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3Delight message #143 (Severity 2): D2004: failed to open display driver

pavsikakyj — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 06:10:03 +0000

Hello everyone.

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.

Genx2 DSF file not found for morph:

Cyprine — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 07:42:24 +0000

hi !

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 ?

Shadows have seams in 3Delight.

Blackbirdx61 — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 00:08:40 +0000

I've run into an odd problem lately, most of my 3Delight Renders have these odd seams; if you look at the Side by Side below. The Render done in the Basic Engine has nice soft Natural looking Shadows, while the 3Delight Render clearly has the Seams; any guidance as to what I might adjust to get a more natural looking edge to the Shadows would be much appreicated. BB.

Is Daz still supporting 4.11?

LaPartita — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 02:44:53 +0000

Is anyone else having trouble getting technical assistance with issues in 4.11? I've been told explicitly that Daz Studio 4.11 is no longer supported, even though 4.12 was only released on Sept 25... was there an official announcement sent out that I missed or something?

Ground lines with Ds 4.10

Navi — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 13:00:00 +0000

Hello,

There are some lines on the ground in all renders I make when a paper backdrop is used, after upgrading to 4.10 a couple months ago (it never happened with the previous version I had, 4.8). I didn't notice it before because it doesn't seem to happen on prop backgrounds; only on backdrop types of background for some reasons (light is an hdri, just in case). Does anyone have an idea on what might be causing this ?

Thanks :)

How do I change the path to My DAZ 3D Library to the new one on my other drive?

DubstepCop — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 08:43:36 +0000

I have my DAZ installed on a new drive and currently the My DAZ 3D Library folder is stuck pointing to the one in my Users folder on my C Drive instead of the new one I want it to point to in my E Drive.

Why am I getting this Warning and how do I fix it?Nevermind it stopped.

carrie58 — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 02:51:11 +0000

Okay ever since I synced with One Drive in the Cloud computer has been slow so I decided to remove files from the Cloud but when I did suddenly had short cuts on my Desktop dissappear my Windows File Explorer won't work right and when I open DAZ Studio I get this warning window and I am ready to rip my hair out ....oh and the back up I created has disappeared too.

Don't know what happened but Irestarted the computer and that little warning stopped showing up ,now DS tells me it's not connected to CMS to do something but all my stuff shows up ..,,,,,

Sudio 4.12 Posing very slow and jerky, IK weird

Valkeerie — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 08:03:47 +0000

Since the 4.12 upgrade I am finding posing to be a chore. Limb movements now occur at half or third of the speed they once did and of course I keep overshooting and undershooting and it takes me much longer to create a pose. This has been primarily with posing G8F. IK is especially bad - before I could click on a hand or foot and fairly easily move it into position. Now I can't. It's that simple. Limbs do jerky, crazy shit, limits seem to have changed, and I find myself having to undo bizarre twists and turns.

This is something I have been doing for years. If I want to pose a figure on a horse I can mostly just grab the hands andd feet and pose then. Now it's a mess and I have to do it the hard way using individual joint params (bend, twist, etc)

I was wondering if the new IK system?

G8 male issue

gremlin-2297907 — Sun, 06 Oct 2019 15:29:49 +0000

Whenever I load a g8 male figure several other character's morphs auto load into it and I have to remove them via dials. What would cause this?

New(?) Iray texture memory info line

lasersayspew — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 21:54:35 +0000

I recently updated from 4.10 to 4.12 and here's my problem.

On 4.10, when I started rendering it would say how much vram raw textures require. Something like: "Iray [VERBOSE] - IRAY:RENDER :: 1.2 IRAY rend stat : Texture memory consumption: 4.8 GB (device 0)"

Now, after updating to 4.12, I see this:

Iray [VERBOSE] - IRAY:RENDER :: 1.2 IRAY rend stat : Texture memory consumption: 842.252 MiB for 58 bitmaps (device 0)

The scene clearly takes a lot more than 842mb, according to afterburner it takes somewhere around 5gb. So how do I process this info now? How do I get the previous total texture memory consumption?

Looking at the afterburner info is not very helpful since it showed 500mb used before render, ~5gb used during render, 2.5gb used AFTER render(with the render window closed). So I'm not sure what to substract from what to get the actual render memory usage.

[solved]Daz Studio stops responding for a minute on render start and save

lasersayspew — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 04:50:44 +0000

Started yesterday. DS simply stops responding and freezes for a minute(give or take) when I press render, spot render and when I press save after the render is finished. Nothing's choking, windows works fine, chrome, explorer, I can open the disk that I'm saving to, browse it without any delays, got couple free GBs of RAM, CPU is at less than 20% load, nothing's overheating.

Specs:

CPU: i5 3470 8gb RAM, Geforce 1060 GTX 6gb, windows and page file on an SSD, daz library on HDD.

What could be the problem?

EDIT. Randomly found what was causing it. Changed default render library to a parent folder of my Daz Studio Library and I guess every time I was starting rendering or trying to save a render it was scanning all of it to create icons.

Rendering error

roezaka — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 08:43:36 +0000

After it, the rendering freezes. Сan i fix this?

G8F eyes have black patches

OVD — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 04:02:48 +0000

I had this same character in an earlier scene, and the eyes worked fine. Now I have no idea what's causing them to have these black spots. I'm rendering in 4.12, iRay, lighting doesn't seem to make a difference. I tried many different sets of eyes as well.

Can anyone tell me what's up with this? Thanks

Dell computer with 460w PSU and RTX 2060 for rendering?

Richard John S — Sun, 06 Oct 2019 12:53:09 +0000

I want to purchase a new computer. I saw one on the Best Buy website and it has the RTX 2060 video card with a i7-9700 processor, 16GB ddr4 ram, 1 hard drive, and 1 ssd. The PSU that comes with the system is 450w. The recommeded requirements for the RTX 2060 says a 500W PSU. I will be using max performance in the Nividia control panel settings. Is this system going to be okay for rendering?

In keyframe, can you set object as invisible and then visible?

Ruris — Sat, 05 Oct 2019 09:15:27 +0000

Hi all,

I'm creating a quick animation where a bunch of cloth drop on a news presenter (its the Dforce Thrash set).

I have this issue, where a first batch of cloth drop from above (this part is ok). Thats done, then there is a pause. And another shirt drop on her.

I cannot put the shirt super high and wait for the simulation for the first batch to finish (it will hit each other and explode). Just wondering if there is an option to make an object to stay invisible until required.

I describe this issue I have in more detail in the private video below. Just hope someone can check it out when you have the time.

https://youtu.be/E55ESfCwbcs

Face Transfer missing DLL file?

paul_ae567ab9 — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 18:08:05 +0000

Seems DS lost something? I checked b4 buying, Face Transfer is included ( minus a license key ) according to what I understand.

When I look in /About/Plugins it says its there but failed to load. It provides a path to a DLL file that is not there?

I checked on three different machines with updates to 4.12 and every one is missing the DLL file?

Is there a place to download that separatly? Abesnt that your not even able to enter a license key.

Setting preferred Content Location

operator99 — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 14:50:06 +0000

Somewhere along the line, Daz started putting my purchase (download and install using Install Manager) items on my C: drive, after two years of having only one path to put content and the path was to my Daz library on my D: drive. Not sure when they added the C: location, but now 50 gigs of content and its data are on my C:drive. Poking around I found a screen that lets me pick my preferred location and it was for the C:drive location. I was able to switch it to D: and for the next two "download and install's" the content went to D:. All good until today when I installed content from the store and it went into my C: drive location. And now I can't find the screen that let me select my preferred location. Where is it? I you could point me to it, I would be most grateful. I also ask it is possible to merge the C:drive "My Library" to my D library. Pic of my to locations attached.

Can I use additional lighting along with Light Dome Pro

homo_erectus — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 16:36:36 +0000

Can I use additional lighting to illuminate an enclosed room scene? there is one large window opening which is lit by the environment light dome. but the back of the room needs a couple of additional lights is this possible to use both? Using Daz Studio 4.12

Strange Rendering Issue

valerioa32 — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 08:04:50 +0000

Hey everybody,

So I am having a very strange issue. DAZ3D 4.12 has been working fine lately, but after doing a few renders in Iray, the render window doesn't render. For a better explanation, when I hit render the small window pops-up, but the window doesn't preview the image being rendered, instead, once it reaches 100% it shows the finished render. Does anyone know how to fix this issue and is anyone else having this problem? My PC's graphics card is quadro p5000.

Classic Long Hair with dForce - missing instruction videos

Anthony.r.cook6217685 — Sun, 06 Oct 2019 10:13:28 +0000

I have just purchased Classic Long Hair with dForce for Genesis 8 Female. Both the product page on the Daz website and the instruction pdf that comes with the product (installed via DIM) refer to instruction videos, but none appear to be included.

Can somebody point me in the direction of these videos? I bought the product on the basis that these were included.

Petipet's Robot Starwaiter for poser, missing right index fingers.

rlowens — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 04:21:19 +0000

The right index fingers are missing the geometry offsets for all the right index fingers for the Poser Cr2 .. These 2 lines :

storageOffset 0 0 0
geomHandlerGeom 13 (actorname)

Thus they are not showing up in poser. And yes, I have downloaded the latest files to make sure the issue hadn't been addressed and fixed. It hasn't as of yet.

I have already fixed mine, but wanted to let you know in case anyone else is experiencing the issue.

[Solved] Diff. Render Settings for DS 4.12?

Tynkere — Sat, 05 Oct 2019 16:43:20 +0000

Hopefully it’s something obvious and I don’t have to click “Default” and re-enter/re-save all my render presets.

Ones made in DS 4.9 and 4.10 seem to have jagged lines. Suggestions welcome. Tedious if have to start over.

Face Transfer - flat mouth?

Jethal — Sun, 06 Oct 2019 05:27:44 +0000

Everything in the face transfer addon looks great except for one thing.. none of the promotional images show the results from a 3/4 or profile.. why is that? I'm finding that the result has a flat mouth area with no lips. Is anyone else getting this? Am i doing something wrong?

iray to 3delight hair

roezaka — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:56:59 +0000

Can I take any hairstyle optimized only for Iray, take and condition it in 3delight? And that would look pretty high quality. Or is it a waste of time?
For example, there is this hairstyle: https://www.daz3d.com/sara-hair-for-genesis-3-and-8-females
Can I make her look good on 3delight?
Here is my pathetic attempt:

3delight:

With Rssy 3delight har shader:

Handling eyelashes at Head Morph for Genesis 8 Female

ForestBoy — Sun, 15 Jul 2018 17:57:53 +0000

Hello!

I'm creating a new character for Genesis 8 Female.

I've applied my head morph. The head morph causes the eyes to be further apart from each other.

Of course the head morph doesn't handle the position of the eye lashes as the eye lashes are a separate object.

Could anybody tell me how I should do this?

Thank you very much!

Help Edit Geometry in Daz Studio 4.11

ChrisSerket — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 15:53:50 +0000

Good afternoon, first of all, excuse me for my bad English but I am using google translator because I speak only Spanish.
Well, I'm trying to edit the geometry of a skirt in Daz Studio 4.11, or rather, join the vertices of the skirt mesh to the legs of the model and then smooth the folds of the skirt so that they are just like one plain fabric (I know that what I am saying is not very well understood, and that is why I left an image below of what the model looks like now, and to its right another of how it should look). I tried the morph options that the skirt brings, but what you see on the left is the closest to the result I am looking for (which is still far away).
Browsing the forum I saw that someone recommended using the Daz Studio bridge to Hexagon 2.5, and the first thing I noticed is that the pupils of the model's eyes were not passed. Still I edited what I needed and selected it to use the bridge between Hexagon and Daz, but my surprise was disastrous, since the dress appeared in Daz without its morphs and the model could no longer be placed (or Sakura 8 base if you prefer to say so like this) automatically as before, but it would have to be done manually.
I have these two ways to achieve the best result, but with none I am getting results.
Also in Daz I try to select an object (for example, the belt) but the lower part of the chest dress is also selected (también dejé una imagen sobre ésto).
I hope someone can help me, since I can't find a post about this and I don't have tutorials on YouTube.
Regards.

DAZ CRASHES WHEN I LOAD SCENE

jeremy-2558557 — Sun, 06 Oct 2019 00:37:31 +0000

I've tried everything my feeble brain can possibly try. Maybe someone else can take a look at the log? I don't know which parts of it would be helpful? It's too long to post in a single thread.

This has been incredibly frustrating. I've lost several scenes for reasons I don't understand. I've received zero help from the tickets and if my problem is scene specific, past posts in the forums aren't helpful.

I should be able to save a scene, close the program and reopen the scene with no problem. That's how every other application I use works.

Help with missing content

mythos_20 — Sat, 05 Oct 2019 15:07:52 +0000

Newbie here looking for help!

After a catastrophic BSOD on windows 10 while working on DAZ, I found out that my windows user profile was corrupted. After trying many things, I had to create a new user profile for windows and copy paste there the files from the previous (corrupted) user profile. I thought I had transfered everything, but when I started DAZ 4.12, only some of my previously installed content appears in my smart content pane.

I then went to DIM and changed the Content Database Base to the new location under the new windows profile. Then I did the same thing in DAZ by right clicking on the Content Library tab and choosing Content Directory Manager and editing the CMS cluster directory. There were still missing entries in the smart content tab.

I also did a Scan known directories for files, which found a looooong list of files form the old windows user profile (I haven't deleted it yet, but will do very soon). The problem is that the smart content tab still shows fewer items than it should.

I don't know where else to look for installed products, since the only thing that changed was the windows user profile. I didn't re-install windows, I didn't change any of the directories from before, so it should have been a simple edit in the DIM installation tab for the content database base directory and an edit in the content directory manager. Clearly I'm missing something or the BSOD in windows affected something more than just the user profile.

how do we know if daz is using rtcores on nvidia rtx cards

contact_2407063 — Sat, 05 Oct 2019 13:11:19 +0000

how do we know if daz is using rtcores on nvidia rtx cards, thanks

G3M Morphs on G8F

whitesentinix6355962 — Thu, 15 Jun 2017 15:53:33 +0000

So I am seeing this topic pop up, seemingly randomly in other topics. I'll see a little bit of info here in this thread and a little bit more in THAT thread... which frankly, is getting to be confusing!

So I'm going to just start a new thread and hope that I can get my answer.

I have a fairly extensive library of Genesis 3 figures... I'm talking a LOT and I would like to know if I can transfer them onto the G8F figure. I know that there is a clone took that is built in, which is great, but lets say I wanted to turn Georgia or Sophia into a Genesis 8 figure.

How would I do that?