I have this:

https://www.daz3d.com/morphs-for-everyday-2

+ the basic (yes finally pants to pulled down hehe :D , I wish I could "steal" the sliders and use them on ALL clothes... is that possible *thinking*?)

But, the slider "enlarge all" does not work for one item :( and I wanna move it uover the butt, because... thats how I wear it in real Life too :D

I made a video. (click to play)

Second problem, the short is a 3/4 Short (in german we call it "Hochwasser Hose",=~ High tide pants) kinda... ugly :P I wanna make them down to the feet, is that possible? I did try it with the scale, but then it goes more up. okay... it goes down! (nice!) but...

how to fix this? :) without making it in total too big?

Oh AND, is the outfit also aviable for man? I mean... its fitting pretty good already but... just asking :D

Edit: for the first problem, I found the solution with the "hidden" slider Z-scale :)...

John

Do you weight paint inside DAZ, or there are other wokflow that would make weight painting a little bit less frustrating?

The title asks it all - is there a way to do this?  Get the M4 Poses to work with Genesis 8 male and the like for V4 poses to work with G8 female?

Thanks in advance....

John

Or alternatively, how can I at least change the path for the two big folders under User/Public/Documents > DAZ 3D and My DAZ 3D Library? There seems to be an option in the DIM for My DAZ 3D Library, but it is greyed out? I mean, I could manually move them, but there should be a proper way to do that, right?

 

For the life of me I can't figure out how to apply these.

I started a brand new scene and put a plane primative on it, selected the surface, applied any of the shaders (none work.) . 

What am I doing wrong?

I was wondering: do you know how to quickly reset an expression?
I know every set of expressions has a zero pose, but I have countless expressions sets, so I don't always recall which one I used (I scroll many expressions each time, looking for the one that best fits a particular scene).

I've assigned the shortcut "-" to "Reset Element Pose", I usually select the head of one or multiple figures, and I hit "-".
It takes forever. I haven't measured the time, but it's something like 5 minutes.

I've tried the reset poses set from DeviantArt, that works surprisingly fast for all other body parts, but the head function just resets the head element pose, without resetting the expression.

How do you do this?
Thanks!

In Daz3D 4.12 I have been experimenting with strand-based hair and cannot seem to control the length of the generated hairs despite there seeming to be a setting (i.e., "Length") for doing exactly that in the Distribute tab of the SBH editor.

Attached are two experiments with a sphere primitive: one used Length = 0.1 and the other Length = 15 on the Distribute tab.

After making those Length changes on the Distribute tab, I did see the hair length change in the preview window, but subsequent SBH tabs for changing the clumping, random length, scraggle, etc. showed the visible hairs at a "default" length in each case.  In fact, every hair experiment I've tried with SBH resulted in a seemingly default length for the generated hairs - even editing those settings after the fact makes no difference to the visible length.

Thoughts welcome on how to vary actual length of the generated strand hairs.

EDIT:

I just noticed the "Reduce Length" setting in the Tweak tab and that does reduce the size of the hairs, which is a start!

And. under the Style tab, it seems that "Scale Curves" and "Extend Curves" can lengthen hairs.

So, what is the use of the "Length" value in the Distribute tab, to get an approximate bearing on hair distribution at your desired length setting?

Making a new Content folder from the base G8F ZIP on a different drive (trying to isolate the issue) has D|S unable to even open the DUFs.

Suggestions on what to try next?

This is more of an intellectual curiosity than a genuine, immediate problem. 

I tend to save my characters as a Single Dial Morph [SDM]. Why? Because it's quicker to change a scene. I can duplicate a figure, dial out the SDM and dial in another. It can take what seems way too long to load a new figure into a scene. 

The question. I have a lot of characters that use the same basic body shape which is also an SDM, this then means I have SDM's that use other SDM's. If I wanted to share an SDM with a friend would that friend need to have all the SDM's used or would his/her system understand what that 'nested' SDM links to? So, as long as the friend had all the morphs used for the SDM's would they be okay?

Thanks

A little while ago I posted a similar topic. It was quite active for a while but seems to have died down a little. The general consensus there seemed to be that Catalina broke Daz in some areas. Just wondering if there are still issues? I'm holding off updating my Mac until I know it won't cause issues with Daz :) 

With the MeiLin character there are 2 variations of makeup applications. MakeupA = shows eyebrows, MakeupB = shows no eyebrows.

When I load any of the MakeupA, it loads fine. When i load MakeupB, the face becomes lighter.

This is happening with a character I have loaded, but does not happen if i start a fresh model and try to re-create the character and the problem.

I don't know what I am doing wrong and what is happening differently between the 2. I have checked and compared all the Surface settings for the face and they all seem to be identical.  

If anyone could put me out of my misery, I will be forever greatful.

I ran through all the usual suspects in terms of troubleshooting Daz settings to see if it could be a PC/Daz performance issue. I attempted just loading the house with no terrain or trees, no help. Loading the Long Island Mansion preload or loading just the house both result in extreme lag. I say "lag", but the Daz interface delay goes beyond lag, the interface itself becomes unresponsive, buttons do not respond, spinning Windows10 blue waiting wheel, a white screen of near death from Daz with the message "DAZ IS NOT RESPONDING" and waiting 10 minutes does not bring the Daz interaction back to life. I tried restarting the PC. I tried turning Daz preferences down to basic performance and all the way up to max performance, adjusted the iRay settings to Optiplex on, off, etc. No Daz settings adjustments seem to make a difference. During the troubleshooting I opened other previous files and other files load OK and have normal, quick response. 

This is a large file, however I have loaded, as an example, Urban Future 5 and have set the preview window to iRay interactive render and have had the ability to move around the scene with iRay going at about 10FPS, with wire texture shaded selected in Urban Future 5 giving very quick, fluid camera control response. So, a comparable large complex scene responds fine whereas this Long Island Mansion seems to be DOA. I have done quite a bit of troubleshooting here and really have no further ideas how to solve unresponsive Daz performance with this product. Troubleshooting Log File is attached. 

Thanks in advance for anyone who can offer insigt or share their experience with this product. 

But later I found that DS can't work like before, as it seems some confing files were deleted. It couldn't load scenes from before and kept crashing because of low memory. I have deinstalled Advanced system care and then reinstalled DS (version 4.7 this time, just before Iray, I used to run DS 4.12 nicely, but although it worked great DS needed long time to load on my computer).

After reinstall (I tried with versions 4.8 and 4.9 too) ... It worked but my memory still needed to be optimized in DS. I remembered what I have done few years ago to optimize memory in DS and changed settings back and made things better. Now it loads scenes from before but when rendering it crashes in bigger scenes that could render good in DS 4.12.

I can't remember all changes that I did in DS before that optimized my memory, and as I have only 2GB I need someone with experience to help me make things better that I can work as before.

Here is what I have right now, and will stay with DS 4.7 (although some scripts like Ultimate Poser Mixer doesn't work anymore) now please can someone help me to make things better and if it might be possible to optimize memory to work even better. I know I need new computer but this might be my only option for some time till then...

Here is screenshot, open edit>preferences>interface

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

As part of the Raven Pro Package.

This keeps failing on download.  It gets to 99% and says download failed.  

Anyone have a pro tip?  

the Log says it can't find output property for formula:

lHeel:/data/DAZ%203D/Genesis%208/Female/Genesis8Female.dsf#lHeel?center_point/x in file : /data/DAZ%203D/Genesis%208/Female/Morphs/Angel%20-%20Wings/AWYM/Youth%20Face%20Elongation.dsf

When I search through the files, I see that both genesis8female.dsf  AND Youth Face Elongation.dsf are present.

How do I fix it if both files seem to be there?

just opened daz and when I was loading a scene it started telling me things were missing....so I realized all content was gone!

I checked the directory manager and everything is ok

the strange thing is also that I have some content showing....in some letters of the content library but very very few

there is nothing to download with connect, I checked and I am logged in....

yesterday everything was fine!

thanks

https://www.daz3d.com/anthropomorphs--chimpanzee-for-genesis-8-male

I cannot merge the chimp into an existing scene without DAZ Studio crashing.

The only way I am able to use the chimp is to merge the figure into a new blank scene and render it that way. But if I try to save and reload the newly created scene with the chimp, I get the crash again (see log file below).

There is only one light in the scene and the Urban Skateboard product. That's it. This same exact scene will save and reload into DAZ with any other figure without any problems. 

Does anyone know what the issue could be?? The log file does not say much.

Log File:

2020-01-01 11:14:19.363 Loading Startup Scene : C:\Users\Mikey\Desktop\von Hobo\Scenes\Chimp - Skate.duf

2020-01-01 11:14:19.434 Iray [VERBOSE] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.13  IRAY   rend stat : Lights memory consumption: 948 B (device 0)

2020-01-01 11:14:19.434 Iray [VERBOSE] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.13  IRAY   rend stat : Material measurement memory consumption: 0 B (GPU)

2020-01-01 11:14:19.434 Iray [VERBOSE] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.13  IRAY   rend stat : Materials memory consumption: 17.2461 KiB (GPU)

2020-01-01 11:14:19.487 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.10  IRAY   rend info : CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1070): Scene processed in 0.214s

2020-01-01 11:14:19.493 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.12  IRAY   rend info : CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1070): Allocated 7.84537 MiB for frame buffer

2020-01-01 11:14:19.551 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.10  IRAY   rend info : CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1070): Allocated 1.6875 GiB of work space (2048k active samples in 0.059s)

2020-01-01 11:14:19.552 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.10  IRAY   rend info : CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1070): Used for display, optimizing for interactive usage (performance could be sacrificed)

2020-01-01 11:14:19.590 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Received update to 00001 iterations after 0.308s.

2020-01-01 11:14:19.593 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Rendering...

2020-01-01 11:14:19.609 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Received update to 00002 iterations after 0.324s.

2020-01-01 11:14:19.635 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Received update to 00004 iterations after 0.349s.

2020-01-01 11:14:19.649 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Received update to 00006 iterations after 0.363s.

2020-01-01 11:14:19.668 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Received update to 00008 iterations after 0.382s.

2020-01-01 11:14:19.685 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Received update to 00010 iterations after 0.399s.

2020-01-01 11:14:19.693 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Received update to 00012 iterations after 0.407s.

2020-01-01 11:14:19.718 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Device statistics:

2020-01-01 11:14:19.718 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1070): 12 iterations, 0.348s init, 0.118s render

The maps have the standard color map and then several other maps.

x.jpg (the standard color map)

xA.jpg

xB.jpg

xD.jpg

xG.jpg

xS.jpg

I know that "B" is the bump map and "D" is the displacement map, but what are A, G, and S? I'm guessing that G is for glow and I'm using it as an emission map. 

Eric

Lets say i want to slimfit some clothing on a character, so I load the character and clothing piece into Hexagon and then make the meshes of the character "solid", to avoid clipping from the clothing (while deforming) into the character. 

If not possible in Hexagon, how about Blender?