I exported Genesis 2 model as FBX, then imported it to UE 4.22 but I can't understand how to match bones rotations values between Daz Studio and Unreal...

Here's how to reproduce a problem:

1) I looked at model definition file ( Genesis2Female.dsf ) and saw that rotation_order for lThigh is YZX.

I typed these rotation values in Daz Studio: X -90, Y 75, Z 45  and model looks good -  like on screenshot.

Then I typed the same values in Unreal Bone Editor (in YZX order - first I typed Y value, then Z, then X) and model looks incorrectly (see screenshot).

What is causing this problem and how to fix it?

During an Iray render, a "scene" is sent to the graphics card for processing by the GPU.  The scene consists of geometries, textures etc.  I will be replacing a 10 year old mother board in the near future.  I currently use 2 Evga 1080TI's for rendering.  Initially, I assumed that all LGA 1151 boards operate in a x16/x8 or x8/x8 configuration when two cards are installed.  However, I did find exactly one LGA 1151 board that operates in a x16/x16 configuration with two cards.  

So nuts n bolts question, outside of scene transfer time, is anyone able to speak for the impact of available PCIe lanes on render time?  My assumption is that the difference isn't big since the bulk of the data is transfered when the scene is sent to the card, but that's just my gut and realize there may be more to this than meets the eye.

Does anyone have any idea how to fix this mess?

The Iray viewport works as usual (see the Aux Viewport in the attached screenshot), but I do nearly all my scene creation & fiddling in Texture Shaded mode and would really like to have it back to normal.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[ edit/solution: It finally occurred to me to load another prefabbed scene (I chose the beach thing) in the hope it would restore the viewport, and waddya know? It worked. ]

What could be the problem here?

I have a new computer with the latest graphic card and a tiger under the hood, so it cannot be a problem of the hardware.

For adjusting lights, this is difficult as I currently rely on the Iray preview in the viewport. I usually split my scene into two files, one for each 1/2, then switch back and forth, lighting them how I like, and as consistently as possible.

So I'm wondering, is there a better way? My machine specs are pretty reasonable, and I don't plan on changing them anytime soon. I'm mostly curious if there are features or strategies with Daz Studio that I'm not taking advantage of. Thanks!

I render with Iray, and it seems when I use a skydome it blacks out my scene.  If I leave off the dome then I can't seem to get an image to cover the background correctly.

And of course the lighting fiddling around due to not having the sky dome. I've been faking it halfway decent so far, but I don't like doing that. It's tedious and indicates to me I"m not properly using DS to it's full potential. 

So if anyone has any suggestions, instructions, or a location of current information, I am definitely up for learning a better way.

If you made it this far, thanks and yes I do believe I'm whining.

I have finally saved up enough for a shiny new pc! Thinking it would be helpful all those years ago, I have all my daz content on a dedicated internal hard drive separate from the Daz software, os and other software on a different drive. 

My old system is Windows 8.1 and the new one is Windows 10. 

I have come to the conclusion that I am not entirely sure of the process and am hoping I can install the original hard drive in the new pc without too much headache/ swearing/ panic/ crying!

Would the method be something like.... 

1) Export user data from old pc to... (hard drive or memory stick???)

2) Install the hard drive directly into the new pc (get the new pc to recognise the hard drive???)

3) Create library paths in new Daz Studio for the old hard drive content

4) Import user data to new pc from... (hard drive or memory stick???)

OR

Does it require transferring the data in some special/ magic way that windows 10 will understand?

Also, I don't think this affects it at all but I am changing from Intel to AMD, will this have a bearing on the content?

Hope this not asking too much and I have researched this but could not find a satisfactory answer!

Thanks in advance for any assistance

My current Desktop has dual GTX 970s and an 850 watt power suppy. Recently these cards have begun to show their age.

I was thinking about switching to a single RTX 2070 Super, since that should be double the capability of the single 970.

The other option is the RTX 2080 Ti, only because investing in this would be a little bit more than what the cost of dual RTX 2070 Supers would be.

Anyone have any suggestions or experience?

Here are the items, a mask and a "hide mouth" geograft as child.

here's the code of the material.duf:
 

"scene" : {

"nodes" : [

{

"id" : "LatexMask",

"url" : "name://@selection/LatexMask_1623:"

},

{

"id" : "HideMouth",

"url" : "name://@selection/HideMouth_58:",

"parent" : "#LatexMask"

}

],

"animations" : [

{

"url" : "LatexMask#materials/LatexMask:?diffuse/value",

"keys" : [ [ 0, [ 1.00, 0.00, 0.00 ] ] ]

},

{

"url" : "HideMouth#materials/LatexMask:?diffuse/value",

"keys" : [ [ 0, [ 1.00, 0.00, 0.00 ] ] ]

}

]

}

This way, applying the material to the parent also changes the child color

Now my question is, since all the items have the same material name (latexmask), is there a way to change the material.duf so it can apply the color to all the "latexmask" materials of the parent and childs without the need of writing all the nodes hierarchy?
This will help me adding more items to the same parent without changing the material code.

Thanks :)

See attached file.

This happen to anyone else?

Or how to undo / reset breast morphs except ctrl+z, like an action history panel like Photoshop

Also, where does bought morphs usually reside? so far from my fiddling I found are in “Parameters” and some are in “Shaping”

Much obliged!

I need to transfer the skeleton of the character to its exact copy in .obj format. The problem is that the skeleton is not transferred correctly. He repeats "ghosting bones", not the skeleton that turned out after morphing. I tried different transfer combinations, but did not get the desired result. Is it possible to transfer a completely identical skeleton?

I need to modify Genesis 3 Male and Female.

i am looking for a Tutorial where is shown hów to Weight the Legs of the Chars.

Male and Female have 4 joints for each Leg. I have Problems to Paint the Weights who are connected to the Pelvis. If i let sit my Char on a chair I got Hard edges.

Is there a Tutoial, or maybe the Possibility to get a education in any Company ?

Before when I was dialling her in, I could un-dial the ears away in the relevent hair sliders, now that she has a sinlge slider, I'm at a loss.

Can anyone suggest a solution?

1. I downloaded and unzipped the files in the download area.

2. I went to Public - Public Documents - MyDAZLibrary and dragged the unzipped (extracted) folders from Public Downloads into it.

3. I individually dropped people, data, runtime into MyDAZLibrary (dragged them to the margins, not the individuals folders directly) and confirmed that the content appeared in the existing people, data, and runtime folders and each opened and showed the data.

4. But, i cant find the gloves in my DAZ program either in smart content, content library, or anywhere else. DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY HELPFUL TIPS?

My issue: Whenever I try to select an image – be it for the environment map in render settings or the base color of a prim – from disk (arrow down, browse), I'm not able to select the images corresponding to the 'Files of Type' selection drop down menu.

As an exmaple: The first option in the Files type drop down menu is a whole slew of image types, ranging from *.dsi to *.ptx. But, any image that sattisfies any of these file types is not selectable. I just can not choose it to open it in Studio. All images types – whether or not in the list of allowed file types – are greyed out.

Only when I select *.png explicitly as file type, I can select a png file. If I select *.jpg, *.jpeg I can omnly select files with jpeg as extension. I have to rename image.jpg to image.jpeg to be selectable.
These png's and jpeg's I can select using the above can not be selected if I set the File Type selector back to option 1 (the whole range of images files) eventhough both *.png and *.jpeg are in that list...

It's really annoying. I can not change the hdr/exr files for environment maps, amongst other things.
Does anyone have an idea what I am doing wrong??

Thanks!!

I did record it:

(here was a video showing the problem, did remove it, cuz no longer needed).

Is it a bug with the model or is it a general thing ?