When I place them in parallel, facing each other, I would expect them to produce infinite reflections as the image is bounced between the mirrors.  However, for some reason (see attached image), only two levels of "bounce" occur.  As you can see, when the third level of reflection occurs, the mirror is black.

How can I resolve this probelm?

Thanks in advance for any ideas.

Ive got some attachments to show what is happening that does not make sense. 

I am wanting to render a character slightly zoomed away from it as shown in PNG 1. When I try to render Its starts the process It looks like it is working then it gets to around 35 seconds and from 0 to 100% done in no time and I end up with nothing in the render as shown in PNG 4. But If I zoom in just a little like shown in PNG 6 and render than there is no problen the render works out. 

I tried restarting Daz but it did not work. Anybody know why this is happening? 

I had a theory that it was because I was taking the image from a lover angle and tried zooming out from an upper engel and its works. 

Does this happen because the camera is underneath an invisible floor?

Thank you, for any explanation that you might have on this. 

Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks.

I noticed a few nice improvements, but one problem for me...

Pros:

Faster renders, faster viewport iray, more responsive in general.

Cons:

I noticed it takes A LOT longer to add figures to a scene, especially my own customized figures with any type of morphs, clothing, etc. whereas with the 4.11 version these loaded a lot quicker into existing scenes. Has anyone else noticed this?

If there is something I'm doing wrong I would like to fix this, it's painfully slow now to load figures for me. I'm actually thinking of uninstalling 4.12 and reinstalling 4.11 if that is even possible.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

I'm trying to save a G8 hand pose as a Pose Preset. I can see that the Left Hand is part of the Abdomen Lower group (Scene tab). However, I don't see the Left Hand in the hierarchy tree of the Pose Preset Save Options menu. 

Okay. The issue is that the install path is way jacked up. I tried just moving the files where they should go and restarting but that didn't work. If anyone has ideas I'm happy to test the theories!

Thanks!

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https://www.daz3d.com/modular-cliff-formations-volume-2

I can find 1 and 3 but not 2. I see paths for the files but they're no where in Daz...at least as far as I can see.

Any protips on finding my installed files?

Thanks!

By the way: These are $1.99 each (3 of them are $6) (as of 5:30pm EST 10/13/19). In Daz they come out looking like glass wrapped rocks but if you select the surfaces and replace them with a rock shader they look great! For $6 I have a couple dozen rock shapes I can fiddle around with. Well...once I find package 2!

You can see my try to use a DAZ Studio primitive sphere with Sickle Yield's God Rays tutorial settings applied for atmospheric effects isn't going to work.

I need to create a lensing effect that blurs what is in the spheres (I think). Any optometrists out there with recommendations?

Thanks.

I have the issue that I cannot save my figure as a subscene. If I save the figure as a scen duf it is correctly safed in the current state that I also see in the viewer, but if I save it as subscene it saves a state a few months old (maybe it saves it correctly, shows the correct thumbnail, but if I load that subscene later on I see only a third of the parameters plus different parameters).

Not sure if this is a bug or simply a cache issue, because at the beginning I did a lot of crap, e.g. saving morphs in my daz3d library. Not sure if I was able to properly clean all that correcty (I reinstalled most products cleanly, deleted manual created folders in my library).

I also realized that the figure is not added to the nullpoint if it finishes loading the subscene. If I add the subscene to the current scene (that is saved correctly), the correct figure is added. Only if I clear the scene completely and add the subscene afterwards, everything is a mess.

Would be great if someone has a tip how to debug this or how to clean this, I'm trying since several weeks to get this right and am completely lost :(

Greets

sac

For anyone who doesn't, there's a super-secret hidden tab in the middle of the left edge of the render window.  It's probably hidden so that people don't mess with it and come here complaining about how dumb it is on the forums.

The problem is that you can also change settings that will cancel your render in progress without letting you know that small detail, particularly the Progressive Rendering settings.  If changing something will cancel your render, then those settings shouldn't be accessible the same way as settings that won't.  If I need to cancel my render to make a change, the first thing that should happen is that Daz asks me "Do you want to cancel this render?", the same way you are asked when you close a render window. 

There may, and possibly may not be a good reason why adding time or samples to your render means it has to start over again, but it's kind of not obvious.  I get that you can't change, for example the size of your render window without starting over.  That would be an obvious thing.  And that's a thing you can't change on the fly, obviously.   But when something is not obvious, and doing it wastes your time, then it shouldn't be something you can mess with in the middle of a render.  I mean it's obvious to me, but it obviously wasn't obvious to whoever designed the rendering window interface.

I'm obviously annoyed and .

My current set up has RTX2060 8Gb gpu but also I have my old GTX1050 4Gb.

It looks like a good idea to add about 700 CUDAs but will it be a really good idea?

I know about VRAM limit. But what I don't know if new card used some RTX features that help it work even better and won't RTX slow it down?

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I just want to install Daz3D and PostgreSQL CMS but it does not work.

I installed both with DIM:

Saving Account Settings: Account
Installing product : PostgreSQL CMS (Win 64-bit)
Starting CMS...
Product successfully installed : PostgreSQL CMS (Win 64-bit)
Installing product : DAZ Studio 4.12 (Win 64-bit)
Product successfully installed : DAZ Studio 4.12 (Win 64-bit)
Install Queue finished in 0 min 25.2 sec.

Now I press this little button (in DIM)

But then the log says:

Error starting CMS.

And when I start DAZ Studio I get:

I have no idea what I'm making wrong. I was looking for a solution in the internet but found nothing.

My folder "C:\Users\cpe\AppData\Roaming\DAZ 3D\cms\ContentCluster" is completely empty btw, I dont know if thats right.

What should I do?

I got an example with a vase of glass and a happy clown.

I suppose that also it's necessary to make an alpha of the image to hide the background

Thanks for helping me out with this.

I've tried reinstalling Daz and also updated to Daz 4.12 but neither has solved the problem.

Normally it's in the Utilities folder of the Smart Content, but it's icon/folder has disappeared.  The Measure Metrics tab is still available, and I've even uninstalled and reinstalled from the DIM.

I see no pending installs in the Smart Content, and I've checked and my registration is valid in the "About the Plugins" section...

And I've searched in the Smart Content, and it's just simply not there (Searched by "Metrics").  And I've checked and Filtering is turned off, and I did not have any other keywords in the search field.  

Can anyone make a suggestion on how to resolve this?

The Measure Metrics content is being found by the Content Library, but I prefer to use the Smart Content functionality?  What happened, and how do I restore it to the Smart Content?

Now, the Aspect Frame is either on or off. How do we get it back to the way it was?

I'd like to see it when I'm working on the render settings, but NOT see it when I work in the regular viewport.

*Solved* scaled it up to 10000........

It's from the r site (I can't put that name here or a link, right, or it will get this message deleted by the forum Gods) and it just says "Poser 7 or above" but doesn't specifiy the file type.  Am I safe in buying this?

I have problem with renderin as it drops GPU and uses CPU. Actually nothing new and first thing was to disable OptiX.

But nothing works. And scene contains only one character and a few props.

Iray Memory Assistant shows VRAM usage only 1.6 Gb, but when rendering starts it takes 24 Gb of RAM!

I suppose that something can be wrong in the scene itself and my question if there is a way to find what causes this issue but removing props one-by-one?

Thank you.

Cqan I refresh somehoh, or do I need to contact support? 

I have searched the forums a little but can't see this question anywhere.

Since Apple and NVIDIA hate each other, I am out in the cold with no more CUDA support on my iMac for DAZ, WHICH SUCKS!!!

Does anyone have any suggestions as to a solution for this?

I have looked around on the net but can't really see anything external.

Please don't respond with get a Windows system.

Preferably I would like an external card setup that works on both as I have both (laptop has AMD though)

Looked in the installed Plugins window and it is there, but it says it failed to load/

Any help?