\..\..\..\src\pluginsource\DzIrayRender\dzneuraymgr.cpp(305): Iray [WARNING] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend warn : The 'iray_optix_prime' scene option is no longer supported.

if anyone cna help thanks :P

https://www.daz3d.com/ron-s-spray-paint

There are brushes for Photoshop which I know how to use. But it also comes with high-res JPG files.

Are the JPG files able to be used as HDRIs? Or are they intended just for general use in Photoshop?

What's Included and Features

• 20 Spray Painted Backgrounds 6000px 4556px @ 300dpi .JPEG
• 180 Photoshop Brushes .ABR

Version 4.9.4.117.  Windows 10.  Dual GTX 1080 GPUs.

    1. Start with the default empty scene (except for the Default Camera)

    2. Add an instance of Victoria 7 into the scene.  (Doesn't seem to depend on the particular character, so why not use the default one.)

    3. Add the "anatomical elements" to her.

    4. Switch your viewport to "NVIDIA Iray"

After giving Daz time to load up the textures, etc., etc., you get a viewport rendered using Iray.  All well and good.  Here's where it gets weird.

    5. Select the anatomical elements in the scene hierarchy, and then Create >> New Geometry Shell.  Select the "Parent to Selected Item" option.

Of course, since the geometry has changed, Daz and Iray have to start over again.  But they never seem to get done.  Looking at the log files, I see essentially the same set of lines over and over again:

2017-10-02 15:26:00.356 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Updating geometry.
2017-10-02 15:26:00.356 Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.35  IRAY   rend stat : Materials memory consumption: 78.4141 KiB (GPU)
2017-10-02 15:26:00.382 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Using OptiX Prime ray tracing (3.9.1).
2017-10-02 15:26:00.382 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Importing geometry.
2017-10-02 15:26:00.411 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Geometry import (1 object with 147k triangles, 1 instance yielding 147k triangles) took 0.029666
2017-10-02 15:26:00.421 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Updating materials.
2017-10-02 15:26:00.425 Iray INFO - module:category(MATCNV:RENDER):   1.0   MATCNV rend info : found 106 textures, 0 lambdas (0 unique)
2017-10-02 15:26:00.429 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Emitter geometry import (1 light source with 2 triangles, 1 instance) took 0.00s
2017-10-02 15:26:00.429 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Updating lights.
2017-10-02 15:26:00.433 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Updating object flags.
2017-10-02 15:26:00.433 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Updating caustic portals.
2017-10-02 15:26:00.433 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Updating decals.
2017-10-02 15:26:00.435 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Allocating 1 layer frame buffer
2017-10-02 15:26:00.436 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Using interactive scheduling, architectural sampler unavailable, caustic sampler disabled
2017-10-02 15:26:00.467 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Rendering with 2 device(s):
2017-10-02 15:26:00.467 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : CUDA device 1 (GeForce GTX 1080)
2017-10-02 15:26:00.467 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1080)
2017-10-02 15:26:00.467 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Rendering...
2017-10-02 15:26:00.484 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.33  IRAY   rend info : Initializing light hierarchy.
2017-10-02 15:26:00.490 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.33  IRAY   rend info : Light hierarchy initialization took 0.00s
2017-10-02 15:26:00.601 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.40  IRAY   rend info : CUDA device 1 (GeForce GTX 1080): Scene processed in 0.134s
2017-10-02 15:26:00.607 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.31  IRAY   rend info : CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1080): Scene processed in 0.140s
2017-10-02 15:26:00.609 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.35  IRAY   rend info : CUDA device 1 (GeForce GTX 1080): Allocated 2.62379 MiB for frame buffer
2017-10-02 15:26:00.618 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.38  IRAY   rend info : CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1080): Allocated 2.62379 MiB for frame buffer
2017-10-02 15:26:00.619 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.40  IRAY   rend info : CUDA device 1 (GeForce GTX 1080): Allocated 1.65625 GiB of work space (2048k active samples in 0.000s)
2017-10-02 15:26:00.619 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.31  IRAY   rend info : CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1080): Allocated 1.65625 GiB of work space (2048k active samples in 0.000s)
2017-10-02 15:26:00.629 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.31  IRAY   rend info : CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1080): Used for display, optimizing for interactive usage (performance could be sacrificed)
2017-10-02 15:26:00.629 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.40  IRAY   rend info : CUDA device 1 (GeForce GTX 1080): Used for display, optimizing for interactive usage (performance could be sacrificed)
2017-10-02 15:26:00.715 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Updating geometry.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

Seems like it sets things up, then decides the geometry has changed, so starts over, but then thinks the geometry has changed, so starts over, ad infinitum.  There's some slight variation between the iterations, but it always gets back around to "Updating geometry" and starting over.  Doesn't appear to matter whether you start from the NVIDIA Iray mode, or whether you switch out to Texture Shaded and back.

Is there something illegal about parenting a geoshell to the anatomical elements?  Or is there something broken with my father's setup?

I got two Titan RTX GPU's and I'm using Daz 4.12 Pro and 4.12 Beta pro public build (Vers. 4.12.1.16). Both have the same issues! What could be the problem?

What's strange that it seems not to crash in the preview if before clicking on the "Nvidia Iray" preview you click on "Solid Bounding Box" preview.

Is something wrong with that new nvidia driver? Does anyone else have similar issues with it?

Edit: In the Iray preview my CPU workload is at 100% and GPU at 1% even though I disabled CPU in the render settings and enabled the 2 Titans!!! What the hell is going on with that freaking Daz programm all of a sudden?!

Am pulling my hair out as whatever I do doesn't seem to make it better. It's almost as if it hasn't finished rendering?

Thanks for any input

I have installed DS so I know that works okay.?  But how do I register the software?

Is there any point downloading the Install Manager?  If I download items from my account and save them to USB, can Daz read them off the USB and install them?

TIA

Steve

I would like to use the Pounce the Puma poses on Scamp the Fox.

https://www.daz3d.com/little-puma-poses-for-pounce-the-puma

Or do I need to get the pose products specific to the character, for instance, only Scamp poses work work on Scamp the Fox?

I would also like to use the Scamp poses on the Mousie for Ping the Ringtail.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

-obviously not a particularly memory-heavy model but every time I try to load the chest ruff (with or without Peaches in the scene) Daz instantly crashes. I have tried uninstalling with install manager and manually reinstalling via product library but problem still persists. 

Any thoughts how to coax this along?

So how exactly does one create conforming clothing for say Genesis 8, if you're not allowed to use the Daz Rig? I ask, 'cos it would be very simple for me to write a script that zero points Locators to the Genesis 8 skeleton in Maya, import them into Daz and then recreate the Skeleton, by hand using the Figure Setup.

Would THAT be considered "legal?"

DAZ3DIM.exe caused ACCESS_VIOLATION in module "C:\Program Files\DAZ 3D\DAZ3DIM1\QtCore4.dll" at 0033:000000005E243A76, QIODevice::isOpen()+6 byte(s)

No idea what this means.  If staff need more information I can send it but the bug reporting site it sends me too reports that there is no such site.  Sigh...

• Connecting to DAZ 3D (sic) requires a valid connection to a PostgreSQL CMS database.  A database connection could not be established.  Check for the following potential causes:
• PostgreSQL application files are not installed, (sic) or are not installed correctly. (sic)
• Anti-Virus (sic) software has quarantined PostgreSQL application files.
• Firewall software/hardware is blocking the connection to PostgreSQL CMS.
• The current user does not have permissions to execute PostgreSQL application files.

#1, No new anti-virus updates today.

#2, No new firewall updates today.

#3, I'm an administrator.

I was using the program earlier today, was logged in, and had done two renders.  The program was working just fine until I updated five minutes ago when I ran DAZ Install Manager.  Now I can't log in.  Just so you know.