I am looking for a water splash effect from a tiger jumping out of the water. 

The closest realistic product I can find is 3D Water.

https://www.daz3d.com/jw-3d-water-props

But it still isn't exactly what I'm looking for. 

Can anyone suggest a product that will produce a nice large splash, say for instance a shark or whale jumping out of the water?

Thanks for any help you can provide on this. 

I apologize in advance if this is posted in the wrong thread. Not sure where to post it.
I'm wondering if there is a way to convert materials and textures meant for Genesis 3 figures, for Genesis 8 figures? I would like to purchase this product:

https://www.daz3d.com/additional-blood-layers-for-genesis-3-male-s

But I'd like to use it on my Genesis 8 figure. Is that at all possible somehow?

Daan

And one of my most common problems is that when I apply a skin surface to a surface that was previously metal/fabric/etc, it's discolored, because the skin I'm copying doesn't alter some kind of parameter.

I discovered a solution was to use a 3delight shader, then put it back to iray uber and the skin was fine. However, I'd like an easier solution than that or loading a new figure.

I hope this makes sense, if not, please just refer to the title question. Thank you very much.

I've tried uninstalling & reinstalling it several times, but that hasn't worked. Unless there's some way to force 4.11 Beta to recognize its existense, it seems the product is in need of an update.

Any help would be appreciated.

[ edit: oh crap, I forgot to attach the screenshots. ]

Does content that is loaded in the scene but not visible by the camera affect iray rendering speed more than icons on the desktop?

When I use my tecknet mouse (standard wireless one), which works fine with all others apps, the right-mouse button has no response. I can't dolly, etc.

Using the little nav icons makes me a little crazy, so I'm hoping someone might know how to get the button working? 

So this got me thinking. What is the standing height of default untouched G8M and G8F, in terms of real life height? So for example, if I wanted to make a character 5 foot 6 inches, how far up or down would I change the default height slider? Of course I can't expect to be able to scale everything to a perfectly realistic size, but it is interesting to think about. Especially in cases where I recreate real people that I know in person.

In these big scenes, the viewport will preview with "photoreal", but not with "interactive" <- The figures just stay grey and nothing happens.

Is there something I can do to make Interactive work more consistently? Thank you.

I have a question about Ms Hedgehog and LAMH before I purchase.

https://www.daz3d.com/ms-hedgehog-for-genesis-8-female

I purchased the LAMH2Iray Catalyzer product a while back, and all the animals that I purchased have a catalyzer verion which I render with the Catalyzer. They look incredible.

However, I'm not sure how Ms Hedgehog will work from the description. It says that it includes an "LAMH Preset" for the hedgehog morph and also includes an LAMH Installer.

It also states,

• In regards to LAMH, when rendering in Iray you should save the addition of hair to just before render time and be sure to set the geometry type as "export to obj" and not "Render Man". When rendering in 3Delight, "Renderman" is still the way to go.

So I'm not sure if I need the LAMH product as well (or if it is included) or how exactly this works, or why I need to save an OBJ file in Iray. It's not a Catalyzer animal which I am used to using in Iray.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

I am a mediocre DAZ user. I know the software fairly well, but far from an expert.  I was hoping to pick some brains here. 

My story:

My old computer fried, I lost everything etc.  Luckily I had a backup of all of my MATS and purchased art etc, Renderosity and the like.  My memory is foggy and I am now using a later version of DAZ then previously. 

I would like to import all of my Renderosity type stuff over to my DAZ directory to improve workflow.  Any tips on this?  Which folders in the DAZ library should I be targeting? 

Thanks everyone! 

Does somebody know a workaround for this annoying problem?

Much obliged!

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I now get the body building morphs set as active everytime I load a character.

There are obvious fixes like - turn the damn thing(s) off and save BUT......

What's the OFFICIAL FIX from DAZ?

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I already Googled numerous threads and downloaded scripts and selected files and all of that.

And I don't think I want to be doing that anymore.

I think we need to go back to the source and figure out how all of this started and fix some things on the back end or front end if we mean the offending products.

I can't have all my characters on steroids.

This story's background is set so now to the sad, generic, and same ol' same ol' story. "I thought I had it figured out". I had migrated "everything" from the lowest layer of POSER up to the true poser layer I worked in, I set all the stops, copied all my files and folders (hairs by FAR taking the longest) and then I deleted the lowest lairs of deep, dark dungeon and unusuable POSER area stuff. Just to be sure I ran the program to make sure everything still clicked and tricked and then I shut it down and moved on for awhile to do other things. EXCEPT I was wrong. Repeatedly. And the most important "I was wrong" was that I didn't IMMEDIATELY shut down and re-open DAZ to verify  my files worked. I left DAZ open which meant it was more or less still operating under the old system of things. Somehow, in some way I deleted vicky files I should not have and now I'm being told by previous working morphs that they can't find a bunch of things that used to be there. I attempted to re-re-DL some files and re-add them but those character morphs dont' seem to be included with any pose pack. I'm thinkign they are part of actual V4 character files.

Anyway, I need this fixed so I can continue my slow/slogging upgrade from V4 to Gen 8. I need to learn how to fix the side I THOUGHT I knew what I was doing in before I delve into fixing the DAZ side of my house which is a nightmare of trees and files.

Next step type question, any idea how to start re-arranging DAZ side of the hosue files without this same problem creeping up?

I'm not interested in his human facial features or the shape of his human body, or his eyes.

I'm talking about those lines that cover his body and face, and the machinery that shows through. If those are just skin materials I should be able to apply them to G8M without any kind of conversion, right? Or are they morphs?

A quick question: Given I get a giftcard to my mail example@ryselle.com, but my mail for the DAZ-account is another@gmail.com - can I use the gift card?

Best wishes

Ryselle

Is there a batch conversion script to convert a whole folder of simple pp2s to daz files?

thanks

The poses itself comes in mostly fine, sometimes I have to tweak the arms to get it look right, but the lashes breaks.  Anyone has any experience with this?  

Thanks much!

Here's an example of the flow from the log, edited to emphasis the error:

2019-05-11 21:22:52.294 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : 	CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1660)
2019-05-11 21:22:52.294 Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.5   IRAY   rend progr: CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1660): Processing scene...
2019-05-11 21:22:53.245 Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.8   IRAY   rend stat : Geometry memory consumption: 336.512 MiB (device 0), 0 B (host)
2019-05-11 21:23:31.032 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.5   IRAY   rend info : CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1660): Scene processed in 38.743s
2019-05-11 21:23:31.032 WARNING: ..\..\..\..\..\src\pluginsource\DzIrayRender\dzneuraymgr.cpp(302): Iray ERROR - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.5   IRAY   rend error: CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1660): out of memory (while allocating memory)
2019-05-11 21:23:31.032 WARNING: ..\..\..\..\..\src\pluginsource\DzIrayRender\dzneuraymgr.cpp(302): Iray ERROR - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.5   IRAY   rend error: CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1660): Failed to allocate 931.077 MiB
2019-05-11 21:23:31.032 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.5   IRAY   rend info : CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1660): Allocated 47.4617 MiB for frame buffer
2019-05-11 21:23:31.048 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.5   IRAY   rend info : CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1660): Allocated 453.516 MiB of work space (537k active samples in 0.000s)
2019-05-11 21:23:31.110 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Received update to 00002 iterations after 38.815s.
2019-05-11 21:23:32.861 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.5   IRAY   rend info : CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1660): Allocated 134.473 MiB of work space (159k active samples in 0.001s)
2019-05-11 21:23:32.923 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Received update to 00003 iterations after 40.640s.
2019-05-11 21:23:35.908 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Received update to 00004 iterations after 43.615s.
2019-05-11 21:23:35.923 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Received update to 00006 iterations after 43.642s.
2019-05-11 21:23:36.517 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Received update to 00007 iterations after 44.223s.

Task manager shows the CUDA at around 99% and the Dedicated GPU memory at 4.8/6.0GB.

Is the card running out of memory and then trying again and succeeding the second time?

Running Daz Studio 4.11 Beta on an i7 with a GTX 1080 for monitors and GTX 1660 for rendering.  Thanks in advance for any help.

On a few occasions i've tried putting pants made for male figures onto female figures.  But when i use the autofit it usually ends up getting distored in the crotch seam area.  Verts that belong on the plus side of centerline will end up on the negative side and sometimes even the y and z coords on a vert will be different from its mirrored x vert. I want to avoid having to rebuild the mesh in Blender where i do most of my work.  So is there something i can do in Daz3ds when i am prepping the figures and clothes before i export to Blender? should i not use autofit? is there a way to do it better using clones or whatever they are called?

One time i was trying to get a G3F clothing item to autofit onto a G8F but it kept crashing my Daz3ds.  So what i did was put the G8F in there and left it visible.  I put the G3F in there too and made it hidden and i put the pants on the G3F and left the pants visible.  I changed the G3F's rest post to be the same as the G8F and then from there i just adjusted the morphs on the G3F figure until the pants looked like they fit on the G8F.  Its a bit time consuming but if there isnt a better solution i will end up just having to do that.

I have my OS installed on a primary SSD for speed, but all my apps (including DAZ3D) and data installed on a secondary HDD. I back up my data periodically to a third portable USB drive. 

I am about to replace the secondary HDD due to age, and I'm taking the opportunity to upgrade to Windows 10 Professional while I'm there.

Last time I upgraded my primary SSD I did a clean Windows 7 install and reinstalled all programs. Most, such as my Steam library and Armoured Warfare, were detected by the new installs, thus saving me GBs worth of downloads. When I did a clean install of DAZ however, it did not recognise the files on the HDD - even though they were all there. I played around with Install Manager file location settings, but could not get it to identify the existing files and install them. I had to download them all from scratch.

Can anyone advise if they've done a re-install and preserved already-downloaded material and had DAZ recognise and filter correctly?

Thanks again.