I'm running Daz Studio 4.10.  Just started playing with it this week.  I purchased some stuff today; hair, some morph stuff and these Lucia heels/boots.

When I try to put them on the character, by double clicking them, I get an error message like example 1.  So, I drag and drop them on my character and they show up like example 2.  Then I try to do anything with the materials, hoping that might solve the issue and jack shite happens.  Just get error messages or nothing.

Can anybody help me?  What am I doing wrong?

THANK YOU for your time and patience, ver much appreciated!
Jake

I have a question about lightning in a scene.

If i load the i13 New vision bedroom place a G8, remove the right wall and do a render placing the Camera where the right wall was the light is perfect.

But if a rotate the camera 90 deg to the left and move it upwards to the left wall and render the scene gets really dark.

Placing a new light the scene gets totaly dark. I did try to create 10 diffrent lights in diffrent location and the scene was still to dark.

is there a ”universal” light that lights up the hole scene at every location?

this is the scene i’m talking about.

BR // Daniel

https://www.daz3d.com/i13-new-visions-bedroom

but with daz beta it is using one of the 4 external 1080 cards which because of the 1 lane limit is real slow..even wireframe is slow...daz is really using the wrong card for everything!!!!!!

so if i turn off the external cards my viewport is real fast using the x16 1070 and when i want to do a render i have to reboot with the 1080 cards switched on.

i have tested extensively and you can visually see windows rescource monitor confirming what is happening.

is there any way to force daz to use the correct internal card attached to the x16 pci slot for viewport tasks ...this is a bit crazy right?

I have one trouble now.

I applied the pose preset created in G1 to G8F.
Front-Back / Bend of Shoulder Rotate has become the same value as G1.
Does not reflect the twist value.
Is this in the specifications?

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I think that the pose is easier to divert if the twist is also reflected.
Because if you reflect the value, it will be a closer pose.

Please tell me if you know someone!

What I mean, is, that after I resize it, if I close the tabs window (screen), viewport no longer stretches to full length, nor does it stretch back to its previous size when I open the Tabs window, as it did before.(even after I close the Viewport, and reopen a new one.)

My question is: When it does this, how can I reset the Viewport to respond as it did before this happened?

(Two tabs- Loading/Creating and Building/Scripting- have already been affected by this, and their Viewports no longer work as they did before.) 

Now I want to use the pose without the grimace, but I can't figure out how to get rid of it. All expression morphs—eyes, mouth, brows, visemes, etc.—read zero, but still she's grimacing. "Zero Figure Pose" resets everything, including the face, but "Reset Selected Item(s) Pose" (with only the head selected) does nothing. Even "Zero Figure Shape" doesn't get rid of it.

I tried re-saving the pose minus the head. Same thing. Applying other facial expressions produces truly grotesque results.

No doubt this question has been asked and answered many times before. If so, I haven't been able to find the threads.

What am I missing?

i just looked at a youtube clip with an amazing animation but i cant get any info from the uploader so i ask here instead.

here is the clip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtooPZXlY0E&t=29s

he is using Cinema 4D for the animation i guess?

octane for rendering but i will use daz 3D

question is: are there any complete animations that you can get like finished "scenes" or do you have to set up every animation frame by frame?

i mean with finished animations and camera movement you only add the caracter right?

if anyone knows how you do an animation like in the clip post it here thanks :) 

Does anyone have a source for updated/modified/better G2 .dmc files?

Thanks in advance,

G

Anyone has any clue on how to get it back?

But then there is a script to convert G2 Female to G3 Female which "sort of" works. But it won't work with male figures and I cannot find the male counterpart for that script. 

In many cases aniblocks for G3 female seem to function on G3 Male for the most part with the exception of those converted by the script. Certain portions of the anatomy simple don't work and you can't force any corrections.

The converter seems to result in some improper conversions leading to arms poking through other body parts with no way to fix them that I can find.

The one visible key frame has the letter "c" and seems totally uneditable and adding new keyframes in an attempt to over ride the errors is ignored.

You obvioulsy can't delete that keyframe as your figure is just deleted.

So...

1)  Where are all the G3 aniblocks?

2) How can I correctly convert G2  aniblocks to G3 while retaining the ability to edit errors?

Thanks for any insight into this issue.

Renderer is iRay. Dome and Scene. Background - 2D image loaded chosen to show in render.

I thought the problem was the godrays made out of a DAZ primitive cube per SickleYield's tutorial but it is not.

I've tried changing the 'Window Seat Alcove' window glass material to several different iRay presets for glass from the DAZ Uber iRay glass preset freebies, to MECH4D's, to other glass presets included with the 'Window Seat Alcove' scene and none of them have worked.

I'm at a loss now as to what I need to change in the render setting or the scene material settings to fix this. 

I'm trying to simulate animations with dforce and i have this problem when using dforce cloth or when i add dforce modifier to a "standard" cloth...

This problem comes when hand is close the cloth but even when it's not very close (file in attachment). I'm ok with dforce explosion when a hand is in collision with th cloth but in this case, i d'ont know what to do...

Thank you for the help and sorry for my limited english !

Those checkboxes, the ones under Render/Advanced. I've been trying to read various threads about them and I'm amazed at the hugely variable results people get. Some get big speed boosts with having both checked, some with just either/or. No-one seems to know what that Optix box does or does not do. I tried setting CPU off so I could at least use the computer a little better, but CPU usage goes to 100% and pegs there for as long as the render goes on. This... this situation needs to stop, really. How?

I tried using DForce on the hair thinking the hair would retain its volume(poofiness) but the indevidual strands wouls flow around the ear in a way thst looked a little more like the way real hair flows.... it did not. 

Instead the hair layed really flat and even sloped into the scalp as if the rest of the head wasnt even their. 

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.  

.:EDIT:.

for reference, this is the hair i’m using.

https://www.daz3d.com/mrl-gem-hair-for-genesis-3-and-8-female

I have purchased Measure Metrics and am trying to figure out how things work. Through trial and error I have been able to figure out how to get some measurements for a human figure but the product page shows it being used on other objects like tables. I have searched the forums as best as I can and found a few threads that talk about errors etc but the screen captures of the dialogue boxes don't look like the ones that show up when I use it and they don't address my question (there may be an appropriate thread out there but the search function doesn't seem very user friendly).

So my question is, is there a 'How To' guide for this product or some kind of tutorial somewhere? I am getting frustrated trying to use DAZ Studio and some of its associated products due to the lack of current documentation and help files. I spend more time trying to find instructions on how to do something than I am using the program so any help would be appreciated.

Thanks for any replies.

nabob21

What I wanted to do was to "remove" the arms from G8 figure and paste them into another one. (creating a 4 arms monster like Goro from mortal kombat :)

Now I know I can as well load 2 G8 figures and make one of them invisible except the arms, then parent it to the other figure. But that's not the cleanest way and it'll eventually increase the redudancy in the scene.

Can someone kindly point out the direction to go? 

Currently I'm rendering on a 980ti and for my desired scene complexity/quality, it takes about 1 and a half hour per scene give or take. I need to do a lot of scenes per day. That amout of rendering time maybe allows me to do 4 scenes a day. I want to reduce rendering time at least a bit more. 

Now I have an old GTX 680 back at my parents house. My question is if I add this, do I get any gains at all in rendering time? It's 2 generation older but I figure the extra Cuda cores and 2 gigs of VRAM would help a little wouldn't it?

Need advice since it's a weekend drive to go get the card and dig it out.

Many thanks.

Has anyone else run into trouble when using this script? I set up the scene as recommended with a base G8F, set my output directory and then point the script to the clothing item I want to convert but when I run the script it says that the script executed on zero clothing items and nothing is converted. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks for any replies

nabob21

I bought this product:  https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-party-outfit-for-genesis-8-females

I bought it because It says that it is using the dForce technology but it doesn't.  After installing the product and put it on a  character it says that the dress isn't dForce.

Can I get a refund for false advertisment or am I doomed ?

Thanks !

I have a nvidia GeForce FTX 1080 Ti and it worked great a couple of days ago for DAZ studio iRay rendering. Yesterday I download version 418.91 of the newest geforce driver (released on 2/13/2019) and now suddenly I can't render anything with my GPU, the render goes straight to CPU no matter what. I tried a test render with just Genesis 8 Female by itself and DAZ dropped immediately to CPU at the very start.

I made sure that I have GeForce FTX 1080 Ti selected for rendering in the Advanced Tab of Render settings. DAZ detects my GPU but will not use it. I have attached screenshots of my GPU and Daz info.

I would like to note that I have never had this problem before with my computer. I've done so many complicated renders in the past using my GPU and now I can't render anything. I have tried rebooting my computer and restarting Daz multiple times but that doesn't help. I am completely out of ideas and desperately need assistance with this. Will I need to rollback my graphics driver? Or would the up-to-date graphics driver not have an impact?

Thanks in advance for your your help and advice!