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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

Why does DS ghost the .obj files?

jpetersen1 — Wed, 25 Dec 2019 15:56:58 +0000

I have many .obj files (with materials).

I can import them into Hexagon, Blender, ZBrush, and other apps without problems.

When I try to import into DS, I can't. The files are ghosted no matter which format is chosen at the bottom.

I can go from DS to Hexagon and back to DS, so I thought I could work around the .obj problem by loading the .obj into Hexagon and sending to to DS, but nothing happens when I tell it to go to DS.

Why is DS the only app that doesn't recognize these files and what do I do to import them?

New Strand-Based Hair parented to Dog 8 on Create

nonesuch00 — Wed, 25 Dec 2019 18:04:15 +0000

New Strand-Based Hair parented to Dog 8 on Create causes an X Roate and Z Rotate that cannot be changed even though the Parameters Gear is unlocked.

What's going on there?

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Soon as I deleted the new SBH the dog is reoriented back in it's original pose.

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Also, didn't someone make a dog 8 SBH freebie somewhere? Thanks.

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It's crashing DS all the time, the SBH editor...

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Nevermind. I've got it going good enough for now.

Dialling in other figure morphs and HD

lilweep — Wed, 25 Dec 2019 11:11:32 +0000

Should I dial in HD figure moprhs when dialling in multiple figure morphs or not?

E.g., say I have G8M with Vladimir 70% and Ryker 50%. Would it be a bad idea to use Vladimir HD and Ryker HD morphs? Or should I only use HD moprh for the highest % figure morph dialled in, in this case it is Vladimir at 70%.

(Apologies if I have asked this question in a confusing way.)

Body parts deforms when animating.(RESOVED)

juanluis_tr — Sun, 22 Dec 2019 21:46:02 +0000

hello, I created a pose, but when I encourage it, part of the body is deformed. why would it be?

https://youtu.be/4YI7p3JBLf4

Mousie Fur???

vonHobo — Wed, 25 Dec 2019 03:30:07 +0000

Purchased Mousie for Ping the Ringtail.

https://www.daz3d.com/mousie-for-ping-the-ringtail

The instructions say to ...

"Be sure to use the Apply Ping Fur option in Ping's base folder before using the fur materials."

What does that mean? I looked in the Parameters tab, there is no fur option to turn on.

What is the base folder?? Furthermore, this is Mousie (for Ping), not Ping the Ringtail.

Does anyone know how to do this?

XTransfer Crashes!!!

wintoons — Wed, 25 Dec 2019 02:08:21 +0000

Hi Guys, has anyone got XTransfer to convert G3 to G8 figures?
Mine crashes everytime I use it. Now I can't even add a Genesis 8 female figure onto the scene.

I don't want to uninstall and reinstall the whole program again so has anybody had this problem?

Thanks

Face Transfer Installation

vulch61_8dfca95b10 — Tue, 24 Dec 2019 22:54:48 +0000

This discussion was created from comments split from: Tech Support.

Weird problem with forehead/hairline when rendering

anewstargazer — Sun, 20 Oct 2019 04:25:20 +0000

Hello!

Sorry to bother you all but im super new to DAZ 3D and everything seems to be working fine save for when I try to render Olympia here something weirds going on with her forehead. (this appears literally only in the resnder every time. the model itself doesent seem to be having any problems) I dont have the technical know how to describe it to search in google and im not sure what might be causing this problem...

any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!

Problem moving content from C to D drives.

Haruki790 — Tue, 24 Dec 2019 19:55:54 +0000

So I did a fresh install of 4.12 on my D drive,then copied my library onto the same while deleting the old ones on C drive.

DS loads fine,however the content in IM needs to be reinstalled for some reason,I'm sure my paths are correct but am

afraid if I reinstall it might go on C.

Below is what I'm seeing on CDM and IM,any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks

Carrara Scene into DAZ?

lancelmartin_cf51987037 — Sun, 22 Dec 2019 21:43:18 +0000

HowieFarkes has some incredible products. Unfortunately several of the old one's are made for Carrara. Is there an easy way to get Carrara products into DAZ?

.... without buying Carrara

SSD vr HD fo Content

LD1 — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 19:42:48 +0000

I don’t have an Nvidia card (in my Mac) to speed things up, so I am trying to find other ways to speed up working in DAZ (e.g. for complex scenes, I have to convert the view to bounding boxes to be able to zoom in at a decent rate, etc)

So has anyone used an internal SSD to hold your DAZ content/runtime? If so, do you see any speed increase in using DAZ from an SSD over having your content on a hard drive? -- I don't want to waste the money in getting a 4TB SSD if it won’t speed things up.

[Solved] Need help with SS Marcoor sets - doors or endcaps missing

Lothar Weber — Sat, 21 Dec 2019 17:59:29 +0000

Am I missing something in the SS marcoor items? There are no end caps or doors in the sets... or do I need the spaceship SS marcoor in addition? Tried all sets - control room etc..

dForce hair do not show up anymore

daybird — Mon, 23 Dec 2019 19:01:38 +0000

My problem is, the https://www.daz3d.com/classic-long-hair-with-dforce-for-genesis-8-females do not show up anymore in the smart content.

Even a reinstall and a Re-Import from the Metadata did not bring a result.

I use the newest version of the beta build.

Making holes in items

MJW — Mon, 16 May 2016 14:56:14 +0000

I want to make holes in things - clothes, furniture, accessories, etc. How do I do it? I can in some cases create a base map with the holes in and apply it, but this is not always successful. Sometimes the image becomes translucent but there is no hole as such - especially with items having thickness or depth to them. Is it do-able or a non-starter, pelase

Is it possible to bind to separate meshes together during a dforce sim ?

bwise1701 — Tue, 24 Dec 2019 00:03:08 +0000

Is it possible to attach a separate mesh to another during a sim? LIke a pocket on a shirt?

Thanks

App crash importing clothing

dylan_borg_d673e29d8d — Tue, 24 Dec 2019 10:51:36 +0000

I am importing clothing I has loaded successfully in the past. Suddenly today, DAZ crashed. Some clothing in the folder loads, some of it like the Gauntlets, cause a Crash.

2019-12-23 08:29:12.116 File loaded in 0 min 11.6 sec.
2019-12-24 02:37:21.235 Loaded file: Yoroi Bracers.cr2
2019-12-24 02:37:24.778 Saved image: H:\Project webcomic\Characters part3 (Graeme and Lace)\Lace OC-Training\task 6 Enjoyment\armor yoroi.duf.png
2019-12-24 02:37:24.778 WARNING: ..\..\..\..\..\src\sdksource\cloud\dzcloudtasknotifier.cpp(178): Unexpected exception in contentGetByRelativePath: Unable to connect to the database, can not quote
2019-12-24 02:37:27.835 Importing File...
2019-12-24 02:37:27.835 Importing Yoroi Cuirass.cr2 ...
2019-12-24 02:37:27.845 Reading x3d_Yoroi_Cuirass_M4.obj
2019-12-24 02:37:27.918 Attempted to create circular ERC: Yoroi Cuirass:Barbarian => BODY:PBMBarbarian on line 135 in H:/daz/Library/Runtime/Libraries/Character/___Female Clothes/_X_Xurge Armors/Samurai Yoroi M4/Yoroi Cuirass.cr2
2019-12-24 02:37:27.918 Attempted to create circular ERC: Yoroi Cuirass:Beefy => BODY:PBMBeefy on line 157 in H:/daz/Library/Runtime/Libraries/Character/___Female Clothes/_X_Xurge Armors/Samurai Yoroi M4/Yoroi Cuirass.cr2
2019-12-24 02:37:27.918 Attempted to create circular ERC: Yoroi Cuirass:BodyBuilder => BODY:FBMBodyBuilder on line 179 in H:/daz/Library/Runtime/Libraries/Character/___Female Clothes/_X_Xurge Armors/Samurai Yoroi M4/Yoroi Cuirass.cr2
2019-12-24 02:37:27.918 Attempted to create circular ERC: Yoroi Cuirass:Built => BODY:FBMH4HiroBuilt on line 201 in H:/daz/Library/Runtime/Libraries/Character/___Female Clothes/_X_Xurge Armors/Samurai Yoroi M4/Yoroi Cuirass.cr2
2019-12-24 02:37:27.918 Attempted to create circular ERC: Yoroi Cuirass:Bulk => BODY:FBMBulk on line 223 in H:/daz/Library/Runtime/Libraries/Character/___Female Clothes/_X_Xurge Armors/Samurai Yoroi M4/Yoroi Cuirass.cr2
2019-12-24 02:37:27.928 Attempted to create circular ERC: Yoroi Cuirass:Definition => BODY:FBMDefinition on line 245 in H:/daz/Library/Runtime/Libraries/Character/___Female Clothes/_X_Xurge Armors/Samurai Yoroi M4/Yoroi Cuirass.cr2
2019-12-24 02:37:27.928 Attempted to create circular ERC: Yoroi Cuirass:Gymnast => BODY:PBMGymnast on line 267 in H:/daz/Library/Runtime/Libraries/Character/___Female Clothes/_X_Xurge Armors/Samurai Yoroi M4/Yoroi Cuirass.cr2
2019-12-24 02:37:27.928 Attempted to create circular ERC: Yoroi Cuirass:Olympian => BODY:PBMOlympian on line 289 in H:/daz/Library/Runtime/Libraries/Character/___Female Clothes/_X_Xurge Armors/Samurai Yoroi M4/Yoroi Cuirass.cr2
2019-12-24 02:37:27.928 Attempted to create circular ERC: Yoroi Cuirass:SuperHero => BODY:FBMSuperHero on line 311 in H:/daz/Library/Runtime/Libraries/Character/___Female Clothes/_X_Xurge Armors/Samurai Yoroi M4/Yoroi Cuirass.cr2
2019-12-24 02:37:28.118 WARNING: ..\..\..\..\..\src\sdksource\cloud\dzcloudtasknotifier.cpp(178): Unexpected exception in contentGetByRelativePathAndFilename: Unable to connect to the database

Smart content filter somehow broken

flens08 — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 21:39:47 +0000

Hi all,

I have installed the monkey bundle for genesis 8 male from RawArt. After this everytime I select the Gen8 male figure in my scene, smart content shows only categories related to "the chimp" . Uninstalling the chimp product has no effect. I think it is a minor problem, but it is really annoying. I hope you could help me.

Santa Slayer Defense Laser Cannon - missing files

vonHobo — Mon, 23 Dec 2019 15:37:37 +0000

Not sure if I'm doing something wrong or if this free product is just missing a lot of materials...

see screenshot

https://www.daz3d.com/santa-slayer-defensive-laser-cannon

How do I Create a rigid follower node for a dforce garment?

bwise1701 — Mon, 23 Dec 2019 19:08:13 +0000

Are there instructions for how to create a rigid follower node? And also should the geometry it contains be at the orogong and the transformation to get it into place be on the node?

Thanks

RTX 2060 not participating in Iray render ? Resolved

nowefg — Mon, 23 Dec 2019 20:31:09 +0000

New machine, trying to test and get used to how it works... if it does.

DS 4.10.123, W10 64 bit

The installed Nvidia RTX 2060 is not showing up in the render window, just CPU. The card is checked in Render Settings/Advanced, so DS knows it's there. When the render begins, I get the Iray Verbose text for CPU, but not for GPU.

Nvidia driver is 441.66...

Any ideas?

Separate gloves from meshes that come as full body mesh

dark_shneiderit — Mon, 23 Dec 2019 22:12:05 +0000

I have few products that include gloves, so the whole figure is fundamentally in a bodysuit. I would like to make the gloves and feet parts detachable, so I can import them and show/hide them as I see fit.

Not sure if this is possible in DAZ Studio; I was not able to find a way to do so. I am not looking to export and re-import the mesh back and forth in other appps, I would just like to select polygons in DS and separate them so they keep the rigging and weighting, position and everytihg else, but that allow me to hide or show them; as if they were a different mesh. Some clothing products do that; so I would assume there is an easy way to get that done?

Multiple UV Sets

Robinson — Mon, 23 Dec 2019 22:23:17 +0000

Is it possible to export FBX with more than one UV channel? I had alternative UV for a character in the drop-down but I'd like both UV sets to be available in Maya, etc. so I can make some interesting blend materials. At the moment I'm having to export two complete fbx files, one with UV0 and the other with UV1 and then copy attributes over in Maya. If I can get rid of this step in my FBX pipeline it would be a time saver.

Get Studio to recognize Content reorganization.

fastbike1 — Sun, 22 Dec 2019 15:52:49 +0000

I organize my Content Library with Windows File Manager. I always use DIM to download products. This doesn't seem to cause noticiable issues with scene creatiosn, rendering , etc. However, examination of the log file shows some "could not find" statements. These are related to reorganized content, not missing content.

I essentially create categories with my file structure. Here are a couple of typical examples:

People/Genesis 8 Female/Characters/Vendor Name/ Character name where vendor name is Daz, BlueJaunte, Jessaii, etc and the character name is what you would expect. Inside the character's folder is the duf files then Iray/ material dufs. I don't bother with 3DL materials and I generally do away with subfolders such as Materials/Iray/... since i try to shorten paths for the backup process.

another example is:

People/Genesis 8 Female/Clothing/Casual/product name

People/Genesis 8 Female/Clothing/Fantasy/product name

How might I get studio to recognize the reorganization? When I double click the character duf file icon in the People/Genesis 8 Female/Characters root, Stuio loads the right character.

vRam overload (don’t know why)

thedeltademon — Mon, 23 Dec 2019 09:46:44 +0000

may someone can help me: I’ve got vram problems wit an 2080ti. 3 gen8 models with hair and clothing, background, HDRi, some object consuming with an 512/768 threashold mor the 11gb vram. That’s not normal. For some weeks I render a scene with mirrors and 6xGen8 charas that’s uses around 10gb vram. What can be the problem? I reinstalled Daz3D, uses scene optimizer. All without the problem. I render the same scene yesterday with a different poses and there wasn’t so big problems. I only render 1 character of the scene nude, around 8gb vram. That's too much.

Question about deforming/smoothing

bigmacattack — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 21:04:32 +0000

I'm trying to render a simple still image but I'm running into a problem that I cant find the way around. (pictures attached)

I'm trying to do a deform or smooth at the collision of DazDog's claws and skin, however it seems that this isnt possible. I looked at the skeleton and while it looks like they are rigged as bones, i'm guessing that for collisions they arent... or something else is going on behind the scenes that i dont know about.

So how can I accomplish the indentation of skin for this? I've tried using a deformer, I've watched a bunch of youtube videos on it, but it seems that they are either A) using an old version where the interface looks different so I cant figure out how to get the deformer tool that's shapped like a top... or B) they're explaining it as if you already know how to do it... so they are skipping over a ton of stuff. It seems like the deformer isnt really meant for very small use, every example I've seen has been something large.

Am I missing something key here? I wouldnt think it would be this difficult to create a few little dimples in skin... but for the life of me I cannot manage to get it to work.

items do not load to viewing window

Vitachick — Mon, 23 Dec 2019 15:28:18 +0000

4.12. I give up. Program starts but each time I try to load a scene etc it does not go into window view. I may get a smaller window..

What settings do I need to change??? Frustrated

Visual Menus not working on my new computer - SOLVED

nowefg — Sun, 22 Dec 2019 19:02:02 +0000

I finally got a better computer, much more powerful with a graphics card and all. In transferring DS to the new hardware, I've lost Visual Menus. The hot keys don't respond. I did try deleting the hot key assignments in Workspace/Customize/Custom Actions, and then reassigning them, but that had no effect.

Starting from Windows 7, DS 4.10.123, I'm now using Windows 10, same DS version. Redownloaded and installed VisualMenus, all my content is on an outboard drive, and VisualMenus still works as usual on my original machine from the same content drive. I did transfer my AppData custom actions and all to the new machine, and so far everything works correctly, except VisualMenus, ie, I have and can use my custom toolbars, etc, so the issue seems only related to VisualMenus. No response to assigned hotkeys.

I don't see any need for a serial number or other specific plugin registration info, so I'm at a loss.

Anyone have an idea?

™ Daz 3D and their Discord ?!?

theassociationnu — Mon, 02 Dec 2019 17:36:14 +0000

Question,

where is their Discord, i've many technic questions and i prefer a live ... !! !

Translation not working when rigging figure.

ghastlycomic — Sun, 16 Oct 2016 16:00:14 +0000

I've been experiencing difficulty getting translation to work when I'm rigging figures. The rotations for the bones work fine, but when I translate the bone the bone moves but the geometry doesn't. Has something been changed with the way DS handles translations?