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Change Render Settings Across Multiple Saves

Keyless — Sat, 28 Dec 2019 15:56:15 +0000

I use the batch render program Render Queue by ManFriday. I setup over twenty scenes but unfortunately forgot to adjust some of the render settings. Is it possible to adjust render settings for multiple saved scenes without actually opening each one?

Install Manager problems (SOLVED)

Mendoman — Sat, 28 Dec 2019 10:19:12 +0000

I just made a new purchase, and when I was installing the new content, Daz install manager froze. It just stopped all downloads, and just hanged there for 15 minutes or so. For some reason install manager was taking like 60% of CPU while it was doing nothing, so I tried to close it. Of course the program did not want to close, and finally I had to use task manager and end the process. Then I rebooted my computer ( windows 10 ) and started Install Manager again.

At first it looked like nothing is installed and everything was in the "Ready to download" tab. Install manager processed stuff for about 20-30 minutes, and slowly moved items from "Ready to download" -tab to "Ready to install " -tab, and finally it moved all of my old stuff back to that "Installed" -tab without me doing anything. Now it seems like it finally stopped, but even after all my old stuff is back to "Intalled" tab, it still looks like install manager thinks that there's lots of items that I need to download again. Problem is, that at a quick glance, most of those items are already in the installed tab....

I already opened Daz Studio, and my old stuff seems to be there and no errors or anything if I open old scenes, so I assume at least most of the stuff is propely installed. Some of those 1003 items in "Ready to download" -tab actually are items that I bought today, and are not installed yet ( 2 pro bundles and some extra stuff ), but how to get rid of those almost 1000 already installed items that Install manager wants to download again? If I download everything there, it looks like almost 150 Gb of content, so that's a lots of stuff to process for nothing. Is there something I can do in Daz Studio or Install Manager to fix this without downloading everything?

FLUIDOS Water Plane Help--Can't get anything Working

DrowElfMorwen — Wed, 25 Dec 2019 03:54:43 +0000

I cannot do anything with this product though I bought it, and FLUIDOS before it.

I probably just don't know what I'm doing, but I don't see any mesh for the water in the scene even though I loaded a preset, and when I render it seems like nothing is there. Also, there is only stuff in the materials folder and the water planes folder (though I see no water plane load? I don't see the blue outline around a water mesh like in the sample videos or pictures) and all the other folders are empty. Why are they there?

I tried watching a video for another product, which shows options under "parameters" but when I sift through them all, there are no options for anything except one piece, and the only option is for particles. :(

Please, can anyone help?

Strand based hair, geometry shells, and saving - solved.

gitika1 — Sat, 28 Dec 2019 02:37:52 +0000

I have been working with an older model and learning strand based hair. After reading that others use a hair cap so that strand based hair can be saved , I thought a geometry shell would work the same. I add the shell and then the hair. I saved the geometry shell using File-Save as-Wearables preset. I made sure to include the materials. However, whenever I try to apply the shell to another bee, DS crashes. Any clues to what I am doing incorrectly?

DS does not like loading strand based hair when the viewport is in iray mode.

Iray new Fireflies issue

sergeantr_c12737cf4c — Sun, 22 Dec 2019 22:36:39 +0000

Just uploaded a two weeks ago to 4.12 Pro. Can't remember which one I had prior but it was the last build before Dforce. I started getting fireflies in my renders a couple days ago. Never had an issue before. I havn't changed any of my render setting which weren't really modified at all except for the size of my render window. I'm using a Gforce 1080 Ti and its on a Windows 10 Intel i7-7700kCPU, 32GB Ram. Here is a recent shot. lots of fireflies around the eyes and the denim shader (which seems really glossy for denim). Its been happening on skin hair and some clothing shaders mostly. I usually use HDRI lighting. No spotlights.

Any suggestions? Thanks

Overwrote default G3F

Reality Hack — Sun, 22 Dec 2019 20:35:57 +0000

Hi. I'm really hoping someone can help me. I have apparently fundamentally broken my Genesis 3 Female on a core level.

I created my own character using her as the base. I was trying to save her as a Content Library character, but I somehow overwrote the default G3F. Now, whenever I load the G3F base or any other character, they come in with my character's dials added to them. Even if I try and work around it by zeroing out a character and starting from there, when I go back to load the file, they always come in with my character added to them. I uninstalled and deleted all the Daz folders I could find (including the ones in AppData) and reinstalled (DS 4.12) but it's still happening.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

G8 Figure Separation Help Request

SsurgulBiz — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 22:20:38 +0000

Hello all. I've tried researching this in the forums, but clearly I'm not using the right keywords or the concept is explained with a term I'm not yet familiar with (I only started using Daz and explored rendering a few weeks ago.)

I'm trying to build a repertoire of G3/G8 figures that I can include in stage magic renders. Meaning, I'd like to be able to use the sawing-in-half, the putting in thirds (zig-zag illusion), and so forth. However, for the life of me, I can't figure out how to take a regular G8 figure, and have the body separate at the hips for the saw-in-half, while still being the same body. For instance, if I have a fully clothed 'assistant', I'd like the clothes to be correctly showing on form if I use a clear box, or one with the window panels. I followed the online ability to have the head and body morph separately and be addressed independently from each other by RedAnt, but the head is still attached to 'a' body, and isn't quite what I'm after.

Am I asking for too much?

Is this going to be where I need to run two figures in the box, and 'hide' half of each?

Any help or a pointer in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.

Strand hair not showing in render

SirArtist — Fri, 27 Dec 2019 21:55:00 +0000

I am using 4.11, default render settings, and the mouse is on node selection tool. Never had a problem rendering it until yesterday. I had two figures in the same scene, and one of them with the strand hair rendered, but the other was bald. Nothing I could do could get the second one to render. In surface settings both show to display in render.

Today with a different figure I made new strand based hair for them - and same problem. Not showing at all in the render. Please help!

Creating crowds (multiple characters)

bradassociates — Mon, 23 Dec 2019 20:03:12 +0000

There are a plethora of daz products that imply crowd scenes. The Now-Crowd billboards offer a limited option in that the pre-rendered characters provide little ability for creative variance, and, are very specific to a very specific environment/scene.

I'm looking to populate scenes with auidences participants (auditoriums, meeting halls, stages, sport arenas etc), The challenge is, of course, the drain on the GPU and rendering times. The conclusion one draws is that these daz environments are not usuable because they cannot accommodate the audiences for which they are designed.

I believe one solution is to populate the audience, but designate many characters as invisible, render, then re-render with different characters being visible/invisible. The separate renders can then be merged using a photo editor like Photoshop. Has anyone done this? Does it reduce the processing resource drain when characters are made invisible?

Laslty, if anyone has a recommendation as to how to create scenes with Daz products that have auditorium seats/bleachers, etc, please advise...otherwise, these products aren't worth it if the scenes always show an empty auditorium or gymnasium or......

Reset pivotpoint (I screwed something up!)

Sylvan — Fri, 27 Dec 2019 00:30:03 +0000

I screwed some poses up by saving them to the wrong category. Now some of my poses load with the pivot point low beyond the character. It is because I created the poses by moving the character at the hip as you need to with characters that are sitting down. However, I also saved them to my hierachical poses and that was a mistake as they load fine when saved.
So I need to reset the pivot point and I know I can do that by going into Joint Editor mode. Thing is, It doesn't really give me an option to reset so I have to eyeball where the zero actually is.
Is there a more accurate way to go about it?

Happy holidays!

Can't open a previously saved scene

Veronica Maggio — Fri, 27 Dec 2019 14:19:59 +0000

This have happened a few times recently (last few months, could be after upgrade to 4.12 beta):

I work with a certain scene (environment, characters, props etc), I change poses, camera angle or whatever and save each change to a new file like Scene XYZ - 01, Scene XYZ - 02 etc. Everything is working fine but when I want to reopen (i e batch rendering) it cannot open for example Scene XYZ - 24 and onwards. It gets stuck! This is the last entry to the log file:

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2019-12-27 14:50:11.193 Loaded Morph Deltas in 0 min 0.0 sec.
2019-12-27 14:50:11.193 Loaded file: Edge Thicker.dsf
2019-12-27 14:50:11.799 Loaded image BookCover_diff B.jpg
2019-12-27 14:50:12.068 Loaded image BookCover G.jpg
2019-12-27 14:50:12.325 Loaded image BookCover F.jpg
2019-12-27 14:50:12.561 Loaded image BookCover E.jpg
2019-12-27 14:50:12.644 Loaded image Pages 1024x1024.JPG
2019-12-27 14:50:12.671 Loaded image BookCover2_diff 1024x1024.JPG
2019-12-27 14:50:12.695 Loaded image BookCover_diff B 1024x1024.jpg
2019-12-27 14:50:12.728 Loaded image BookCover2D 1024x1024.jpg
2019-12-27 14:50:12.799 Loaded image BookCover E 2048x2048.jpg
2019-12-27 14:50:12.826 Loaded image BookCover_diff 1024x1024.JPG
2019-12-27 14:50:12.941 Loaded image FGG Walls 4.jpg
2019-12-27 14:50:13.097 Loaded image FGG Walls 3.jpg
2019-12-27 14:50:13.148 Loaded image FGGH Chair_cushion_albedo2 1024x1024.jpg
2019-12-27 14:50:13.169 Loaded image FGGH Chair_wood_albedo 1024x1024.jpg
2019-12-27 14:50:13.273 Loaded image FGGH Lampshade_bulb_albedo 1024x1024.jpg
2019-12-27 14:50:13.305 Loaded image FGGH Lamp Shade 974x1500.jpg
2019-12-27 14:52:01.962 WARNING: ..\..\..\..\..\src\sdksource\cloud\dzcloudtasknotifier.cpp(178): peer performed orderly shutdown errno=0
2019-12-27 14:54:15.168 WARNING: ..\..\..\..\..\src\sdksource\cloud\dzcloudtasknotifier.cpp(178): peer performed orderly shutdown errno=0

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This particular scene is FG Gothic Hall with two G8F.

I'm pretty sure that the only difference between the last file I can open and the first I cannot open, is a camera movement, no added props, shaders or tother new stuff.

I can open the .DUF file with Notepad after converting it with 7-Zip, but ... it's a big file with tons of text that looks...fine to me.So it doesn't look like the file itself is physically corrupted.

Is there anything that can be done?

Content Database -- how to do a "clean start" on D drive?

crocodilian — Thu, 26 Dec 2019 16:25:50 +0000

Over the years I've accumulated a lot of content, but am now trying to clean out the content database and restrict all installs to a "My Library" folder on my fast D: drive (an SSD).

But try as I might, I can't manage to get rid of past installed content-- deleting Daz Studio and reinstalling, Daz Install Manager still shows some 3000 installed products, even if they're not there. And when loading new content from Daz Connect, it ignores all my preferences and installs them on my C: drive (which has very little space)

What do I need to do to scrub all history of Daz Studio and prior installs, install it to D:, and make sure that all content gets installed to D:?

(Windows 10)

DIM query on settings

nicstt — Fri, 27 Dec 2019 00:32:49 +0000

Just wondering where the settings are stored for DIM.

I know where the various files and folders, and the registery entries are for Studio, but the installation Tab, with it's labels and Paths remains hidden.

I'm referring to the shortcuts shown in the image; I don't want to lose these when re-installing.

OBJ file working on Mac but not on Windows pc

Haruki790 — Thu, 26 Dec 2019 16:50:07 +0000

Hello,so I have a third party product from Renderosity that is a OBJ file but will work with Daz Studio4.

Problem is it works fine on my Mac running Mojave but on my rendering computer with Windows 10 I just get the files without content.

Any reason for this and a solution would be helpful,

Thanks

Optix Prime error

Second Technician Rimmer — Thu, 26 Dec 2019 22:06:12 +0000

On some rather recent products such as PW's Bikini Islands, trying to load the alternate skydome settings gets me a "Optix Prime not supported anymore" error window. I tried with and without the option ticked in my render settings. Is there a way around this?

[Resolved] Genesis M4/V4 shapes no longer showing up under Actors...

Joe827 — Mon, 23 Dec 2019 02:46:32 +0000

I rebuilt my computer a couple weeks ago and just noticed that the M4/V4 shapes I'd purchased no longer show up under Genesis' "actors" property in the parameters tab. I uninstalled/reinstalled them via Daz Install Manager. Still nothing. I checked the installation path, and I don't see anythig fishy. I can see Michael 4 and Victoria 4 installed with the rest of the genesis morphs (see attached image). Any ideas?

What exactly is the ContentCluster folder... Solved, I think

nowefg — Wed, 25 Dec 2019 13:10:11 +0000

I did an install of 4.12 on my new computer, and now have a folder in My Library named ContentCluster.

What is that, and why is it there?

I do only Manual Download of content, and get leery when unexpected things show up in my huge, but carefully arranged My Library arrangements.

Do I need this new folder for some good reason now?

relocating Daz files to another drive

westernnomad — Sun, 22 Dec 2019 19:48:52 +0000

I recently purchased a new hard drive and decided to devote an entire TB partition to my 3D art pursuits. However, when I relocated DS to the new drive, it seemed to bork a large portion of my library. There are exceptions, of course, but much is lost or corrupted. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling severy times, but each time it gets worse. Will I have to send it all back to my old overpopulated C: Drive, or could you offer me some workarounds?

immobilize bone

juanluis_tr — Sat, 21 Dec 2019 23:32:43 +0000

Hello, I use the toggle pins tool, but I do not control the figure well, I would like to know if I can use the universal tool to rotate a figure using toggle pins or another similar one and the chosen bone does not move, I leave an example of a video.

https://youtu.be/Fp_zdsqARgo

Glute control not working

dannydeucemusic — Thu, 26 Dec 2019 14:32:38 +0000

I just purchased "Glute control for Genesis 8 Female" downloaded through DAZ, got an error so I manually replaced the files through my purchase.

I can access the mod through the puppeteering pane but it seems to have no effect on the figure?

Any help greatly appreciated

Amazing skins for daz 3D minotaur

lamourd40 — Wed, 25 Dec 2019 21:41:23 +0000

I recently brought amazing skins for the genesis 2 minotaur, but everytime I try to drag a item to like a shader or a material on the model, it won't work. Can I please get some help on how to work this product.

Wild Fantasy Roadster

kenmo — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 01:40:46 +0000

Love the Wild Fantasy Roadster. So much so I purchased it. However the steering is on the wrong side for Canada and USA. Is there function with this great model to switch the steering wheel, pedals and accompanying poses to the North American side? If not the creator TD3D should consider creating some.

Anyone else run into this issue with similar models by this creator? Any tips or suggestions on how to resolve this issue other then using DAZ Studio's tranlation silders to move them

Again I am not slamming this model. It's fantastic for the car entusiast as I am. And hot rods of this caliber are hard to find. I only wish the drivers position was on the North American side.

Cheers & Merry Crhistmas to ALL.

Kenmo

First purchase 3 prices

Loony — Thu, 26 Dec 2019 03:07:07 +0000

Hi, I buy now my first product and... I am slightly confused why it have 3 prices.

(all freebies and 1 paid item)

and then it jumps +1 cent up on the next page (it is short 98 then 99).

so... uhm.... how did it go from 2,09 to 1,98 and then to 1,99? is that... normal? and how will that appear if I buy more expensive content?

(I thought its a freebie and then said, whatever... 2$....)

btw... not very easy to look for a hairbrush, because everyone is calling it different...

https://www.daz3d.com/hair-care-products (also confusing, that its listed in "places" even if it ONLY contain props, not the mirror, table etc. so its not a place)

https://www.daz3d.com/everyday-cosmetics

would be nice if the peoples add Tags and you can search the shop for it... like... hairbrush... :/

Can someone please explain to me how to light a scene with a skybox?

mightguy15 — Wed, 25 Dec 2019 23:35:06 +0000

I use the pre-loaded lights that come with the set that I bought, but for some reason they never show up in the final render. I know it's because I'm doing something wrong, but what could it be? The settings are all at default, I can see the lighting in the active viewport via the preview lighting option, and I drag around the lighting props to make sure they are in the scene. What could I be doing wrong?

Using M4 textures on Genesis 3 and 8

Mosk the Scribe — Thu, 26 Dec 2019 00:17:59 +0000

Trying to find out if this product https://www.daz3d.com/legacy-uvs-for-genesis-3-michael-4 would allow me to use M4 textures on both Genesis 8 and Genesis 3 figures I saw a notation on this related product https://www.daz3d.com/genesis-3-uvs-for-genesis which says Genesis 8 would use the Genesis 3 UV set - but not sure what that implies for the other product making M4 available to both G3 and G8. Thanks for any help.

Impossible to re-open a .duf saved file

papaefthymiousophie — Thu, 26 Dec 2019 00:52:16 +0000

Hello,

I am a very beginner in this app and have two big problems to solve:

1. I can open Daz Studio, create a character, save it in .duf file, and also render it, BUT I an re-open it. Nothing is saved. I have the 4.12.0.86 PRO editon (64-bit), NVIDIA Iray. Maybe I need to download a full version (but can t I see only free version on the website) or some plugins?

2. Is it possible to download some hair versions (like basic long hair) for free?

Huge thanks in advance,

Sofia.

Problem creating New Transfer Utility template

MightyMite — Thu, 26 Dec 2019 03:21:20 +0000

I'm trying to create a customized Projection Template for my own use with capes. I've followed an Esha tutorial properly. But I'm getting an error. I believe what is happening when using the transfer utililty and selecting my new cape template, Daz is confusing the template with the actual product in my live directory. In the tutorial she copied a product from her live data folder and pasted in the projection template folders... I removed the live data files so that DAZ ONLY sees the projection templates... but the corresponding duf file still points to the live location and not the template.

Plus it's error on the skin binding process... which when I look at the result seems to be that it's not adding the weight maps to the corresponding bones. ARG... What can I do to get my template to work correctly.

Content path issue

Haruki790 — Wed, 25 Dec 2019 15:38:34 +0000

Hello,so I reinstalled content library to my d drive making sure my paths on both IM and DS were set to that,however it ended up back on c drive.

Here is a screen shot showing the IM path and my computers file storage,do I have the drive labeled correctly and if so why does the content keep going back to c?

Thanks

Render Settings

captainklutz_a2ec859073 — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 22:41:53 +0000

I am using the current DS Beta & current general release issue.

My advanced render settings are CPU unchecked GeForce GTX 690 checked & GeForce GTX 690 checked.

Despite this sometimes when rendering I can see in the task manager that the CPU call out from Daz Studio is in excess of 90% during rendering & the GPU is barely used at all.

Please can anyone explain why would this be & what can I do to make use of the GPUs instead of the CPU?

Many thanks for any input.

DAZ 4.12 and ManFridays Renderque

plaul2002 — Tue, 24 Dec 2019 21:17:33 +0000

I am currently having issues with Renderque after updating to Daz 4.12 and was wondering if anyone else was having similar issues. Basically if I render one image "normally" in Daz, no issues. When I run Renderque with same images and X number of additional scenes it will run the render for about a minute and then shut it down with grainy grey or black final render and move on the next doing the same over and over. I've rebooted, checked my settings etc. I'm exasperated. Any thoughts? Running WIndows 10