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Where can I get Aiko 3?

takanuinuva_40f6ab6ae5 — Thu, 11 Jul 2019 03:09:09 +0000

I want to get https://www.daz3d.com/aiko-3-0-base

But I don't know if I have Aiko 3 and looking through the store. I can't seem to find that model to purchase?

Would buying this give me Aiko 3?

Harsh shadows on my character

emilygroom — Thu, 11 Jul 2019 19:25:14 +0000

Hi!

I am fairly new at daz3d and only really know the basics.

I am wondering if anyone knows why I have very harsh shadows / glitches on the face and body of my charatcer?

can i export Wire Bounding Boxes as actual geometry?

AuggieSays — Thu, 11 Jul 2019 19:12:27 +0000

to my understanding, those wire bounding boxes are meant to represent the different sections of a figure that can be controlled or edited. and I know there is a type of loading glitch where if there is no geometry detected they show the actual bounding boxes as geometry. I want to know if I can do this deliberately because it would be very helpful in seeing what parts of the figure are considered their own segment so I can work solely on that segment.

I'm going nuts with Daz 4.11

mwasielewski1990 — Thu, 11 Jul 2019 14:20:02 +0000

First and most important question - where is the download link for Daz 4.10? I heard that scenes made in 4.10 will occasionally crash 4.11, but I read it after I installed 4.11 :(

Daz 4.11 has some unwanted changes that completely block my workflow (unless I'm an idiot and can't configure it properly)

First of all, what happened to smart content? Now, let's say I select Gen8 Female from smart content, double click it and instead of loading it into the scene, Daz wants to start a new scene and discard my current work. Is this new or I'm doing something wrong? I had no problems like that in 4.10. Same goes for poses. I select the Gen figure in Scene Tab, double click a pose from smart content and "Would you like to save your current scene before closing it?" Please help!

Second - Parameters Tab -> Transforms. Is it just me or moving objects on xyz axis with the slider has gotten extremely slow?

Another question, how to change default location for installed Daz assets? I mean the folder containing data, Runtime, etc... Daz just installed it on C drive and i'd like to change it.

Parent figure movment?

Da_green1977_aa156fc426 — Thu, 11 Jul 2019 10:23:14 +0000

Hello all,

I know that i can parent a figure to a part of another figure.
But what about a part of a figure to another part of another figure?
For example, is it possibel to part a figures hand to another figures hand.
So if i move the arm of figure A the hand (and arms etc.) if figure B follows?
Sorry if i made myself unclear....

BR// Daniel

Can I change just the location of my render library?

Those Things — Thu, 11 Jul 2019 13:36:19 +0000

I'd like to locate my render library on a different drive, so everything I render goes there. I'm not sure where this option is. I've got my content on a separate drive, is it possible to keep Daz system files on my C drive, but just have the render library elsewhere?

How can I remove deleted files from Smart Setup

dwstanch13 — Tue, 09 Jul 2019 17:07:54 +0000

I attempted to delete DAZ Studio completely and start over. But, but when I click on the Smart Set up tab and "Saved Files", it still shows those files, but as deleted. Why is it showing me deleted files? And how do I remove them from the Smart Set up tab?

pulling my hair out

Image Series Issue - Public Build

Necriseye — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 17:00:25 +0000

Before I begin here are my system specs
2070 RTX GPU (8GB video memory)
Ryzen 7 2nd Gen
16GB memory

Ok so the issue I'm having is as the title says, when I try to render an image series in the public build. The very first image of the sequence renders perfectly normal, but all subsequent renders only achieve about 20 percent of the first due to an error. It causes the quality of the following images to severely drop. Back on my old system with 4.10 I never had this issue and it had a lot less power. I know some people had trouble where the GPU would drop out and switch to CPU rendering due to memory overload. I checked the log and that's indeed what's happening but it makes no sense because my scene only takes up about 1.7gb of memory... Here's the log file for more detail:

First my memory usage is taken into account (remember I have 8 gbs...)

2019-06-05 12:03:43.722 Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.7   IRAY   rend progr: CUDA device 0 (GeForce RTX 2070): Processing scene...
2019-06-05 12:03:43.842 Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.5   IRAY   rend stat : Geometry memory consumption: 416.267 MiB (device 0), 0 B (host)
2019-06-05 12:03:44.168 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.5   IRAY   rend info : Importing lights for motion time 0
2019-06-05 12:03:44.168 Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.5   IRAY   rend stat : Texture memory consumption: 293.875 MiB for 47 bitmaps (device 0)
2019-06-05 12:03:44.169 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.5   IRAY   rend info : Initializing light hierarchy.
2019-06-05 12:03:44.693 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.5   IRAY   rend info : Light hierarchy initialization took 0.52s
2019-06-05 12:03:44.702 Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.5   IRAY   rend stat : Lights memory consumption: 11.7695 MiB (device 0)
2019-06-05 12:03:44.706 Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.5   IRAY   rend stat : Material measurement memory consumption: 0 B (GPU)
2019-06-05 12:03:44.736 Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.5   IRAY   rend stat : Materials memory consumption: 416.559 KiB (GPU)
2019-06-05 12:03:44.736 Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.5   IRAY   rend stat : PTX code (43.4 KiB) for sm75 generated in 0.0303s
2019-06-05 12:03:45.269 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.5   IRAY   rend info : JIT-linking wavefront kernel in 0.155s
2019-06-05 12:03:45.289 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.5   IRAY   rend info : JIT-linking mega kernel in 0.020s
2019-06-05 12:03:45.289 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.7   IRAY   rend info : CUDA device 0 (GeForce RTX 2070): Scene processed in 1.567s
2019-06-05 12:03:45.298 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.7   IRAY   rend info : CUDA device 0 (GeForce RTX 2070): Allocated 223.305 MiB for frame buffer
2019-06-05 12:03:45.387 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.7   IRAY   rend info : CUDA device 0 (GeForce RTX 2070): Allocated 1.6875 GiB of work space (2048k active samples in 0.084s)
2019-06-05 12:03:45.387 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.7   IRAY   rend info : CUDA device 0 (GeForce RTX 2070): Used for display, optimizing for interactive usage (performance could be sacrificed)
2019-06-05 12:03:49.912 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.7   IRAY   rend info : Allocating 1-layer frame buffer

Then here's the error being thrown:

2019-06-05 12:03:50.136 WARNING: ..\..\..\..\..\src\pluginsource\DzIrayRender\dzneuraymgr.cpp(302): Iray ERROR - module:category(POST:RENDER):   1.0   POST   rend error: A CUDA error occurred: out of memory
2019-06-05 12:03:50.136 WARNING: ..\..\..\..\..\src\pluginsource\DzIrayRender\dzneuraymgr.cpp(302): Iray WARNING - module:category(POST:RENDER):   1.0   POST   rend warn : Failed to allocate device memory, falling back to CPU
2019-06-05 12:03:50.137 WARNING: ..\..\..\..\..\src\pluginsource\DzIrayRender\dzneuraymgr.cpp(302): Iray WARNING - module:category(POST:RENDER):   1.0   POST   rend warn : Image denoising is not available on the CPU and will be disabled.
2019-06-05 12:03:50.182 WARNING: ..\..\..\..\..\src\pluginsource\DzIrayRender\dzneuraymgr.cpp(302): Iray WARNING - module:category(POST:RENDER):   1.0   POST   rend warn : Postprocessing is running on the CPU, but Denoiser is requested. Denoising is not available on CPU.

I'm testing around to see if I can replicate this issue again cause it doesn't happen in every scene. However I'm wondering is this due to poor optimization? Is the memory usage stacking with every following render? I've already gotten a blue screen while this render bug was occuring before. I don't see any indication of a memory overflow even though it's stating there is indeed one.

Tyler (Poser) question

vonHobo — Thu, 11 Jul 2019 02:54:31 +0000

I have Poser 9 software from 2012 gathering dust in my desk drawer. This was before migrating to DAZ Studio.

One of the figures I own from back then is called Tyler GND. It was based on their Ryan figure I believe.

I don't really want to import it to DAZ Studio, but I would like to know what it would compare to in the Genesis line.

Would Tyler GND be a Genesis or Genesis 2 equivalent? Just curious.

I picked up with DAZ Studio last year after a long hiatus, and was blown away by the level of detail in the Genesis 3 and 8 figures.

Attached is the promo image for Tyler and Miki from back in 2012. To me, they look more like Genesis figures, but at the time I thought they were awesome. Times have changed. :)

Marvelous designer texture/graphic to Daz3d

pinalina — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 09:12:26 +0000

I dont know if i am posting in the right category but i am having trouble to import an outfit with prints/graphics to daz3d.. when i export as an obj, it imports as a solid color and graphics/prints doesnt show up.. any idea how i can bring the outfits with prints from marvelous designer to daz3d?

thx!

DEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

a0000100s — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 07:16:33 +0000

DEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gen 8 Clothes on Gen 3?

Savoy — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 21:05:35 +0000

It looks like they won't work :(

Hopefully I'm just doing this wrong?

Choosing unsupported while loading did not work so I tried Gen 2 Male to whatever similar clothing item it was.

The result was not much better.

http://www.artbywaqas.com/HELP/DAZ/gen8_to_gen3_clothes/001_gen8_clothes_on_gen3.JPG

http://www.artbywaqas.com/HELP/DAZ/gen8_to_gen3_clothes/002_gen8_clothes_on_gen3.JPG

http://www.artbywaqas.com/HELP/DAZ/gen8_to_gen3_clothes/003_gen8_clothes_on_gen3.JPG

Toon Larry

vonHobo — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 15:24:12 +0000

Hello,

I would like to purchase the Toon Larry character, but I was hoping someone might be able to identify the hair and clothing in this promo image so that I can purchase those items for the character too.

https://www.daz3d.com/toon-larry-for-genesis-8-male

I want a warrior look like the promo image attached. But I have looked all through the DAZ Shop and cannot find anything to match, and the product does not list items used in the promo renders except for Japanese Alley which I already own.

Any help would be really appreciated.

Thanks.

Saving Daz Studio not on Drive C?

MysteriousMika — Mon, 08 Jul 2019 05:13:19 +0000

Hello,

althought I told Daz to be not on C it does load all the stuff i downloaded on C...together with the my library stuff and all the saves.

And you know...C is usually the place with the less free room capacity left. Is there any way to change this to an other drive? Did i miss some instaling options there?

Best regards,

Mika

Pixelated, jagged, edges in Daz 4.11

Corndog36 — Tue, 09 Jul 2019 23:46:10 +0000

I originally rendered this character test render in Daz 4.10, but when I rendered it again in 4.11 I got the rough, pixelated, edges you see in the one on the left. I was going to ask what was causing this, but then I stumbled onto the problem. When I turn off the Noise Degrain Filtering the render looks fine. I decided to post this anyway, because I don't think that's what Noise Degrain Filtering is supposed to do, (perhaps it's a bug), but if other people are having this issue, at least this is a fix.

Texture Issue

DarkEmperor13 — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 16:28:25 +0000

i can only get DS 4.11 to work once every restart of my pc. First attempt, all my characters, clothing, hair, etc have their respective textures loaded, but when i close DS and reopen, this is what i get;

I then have to restart or log out of my pc for it to work properly again

Sugar Skulls Accessories Issue

daphanieaustin — Tue, 09 Jul 2019 21:44:18 +0000

Hello, I have just purchased the Sugar Skulls bundle and when I try to add color to the roses (it applies as a shader) I double click on the color I want and nothing happens. The roses stay the same. I've made sure that the hat (I can change everything else about the hat) is selected, I even tried to select the model and nothing works. I really love this bundle, but I need these roses to change color! I have tried both the roses for his hat and the roses for the girl's hair all to no avail. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

P.S. I'm a newbie so please be kind. I'm sure it's just me not doing something. LOL

Rendering with a transparent background?

cdpro_2831bbd990 — Tue, 09 Jul 2019 22:05:00 +0000

Is it possible to render props to a transparent background for use as a billboard prop? How do you tell Daz to render in such a format?

Daz3D always crashes, need help

swooby — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 09:12:26 +0000

Hi, I'm a new user and really like the idea behind Daz3D.

But whatever I do (rendering, morphs, animation etc.), after a while it crashes without any message. Daz3D is exactly what I've been looking for and I won't give up so fast (but it's very frustrating..!)

I hope that's not a "normal thing", so I guess it might be a software problem or something with my hardware*(?). I've unchecked "Optix" and tried every (nearly) rendering option so far, but it didn't realy help.

*Intel Core i7-8750H (Intel Core i7), NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (Laptop) - 4096 MB with 32 GB Ram and 512 GB SSD.

Any ideas or suggestions?

Surface Visibility Trick?

Stretch65 — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 09:53:14 +0000

Hi,

I've noticed with some clothing products (in particular long boots) that some authors have implemented a feature that hides body parts as soon as a wearable clothing item is fitted.

I've been able to do this kind of thing myself. Before I save a wearable preset for some boots, I first hide, say, the feet and toe nodes in the Scene Pane by clicking the little 'eye' icons. And then when I save the wearable preset, I go to the 'Other' tab and check the visibility property for the feet and toe nodes of the figure. That's basically how I've always done it.

But in some clothing products, the authors have done something even more clever that I honestly don't understand. For example, there's a product for Genesis 3 Female called the "Vigilante Outfit". It includes a pair of boots, which when fitted to the figure, hide a part of each leg. But these parts aren't exactly the shin, feet, and toe nodes. When I look in the Scene Pane, these nodes should be visible because their little 'eye' icons are still showing. As soon as I unfit the boots from the figure, the leg area becomes visible, and when I refit the boots, the leg area again becomes invisible - and this is *without* reloading the .duf file for the boots.

I though maybe the author had created some kind of controller on one of the boot's property dials, such as the 'Fit to' dial, but I can't find any. How are they doing this??

Issues getting GeForce GTX 1050 Ti to iray render

May Dawney — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 21:40:47 +0000

So, as an intrem solution to an underwhelming computer and not enough spare funds to invest in a super spiffy set-up, I bought and installed a GeForce GTX 1050 Ti graphics card. Turns out there are some issues and more people have had them. Sigh. Anyway. When I first installed it, DAZ agreed it had been installed but refused to touch it. I got that sorted, eventually, but it's not handling heavy renders at all. I upgraded from a 2 GB card to a 4 GB one with the 1050 Ti, but my old card rendered heavy scenes without issue while this one crashes.

I've gotten it to crash in two destinct ways.

With CPU engaged, it either renders out or just....stops rendering (not sure) after a few cycles and the result is attached. The program still runs, so I assume it thinks it's done, but my render time is maxed out and the render is obviously not completed.

Without CPU, it gets into its cycle, but before producing the first image in the render screen, DAZ crashes, with this produced in the log:

2019-07-05 21:38:01.398 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.0 IRAY rend info : Received update to 00107 iterations after 7522.204s.
2019-07-05 21:40:33.841 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.0 IRAY rend info : Received update to 00109 iterations after 7674.637s.
2019-07-05 21:41:13.197 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.0 IRAY rend info : Received update to 00110 iterations after 7714.003s.
2019-07-05 21:43:16.271 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.0 IRAY rend info : Received update to 00112 iterations after 7837.070s.
2019-07-05 21:45:42.671 WARNING: ..\..\..\..\..\src\sdksource\cloud\dzcloudtasknotifier.cpp(178): peer performed orderly shutdown errno=0

I rendered a space ship after without issue, but something is definitely up and I have no idea what it is.

Any ideas?

Thank you,
May

EDIT: Specs (Not sure what you need)

Operating System: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
CPU: Intel Xeon W3530 @ 2.80GHz
RAM: 12,0GB Triple-Channel DDR3 @ 533MHz (7-7-7-20)
Motherboard: Dell Inc. 09KPNV (CPU)
Graphics: DELL E2310H (1920x1080@60Hz) + 4095MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (Gigabyte)
Storage: 111GB KINGSTON SUV400S37120G (SATA-2 (SSD)) + 931GB HITACHI HUA722010ALA330 (SATA )

Daz Studio 4.10 goes Not responding after starting

Namelessone — Mon, 01 Jan 2018 06:41:11 +0000

I have Daz Studio 4.10 and after I start it before it seems to finish loading up the program hangs. If you click in the window it says not responding. I am on Windows 10 latest patch. I have the latest release version of Studio 4.10, my nvidia driver is the latest, I did try it with the older driver first (and it worked with it the other day).. I uninstalled daz studio from the DIM and reinstalled it. There is plenty of room, my Antivirus is turned off. In the AppData/Roaming/DAZ3D/Studio4/log.txt I see the following, Also I have th DBLOG.txt below that.

Log.txt

2018-01-01 01:28:41.536 Error writing author data!

2018-01-01 01:28:41.544 WARNING: dzneuraymgr.cpp(403): Could not add path: "C:/Users/Nicholas/AppData/Roaming/DAZ 3D/Studio4/temp/shaders/iray". Due to unkown error -2

018-01-01 01:28:41.930 WARNING: dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray WARNING - module:category(MDLC:COMPILER): 1.0 MDLC comp warn : C:\Program Files\DAZ 3D\DAZStudio4\shaders\iray\daz_3d\irayubermaterial.mdl(422,20): conversion from 'float' to 'color' must be explicit ***A few of these are in the log back to back****

2018-01-01 01:28:41.990 WARNING: 3DConnexion Plug-in Error: Could not create Device, CoCreateInstance failed

2018-01-01 01:28:42.213 WARNING: QString::arg: Argument missing: Adds vertices that collide at the beginning of the simulation to the selected mesh vertices, dForce

2018-01-01 01:28:43.293 WARNING: QFile::flush: No file engine. Is IODevice open?
2018-01-01 01:28:43.311 WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile *** there are a lot of these back to back in the log***

2018-01-01 01:28:43.412 WARNING: QLayout: Cannot add null widget to QGridLayout/

In the DBlog.txt I see this:

LOG: database system was interrupted; last known up at 2017-12-31 17:58:17 EST

LOG: database system was not properly shut down; automatic recovery in progress

LOG: redo starts at 0/4AB1C188

LOG: record with zero length at 0/4AB1D1B0

LOG: redo done at 0/4AB1D180

LOG: last completed transaction was at log time 2017-12-31 19:48:46.532-05

LOG: database system is ready to accept connections

LOG: autovacuum launcher started

FATAL: role "Nicholas" does not exist

LOG: could not receive data from client: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.

FATAL: role "postgres" does not exist

FATAL: role "Nicholas" does not exist

LOG: could not receive data from client: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.

It almost seems like a DB issue but I am not sure. Any questions please let me know. This seemed to happen after I was installing something with DIM.

Texture Transfer

narutobleachonepiece0 — Mon, 08 Jul 2019 16:03:30 +0000

Guys, how do I transfer, or which type of textures, should I export from substance painter, to fit in Daz Studio?
Do you know of any workflow? I know the basics, I am not a complete beginner, I am just not sure, what works best. I am so unfamiliar with DazStudio

Black cubes on model

Verewolf — Sun, 07 Jul 2019 16:38:22 +0000

Hello. Someone know how to turn on backface culling or something similiar in Daz 3D? Because I have on model black cubes and this look like deform material on mesh. Or maybe someone know how to delete this issue?

Distortion when using previous G outfits on newer G figures

darkguyver1994_a1285f4265 — Tue, 09 Jul 2019 16:36:30 +0000

Pardon the sideways pic.

So my problem is every time I use an older G outfit (or even old M/V) on a newer Genesis figure, this happens. I am using the auto-fit feature on DAZ studio, so I'm not sure why this keeps happening. It's only with things like dresses where I seem to have it happen.

My question is: what am I doing wrong?

Anyone had any luck bringing down 4.11 Iray rendertimes?

simpsonDDS2 — Sat, 06 Jul 2019 15:56:46 +0000

Obviously 4.11 uses a new iray renderer and as such things are much, much slower than 4.10.

Has anyone figured out any setting changes that mitigate this exponential increase in rendertimes?

Appreciate anyone who gives some answers, thanks!

Why, after all this time, does GoZ still not work properly in DS?

IsaacNewton — Sun, 07 Jul 2019 08:50:10 +0000

GoZ, the DAZ3d plugin for sending objects from DS to the professional modelling program ZBrush, has been part of DS for a very long time. So why is it that GoZ still does not work properly?

I'm using DS4.11.0.383 and whenever I send an object or figure from DS to ZB using GoZ, I have to check that it will correctly return any shape changes as a morph. I make no changes to the topology. Frequently, GoZ decides not to return the change in shape back to DS; instead it does nothing. Once that happens, the only way I have found of fixing the problem is to uninstall DS, delete the DS package in DIM and then download it again and reinstall it. This always works, it restores GoZ's ability to interact properly between DS and ZB. However, this situation often does not last long and GoZ soon fails again requiring DS to be uninstalled and reinstalled again.

This bug has been reported many times by various people, over a long period of time. It seems like something in DS is being corrupted and requires a fresh install. So, why haven't DAZ3d fixed the problem?

If anyone knows a better fix than the one I'm using, I'd be happy to know.

My stystem FYI; APCI x64 based PC, Win 10, 64 bit, i7-8700K CPU @ 3.7GHz, dual Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti video cards, 32 GB DDR4 RAM.

This GoZ problem existed in my previous systems as well.

CPU upgrade. Is AMD a good solution?

Dave McH — Mon, 08 Jul 2019 04:55:10 +0000

Hi everyone. I'm thinking of upgrade of my pc. Usually people here concern about rendering speed but I want to do it because it takes long to prepare a scene. When you press "render" button it may take up 3 and even 4 minutes to start rendering, but usually about 2. Also some scenes may be overloaded so it takes time to even move an object. Currently I use i5 7400 4 cores cpu and 16gb ram. The best I can afford at the moment is AMD ryzen7 2700 with 8 cores. And my question about if AMD is good for our rendering purposes? As I know Radeon GPU useless for rendering with iray. Don't want spend my money and then discover that Daz uses only one single core or anything like that. And of course if this is good upgrade in general or perhaps I should wait for better prices/parts?

Daz Studio 4.11 Iray doesn't work

Noah LGP — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 08:16:35 +0000

Hi,

I try an empty scene in Iray view (photoreal mode), Daz Studio is an infinite "Preparing scene..." . I guess I need the latest Nvidia driver...

How can I download Daz Studio 4.10 ?

Water issue: difference between viewport and render

boubakeurjohn — Mon, 08 Jul 2019 15:02:19 +0000

Hello,

I'm running into an issue when working with the Cave Island product: in the viewport, water looks very nice (left), but when rendering (right) it lacks a lot of details.

I didn't change much in the render settings. I tried turning up renderding quality to 3, max samples allowed to 10000, max rendering time is set to 7200s (though it gets rendererd before that limit is reached), but it didn't change anything...

Any idea on what I need to change to get the same quality I have in the viewport?

I don't have the same kind of issue with other products.

Thanks for your help.