Next I tried creating a Geoshell. And that did make it so my imagery appeard on the characters' bodies, and even moved with their body parts. But the geoshells have separate textures for various parts of the body. So it became impossible to put the image on a place that spanned two of the textures. And as my image software deals with flat images and the textures are wrapped around a female body, there was distortion.

The only other thing I could imagine is to make lots of Decal nodes so there is one for each part of the body that moves. And regardless of whether I use Decal Nodes or Geometry Shells, I'm going to have to make a lot of small textures instead of one big one. It's a lot of work for something that used to be simple with DecalMaster.

What I'd really like is something like DecalMaster that lets me load a figure and an image, and then lets me drag that image to any part of the figure and generates the necessary textures for me regardless of where the seams are. But DecalMaster is old, and doesn't seem to be updated to be usable with the current technology. I figured there had to be a GeoShell editor since people make products based on GeoShells.

I'm probably willing to spend some money for a product that solves the problem, as I did with DecalMaster long ago. But, as this is a hobby for me, I probably wouldn't spend hundreds of dollars. Is there any solution out there for me?

I have tried to find a solution to this problem to no avail.

Could someone please put me pout of my misery I'm sure there is something silly I'm missing that is causing this. 

Cheers

The weird thing is that the 4.12 beta still works fine, but I would prefer to not worry about dealing with its buggy issues. My Nvidia drivers are up to date and I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling both versions of Daz.

Any help would be appreciated.

Spent too much time on this so time to ask experts. Using DIM (Windows 10 Pro), my downloads are getting to anywhere between 10-90% and failing. Repeated start queues and they eventually download. This is proving to be a royal pain...

So I've turned off firewall completely, turned off for just DS and DIM, changed location for install files (from C to D drive - both fast SSD), and to date nothing, still failing.

Is there something obvious I am missing here? DS 4.11 seems to be working really well, rendering superfast (RTX 2080), but for the life of me downloading our existing catalogue of files is a nightmare.

Any help would be hugely appreciated, and yes I have seen this asked before.

I ask because I use one computer for inet access and IM downloading an another for DAZ. And I clean the IM download directory after downloading.

Does IM notice updates of products because of

1. installed products or corresponding DB (that would be DAZ PC)
2. downloaded products by corresponding  DB / history in IM environment
3. downloaded products by access to all product  or .dsx files

Are there any things you must be aware of?

Thanks!

Any ideas?

Hol' up....hol' up...   

Solved before posting but maybe this will help someone else...

If you're not seeing what you're looking for be sure to check ALL tabs around a section. There are tabs on the sides AND on top. 

Personally, I can't say i'm a fan of this interface but, honestly, I have no feedback to the designers so I'm going to relegate my opinion to that of moderate whining about having to learn something.   

Check the Window -> Panes (Tabs) to make sure you've not hidden something from yourself. 

Also...try clicking something in the scene (a figure or prop for example) as some of the gizmos don't show unless something is selected.

Finally...learn how the context sensitive filters work.   

I'm constantly hiding things from myself...and I have more than a couple years of experience.

I have a scene with multiple light sources; I want to highlight a character in my scene, so I'm trying to apply some colored lights only to that character.

I don't know if it's possible to apply a light to a specific object without using LPE. I am new to Light Path Expressions and I don't know exactly howthe language works. I'm trying this from that topic : https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/120056/how-do-you-assign-a-light-to-specific-objects

I have two groups : Character(Boy + Hair) and a group Bodylight (BodylightL + BodylightR).

I want to render only that character with those light so I'm trying that : 

<L['Bodylight']>.*['Character']E

But It seems it doesn't work with groups...

I tried to write every expression that works individually : 

<L['BodylightR']>.*['Boy']E

<L['BodylightL']>.*['Boy']E

<L['BodylightR']>.*['Hair']E

<L['BodylightL']>.*['Hair']E

But it doesnt work, It seems it can render only one expression per canvas.

So I tried to find a way to add multiple object in the expression, with symbols as , + or *, inside or outside the [ ] but nothing works...

<L['BodylightR']+['BodylightL']>.*['Boy']+['Hair']E

<L['BodylightR','BodylightL']>.*['Boy','Hair']E​

...

Could you help me to find the right expression for groups and/or multiple objects ?

I didn't found a complete explanation for that language on the daz3d database.

Thank you

THANKS!

Yes, this is the second issue I posed in like 10 minutes. It's not been a productive Saturday.

I'm trying to work in more depth with DS, and i've read that is better to make iRay use only GPU.
So i unticked CPU in the advaced hardware tab, but DS uses 100% CPU anyways (i know that when vram exceed, DS switch in CPU mode)
The verbose says:

Geometry memory consumption: 34.8993 MiB
Texture memory consumption: 632.132 MiB for 62 bitmaps 
Lights memory consumption: 414.441 KiB
Materials memory consumption: 228.656 KiB

I have a GTX980ti 6 GB Vram and 16 GB of ram.
Isn't that enough? What does Geometry 34.8993 MiB stands for? Is that 34 GIGABYTES?! <- If so, that's explained.

Thanks for any help!

Well, here's my question: How in the fresh heck do you do that? 

To be blunt, documentation for how to use Weight Maps is terrible. I've found Blender tutorials to be less obtuse than DS' documentation. I suppose if I was that desperate, I could attempt to MacGuyver and do a re-geografting to G3/G8 in Blender, but that's too much work to do and frankly, I'm lazy, lmao. If someone can help me (and anyone else who's Weight Map Tool Challenged) figure this out in as simplest of terms as humanly possible, please, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you!!

Is there another way, or do I need to find some kind soul with access to a newer Ps to do it for me?

I have two problems with the light:

1. I can't obtain renders with choosed light color, RGB (255, 175, 105) in this example. All renders are in white light.

2. I change the distant light orientation and it's position but the direction and the intensity is always the same in the scene after differents renders.

In the attached example we can see that the distant light is on right side butthe left wall has a lot of intensity

Many thanks, Xavi

I have made my workspace in a unique way, to have the most of the controls and tools on hand but some times, in the rush of the scene creation, I mistakenly click on the border and all my work gets messed up.

Maybe for someone it sounds odd but for me is a pretty bad issue.

I bought above mentioned product and installed it via DAZ Download Manager. The items itself load, but when I try to apply the materials, I receive an error message. The logfile reads: "WARNING: ..\..\..\..\..\src\sdksource\cloud\dzcloudtasknotifier.cpp(178): Unexpected exception in contentGetByRelativePathAndFilename: Unable to connect to the database"

I can't get my DAZ Studio connected, the first thing I have to do when starting the application, I have to click away the error message "No valid PostgreSQL connection..." blah, blah. I tried hard to establish said connection, but to no success and even the support wasn't able to help me solving that problem, so I finally gave up.

Before buying products, I always make sure they aren't only available via DAZ Connect, but also via Download Manager. This was the case for this item, but now I face this problem anyway.

What can I do to solve that?

Regards,

Matthias

Is there a way for me to open the database outside DS to see bad entries, remove duplicates and fix them at that level - and if the database is fine, maybe it is the userbase export that isn't working properly.

https://www.daz3d.com/mountain-lakes-and-forests

I'm just assuming that the islands and shorelines should be used solely from a distance, since they're likely low-res. I just want to know if this is in fact the case or if the shorelines can be used for scenes and still look good. 

Thanks! 

Why can I only see the above in full sail or when I select to hide them, so no sails at all seen. The sails as per the store description and pictures do not show (HFSAILSMAT.ds) thogh the shortcut is there. Plus the flags show as if in dock

thanks

the new textures look great but the “fire” for the guns/lasers either has a missing texture or doesn’t look great. The promos do not not show this feature so i am wondering if this is a bug or an omission.  The original 3dl texture has gunshots when this option is turned on but the Iray expansion has emissive planes that lack texture. It looks odd.

Purchased this new product today and could not find any poses included with the environment.

It was listed in Smart Content in both the Environments and Poses sections, but it has absolutely no poses included.

Am I missing something?

Had any way for combine the surfaces / materials? Because when export a FBX the result is in too many materials.

Example: Basic Wear Boxers with two surfaces / materials

Regards.-

In Windows 7, rendering caused my GPU to max out at 100% until the render was done. 

In Windows 10, with the same GPU, rendering causes my GPU to do nothing... GPU and CPU usage remains at 0% but it's rendering.

Well, it is using about 3gb of the GPU ram but that's it. GPU useage at 0% and CPU useage at 13%

Specs:

GPU - GTX1660ti 6gb

CPU - Ryzen7 2700x

Nvidia driver - 26.21.14.3630

What's going on here? Can I force more useage from the GPU? 

Thank you all in advance.