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Catherine3678ab — Sat, 16 Nov 2019 05:27:55 +0000

Lost Genesis Male Figure

budrudesill — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 19:42:34 +0000

Documentation Center won't recognize my user name which is my email address. When I hit enter my email address is changed from an @ to an _. The real proble is that I suddenly lost my Genesis Male figure, but when I try to search for help on DAZ I get the above problem. The DAZ website recognizes me.

A4 Cross-Eyed -- I thought there was a fix for this?

stephendsullivan_8d05b15f9d — Wed, 20 Jun 2018 21:45:25 +0000

So, I'm using a partial A4 (50%) with a base V4 character, currently loaded with morphs++ etc. -- a basic rig I use all the time in Poser Pro 14.

The body and head shapes work fine, and even look the way I'd like.

But there's something wrong with Aiko 4's eyes. It's like they didn't adjust to the new shape along with the rest of her head or something -- so they're too close together (or too small?) and she looks cross-eyed.

(See attachments.)

I _thought_ there was some kind of simple morph fix for this, but I can't find it anywhere in with the A4 stuff, nor has searching Poser turned it up.

How can I fix this? Should the eyes be scaled or moved somehow?

Or is that easy "fix eyes" dial somewhere that I can't find it?

Please help!

Thanks.

-- Steve

BEO2K10 hands and eyes lights

xavierator — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 23:44:30 +0000

Dear,

BEO2K10 has lights on hands and eyes, but after render the lights disappear, only the chest light remains.

Examples attached.

Thanks, Xavi

Sci-Fi Assault Armor + Wise Wizard hooded cloak

xavierator — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 21:01:30 +0000

Dear,

I just make a test with this 2 references (see the attached images), but it doesn't works:

https://www.daz3d.com/sci-fi-assault-armor-for-genesis-8-males

https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-wise-wizard-hd-clothes-for-genesis-8-males

Is possible to adapt the hooded cloak of Wise Wizard to Assault Armor ?

Thanks, Xavi

How to install/use Stephanie 4 (S4)

rirvinmoore_bce34b999f — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 12:51:03 +0000

I'm having a devil of a time getting S4 to work properly and I'd love some help. I think I got her working yesterday, but today I can't figure out how I did it. Here's my (failed) workflow:

Open Poser 9 -> open "Figures" menu -> double-click "Stephanie 4" to load figure into the scene. The figure ("Victoria 4") loads with her feet sticking through the ground plane. I go to the Victoria 4 -> Parameters menu and try the morph dials under "Other." I move the dials back and forth, including seemingly appropriate ones like "Stephanie (Body)", but none of them have any effect. I think it's safe to say that this doesn't work.

Seeing morph injections in the pose menu... Load Victoria 4 -> open Poses menu -> INJ Stephanie 4. No new morphs appear. So this also doesn't work, apparently.

What do I do? V4 and Morphs++ seem to work fine, but Stephanie (which apparently requires direct use of V4) does not.

Put on a character as a cloth (crazy idea)

Lagrange — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 15:50:03 +0000

I have a standalone character who is not any Genesis. Any poses in the collection works for him but always wrong as his default pose doesn't suit any existing. Then I had a crazy idea.

Is there a way to make Daz think this is not a character but a full body suit? Then I could put him on Genesis 2 and make Genesis itself invisible, then all the poses will work properly. Is this a good idea or I am thinking wrong?

HDRI map light intensity

OGvtoroy — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 20:28:00 +0000

I used HDRI map (sky) and now my scene looks a bit overlighted. Since i can't see the any "skydomes" in the scene tab i don't know how to chage intensity of the light. Does anybody know?

And how can i delete the HDRI map if i need?

how many "my daz librarys" and where.

alan bard newcomer — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 10:06:16 +0000

I think I did an unresolved ticket on this eons ago.
but
I have User>Bard(me)>Documents> Daz3d>studio>my daz 3d library
I have User>Public>Documents> Daz3d>studio>my daz 3d library
and in User>Public>Documents>My daz 3d library free standing
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I think in the past I've deleted one of the daz folders (after duping them in to the same state) but it came back
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so I did try to use an item skinbuilder for 3 the other day .. but couldn't find it
checked dim .. it said it was installed but I couldn't find it.. but I could find skinbuilder2..
finally figured out the daz was looking at one but not necessarlily the same one it had in the past
so I copied everything from the Bard one into the public one and there was a bunch that hadn't been in the public one which daz412was looking at.
(note this is only My daz recommended location install stuff on the C drive... )all the rest is in directories on an external drive.
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at this point it looks like daz currently likes public/dz/studio/my library...
since I've copied everything how do I stop it from doing anything with the one in my named user file as opposed to the public user file and what about the My daz library folder that's standing in the public folder with the that also has the daz/studio/my daz library...
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Or do I jsut have to keep making sure they're all the same
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I don't think this drive has had daz3 on it but certainly at least 4.5 and up...
no, I've never told daz where to stick it .. but it should always be sticking it in the same place right?
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the combined folder from the two Daz3d folders located in the public folder now has 18.3g and 112,561 files while the one that was merged in only has 15.9g and 93,685 files... so the public would seem to be the larger and it is the one that the program 412 pro seems to be looking at.
the free standing my daz library as not in a daz3d/studio. folder only has 6.3g with 54,173 files.. but I guess I should merge it in with the current large one to make sure I have it all in one folder.
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now will daz work with an alias so I just make aliases of the big My Daz library and stick an alias in each of the other places. or do I duplicate the complete one and stick it in all locations
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just to add confusion to the mess
the my daz library in the daz folder in the public folder says it was created sunday june 25, 2017
while the my daz library in the daz folder in my bard user folder says it was created tuesday june 27 2017
and the free standing my daz library in the public folder claims friday june 30 2017 as it's birthday....
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so are two of these illegidimit and can I disinhereit them, give them a cardboard suitcase and a $20 bill and toss them into the garbage?

Making Iray Shaders {not presets}

Catherine3678ab — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 03:35:41 +0000

Okay ... the forums are for questions and when it comes to making Iray Shaders, yes I have a few ;-)

Was told to use the MDL bricks, so like okay.

If one "imports from scene" from a basic new cube, one sees quite a lot of wires! I understand the concept is to plug in each brick to another and somehow one is also going to connect to the object for display.

So pacing this back big time, since none of the "previews" seem to render any results whatsoever, hopefully somebody or bodies have time to walk us through the process for to start making, let's say a very basic beginner Iray Shader.

The first 3 on the list are for what please?

.duf files are unselectable and can't be opened

nsalvaro — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 12:09:21 +0000

I can't open .duf files. If I go inside Daz3D -> Open -> file folder every file is unselectable (see screenshot).

If I try to click on the file itself and open it this way it starts DazStudio but without opening the file... Daz Studio just stays empty.

The only thing that works is if I go to "open recent" and select the file from that list but this means that I can only work on recent files and that I can only work with one computer.

I don't understand what the problem is. If anyone could help it would be most appreciated. It might have something to do with the latest version of Daz Studio because I've always been able to open .duf files before.

I'm using version 4.12.0.86 on a macbook pro with Catalina.

How do you transfer like-materials from Blender to Daz3D along with the model?

logicaldensity — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 09:44:14 +0000

I made a simple model in Blender of a picture frame with a picture. Naturally one of the materials for this model is made of an image texture. While I can seem to export-import the model itself from Blender to Daz3D just fine, I don't know how to recreate the materials in Daz3D that I made in Blender. How do you do this?

All I know to have done:

Everything is UV unwrapped like it should be; the model looks just fine in Blender.
My image texture is in the same directory as my .obj/.dae/.fbx (I tried them all), .blend, and .duf files.

If I increase my RAM will my laptop render iray a lot faster?

BurritoIncognito — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 16:33:50 +0000

Here are my specs:

Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8265U CPU @ 1.60GHs 1.80GHs

Ram 8.0GB (7.89GB Usable)

64-bit operating system, x64 based processor

Is there anything I could do to this computer so it would render typical scenes(one frame) in less than 5 minutes? Increase RAM or whatever? If not, do you have a suggestion as to the cheapest computer that would render scenes in under 5 minutes (on average)?

*A typical scene would include an environment optimized for Iray and two characters.

Max Samples settings is still broken

dylan_borg_d673e29d8d — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 22:13:08 +0000

Max. samples in Render Settings is still broken.

As a quick test, I disabled the limit on Samples, set it to 35000, Rendering Converged Ratio set to 99%

However, after 2100 samples the render stopped. Is there a work around or a way to force an Iray render to run for 7 to 9 hours ?

Boss Lighting

Daventaki — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 02:01:32 +0000

I have recently purchased the Boss Pro Lighting set and have my scene set up. This is probably an easy fix that im missing but how can I turn off the shadowbox thats in the way without affecting the lighting? I tried turning off Visible in Render but that made it off completely.

Starts to Render Okay, and Then POOF

Db3d — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 02:01:04 +0000

This is just odd. I have a scene that basically has 2 walls, a floor, a simple 3D prop, and two characters fully clothed. When I attempt to render the entire scene, everything starts to go transparent (gradually throughout the render) except immediately surrounding my female character. It's like she's in a box and the rest off the scene slowly disappears.

I deleted her (and her wardrobe), and everything renders perfectly. I add her, and this phenomonon happens. I don't think it is a memory problem, I think there is something about my female character or her wardrobe that's causing it.

Here's my system:

Windows 10 64bit
32GB RAM
1080Ti 11GB RAM video card
Lots of free space on my hard drive

I've attached a screne shot to illustrate what I'm talking about.

dForce question ...

vonHobo — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 07:14:10 +0000

Can dForce clothing simulations be applied independent of the figure pose?

Whenever I do a dForce simulation for a wardrobe item, it puts the figure back to the first pose in a series of pose adjustments and seems to take forever to simulate every pose iteration.

I just thought it would be nice if dForce could just work on the current pose and drape the clothes to that last pose, without starting from the neutral (default) figure pose.

I guess I don't know dForce very well. But it just seems so futile to me in that it takes longer to simulate than it does to actually render a scene. That seems ridiculous. Is there no way to speed things up?

Converting Adults to Children?

doorknob22 — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 15:57:20 +0000

So I just purchase a cool Character bundle and I was wondering if there's an option (or a utility) which morphs an adult to a younger version of himself. Baed on the illustration it seems the products like this can transform an adult model to a teen or a child version but the description is less conclusive.

Any suggestions?

Help Please: Weird Rendering Error After Changing Light Settings

DrowElfMorwen — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 07:26:56 +0000

So I had a scene building up: a single Genesis 8 figure, and some point lights. I decided I didn't like that, deleted or hid all my point lights and switched to FWSA Soft Light Probes. Suddenly, my character's head has this weird thing going on in the render:

https://sta.sh/0202z0jmdxet

All that weird redness isn't supposed to be there. If I hide the hair base totally, it goes away. But, if I do not hide it, yet turn all the opacity sliders to zero, it still does this error. Even when I set my scene to "scene only" lighting or "dome and scene" OR just dome, all three times this ugly thing renders. And I have never had a problem with the hair. It MUST be the lighting... what gives? Is this product broken or is something else happening?

Unreleated but also annoying: Her eyes are suddenly not fitting into her head and I don't know how that happened, either.

Render Problem again

Bootwink — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 03:45:47 +0000

I had this problem before. Then before I even got a respome my renders started working. I've been rendering things for a few months now no major problems. now all of a sudden I can't get a render, it comes out blank, with a disciption to name it and where to place it, and it is blank. I can here it going threw the Porcess of rendering, but real quick it pops up a with blank slate, I don't remember why it started working before, but I can't get it to Render, not even in the active frame where it will render half the time. I use Iray all the time for my renders. I have no Idea what happened. 3 hours of trying to render again, I don't think there is a bug in my program, because it was corrected the other time, now it's doing the same thing again. I know it's me, but I don't know what I'm missing.

Moved Library to new machine... but Categories lost. Any Help?

pjwhoopie4801218 — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 14:18:41 +0000

Long Story Short.
Had corrupted drive, new SSD hard drive/new windows install (don't ask :( )

Anyway, I was able to access the old drive, and copied the My Daz Library and moved it to the new computer. Fresh install of Daz... Copied my Daz Library in, Everything SEEMS to be working and in order...

BUT
All those Categories I painstakingly created are gone.

Anyway to get them back? I can get back into the old drive with the Daz install... is it just a matter of copy/pasting into the new set up or is all lost?

Thanks, in advance

Problem with Eye Collection on Genesis 8 Male

budrudesill — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 23:45:51 +0000

I just purchased the eye collection for Genesis 8 Male SKU 48239 and when I install an eye from the collection into my character, they don't look at all as real as in the catalogue. Am I doing something wrong or is this product less than advertised?

Genesis 8 Female

Grafx Studio — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 04:32:53 +0000

Everytime I load any Genesis 8 female charecter in to Daz Studio I get a Double ID problem. After manually installng characters into my Daz Studio directory, now I get the ID problem plus I get it looking for Genesis 8 in the Genesis 3 directory and can't find Bliss doll I think. The Genesis 8 character brought in to the interface is beyond thin and totally weird looking. Only way to get back to normal is to Zero out eveything. How can I find out what is screwing up the character and how to fix it?

Creating a new prop

comixfana — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 02:36:18 +0000

Specifically a pair of black gloves with a silver cross on the back, for Michael 8. I swear I once knew how to do this, in my old Poser 6 days. As my knowledge and comfort level incrases with Daz 4.12, I'd like to recreate that prop for my character The Reverend (preaches the Gospel of hard knocks in the crime ridden streets of Mega City)...The gloves are supposed to have "laser stinger" attachments, shaped like silver crosses. I figured out how to add an iRay sticker to the chest of his uniform; the back of the gloves is a lot smaller - and to be honest, the gloves I'm currently using look pretty flimsy (a freebie from ShareCG).

How do I proceed again?

Making HDRI image from flat map

Anki — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 19:58:23 +0000

I just spent a whole day looking for this...

I want to make a seamless image for use as hdri image.

I have the map, made in photoshop, but when I make it into a 3d ball, it pinches the poles.

I know there's a filter somewhere that distorts the image, so you can then make it into a ball without the poles pinching.

Here's an example of what it does :

Base image

End result

Anyone know ?

Thanx ahead

how do I make this wedding dress white? bridal-styles-for-trumpet-dress

Chakradude — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 01:48:15 +0000

AI have kind of an emergency I am rendering a fantasy scene for some friends wedding that is coming up real soon. I bought this https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-trumpet-dress-for-genesis-3-and-genesis-8-female-sand this add on ://www.daz3d.com/bridal-styles-for-trumpet-dress

a dforce dress with a wedding dress texture ad on. it says it is 3delight compatable only when I find the right texture that sooks so close to the brides actual gown it only renders in black! I can't use IRAY at all so lets not go there. I just need to know how to render a bright white dress in 3delight. if all else fails please point me to another shader product but I really think this should work. when click on any of the white texture styles it complely changes the look of the dress ie no lace in the back or front ect...

any constructive thoughts very appreciated!

Cant Sign the EULA it shows "You must be logged in to sign"

demonsparda41 — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 00:20:40 +0000

Help I ve spent so much time trying to fix this

Export u3d for pdf3d problem texture

chiaralamarca — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 00:20:40 +0000

Hello, I have a problem exporting some 3Dmodels created in metashape in a u3d file. When I create the pdf3d from the u3d file (exported with daz3d) the default rendering color is darker (and matt) than the texture I see in daz3d. Anyone can suggest me a solution?

dForce Gravity source

Bos Graphics — Mon, 02 Sep 2019 08:07:36 +0000

I'm noticing dForce making clothing "fall" partly to stage left, as if the source of gravity were shifted off to the side.

Shouldn't down be straight down?

Image sequence to video file

jakobrh — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 16:18:12 +0000

Can someone give me a link to some good software to convert an Image sequence to video file?

I'v lost my old software, so I searched for a new one. But all I found was irrelevant crap.
I've also searched the forum here with no luck. Maybe I just searched with the wrong words.