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DFORCE freezes Daz Studio

naxuam_66429eb97e — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 01:03:20 +0000

I am having trouble with Dforce totally freezing up Daz Studio. It will begin simulations, hit 1% and totally freeze until I have to Ctrl Alt Del to kill the not responding program.

I've cleared the cache, marked invisible everything but V8. And no change.

I have run Dforce successfully on my computer before; are newer Dforce items more intense or something? (One culprit is Fringed Brezzy Dress).

Any ideas? thoughts? Special Lovecraftian incantations to get Dforce to work for me?

DAZ Studio extremely slow to start

ayoungjr_30fff67d39 — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 13:21:03 +0000

After years of working with DS, I started it yesterday only to have it take about an hour to start. Goes through loading all the pieces, each one taking several minutes. Did nothing new. No OS updates between now and when I last used it. Everything else on my system works fine. When it finally comes up, it works normally.

Oh, and I tried to re-install from DIM and every attempt failed from the start.

Using Windows 10, if that helps.

Added Editorial comment: Trying to find help with this program is a joke. If I wasn't already invested in DS products, I'd go to Poser in a heartbeat. Support for DS sucks big time. I appreciate that DS is free, but my content was not.

My DAZ Studio software crashes at start-up

mentemadconcretumdirige — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 13:23:25 +0000

Hello everyone :D

My nickname is Mentem and I'm new around here

I'm writing to you because I'm a first-time user with Daz Studio Software. Unfortunately, when I start the software, I get the following error message :

Daz Studio has encountered a fatal error, and must close.

(...)

Exception Reason
DAZStudio.exe caused ACCESS_VIOLATION in module "C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\u0328642.inf_amd64_44c243728afa4040\B328480\amdocl64.dll" at 0033:0000000047B72E54, aclWriteToMem()+23672804 byte(s)

Just after this error message, the software crashes down.

I was wondering if... anyone around here could help me to understand why I get this message, and if there's anything I could do to get to the bottom of this issue? That would be much appreciated

Thank you very much for your attention and have a nice day :D

PS : Please accept my apologies if there are mistakes in my sentence, I'm French :D

How Daz Studio work

hapciupalit — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 13:01:28 +0000

Hey guys,

I need to understand how Daz Studio works. The scene preparation is made only on CPU or only GPU or both?

I have two machines. One is a workstation which does the renders and the other one is a laptop, where I prepare the scenes and do a test render. Right now I need to replace the laptop with a macbook pro for some projects. As you know macs don't have a good graphics card, however, the CPUs are decent. So can I prepare the scenes on a MacBook Pro? I also have an external GPU for doing the test render, so that should help, but the only problem is with the scene preparation.

When preparing the scene I cannot use the GPU because on OSx I need to use another Monitor, however for rendering, I can set to only use the external GPU for rendering, so I'm pretty sure that doing the render test won't be a problem. The only Problem would be the preparations, that's why I need to know how Daz works

What do you guys think?

Rigid Follow Node Rotation

paulshaunblake — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 13:55:27 +0000

Edit: Forgot to mention, this is all within Daz Studio 4.10.

Experiment:

Create a cube of 1 division. Use the Geometry tool to select all the faces, and create a Rigid Follow Node from the selection. To aid with visualizing the effect described below, find a prop with easily distinguishable front, top, and sides, and attach it as a child of the Rigid Follow Node.

Next, create a D-Former on the cube. Change its influence to Weight Map, and add the map. In the Weight Editor tool, change to Geometry Selection mode. Select the entire cube, and set the weight to 100% for the whole cube.

Lastly, move and rotate the D-Former manipulator.

Expected result:

Since the Rigid Follow Node is formed from all the faces of the cube, and all the faces of the cube are being affected 1:1 with the position and rotation of the manipulator, the Rigid Follow Node should maintain its position and rotation relative to its selected faces.

Observed result:

Just moving the manipulator along a single axis causes the node to rapidly switch orientation by 90 degrees. Rotating the manipulator causes the node to spin wildly and unpredictably.

Why does this happen?

I have found a workaround: By using a cube of 3 divisions, if I select a row of 3 polygons and create a Rigid Follow Node from that, I more or less get the expected result - except that the RFN still does some strange flipping at rotations greater than 90 degrees. I'd still prefer to be able to keep it fully oriented with the D-Former manipulator

Which product is the jacket that.....

RA Graphic Design — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 13:18:20 +0000

Which product is the jacket (the eighteenth-century jacket) that you see on the promotional page of this hair ?

Thank you !

https://www.daz3d.com/historical-hair-for-genesis-8-and-3-males

Dforce dress not following leg

Quazaque — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 20:59:13 +0000

Hello.

I noticed there are two kinds of Dforce dresses. Some of them are not following legs, like red one, and others follow the leg, like green one.

Can you tell me why even such dresses like red one exist? What is the purpose of doing it like that?

This way you have to start from memorized pose each time you simulate dress for a new pose, and it takes time.

With green dress I can start simulation from this pose and it will be perfect.

But the most important question :

-What can I do to red dress to make it bend like green one, follow the leg and pose?

Where is it??!!

Aloreea — Fri, 06 Jan 2017 02:28:40 +0000

Okay so I just bought > FWSA Skinvent Details Dark Merchant Resource for Genesis 3 Female(s)

I used install manager to download and install it, and tried to find it when I opened Daz Studio. But it's nowhere to be found.

Could someone help me out please?

Sugar Skulls Issue

scorgieclyde — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 10:25:03 +0000

Evening everyone, looking for some advise, I have got the Sugar Skull bundle and I am unable to change the Rose colour on the hat. Can change the Ribbon colour but not the Roses. I go in to Accessories / Materials / Roses and nothing happens. Not sure what i am doing wrong, Any suggestions would be most welcome.

Twitchy AniBlocks

The Brig — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 02:32:48 +0000

I tried playing with the aniblocks using a G8F figure...nothing spectacular, just a simple walk to see if my card and computer could handle it. This is using just the included blocks with AniMate 2 on Studio 4.10.0.123, an EVGA 1060 card, and Windows 7 64-bit. All the drivers are current.

Most of the animation goes fine except when I'm using the "forward (1 cycle) G8F" block. The left leg kicks outward a little bit each time it's supposed to come forward. The right leg comes forward and moves back normally, but that left leg keeps acting like the figure stepped in chewing gum or something. Has that happened to anyone before, and has anyone heard of a fix, update, patch, cure, or incantation to make it behave properly?

Or did I accidentally download the "Ministry of Silly Walks" bundle by mistake?

PLEASE HELP Genesis 3 and Genesis 8 export FBX error with animation

toussaint_18b9c935fc — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 18:50:30 +0000

Everytime I try to export my genesis 8 animation it ends up looking REALLY werid.

here are my export options.

http://prntscr.com/mv6ceg

http://prntscr.com/mv6cwz

Advise rigging pilot helmet with front hose and back-wire assembly.

eblgraphics_cbf6f2d73d — Sat, 16 Mar 2019 18:47:17 +0000

Hey Guys, this is my first post ever requesting help with regards to a personal project using Daz3d. I am a medium to advansed Daz3D user but for the life of me, I can't get this clothing prop to work properly. Please advise on how to rig a pilot helmet with the front hose and back-wire assembly to move properly. They need to follow the characters head motion while the base of the hose and wire assembly remains in place. I try creating multiple .obj in the motion range of the characters head to ERC Freeze the different morph movements but distortion occurs. I believe that there is a better way to do but I personally have not figured it out. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Iray artifacts, known cause?

lemips — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 00:09:03 +0000

Any idea what causes this kind of artifact? Looks like the kind of thing that might have a straight forward cause.

-The dots are transparency, I put the image over a layer of medium grey to make them more visible.

-Longer render times lead to more artifacts.

Daz Iray & Graphics card

alanthompson9187 — Mon, 25 Mar 2019 19:13:52 +0000

When starting a render in Iray, it says no cudor core devices, however I have a Geforce gtx 1080 ti, which has cudor cors, any reason for this or do i have to change something in daz studio.

Painting textures on the model directly?

GreenBean — Wed, 27 Mar 2019 13:12:29 +0000

Hello,

i wanted to ask if there's a way or a software that could allow me to directly paint or edit textures on "genesis 8 male" for an example.

since the unwarapped UVs will take a lot of trail and error if i wanna paint a tattoo that goes through several parts.

Thank you!

A GAP IN THE TEETH!

Dax Avalange — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 00:44:15 +0000

Hello Richard (Haseltine)

Happens something strange in Genesis 3 Female. No morphs, no chracters, no JMC's. right the base Daz character. A gap in the teeth! Like you see in the pic, she has all teeth with gap and a little

rounded on the edges. Using or not Mouth Realism HD they do the same thing. I tried to replace everything from the Start Bundle G3F but nothing change.

Thanks!

Does Smart content require a good internet connection?

Xyetzt — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 15:13:03 +0000

Does Smart content require a strong internet connection? Sometimes it seems when my internet connection is weak smart content fails to show any content. Are they connected or coincidentally accruing at similar time?

How to change the rendered background from black to white

Debbie911 — Wed, 27 Mar 2019 11:54:19 +0000

Here is the screen shot of the image I was rendering, and the completed image, as a .jpg file.

What can I do, in DAZ Studio, to change the black background to white?

Thank you in advance for your help.

Debbie

Can't rename my CMS categories.

lukon100 — Wed, 27 Mar 2019 18:34:43 +0000

After migrating to a new computer with my Library at a different path, and re-loading my metadata, I can no longer rename any of my categories. It seems reloading the metadata and all that has converted my user categories (used to have a "U" in their icons) to non-user categories.

Can I get the ability to rename my user categories back?

Radeon 570 8 gb sapphire nitro+ for IRay rendering?

handel_035c4ce6 — Wed, 27 Mar 2019 15:18:59 +0000

Beeing on a tight budget, I am trying to look for cheaper alternatives to 1070 and higher video cards. So my question is - will be a Radeon 570 8 gb sapphire nitro+ video card much slower for Iray renders then 1070 with 8 GB VRAM?

Putting an image on a cylinder side primitive

mlominy — Wed, 27 Mar 2019 15:23:03 +0000

I'm trying to make a can of soup. To do so, I have loaded, dimensioned and converted to Iray a cylinder primitive.

My question: how do I put an image (jpg made with photoshop) or writing on the cylinder side, to simulate a label?

I know how to put an image on a primitive plane, but that is not the same geometry here.

DAZ Studio - Install failed

anakoart — Wed, 27 Mar 2019 12:21:31 +0000

Hi! I've been trying to install DAZ but it turned out to be a nightmare. I don't have enough space on C:, so the very first thing I did was change ALL the paths in the manager to my custom folders on W:/DAZ . It was before anything even started downloading. However, it can't install DAZ Studio itself and have no idea what to do.

UI Lag-Tools Menu

Neen — Wed, 27 Mar 2019 15:19:19 +0000

Hello,

Just recently I started to get lag in Daz Sudio 4.10.(Tools Menu)

The only Tools that don't have lag are the Scene Nav Tool and Node Selection Tool.

The rest when selected result in lag lasting seconds even when the scene is empty.

I also tried Daz Studio 4.11 beta and get the same result.

Any help appreciated.

Install Manager

bvyahoo81548 — Wed, 27 Mar 2019 02:48:37 +0000

Is there a way to reset the install manager back to factory defaults.

DIM Issue in Migration to New PC with Different LIbrary Path. (Solved)

lukon100 — Sun, 24 Mar 2019 07:58:40 +0000

I copied my library over to my new PC, at a different path.

I then installed DIM and DS.

I changed the library in DS and the installation directory for DIM to that different path.

But DIM still thinks I have thousands of models to download (over again). I suppose this is because the new PC does not have the models in it's dowload archive. Those models are only archived on the old PC.

So, is there a way to fix this? Some log file of archived downloads to transfer?

White background on some interface elements

frederick.reilly — Wed, 27 Mar 2019 01:54:19 +0000

Hi all,

I searched all over the place and couldn't find anything, so here I am.

Parts of the interface have white backgrounds, which make the text illegible. I uninstalled and reinstalled it, but the problem persists.

I'm running DAZ Studio 4.10.0.123 Pro on Windows 10, Surface Pro.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Daz Studio 4.10 Pro Unable to save asset group

flare_dbd185b4ba — Wed, 27 Mar 2019 07:57:15 +0000

Hi,
An asset with a structure like attached image imported by OBJ,
From Flie> Save AS> support Asset> Figure / prop asset,
I registered in the attached image option settings,
When I open the registered asset from Smart Content,
What is wrong, only one group without content is registered,
It is not possible to register the entire asset including the camera.

※ I can register without problems if you register only with single object, not group.

Even if I investigate it in various ways, I am stuck without knowing the cause.
I would be glad if you could have a professor.

thank you

Tab Stuck

BrandonColeman107 — Wed, 27 Mar 2019 02:56:22 +0000

Hey so my content Tab is stuck in the corner of my screen is there anyway to get it docked back on the side please and thank you.

Is there an Iray Dermatologist in the House?

aaráribel caađo — Wed, 27 Mar 2019 01:55:04 +0000

I decided to convert a character that was using SC Joy for Genesis 3's default settings (I think) to a dual-lobe, chromatic SSS model, based on another character skin that's been very successful across many lighting conditions. Initally, I started by messing with the settings, but I started to get werid results with green SSS artifacts, so I started again, using the same material settings as the original character (figure 2 in the attached render). I swapped out the textures and lowered the saturation and boosted the luminosity of the various color channels to get the pale skin I was after. Things went weird again. I triple checked to make sure I wasn't missing textures, emission was turned on, and everything else I could think of. Then it occured to me that maybe the scene got bugged, so I loaded the other figure and rendered: it comes out fine.

I can't figure out why I'm getting this completely bizarre effect. In previous versions, it looked like the HDRI was being used as a map inside the skin shader (which it isn't). Any suggestions on fixing or trouble shooting this?

Genesis 3 to Gen 8 Clothing Converter Malfunction?

Hoofbeats — Wed, 27 Mar 2019 07:52:55 +0000

Hello everyone!

I purchased the gen 3 to 8 clothing converter today in an attempt to convert some of the gen 3 clothes I got in the DAZ store on sale for my gen 8 females. Unfortunately, only some of the items actually converted, and after reading the read-me several times, I cannot figure out what is going on. When I try to run the script it shows this pop up message that none of the items are selected, even though they are obviously checked. I have also run into a message that 0 out of 0 items have been converted successfully. Is there any way to fix this? I would love to use this script, but for some reason it's just not working for me. I have tried to restart my computer, and have restarted DAZ several times. Nothing has worked. Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you!