I even tried to change the the skin. Switching from the basic Vic8 to a Skin builder 8 texture. No dice. 

Just a quick question here, although I think I may have already worked out the answer.

I normally render without the CPU enabled, using just my single 4GB GTX 980. The card performs quite well (given it's age) and will render in a couple of hours a decent image. My CPU was an i7-3770 at 3.2GHz with 16GB of RAM. Using GPU-only meant I could do other things while the render baked.

I play some HD games, and after 6 years with the same system I've upgraded my rig to a water-cooled i7-8760 and use the ASUS overclocking utility which switches it between 3.6GHz and 4.4GHz. The water cooling keeps the CPU temp below 50 degrees even when it's running at that speed. I've also added another 16GB of RAM to take the system up to 32GB.

Now DAZ just refuses to render if I don't switch on the CPU. The render starts, and after about 6 seconds appears to complete but with a black screen. If I switch the CPU on (and change nothing else) it renders fine.The CPU is running at 4.4GHZ and reading 30 degrees.

I ran the Windows 10 performance monitor and when DAZ is rendering it's showing 11.5GB of system RAM in use, and the GPU is running at 1% with 0.5GB memory used, which is pretty much the minimum needed to push the monitor I suspect. So basically the GPU isn't doing anything!

I can't figure why DAZ is refusing to render without the CPU enabled? If I load up old duf files and render them, the same happens, so it's nothing I've changed in any recent scenes. As it happens, the machine is rendering faster with the 8760 and increased RAM with the CPU switched on than it was with GPU-only on my old rig, and I am able to run Word (or work in this browser) while it's rendering without any lag!!

Any ideas?

Thanks

BOSS Portrait Light sets create some really beautiful renders, but I'm facing some difficulty using it, as its positioned quite closely to the center of object.  The light sample I have given is not meant for closeup shots, well at least the thumbnail seems to give me that idea.

I know that I can move it a out of the frame, but not all the objects are linked to camera and the other issue is the light gets weaken and I need to readjust all the effected objects.

Just as an estimate of my skill level, so that you're comfortable giving me some tough solution (as long as the results are good), 

Is there a way I can render crowd and environment separately and combine in Photoshop? I figured a canvas might do the trick, but cannot find a tutorial.

Thank you.

Anything else but a scene!  I do not work by starting with lights and domes, which is the only way I have found to keep the darn things from erasing my work .... they always say "want to save your work before...) Sorry, No. I refuse to do it that way. I loose all sense of creative flow. I need the domes and the light sets to load as a dome or a light, not a scene.

I realize many of you will think I am just being stubborn, but I really do loose my creative flow. I can't explain why; but I work from character to props to scenes to lights. Any other way just scrambles my brain I guess.

I must be missing something, because a lot of domes and light sets are sold this way, including those created by DAZ. 

What do I need to do to get these items to work my way?

Thanks..

While not a major issue in most cases, there's a distinct edge to the transition from pavement to desert I'd like to fix.  

Looking in the textures folder, I see that there's a Road_Motel_ground_Alpha.jpg, but it's not used anywhere I can find. Even so, applying it doesn't help as it has a hard edge too. There's also a Height map, but it's just 8-bit solid gray, also not used.

I might just repaint the alpha to festher those spots but wondering others dealt with this?

Plugin failed to load!
Filename : 
C:/Program Files/DAZ 3D/DAZStudio4/plugins/dzmeasuremetrics.dll
Name : 
dzmeasuremetrics
Author : 
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Version : 
0.0.0.0
Reason : 
Plug-in was made for a newer version of DAZ Studio.

1) I think this should be possible/easy but what do I know?  Is there anyway to show parameters which are hidden by default.  Basically I use the separate X,Y,Z scaling in certain body parts to customise characters.  Can't work out how to bring the option up in studio though.  To be fair I'm probably just being thick.

2) A bit more technical but it's really useful for lighting a scene.  In Poser you can turn off an object's ability to cast shadows.  Why is this useful?  It allows the light to pass through a wall unimpeded allowing you to use HDRI lighting in an interior setting.  Or to place a powerful light outside a room/building so you can boost the light in a scene without washing out effect.  But most importantly in both cases the wall (or other object) remains visible in the scene.  I don't automatically expect this functionality to be available in DS but if it is, where can I find it?  

Now at this point, everything's worked perfectly and I've created functional pose sliders. But now I have to wonder; is it possible to copy these pose sliders to the remaining links in this prop? So - for example - I could apply a light curl to the bulk of the prop, but more tightly curl a specific section without having to fuss around with a bunch of individual links?

My results are only something like bodypainting with weak depths (e.g. ribs) also at 100% morph.

Any suggestions?

This works fine, but I have to create two versions of each character, one with and one without the extra material zone. It would be much more convenient to have a saved no-poke-through skin to apply to the character as and when needed, but when I save the edited skin as a materals preset and load it on a character, the new zone doesn't exist. Is there no way to save an edited skin as a materals preset?

I can get into the Geometry Editor, I can select polygons or vertices. I can use the selection tool to select the part I want to stretch. It draws a red box and shows a small red donut on the selected parts.

Now all I want to do is stretch it a bit in one direction and save the change. How do I do that? I can't seem to manipulate the surfaces or vertices once they are selected.

I'm using a stylus, not a mouse.

The product guide recommends setting Maximum Occlusion Distance to 0, to get rid of all ambient occlusion.  When I do this, the image gets flooded with white (or what I assume whatever the set colors for Occlusion Light and Occlussion Dark currently are).  I think I used to set Occlusion Strength to 0, as a sort of hackneyed way to deal with the problem.  POSSIBLY because of the recent Daz update, doing that is no longer viable - setting Occlusion Strength to 0 does exactly what is advertised.

When I set Max Occlusion Distance to 1, most of the AO goes away, but there are little tiny white specks that still appear on the surface.  I replaced the Visual Style Shader Base with a Default Daz Shader, just to verify it wasn't a problem inherent to the diffuse texture - it wasn't.

Now, I could get around this problem in flat-color renders simply by using one of the default shaders, the problem being this will also show up in my lighting profile renders.  As of right now, the cel-shaded style I've been crafting over the past few months ABSOLUTELY DEPENDS on me being able to manipulate the Diffuse Light, Diffuse Dark, Outline Light and Outline Dark properties.  Those specks appear in the lighting profile, which then get baked into the sprite normal maps I generate, which creates a lot of noise on what was otherwise a pretty good method I've been working on for making sprites out of 3D renders.

To the point: is there a way to turn off Ambient Occlusion in Visual Style Shaders, altogether?  i.e. going into some complicated Shader Room and figuratively cutting some branches.  I've tried playing with Cone Angle, Occlusion Samples, Occlusion Bias, and etc to try and find a workaround, but no luck.

And I simply want to recolor some of the black ones to something more colorful, almost like how I'll edit an image map in photoshop.

Any help for me? Thank you :)

/src/sdksource/shapes/dzshape.cpp(1715): Index out of range in DzShape::getMaterial()

/src/sdksource/shapes/dzshape.cpp(1715): Index out of range in DzShape::getMaterial()

/src/sdksource/shapes/dzshape.cpp(1715): Index out of range in DzShape::getMaterial()

/src/sdksource/shapes/dzshape.cpp(1715): Index out of range in DzShape::getMaterial()

Result: false

Script executed in 117 secs 528 msecs.

How can I fix this ? knowing that the script was working fine before, and I didn't modify it :/

Yesterday, I reinstalled Daz Studio and it worked in the evening. This morning I started it up to use it and it was back in this state again.  I've searched and searched for someone with a similar problem to no avail so I'm suspecting my own naivity.

I don't know what to do to fix it.

Thank you in advance for any guidance.

Shelly

How can i set it up  ?

If i go under plate on downloader i cannot change the directoriy.