Thank you so much for helping.

I am running a Mac Mini under macOS 10.14.3

Daz Studio version 4.10.0.123 Pro Edition (64-bit)

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Performed a search and found it, but this doesn't look like the correct folder location, not to mention two copies of the 3DBridge script itself.

Where should the init script go or should I just place a copy in with each of the 3DBridge.dse files?

Let's say theres So and So for Victoria 8. V8 is a morph for G8F. What's the right way to go about creating such a morph so that V8 herself doesn't get baked into my own morph and would still remain an ownership requirement? I've only done it against base figures, and just realized I've never thought about the process when another morph is involved.

The dress goes nuts between the legs and hips. As I said this is no problem if the figure is standing cross legged but in a seated position. 

I don’t think I maybe understanding collisions with the garment against chairs, sofas, beds and car seats. Is there a tutorial that can explain how to use dforce for a seated figure in skirts and dresses? A good slow moving  tutorial that doesn’t speed through things for us dense people LOL!

thanks

So I love Faveral's Perouges set, but I ran into an interesting issue, adn I was wondering if there was a good workaround.  When I have a set with several floors, I usually lower it so the architectural floor is at the daz floor at Y point 0 (where new objects open up).  When I did that with Perouges, it rendered all black.  I suspect this has something to do with the sun being under the floor, and maybe falling too far below the DAZ floor.

For the time being, I made nulls and parented all the figures to them, and put the setting back to its native Y-28 position.

But is there a workaround to make the Daz Y 0 floor the architectural floor without jsut using Nulls?

Thanks.

I started of using Studio a year ago and I have being using the Smart content Library. I never thought about the other ways content could be set up. Until I got my hands on tutorial about the other ways it can be done.

So! I used the DIM and dumped the whole works into a file on my harddrive called My Daz Studio Library. All of the content is Studio files. 

But!!!... "What a mess!" And what a mistake that was! 

So my question is? Can I manully sort these files out, into a correct Studio filing system. Or will this break Studio in some way or form? I know its not correct, because there is double files with incorrect spellings, there is even "My Library within My Library's. There is even a few Poser Library's in there too. And on top of tha,t to my understanding, there is old DAZ "Content" files too.

I know from using the Smart Library, and 3rd party zips files, content is normally is put into a user files and that seems to work just excellent. My bought 3rd party files are in perfect order to what I have read and understand. 

Any ideas, anyone? Can I manully set up/sort the files or do I live with this mess form using DIM and work around it?    

After installing Daz I opened the program and started one of the guided tutorials. When doing the tutorial I added a prop that I didn't want and decided to delete it from the scene menu. After that, the program froze a little. For that, I decided to save my progress and close the software. When I returned, the tools in the viewport were whiteout (like there were white blocks in their place) and every model I load in are just grey bases and I can't tell what I'm doing. 

I have tried:

• Uninstalling and reinstalling the files from the Install Manager
• Uninstalling deleting and redownloading the files from the Install Manager
• Deleting the whole entire program and all of its files from my computer and redownloading them

If this information helps I do not have photoshop installed. I don't know what that information will do if it will do any. I just thought it might help the situation(it probably won't). 

I know very little about backing up folders, so if that may be the solution please understand if I don't get it right away. I apologize if I have become an inconvenience to anyone. I am very new to this sort of thing and would greatly appreciate the help. Also sorry if this situation is stupid.

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OK, so I rebooted and the 20GB missing SSD space stays missing.  My pagefile.sys is at 16GB, my hyberfil.sys is at 6GB, and my swapfil.sys is at 16MB. Used space in the User AppData roaming DAZ 3D is only 1.5GB which must mostly be cms database usage. 

I guess I was under impression that pagefil.sys was at 16GB from the get go when I installed windows but apparently the majority of it on got allocated when I render in DAZ Studio and gets kept of part of Windows 10 OS usage scenario optimization.

That's fine if more SSD disk space doesn't disappear from 39GB to 19GB next time I do a DAZ Studio render. It shouldn't but I'll have to pay attention. I should have paid attention before I rendered for the 1st time. I could manually allocate page file space to reclaim that space & then change back to system managed space to what it again but I think it's DAZ Studio, Blender renders and similar products will probably do the same.

Using daz 4.11 beta (latest) with facegen artist 2.1

error messege is "Daz Studio does not appear to be installed. After running Daz Studio, restart this program." 

I have a content library on different (not default) location 

might that be a problem ? 

Can I somehow manage that to work properly ? 

thanks ! 

This is one of the main reasons why I never try renders outside of portraits using 3rd party lighting presets for portraits & daytime renders using sun-sky.

I jacked the lumens way way up and they still don't show. The openGL textured preview shows the light previews how I want the light to fall but on render...nothing! 

I try the Boss Portrait Lights in this scene and they work so I compare the setting with one of the lights I changed to be in photometric mode already in my scene and they are the same but still no dice.

If I create DS primitives, make them emissive lights, & then use the cutout opacity to make the primitives invisble then I can get light but that is not the ideal way because the built in lights have all these other properties I can change.

Thanks.

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I am now using Sickleyield 3 point lighting set up tutorial (the one with key, fill, & rim lights) and still no go & she has the lumens pumped up to 150000000! I've checked the render engine & it is nVidia iRay...

emissive geometries seem much better at replicating obvious cause & effect than these photometric lights built into DS Public Beta 4.11.0.x. Maybe there is something broken in the DS Pro 4.11.0.x Public Beta

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Well I have no ideal with when I create photometric lights in DS it's not working but the BOSS Studio Portrait lights product works so I said forget it and just made a bunch of emissive geometries instead that do work. Think I will take a look at how the 'Painter's Lights product that was removed from the DAZ Store does it.

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OK, so apparently I've found a bug in the DAZ Studio Pro Public Beta 4.11.0.239.

I've tried both Painter's Lights, BOSS Studio Portrait, and adding photometric lights myself and while they show in preview mode they do not render. Emissive light geometries & Sun-Sky work.

Maybe somewhere if all those geometries in my scene is a 3DL surface messing things up? It's supposed to autoconvert anyway. Maybe it's one of the filters in the render tab?

Lighting that works is pretty fundamental to a working render engine.

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Maybe the problem was I merged a very old 3DL scene from a product I bought in the DAZ Store into my new iRay scene and that's corrupted the format of the DUF such that my photometric lights no longer work!

I guess I cloud save scene subsets & import all of those into a new iRay scene.

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I find medium length or long hair a lot more easy and natural to pose when bones are present.

Memorized the character and all sub items (Edit > Figure > Memorize > Selected items)
Zerod all selected items at frame 1
Cleared the animation at that point
Moved to frame 20 (or 30, doesn't matter)
Restored memorized items

But when I go back to frame one, my character is in some random pose that I never set, and all the changes I just made are no longer there and everything is reverted. I've tried clearing every single thing I can think of, but it still just goes back to these weird poses. Yes, I have "cleared poses" several times. I have no idea why its suddenly doing this, and I've fougth this thing for hours and cannot figure out what I'm doing wrong. Please help!

I just want my poses to stay the way I told them to at each frame, not choose a random pose by itself! (they aren't even real poses, just random positions...)

WIlliam W. Connors

"Quod fuissem, fuit."

I'm just looking for a big list of things that will help speed up rendering in Iray while maintaining decent visuals.

The pointers I have so far are -

1. Render scene instead of Dome and scene (can't do that because it leads to a pixel glitch)

2. Something about changing everything in the scene to the Iray shader? No idea how to do that though.

3. I've turned on both CPU and GPU rendering alongside that speed up rendering option, no idea if any of these make a difference though.

That's about it. Thanks to anyone who answers in advance though.

Finally I resolved the issue by unchecking "show preview handlers in preview pane" in the file explorer options. Now everything works fine. I guess the preview pane has some troubles with handlers and just slows down or block refreshing because of that. At least this was the solution for me.

Example

NEVERMIND : I had the 'Environmental Intensity' above 1.0 which is the default. Higher value is like higher ISO value film it makes the entire seen brighter. 

How do I get LAMH to work. Both my Artic Fox (white hair) and Red Fox (green hair) show the LAMH in the pre render stage. But they are hairless when rendered.

I did check my Plug-ins and LAMH Catalyzer is green. Is there something in addition that I need??

Many thanks in advance, I know this is supposed to be easy, and probably is, except for me.

Larry

I have been testing the morph that transforms it from adult to young. But this strange error appears when I play a run animation and turns the model into a kind of monster from Dead Space.

The animation is from this asset: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/animations/move-motion-free-pack-25900

Does anyone know what is going on? Can someone help me to solve it, please?

UPDATE: Nevermind, restarting my computer fixed the issue.

I have been trying to get Magic to load, but keep getting an error that says to see the log.

Where might this log be located, or am I overlooking / missing something.

For some reason I am not able to attach a screen shot. The file is FSLem Magic Blade 02.DUF. I did try other blades with the same results.

Many Thanks

Larry

I wanted to know, does anyone know when DazStudio 4.11 is coming out? I know the BETA version is. 
I'm planning on updating my PC and now we have the new Nvidia RTX 2080s and I heard that 4.10 doesn't support the RTXs. 
Is that true?

Thanks
Winton