I have zero sculpting or modelling experience, so I'm a complete beginner and I'm happy to learn since I want to get into it anyway. Is it feasible for me to create such a structure in Zbrush, or Hexagon maybe? Maybe I could come up with a crude design with primatives in Daz? 

I have just bought Dain 8. I have attached the dForce Dain 8 Chest Hair & selected the hair colour but, when I select 'NVIDIA Iray' view, the chest hair does not appear!

Is this a glitch or am I missing something?

PS I have done a quick render & that chest hair is there in the render so it is just in the 'NVIDIA Iray' view that the hair is 'missing'!

If I then export the png alpha channel to a seperate image using photoshop, and load that into the cutout capacity instead, I get a different result. By clicking the image editor it seems that the 'Image Gamma:' setting is default to 1.0. Also changing the 'Image Gamma:' has no effect until you change the 'Greyscale From:' setting, and back again (or not).

The only way to get the seperate alpha channel image to match the png alpha is to change the 'Image Gamma:' to 0.0 (and changing the 'Greyscale From:' so it accepts the change).

My question is, which one is the correct effect? It completly changes my hair renders if I choose a gamma of 0.0 to match the grayscale from alpha setting.

It seems odd that I can't change the gamma on the alpha channel, it makes it seem that ALL images are too bright because in setting the default to 1.0 ALL images have their luminosity increased by default.

Regarding your new product: N.G.S. Anagenessis for Genesis 3.

You state clearly in your promo text: "Note: To get the most of out the NGS you must read PDF instructions first."

That sounds like a good idea. Would you like to tell me where the pdf is?

Any how, when I try to install the dwarfology pack I get this:

"Raw Dwarfology" is an add-on for "Genesis" and they must be installed in the same location.

Please choose a different install location or install the required products first.

I have tried every Daz folder on my PC and external drives but I get the same thing. 

Please give me some of that Wiz advice, Thank you!

Look in the following image, when I select the Base surface, it also selects Front1 surface, but I don't want it to do that. I only want to copy the Base surface, how would I achieve that?

Basically, I'm trying to copy a hair material to another hair, but I don't want it to copy and override the cutout opacity textures, only the base surface material.

I'm using the LayLo pose library add on for Daz and Maya and am running into a problem that i assume is happening by something wrong i did again in Daz as opposed to Maya. When I save a custom pose to the library in Daz and i activate the pose library in Maya and select that custome pose i saved in Daz my chaarcter drops beneath the ground. i know it sounds similar but it isn't even the same character now, it is the male character and his pivot point, location, and everything else is all default. if i use any other pose in the pose library such as ones i purchased from the Daz store this does not happen. the ony pose that creates this problem is my custom one i saved in Daz. When i load it in Daz, it's fine. when i load it in Maya he moves position. This simply doesn't happen with any other pose although they all come from Daz anyway. i assume i am doing something wrong when i save my pose to the library.

also of note when i apply the pose in Maya although the figure drops, his pivot point remains at ground level which is preventing me from just moving him back to the default position.

I'm pretty confused as to why this is happening? thank you for any thoughts.

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

Does anyone know where to find the roller derby poses shown on the images?

I would be glad if you help me in detail. From now; thanks a lot for your help,

*EDIT: Also the picture attached is the morphing pyton's model with no texture, for those of you who don't know. I'm hoping that providing this pic will help people understand what I'm working with here.

Thanks

For some reason, I am unable to select the polygons! Would appreciate if anyone can advise me on this. 

If I am in DS and I am using the view tools with the left mouse button and I simultaneously press the right mouse button (Blender habit) my mouse cursor disappears.

If I move it around I can see that it highlights different stuff but I cannot see the cursor anymore.

This always forces me to save the scene and restart Daz to get my cursor back.

Anyone else encountered this? Any way to get rid of it?

Should I also report it in a ticket?

Tried to unload and reload programs three times and no change. Please anybody suggest what I maybe doing wrong?  Thank you, Bill K

However, when I apply the shader, the cutout opacity option under the shaders tab disappears. I want to apply an opacity map but cannot. If I try to reapply uber base, the color then changes, to brown. This is because when I use this product's gold shader, it's a combination of I think yellow + brown + red, and when uber base is applied, it just goes to brown as a singular color.

Is there a workaround for this? Thank you!

and while that process is (mostly) complete, I now am having some issues that I no longer remember (and don't even remember where to go to look it up) how to solve!  So a couple quick questions to get the dominos falling:

1) I do a *simple* test scene: 1 background/plane prop, 1 floor plane, 3 lights, 1 figure (Gen8F wearing skirt and blouse, Librarian Hair), and a chair (she is sitting on).

* Previously such a scene would have rendered in under a minute - easy.  at 18 minutes (and counting) it is still going.  I pull up my system info and my CPU is strolling along at between 9% and 18%, memory utilization is about 60% of physical RAM (no virtual is being used), no hard drive activity to speak of, and ZERO on my way too expensive NVidia Titan XP!  Yes, it is doing an IRay render.  Yes, the Titan is selected under the render settings. 
... what do I need to do so that the system is actually *using* the GPU?

2) When I was getting things set up (and experimenting a bit) - I noticed that when doing a dForce simulation (which I finally canceled at 20+minutes - used to take seconds), my CPU max utilization was 10% and RAM was around 80% or so (my understanding is the simulation is totally CPU and RAM).  No background tasks are going.  Why is DAZ not using the CPU /cores?

3) In above render (#1) - I am back to where the character is rendering as if they have MASSIVE cataracts (blind/grayed & lifeless eyes)... I seem to remember there was a (relatively simple) solution to this - anyone remember?

4) Also in the renders - I am back to where the images are coming out grainy as %(#^$*^#!  Looks like I rolled both the subjects of the image and the camera in sand before 'taking the photo'.  Help!  What do I set to get rid of that 'feature'?

I am making a nose morp on G8F and hoping the is a way to stopping other head morh from affecting the nose.

If anyone has a solution to this problem I would greatly appreciate it.

I'd like to get the timeline to be a tab on my left pane (along with the content library, render settings and simulation settings) and when I select it, it opens my timeline pane on the bottom center.  Also, is there a way to remove the tips tabs?  They just get in my way.

Thanks

I'm pretty new to Daz and having trouble figuring how what to do, what settings need tweeking to get it to look like that. I didn't see a help file in the manual download but likely am missing something obvious due to not knowing where to look. Anyone have this or any idea what to do to get those pleats and folds to look natural? Tried just mashing 'simulate' but that got me no where

Thanks!

Where the heck is "freckles.duf"??  every single G8F female character I have (which is too many) generates an error because it cannot be found!

... they are looking in the My Library\people\Genesis 8 Female\ folder - and it is not there. I have searched the entire Genesis 8 Female folder and subfolders... I have looked back in all the old install files... and I don't see it any of them either (all the way back to the Genesis 8 Essentials installers).

any help??

Any ideas what is doing this?