I'm building a new computer to replace my aging Win 7 desktop, but I really would prefer to leave Microsoft behind without sacrificing my Daz library or Daz 3d if possible. Does anyone have any suggestions regarding something that will actually work with the latest Nvidia cards and be able to get full use of their capabilities? I've always been a Windows user, but their obtuseness of the last 4 years has caused me to seriously consider other options before they cut the 7 branch loose. I would just cut all ties to the internet apart from my cell phone, but losing things like connection to Daz will be problematic. If you don't have an OS suggestion, I'm willing to consider all advice concerning a way forward that breaks the MS hold on my life. I've already purchased the hardware, and I'm waiting for it to arrive, so some options are already out I imagine. I plan to continue using my Win 7 machine for writing as long as possible while waiting for renders to finish on the newer machine.

Just wondering if anyone else has purchased this product yet? If so, have you had any problems in using it?

Whenever I attempt to load it I get numerous 'missing texture file' errors, and the scene loads in it's untaxtured 'clay' form.  I have uninstalled it, reinstalled it, installed it manually, and checked for updates and the textures will still not load.

I know I can manually texture everything myself but that's hardly the point - and it really isn't time cost effective to do this.

Just wondering if it's a problem that's unique to me or if everyone's having the same issue?

Thanks in advance

John

I need to migrate the My Daz files from the slower computer to the faster one and I want to get the files off the internal drive (it's eating up space needed by the operating system) onto the external drive.

Can this be done simply by copying the files from the older computer  to the new external drive and then attaching the big drive to the faster computer, or will I have to download and re-install all my assets (it's a LOT of files)?

I don't know whether the install process (for assets) is putting pointers or hidden files or tokens somewhere where they can't be found if they are moved (I assume this would be true for the authorization file for Daz Connect items).

Has anyone gone through this process who might have suggestions, warnings, etc.?

I purchased some more product, downloaded and installed, it, but none of it (about 15 items) is appearing in my content library, when I restart Daz.

D-Manager says it is installed.

I've recently discovered this issue with hair caps when some kind of displacement is applied. It's really frustrating, it isn't something that we should be accepting. Other than removing all displacement maps or deleting the hair cap has anyone found a workable solution to this. We really should be able to use these products without this kind of issue.  I haven't submitted a tiecket, I'd prefer to fix it. 

Edit:

I wonder if this, that suddenly appeared in the store today, would do the job?

https://www.daz3d.com/daz-studio-4-scene-tools-set-2

I wanted to know how to get rid of all LODs and keep only the one I want. I'd like to keep a single low res version so I can export it to blender via Daz importer. For some reason it gets messed up when I add the low res.

So is there a way to strip my scene of all LODs except one? Or maybe completely bake one as the default LOD?

I can use the translation tool gizmo ( The xyz tool that shows up on screen ) or the sliders to translate.. and I seem to get way too many crashes.

Nothing is noted in the error log -  I have a Threadripper 2950x, 32 GB ram, RTX2080ti. I use a number of other 3d programs ( Max, Maya, ZBrush, and never encounter a similiar problem )

I have Daz3d rel 4.11.0.383 and also the rel 12 beta and the problem exist in both. I have latest NVidia Drivers. The screen is in texture view mode ( Not iRay preview ) These are NOT "heavy" Scenes. 

Any help or suggestions would be most appreciated

Added : What does the "Click here to toggle whether this property overrides any controllers" mean? It is located to the left of the Lock symbol on the translate slider ( Only the y translate has this...

Im using an older mac 10.11.6 El capitan and although slowest CPU rendering in the world everything has been working fine. Ive tried all the usual uninstall and reinstall, dim manager, manual install etc but still get the same result. Im guessing the mac is just well past its time but still hoping there might be a fix. I have a new PC im buying in the next couple of weeks with 16gb ram and Nvidia 6gb 1660Ti card, best i could afford atm but hopefully will ok for what im messing with atm.

Sorry if there is an answer posted elsewhere but i cant find any relevant info on startup crashes nor can i find a way to go back to 4.11 Thanks and Cheers.

Whenever I create morphs from GenX2 using V4.2, the feet are always on tippy-toes which messes with poses. I've tried recreating the V4.2 source morph in GenX2 so that  the feet are flat but I haven't had much luck fixing it.

Thanks!

Background:

I set up a scene using Sun-Sky Only. Unfortunately to get the lighting I wanted on one part of the scene it left ugly shadows in another. I switched to Dome and Scene. Long story short I noticed, then, some other problems such as cracks all over the head, https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/357941/hair-cap-causing-cracks#latest

By the time I'd got over that hurdle, I'd not even noticed that the beautiful light from the 'Sun' was gone. I had the light filling the previous shadows but the rest was pretty dull. 

Question:

So, Is there a way I can quickly replicate the Sun-Sky Only setting with the Dome and Scene settings?

By the way: Why can't you have Sun-Sky AND Scene? It doesn't seem unreasonable. 

Thanks

I just purchased this amazing product and, I was really interested on it because in the pictures appearing on the product post, it looks that the jacket can be opened. But I cannot find the way on any of the jaket morphs. This is important. Can you please help me? Thank you in advance!

Normally this is all good and well, but it stops my batch renderer from rendering scenes with this message while I'm away, needing me to click 'Ok' before rendering.

Is there a way to keep Daz from doing this while still keeping the asset in the scene? Thank you.

Just running some simulation on dforce fringe hair. A simple sitting pose, tested with following:

a) 30 frame - hair goes floaty and take another 60 plus frame to settle down, a huge clump stick together due to slight head tilt

b) 90 frame - hair goes floaty slower due to more frames, a huge clump stick together due to slight head tilt

Any suggested value to play around?

Also, one minor question, always bugged me, why does vendor pose affect the whole animation timeline and not just the single frame? Current workaround is to save a favorite default pose and use it.

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Edit it open with no BG on my PC tower

I have tried everything to get this product to work. 

Running the script takes an eternity (well actually about 5 minutes, which seems like an eternity in DAZ Studio - nothing takes that long except maybe dForce).

When it finally finishes running, the item of clothing that was checked does not have the Fit Control morphs anywhere in the Parameters pane. 

I tried it on a G3M clothing item, as well as a G8M clothing item. Neither has the morphs when the script completes.

Is anyone familiar with this product? It seems very simple from the instructions. 

I really want this product to work. So I will keep trying. 

Anyone have a pro tip on how to get it to upgrade?

OS Catalina but failed on the earlier OS as well...

I was wondering if anyone else has been having the same problem where I load the Lights from the Iray Ghostlight Kit and nothing happens. 

I upload the Lights which creates the black and red checkerboard mat, then no matter what I do- be it clicking on the 1000k material(s) or Daylight materials nothing happens. 

I've tried rotating it, uploading other lights to it, nothing. Be it 3DL or Iray, it seems to have no effect. It emits no light with other lights present and it emits no light without other lights present. I uploaded it with the ghost preset and I uploaded it without the ghost preset and still no difference.

Could I be doing something wrong? 

I'm a newbie still and rather than rendering my focus is on drawing reference, so I was looking for a simple to use light preset. This one, because it seems like it's meant for architecture as opposed to studio lighting, seemed perfect. I am completely and utterly clueless about lighting so it really wouldn't surprise me if I'm the one doing something wrong!

But I can't figure out where the 'On' switch is hiding!

I just purchased Path to Greywood and I am receiving a bunch of error message saying there are files missing.

What should I do ? Refund or there is a fix to this ?

I had to reinstall the system on my PC. Installed Daz 4.12/ And encountered some issue with rendering. I get this message in render process window:

3Delight message #143 (Severity 2): D2004: failed to open display driver 'C:/Program Files/DAZ 3D/DAZStudio4/displays/png.dpy' (display driver returned '4')

As a result I can't render outlines in LineRender9000 by Scripted 3Delight. Daz just doesn't create needed files. I tried defferent versions of graphic card driver. It changed nothing.

i've cleaned up my old daz libraries and reinstalled a new daz4.12. while a bit confused at 1st between the daz connect, the DiM & the user folder, i'm slowly rebuilding my archive.

i have a problem with GenX2 (& g2f add on): i'm trying to transfer a morph and get an arror message reading: DSF file not found for morph: V4S_PBM... (list of morphs).

what am i missing ?