The situation: so I spent many many hours workng on a project in Windows 10. I was so happy with the way it was coming out. I saved my work regularly. Then I restarted Daz and when I tried to reopen my DUF, I got an error that said "An error occurred while reading your file, see the log for more details." I opened the log and it said "Unexpected end of file in object." All my other projects open normally. I tried making a copy of the file and opening it from another directory, but got the same error.

I am devastated because I spent so much work on this file. 

Are there any leet people on this forum who could help me recover it - or at least recover some data points (for example, dome orientation, pose settings for my character) so that I could plug them into an older version of the file I have?

Thank you

If I load a G2F the parameters show 0,0,0. If I hit ctrl+d the Y goes to 0.13

If I load a  G3F the parameters are 0,0,0. If I hit ctrl+d the Y goes to 0.20 so far so good, the feet a little bit stucking in the floor after loading is not nice but ok.

BUT if I load a G8F, she is hovering a lot over the ground, even if the parameters show 0,0,0. If I hit now ctrl+d she goes to -0,73. But optical perfect on the ground. This happens with all G8F figures. The males end on -0.35

What is going on?! I have problemes by importing them into other softwares if I need a 000 location. I don't like the loading position of G8. I could put my Hand between foot and floor. How can I or DAZ fix it?

Anybody else out there with an idea?

If this is a repost of an earlier thread, I apologize.  Neither I nor Uncle Google could find a recent post dealing with quite this same issue - but if there is one, just post the link and I'll close this thread.  (All of the threads I can find deal with non-Daz content that doesn't show up *at all* in Smart Content; deal with categorizing content in the Library, not Smart Content; or deal with much older versions of the software.)

Okay, here's the situation:

I have a ton of Daz content, purchased from Daz - mostly V4 stuff -  that doesn't show correctly in Smart Content.  My example here is Winter Flower for Victoria 4, which is a skirt and shirt for (obv) V4.

After purchase/install/download:

• Product DOES appear in "Smart Content" pane
• Product DOES NOT have items categorized (ie, nothing is categorized as Wardrobe, Materials, etc. - it's all visible only in the "All Products" category)
• Product DOES NOT have items tagged as compatible with the appropriate figure(s) (ie, the "Filter by Context" option doesn't populate these items in the SC pane when the correct figure is selected)

So, the second bullet item I seem to have fixed - I can right-click on a particular item within the product, select "Categorize..." and correctly place an item in a category - Wardrobe, Material, etc.

Where I'm having trouble is with the compatibility base.  I've gone through the "Edit metadata..." window to assign the items a compatibility base (see attached screenshot), but the products still don't show in the SC pane when I have a V4 figure selected and have the "Filter by Context" option selected.

Sooooo..... what am I doing wrong?

In this reference:

https://www.daz3d.com/vinnuth-kriegor-battle-mega-armor-for-genesis-8-male-s

How does it works to adapt the loincloth to some positions ?

I don't know how to adapt it to the crouched goblin.

Maybe Shaping/BKC_Vin Loincloth Deformers ?

Thanks, Xavi

If I load it onto a character log says

2019-08-30 19:10:26.952 File loaded in 0 min 0.3 sec.
2019-08-30 19:10:26.952 Loaded file: mds casual dress full preset - 01.duf

But nothing happens.

If I try to load the dress alone I get an error

2019-08-30 19:10:56.243 Invalid node selection for "preset_properties" type.
2019-08-30 19:10:56.244 Error reading file, see log for more details.
2019-08-30 19:11:28.744 WARNING: ..\..\..\..\..\src\sdksource\cloud\dzcloudtasknotifier.cpp(178): peer performed orderly shutdown errno=0

Not an error that make any sense to me.

I have tried redownload, but gets same error.

I am curious of the cloud warning, and wondered if DS thinks it is installed as a cloud item, and if that is the case how to solve that.

I rendered a Cryolophosaurus with 3Delight and NVIDIA.

The texture result aren't like the original promo images in https://www.daz3d.com/cryolophosaurus

3Delight are worst than NVIDIA, looks like plastic.

Thanks, Xavi

So I noticed with Michael 8 that if you activate his body morph individually, he still retains his default Genesis 8 male height. It is only when you activate the Micheal 8 character morph in the actor tab that you get the default Micheal 8 height. With Victoria 8 though, even if you activate the body morph only, her height still increases.

Is there any way to retain the default Genesis 8 Female height while having the Victoria 8 body morph? And also vice versa, is there any way to apply the Victoria 8 height to the default Genesis 8 female?

Thank you in advance for your help and time.

I have applied a custom static pose to my G8 fiqure by first applying a default pose from the stock libray and then making some small adjuss to nodes.

I then used the "Create aniBlock From Studio Keyframes" option to apply my custom pose to the animate2 timeline.

Here's where the issue occures -

Once I hit play on the animate2 timeline, the node (right Shoulder) I adjusted in the defualt pose moves postion.

There is not another aniblock after my pose block so I dont belive its a transition issue. If I do put an animation block after mine the issue is still there.

First Screen shot is the static pose. Second is what happens once I hit play...or when I go back to the start of the timeline after  "Create aniBlock From Studio Keyframes"

Appricate any input.

Thank you!

I have a question that I'm hoping someone can help me with.  I recently purchased a new computer and downloaded DS 4.11.  I was unable to transfer content from my old machine, as that one crashed, so I began to re-download my previously purchased items into the new one, through DIM.  The items downloaded and installed into DS, but they only show up under "my library" instead of in the "contents" pane, as they did in my previous computer.

Also, whenever I log in DS, I get the following "Resource Error" message:

"A valid PostgreSQL CMS connection could not be established.  Several DAZ Studio features that require a valid PostgreSQL CMS connection, such as context aware content views and loading content installed using the DAZ Connect service, will not be available.  Check your network, anti-virus, and firewall settings for conflicts."

I checked the settings in the computer and I don't see anything that would be causing the problem, but not being all that computer savvy, I could very well be overlooking something simple.  I'm not sure how to proceed from here, so if anyone can offer some advice, I'd greatly appreciate it!

Thank in advance,

Mark in VA

For some reason, my keyboard shortcuts stopped working. Things like Undo, Redo, etc. work in other programs and recently stopped working in DAZ. I know it is not my keyboard. Is there a setting or something I have to select?

Thank you.

I am doing a depth of field in iray, and the edges are dark in the transparent parts, but that trick above does not work.  An example is below.  I am rendering without a background to PNG, to add a background in postwork.

Is there a way to do this?  You can see it is a light background, but there is a dark edge everywhere that is blurred.  (the character is a transparent png, and the light blue background is added as a layer behind)

The picture is a compare of the DOF in iray, versus just a postwork blur of the character PNG, against another layer background.

When I close the advanced view of the timeline, I no longer have the entire play controls on the bottom of the pane.  Only Loop, First, Play, and Last.  I really need step, add and remove there as well.  Any way I can get those back without using the advanced view cause its just too damned much to leave open?

I can't find anything to enable ray tracing in the new beta build. I have a 2070 super with the newest nvidia drivers. Is this an on/off thing? or is it just support for the RTX cards?

I tried several times to get it to install but it keeps saying Download Failed.

See attached screenshot. 

Should I just ignore this? My current version of DAZ Studio 4.11 (4.11.0.383) works just fine.

Has anyone using this product received the same results? Is there a setting not mentioned in the instructions that I need to apply?

What is promised

What I end up with. The beam of light is just a solid object with a light filter in it. (see attached)

To shift the characters frames, I just use Keymate. That works. However, I can't figure out how to move the Dforce clothes simulation to the beginning of the timeline.

What is the best way to do this, other than moving the original character movements to frame 1 and rerunning the simulation (I really like what I have already, so this would be my last resort).

I'm wondering if it is possible to reverse the IK chain releation of parent and children?

In particular, for a snake figure, originally the parent is the tail. But I'd like to make the head the parent instead (such that when I use active pose to drag it's tail for animation, the whole body wont be moving).

This is a rather rare "problem" lol.. if anyone has some idea i'd be very happy to hear! Thanks in advance! :)

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