I was finally able to get the Diffeomorphic plugin installed and it works OK except for the skin textures.  I used V3D's Wet and Tanned Skins for G8F to give my character a tanned appearance.  But the base texture maps are what is getting ported over to Blender not the tanned ones.  So is there a way to get the tanned appearance over there too? i read that Daz3ds has a bake texture function so i was wondering if that would work for what i want.  I've tried using and HSV node in Blender cycles render and at first i thought it looked fine.  But in different lighting situations and upon closer examination i think i like the way it looks in Daz better.  I want the character to 100% look in Blender the same way it looks in Daz...not "kinda like it" and i just dont think i'm good enough with messing around with blender nodes to get that look.

https://www.daz3d.com/wet-and-tanned-skins-for-genesis-8-females

How do I apply them where they do NOT relocate my character to a different area in the scene?

Thank you

I have daz 4.11, my video card is a GTX 1660 Gig DDR5, God this machine worked on two major movies. 

I cannot even get a hold of Ehsa to let her know this is not working.........

What I got now is a Ryzen 3 with 16gb Ram and Windows 10 and a GTX 1060ti with 4gb

What I'm planning to buy is:

Ryzen 5 2600X (6 Cores @ 3.6Ghz)

Upgrade to 32gb RAM

GTX 1660 ti (this is the most expensive I can afford right now so please don't recommend an GTX 2080ti or similar, 'cos I can't afford it and I'll cry).

Ultimately the plan is to get all of this, but any recommendations on what I should get first?  I suspect the 1660 might drop a lot of my scenes onto the CPU anyway so I'm leaning towards the CPU/RAM first, but to be honest I am a total IRAY noob, so I don't really have a scooby.

** Disregard I figured it out. **

For example, I found restore figure pose in parameters section, that is quite generic and I was expecting to find it in the pose section. And that makes difficult to find the actions to assign shortcuts.

It would be helpful at least a doc/text with the list of actions orderered by sections, that would be easy to find with a doc/text search and then look for teh equivanlent in the menu configurator of shortcuts from DAZ

I know there is a list of actions here, not sure how update they are. But they are ordered alphabetically, and not by sections as in the shortcut configurator menu. Meaning its not useful to find them.

http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/referenceguide/interface/action/index/start

How do I get diffuse strenght for surfaces. I'm only getting diffuse roughness?

thanks

However ,the V100's ALSO have the Tensor Cores !  640 each ( 1280 total ) - which I read somewhere is much better at rendering (even though less number than CUDA) !  Is this true ?

So pros of Daz ,which of them do you think I should get ?

So I grabbed Skin builder 8, but cant seem to figure out where it actually went. lol

Genesis 3 clothing works on G8 for the most part, just would be nice to pick up a couple G2 wardrobe items too for my G8 figures.

Thanks for any assistance you can provide. 

I want to put Daz completely on its own external drive - I have a substantial collection of models and even with most of the model library and install packages residing on a 4Tb external drive, my computer's internal 450Gb hard drive is now FULL. As far as I can tell, this is due almost exclusively to Daz data.

So, I want to move Daz completely to its own drive. Can it be done? What's the best way to do it?

Thank you

Thank you

It works just fine on G2F, regardless of the fact it was created foir V4. However, one thing I can't get around is some small balls/handles that form a circle around the dress. I tried tocontact the creator, but haven't heard back from them. Any ideas about how to make them invisible. They serve no purpose anyway. I rememeber there was a hair item with similar handles but they worked to move some strands around. These balls don't do anything. Thank you.

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The following files could not be found:

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C:/users/ron/documents/daz3d/studio/lookatmyhairam/maps/tmpbrickimage2.jpg
C:/users/ron/documents/daz3d/studio/lookatmyhairam/maps/tmpbrickimage3.jpg

What should I do about this?

It was like the first thing I noticed when i made the jump from 3Delight to IRay...

I see other IRay renders that don't look all speckley like this. is there a way to smooth this out within DAZ render settings? or is this something I just have to keep working on in Post(photoshop)?...

The attached image is rendered at 1080p. it cooked for the default 2 hours. I cropped it to just show the flat surfaces because thats where the speckeling it most noticeable...

I tried changing that to 5 hours, but strangly enough, the image looked worse rather than better....

I really love the medieval scenes, such as "Perouges, Medieval Village", and would love to place them into a game world so that I can have a character run around in them.

Is this possible - even with a little tweeking?

Thanks for your time!

I've just installed DAZ 4.11 for Win 64 on Windows 10 + the following components : 1) default resources for DAZ studio 4.9+ ; PostgreSQL CMS for win 64 but when I run DAZ,I get the the error that u see on the image that I have attached. I tried to do several things to fix it,such as to reboot the PC and the steps explained here : https://helpdaz.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/207812393-PostgreSQL-Connection-Error-and-No-Smart-Content ; but nothing helped. Can someone guide me,please ?

Just the viewport that looks like that, anybody knows what`s going on and how to fix this?

This is daz 4.11 public build

My normal version works fine.

My question is, seeing as I have absolutely no need for 2 660's in the older computer, would it be of any benefit at all to move the second 660 to the newer computer and use it just for its cuda cores to speed up iray rendering?  If so, the only driver that is available for the 6xx series is the game ready driver, not the studio driver as that's for 10xx and above only it seems.  I do use the computer for games, FO4 and the like, and haven't noticed any significant impact while gaming using the studio drivers, however it did improve my render times.  Would switching to the game ready drivers and installing the 660 be of any benefit at all?  I just hate tearing down two computers and moving the card over if I'm not going to see any improvement, or even slower speeds if I switch drivers.

Thanks!

I just want to draw patterns on a simple primitive like a cube. How do I do it? I can do it whenever objects have texture maps, like clothes for example.

I've found a bunch of tutorials for unwrapping UV stuff in Hexagon, but I couldn't figure that mess of a software out and I don't even know if that's needed here at all.

I'm soon to buy a brand new desktop for my DAZ3D venture and noticed that AMD are soon to release some awesome new hardware, Ryzen processors and Navi GPU's.

(Scheduled for July 7th)

My main question is: Will this new hardware work nicely with the DAZ3D software and enable lightning fast rendering etc/?

(I guess there will be teathing problems but that's not unexpected).

Happy to pile a shed load of money into this new hardware IF it all works well together with the software.

Any feedback is most welcomed.

Thanks, N.

Here's what I've done:

• exported meta-data from my old machine by going through content database maintenence
• transferred the user data to the new machine
• and re-imported meta data through content database maintenance

And here's what's worked and what hasn't:

• The user-created categories transferred just fine, and files I had placed in those categories are showing up in the user-created categories like I want them to. However, these files (which had been moved out of lost & found) are also appearing in Lost & Found.
• The metadata I've added has transferred inconsistenly. Information I added (using the Edit Metadata function) under "Type" didn't transfer at all, and metadata I added to "Compatability" has transferred in a few products, but not in most
• Weird orphan references are randomly appearing in smart content and my content library on the new computer, and I'm not sure how to remove most of them.

Really, really hoping someone can help!

Respectfully, how do you edit the template or create a new blank slate? If not for any other reason than personal use.

I ask becuase clearly the template is flawed and that it's locked from creating or altering says this is an area that cannot be used by PA or potential use by content creators. 

Let's point out the right click controls which smartly and realistically should be used to rotate the limbs while the left click should be used for bending. This is a concept I used often over the last 7 years when creating the templates for your legacy based figures.

Yes all the additional controls are great and nice to have but when little features don't flow with past versions shouldn't be we able to make our own changes? Again, if not for personal use.

V/r

PDSmith

Because I have Daz3D on a separate drive I have to do a manual install and not use DIM. I've downloaded the .exe and tried several times to install it to the drive where DAZ lives, however, evertime it gets to the part where 'Installing Content Managment Services' occurs it just hangs and hangs and hangs and hangs....... I've left it running now for over 30 minutes and it still says 'installing' ... Surely it isn't supposed to take this long ?

So I've now given up trying to install 4.11.