However, on that same surface, I also want to use a singular opacity map to map something invisible (like the left arm of a coat)

When I make opacity maps, I make them over a given base map so that it's accurate, however, that's for strictly 1x1 tiling on the surface. Increasing it to 50x50 for the bumps also ruins the placement of the opacity map.

I customized an opacity map to fit exactly in her chest, and that way over the uniform's base map, with 1x1 tiling. I also made small bumps, on a bump map with 50x50 tiling, which then ruined the placement and size of the opacity map. What you see is actually two pics I spot rendered and layered, so that way I could do both.

But I'd rather keep this on one outfit, one render. Is there a way? Thank you.

The white lining is a geoshell, which I also wanted to texture, but did not because of this same problem

I know how to edit geometry but sometimes the geometry shape just doesn't work

Environment Mode: Dome and Scene; Dome Mode: Infinite Dome; Draw Dome: OFF; Environment Intensity: 2.0; and the rest are all set at their defaults. My character is facing in the default direction, which would be towards the Z positive axis. Is there any way to orient the dome in order to get the environment light directly above the character? Rotating the dome just rotates it around the y-axis. There doesn't appear to be any options to "rotate" it around x or z. Any recommendations?

This product says it is for 3Delight only, but I need something similar for Iray. 

https://www.daz3d.com/winter-terrains-for-daz-studio

Is there any product in the DAZ Shop similar to this one that is made for Iray?

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Core-i7-7820X-vs-Core-i9-7900X-Do-PCI-E-Lanes-Matter-For-GPU-Rendering-1030/

It got me thinking, does Iray work that way as well? 

Technically speaking, if you would install 2 identical GPU's on a single motherboard with 2 PCI-e x16 slots, your CPU would have to support 32 direct PCI-e lanes for these two cards to operate at full bandwidth. If this is not the case, and you have for example an i7 8700 (16 lanes), both cards are practically 'degraded' to operate at 8x speed. 

So my question is - does any of you ever used a 2x gpu configuration with a 16-lane cpu, and then switched to 32-lane or better and actually seen any performance boost during rendering?

Cheers

Or make a very simple app to convert all the file you need to build a scene avoiding to open DAZ Studio since you never find your expensive models collected from years

Thanks.

hi 

is there a easy way to find the moon 

i try to rotate the dome randomly to find it

https://www.daz3d.com/orestes-iray-hdri-skydomes--fantasy-moon

thanks in advance 

Found files inside "My Library" and deleted. Downloaded manual EXE installers and chose custom install to make sure were going to the right locations.

All the files are in the right places according to the Readme, but Smart Content still keeps telling me "file not installed."

And no matter how much I refresh, the whole "Age of Armour" folder won't show up in Content Library even though have manually confirmed the files and folders are there.

Quit DAZ and rebooted PC a few times inbetween some of these steps.

Should I just give up and ask for  a refund? I mostly wanted them as was a requirement for the "Light Up the Dark" light set, but I won't be able to use that either if the Advanced Lights can't be accessed from inside DAZ studio.

I tried re-installing Daz months & all my Daz content months ago.

Today I tried:

Removing "Genesis 3 Starter Essentials Male" using DIM

Removing all "Genesis 3 Male xxx" morphs (I had 4) using DIM.

Deleting those packages from DIM, then downloading them again.

Installed the above Genesis 3 male packages again.

Resetting my content directory database.

This didn't work.  Help!   
Two renders, base G3M figure with arms bent down 60.  First image not right "G3M AMD.jpg", second is good "G3M Intel.jpg"
 

Once in DAZ, I have three items in my scene - Head, Handle and Grip.

I've parented head to handle, and handle+head to grip.  So, in the scene I can collapse grip and whereever I move grip, or rotate it, resize it, etc., the other two follow.  And, if I go to surfaces I can select each one and change the texture on each one.

What I WANT to do is turn these three in to one item in the scene, but if I select that item in the surfaces tab, I see all three surfaces.  Thus, in the Scene tab I do not want the user to be able to expand it.  It will simply be ONE object, but with three textures.

How do I do this?

The sale page says:
You may export your morphed brows as an obj and use the transfer utility to create wearable brows for your characters.

And that's the extent of the instructions---except not to use settings and maps.

I'm in need of some instructions...

THANK YOU!!!!!

Laura

I have an issue where I am rendering canvases with a beauty pass. However, anything instanced comes out black, with no textures. Turning alpha on will make these objects 100% alpha.

I noticed that none of these instances will turn up in the node list when trying to select this.

Rendering without canvas will render everything

Is this expected behavior? How do I make canvases with instances?

I don't want to know how to use an existing asset, I want to learn how to create a volumetric object.

Can someone direct me to some tutorials on this subject.  I keep striking out.

My issue is that I successfully followed the instructions, updated the previous version and downloaded the beta, and now I can't open my Daz software!
I've gone into my roaming/daz3d/studio4 folder than forced a launch via 'startupscript.dsa' but that only brings me to 4.11 (not a solution/way to access 4.12).

Please help me to 1) get my daz working from my start menu again and 2) start using the 4.12 beta please!

Thanks!

Documentation> Read me

data>DAZ 3D>Genesis 8>Male>Morphs>biala>Body Femine

I have tried to paste it manually but that didnt work. I have then tried the "merge function", but nothing, and then I have also tried making a new "user library" directory and linking it to daz but that also didnt work as maybe to do with not having any runtime folder/file. 

Any suggestions?  It's been 3 weeks and nothing solved...

Edited to remove off-site link

I need some help, I've added a shirt (a Genesis 8 male shirt) onto a Genesis 3 character and when I turn her head, left and right, the tip of the collars start to stretch and distort. 
This is very frustrating. 

Is there a way to fix this so that the shirt collars do not interfere with the head turning? 

Thanks 

Playing around with the settings I eather get an all-black silhouette or a light source.

To start, I tried selecting a G8 figure hand, and choosing Edit>Object>zero selected items pose. That only zeroed the hand and not the fingers.

So I manually zeroed each segment of each finger and the thumb, then I tried saving that as a pose preset, choosing the hand and all the nodes below it, and the pose controls for the left hand. But when I make a change to the hand, then apply the pose, nothing at all happens. Done this dozens of times in Poser, what am I missing?

I want to create a zombie with an overlay of smoke, but I want the smoke effect to only appear on the zombie, not the background.

The background needs to remain transparent (no smoke) because this will be for a t-shirt printing.

So I have the zombie figure and the smoke effect products. 

Is there a way to make the smoke plane only effect the figure and not overlay the background?

I suppose I could get rid of the smoke surrounding the zombie in Photoshop after rendering the image, but I was hoping there was a way to do this directly in DAZ Studio, without postwork.

I was hoping there was a way to mask areas in the DAZ scene so that they do not pick up the effects being applied. For example, if I could put a mask over everything except the figure itself, before applying the smoke effect?

I hope I'm explaining this right (see attached render with smoke on entire scene, not just the figure).