The problem is as soon as I open the png in windows photo viewer or in Photoshop, if I zoom she quickly becomes blurry... Is there a way to prevent this from happening? Something in the settings?
I have Iray set for rendering the viewport...

thank for any help you can give! =)

We are a small group that would like to work on some rendering projects.
But instead of everyone buying a high tec computer for themselves, we thought about a server with a rdp connection, best realized through vdi (giving everyone a native desktop experience)
Lag should not be an issue. I've been through multiple treads like this one https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/163911/daz-over-remote-desktop , but those mostly are about using rdp not as vdi.
Anyone experience regarding setting up a vdi system on a servernetwork? I do not wish to just make serverfarm, where people use the server for batches of rendering. But a true Workstation for remote users.

If we take a look at https://www.cgdirector.com/best-computer-3d-modeling-rendering/ for CPU rendering

Parts List:

CPU: AMD Threadripper 2990WX 3.0GHz 32-Core Processor
CPU Cooler: be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4 TR4
Motherboard: Gigabyte X399 Designare EX ATX TR4
GPU: NVIDIA GTX 1660TI 6GB - Gigabyte Windforce
Memory: 64GB (4 x 16GB) Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4-2666 CL16
Storage SSD: Samsung 860 EVO 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
Power Supply: Seasonic Focus Plus Gold 650W ATX 2.4 Power Supply
Case: Fractal Design Define XL R2 Titanium Big Tower Case

Now using consumer hardware in a server built can be a bit annoying. Graphic card passthrough might not work as intended.

1) First question ist regarding CPU/GPU, there seems to be a ton of discussion whetever you should only do CPU rendering or if GPU rendering is much better.
If I need GPU rendering, do I get passthrough to work with a 1660TI, as example? It should work for a NVidia professional, but they are a bit too expensive for the moment.
(For any users it should be just like their homesystem)

2) Citrix XenDesktop would be an option to do vdi, has anyone a better one? Team consists of 4 people, starting with 3.

Just wanting to make sure I don't waste 3k+ on a build that is not going to work. Help is much appreciated! :)

lets say i want to edit all of the character skin bump without going in every surface tab and using the edit with just selecting the skin surfeces

is there a way i can do that ?

There are a few older products, like the DAZ Troll, Treasure Beast, and Dinokonda models that will load fine into a scene, but when I close the scene and reopen it, I'm being told that something is missing and they appear as seen in the screenshot below. Any ideas on what's going on here? 

Thanks

Did switch on/off my mouse multiple time, did restarts, changed tools etc. - still no dragging.

There are actually only two things I did since I last DAZ studio and everything was fine:

- Install some newly purchased products via DIM - but those should not be able to break anything
- Update macOS from 10.14.2 to 10.14.6

Any ideas? Oh and there is of course no keyboard malfuction. Also dragging to change a windows size does work without any problems.

So I can drag to change the size of the DAZ studio window. I can use the rotating cube to rotate the viewport in the fixed steps allowed by that tool but I can no longer use the standard dragging elments from the control.

An old school boy scout wardrobe set for Gen 8 males is only appearing for Gen 8 females, and so on.

Any ideas how I fix this?

I am having some trouble with importing a BVH file into Daz and getting the Daz figure to match the animations motions.

I did the motion capture on the daz genesis 8 skeleton, and did manual touchups in blender 2.8

But as you can see from the video below there are some discrepencies when I try to import the animation into Daz. Sometimes the arms don't move correctly, and at one point Daz just stops applying the hip rotation.

I've seached around quite a bit just to get as far as I have, and I've seen a few examples of people with the same issues as me, but they don't address them.

Does anyone have any advice for me? I'd take anything at this point.

The only alternative I have is to export my characters out of Daz and just do all my rendering in Blender. However that is a monumental task, one that stopped me completely in my tracks. I absolutelly canno't make anything exported from daz look even remotely presentable in blender, and all the tools designed to help facilitate that process are not up to date for daz 4.11 and blender 2.8.

Anyways. Heres a short video showing the problems I am having, and how I got to this point.

I would greatly appreciate any help.

https://youtu.be/37rV67-XhFk

EDIT: I think I figured out why the hips stop rotating near the end. It looks like the hips Y axis cannot rotate past -180 in daz. So I opened that parameters settings and disabled the limites (No idea why disabling rotation limits doesnt do exactly this) and that seems to allow the hips to rotate like they should. However the hair behaves as if the hips are still locked at -180 and does not follow the characters head. Otherwise the arms not twisting during the stretch can be manually rotated in daz to the correct position, but that would be a pain to do for every frame, plus it does not explain why it wont move to that position itself, since it's not hitting a hard limit like the hips. I still have no idea why the arms won't cross the chest either.

When I save a scene either via file/save or control-S key combination the first save works as expected. The save dialogue box pops up and I can name the scene and save.  

This is where things change. In the past if I made a change to the scene I could just hit the ctl-s and it would update the saved file. Now it tjhrows up the save dialogue box again. This is really annoying as I have to browse to find the original file and overwrite it.

This has also onflowed to 4.11 now.

Any help appreciated. I have checked the keyboard settings and it appears normal. As a check I set the controls back to default. No change.

David

I just purchased the Dakotaraptor model.

I read the capability of "... different feather displays, and different skin colors".

I can only see one grey tone color in materials that could be changde from light or dark.

How can I change the skin color as I see in the attached image ?

Thanks a lot, Xavi

I often use the shortcut "W" to zoom into the scene, and I use the other keyboard controls as well.

The problem with this, is that when I then use the viewport controls to move the "view", it doesn't work properly anymore. Instead of rotating around the center of the view, it "rotates itself".

Then, when I "frame" the view over something, it goes back to normal.

How could I prevent this from happening? I don't know if the standard mode is called "Pan" or something like that, but I always want that one to be the default.

Thank you in advance!

Example.  You have someone looking in the mirror, but you want the camera to pick up the face in the mirror.  I can turn on NVIDIA Iray preview rendering, but when I go to reposition anything in the scene, the image goes to the white figures until it re-renders.

I thought about looking at a top view and aiming the camera at the oposite angle of the subject, but even that's hit-n-miss.

So, anyone have a surefire way to do this quickly?

I know how to get the found map applied to other properties, I just don't know how to get the shader preset to run in the middle of a running script.

As you see below pic, part of Genitalia are folded. How can I modify it? Please give me a hint if you know how.

Mod edit to remove image.   Please use smooth shaded if you really need to have an image,

Example: I have a render that is at 70% convergence but it looks like it might be good enough. So I want to see how it looks after my post processing shenanigans but just in case it isn't quite ready I want to keep the render going.

Thank you

All my content is going to drive C which is way too small to hold even a tenth of it.

I was able to change the archive pathways on the Downloads tab, and the Manifest Archive / Software Bases on the Installation tab, but need help with changing the Content Database Base pathway.

Thanks.

I also tried a render in a new scene, but that one seemed to work just fine. 

It does say Genesis 8.

For example, I used it to uninstall daz 4.11. It did not do it. it shows up as downloadable again. I download it, click to install. It flashes briefly and removes itself form my to be installed list, but doesn't actually do anything.

I woul dlike to start afresh. is there anything I can do?

I see some nice gen 8 clothing that I would like to use.  But there are no conversions on the store to make that mod.

I suppose I could mod them to generation 7 (genesis 3), save, and then load that onto generation 6 and it should work.  But two conversions might cause...interesting side effects.

So does anybody here know how to make a custom conversion to shift directly from generation 8 to generation 6 that I could do on my end if nobody is going to put one up for sale?

Thanks!