So... Feel free to point and laugh and tell me I'm - well, choose your epithet - but if you could either tell me, or, better, tell me where I should have looked it up, or even both... I'd very much appreciate it. :(

I'm trying to create a knight like this: https://www.daz3d.com/knight-champion-for-m4

I don't like the 3Delight result and I'm rendering with IRAY

If I change the distant light position and/or its orientation the result is always the same (see the attached image), all pieces are right (helmet, ...), but the "plackard" is burned.

Could I have a default light that deactivate my distant light ?

How con I resolve this issue ?

Thanks, Xavi

So I have some third party anatomical elements for G8M from over at Renderotica, and I also just bought this body hair item: https://www.daz3d.com/jepes-bodyhair-project-78

The problem is, both use shells and when they overlap, they don't work. If the body hair covers the "elements" then they just render white. Otherwise, the base of the "elements" just goes over top of the hair to match the skin, leaving an awkward "shaved" spot on the groin. 

Anyone know how I can make the two shells play nice together? 

@Jepe 

Thanks! 

Examples

Image removed for nudity

A lot of thanks.

I work with DAZ Studio 4.12 Pro on Mac OS 10.13.6

recently I got the HD Add-on for Teen Jane 8, but there seems to be something weird going on with her toes. Looks like she has a piece of glass in her toes of the right foot. Looks painful. (Not to be seen in the viewport only in final renders).

This happens on simple loading in Teen Jane 8 HD right out of the box. I know I can avoid this by lowering the subD level to 3 and below or reduce the HD Details via dials, but why should I pay for the HD Add-on then?

So please let me know if this is going to be fixed anytime soon. Thank you.

If anyone knows a workaround for this, I would be greatly appreciative. 

Also, I am using a Threadripper processor, is this making this go smoothly? Would I have the same luck with a high end Intel processor, or do the multiple cores on Threadrippers somehow get used if you have multiple instances of Daz Studio open at one time?

Is it true you can't have multiple instances of Daz 4.12 open at once?

My experience has reflected this, until I turned on all the "Post Denoiser" options in Iray.

Once the render gets to the iteration I specify in "Post Denoiser Start Iteration" (50), the whole scene becomes less grainy and, above all, the GPU is now showing 98% activity.

The screenshot below was taken right when the GPU activity spiked and the Denoiser appears to have kicked in.

Render times were also cut from around 30 minutes down to 10 minutes.

My question is, how is the GPU getting involved when the scene is larger than 8gb? And why only when I enable the Denoiser in render settings?

Do I need to install the PostgreSQL (Wind 64-bit) Public Build Beta and the Conversion Beta also?  the latter seems unnecessary as I haven't used valentina.

Thanks for your help.

Currently, DIM appears to be "searching" endlessly.

How do I launch this script? Where can I find this tool after installing it? How do I find the User guide PDF that comes with it?

Thank you for any help.

Hope that makes sense. Thank you very much.

If, for example, I have a G8M character that has several figure morphs loaded in to it (let's say Michael 50% and Vladimir 50% for example's sake). And then i export that morphed character as OBJ to Blender and make some small morph adjustments using editor in Blender (taking care to NEVER change the number of faces/geometry).

My question then is: Can that morph be successfully imported back via Morph Loader Pro?

I have a G8 model - Gail https://www.daz3d.com/gail-for-genesis-8-female
and this dforce outfit - https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-vernea-fae-outfit-for-genesis-8-females

Now, what I did was apply the outfit - mainly the skirt - to Gail and use simulaion to adapt to the pose. The proble here is that she has her left leg up and it clips through the back of the skirt. I've been searching online and read a bit about smoothing and colision and such but I'm still not sure how they work nor if they fit this issue.
Also, as you can see from the pics, the bustle of the skirt - which is a separate item - also clips through the skirt. In this case using Simulation only made it worse...

Any help is really appreciated! Thank you in advance! :)

Newest state - only the dialogue window for the Internet connection to log on my account shows correctly on screen (as it always did first of all) when I open Daz3d. The working surface is active, according to the icon - but it is impossible to get it on screen to actually use Daz3D. The only possible action is X (Icon) to close the application.

And I'm unable to restart Studio, without manually shutting it down in the task manager. Is there a fix for this?

I am trying to track down what might be causing a sudden and seemingly painful dental issue some of my characters are experiencing when I add them to a scene.  I am fairly confident the problem is something I have installed since a fresh install on my laptop using the same character doesn't have the problem.  The teeth on some, but not all, characters are sticking out through the face.  Has anyone else encountered this and might have an idea where I could start looking for the troublemaker?

I will likely start uninstalling content I've recently installed to see if I can isolate a recent addition that might be the cause.  My dread is that I've been mixing installs between here and the other site, so it's not going to be a fun bit of troubleshooting.

Thanks!

I'm getting a "ghosting" effect in the viewport whenever I move the camera or objects in the scene (I've attached a screenshot).

It's like the viewport doesn't refresh.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

Any ideas? This issue really makes animations a lot harder than it should be.

Thank you

This isn't acceptable, and as far as I know, its always done this, even with my previous graphics cards. I'm running Daz Studio 4.11.

This is the history for my current render, which is only using the CPU:

Rendering in NVIDIA Iray

Compiling Shaders - 0/1

Rendering image

Rendering...

Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.2 IRAY rend progr: CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 970): Processing scene...

Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.3 IRAY rend stat : Geometry memory consumption: 115.942 MiB (device 0), 0 B (host)

Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.2 IRAY rend progr: CPU: Processing scene...

Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.4 IRAY rend stat : Native CPU code generated in 1.73s

Can someone help me fix this?

EDIT: In task manager, I can see that Daz is using almost all of my GPU memory, despite also using 100% of my CPU. I tried switching my primary and auxilary viewports to wireframe bounding box, to try and reduce the base amount of memory Daz uses, but it doesn't seem to work. I also tried turning OptiX off and on, that hasn't helped either. I'm assuming that my graphics card just doesn't have enough memory to run this render that I want to do.

I'm looking at upgrading to a Nvidia GTX 1660Ti 6 GB this coming week, hopefully that fixes the issue. 

Eg, I want a good "clean" install, with only the minimal installed files, so nothing that is installed on my prior version will mess with that clean version. Ultimately, I will only be manually installing only the single things I "need", once I find them, from my other copy of Daz3D.

I have the beta version, but I have that reserved as a duplicate for the version that I have now, which is getting horribly bogged-down by all of these items I have laboriously installed over the years. Things which can't easily be "uninstalled", without breaking other things along the way. It would be much easier to locate the components of the installed items, and just duplicate them to the "clean Daz", which I can then scrub clean, or isolate, as needed, when I no longer need THOSE previously installed items.

I don't have any plugins to worry about, so that makes things sort-of less complicated.

However, Daz will still try to use the same CMS system, which is where I think I need the isolation for this "clean copy". Since none of the files in the CMS will be in any of the folders that the clean version will be using.

I'm open to any suggestions, no matter how illogical or hackish they may seem. I am just at a loss for how to do it, or fake it... (Avoiding the whole "get another computer", or "create a virtual OS", as those are not options available to me. I do have a multi-boot system, but there is no real way to move things back and forth, and easily "use them", without constantly rebooting. I have my other copy of Daz on that OS, which is actually my sibblings copy of Daz.)

my specs 

16 gigs ram

i7 6700 

gtx 970 

there is the girl in the middle in the pic

she is definetely a lot to handle but i managed to make a 4k picture in a scene along with 2 very polygonated too and had no problems

all of a sudden i cant even render her alone with no background or anything,

i cant do anything. 

was using 4.9 for years and upgrading to 4.12 made no difference in rendering,

also updated the drivers to the latest. 

is there a problem or is my system finally saying goodbye. 

But when I imported it to DAZ Studio, I ended up seeing some kind of film across the front and back of most of the letters (which remained visible when I tried to render the letters), like this:

What can I do to prevent the film from appearing on the letters (like in the example above) so they can appear clearly when I import from Hexagon to DAZ Studio?

The tail does not work, does not appear bushy like in the promo renders. It's just a cage around a stick tail and doesn't change no matter what I do [redacted]