BTW: Will Bryce run in windows 10?

Every couple months daz likes to bug out randomly and my keybindings stop working. Can't navigate with wsad, etc. It's annoying. This happened again two days ago. I don't want to have to reset the settings again so I ignored it and just used my mouse. Yesterday I loaded a scene and my mouse left click stopped properly. Instead of being able to select nodes, it ended up just click-drag navigating the scene. This won't work for me so I reset daz settings to get my basic functions back.

Did I mention that a month ago I spent 2 days organizing all of my smart content into newly created folders and a naming scheme I could understand? Well now that's all gone. All the organization has vanished. Thanks a lot.

Does anyone know why these bugs happen, how to prevent them, and how to restore settings without deleting my organized smart content folder structure? This is completely unacceptable.

There is a way to import Daz studio character rig to 3ds max biped?

thanks 

Short questions: Are the birds and circadias from Polygonal Miniatures rigged or static objects?

Best wishes

Ryselle-Ryssa

Small, but annoying issue. Everytime I start up DAZ Studio 10 or 11, he updates metadata for 2k objects. Question 1: Is that normal, and if yes, can I tell him to do this, I dont know, 1 time per week, instead of always? When I tell him to "work offline" he simply "hangs himself up" and I have to "kill" the application via task-manager.

Second, also annoying, when he does this, my internet doesn't work anymore.

Any solutions?

Thank you in advance!

HOW do you prevent this from happening?  It seems to just pick a time to start doing this - starting the render over from Iteration 1 - when minor tone mapping adjustments are made.  I can find no rhyme or reason to when DAZ decides to do this.  I've had it happen on scene files I've used many times without the problem arising.  I've had it happen on brand new scene files, and not on other brand new scene files.  I've tried to see what I'm doing that might cause this, but I haven't been able to discern the cause.

Does anyone have any ideas?  I've just had this cost me an hour and 45 minutes of my day.  DAZ finds LOTS of ways to waste my time, and it would be nice to be able to get some of these boogers blown into a hanky. 

Thanks in advance.

I am not sure what causes this.  I don't recall changing any render settings; yet today, my renders look like this and get worse the longer the render is allowed.  If left alone, the character will seem to disappear.

If I turn on Draw Dome, the effect is reversed.  It happens with the default lighting and with HDRIs.  The preview lights and headlamp are not on.

I"ve tried rebooting, it still does the same thing. It was working fine last night, even earlier today. I haven't changed anything on my computer or installed anything other than some DAZ purchases.

Is there anything else i should try before I submit a help ticket? (I already know that customer support probably won't help me because I use DS 4.8)

(I can attach the actual bug report if anyone knows how to make heads or tails out of it)

I have two HD's in my machine the main drive C:/ has DS and is where my daz libraries live. I also have second drive that holds my external poser runtime folders which are linked to DS. I think  that secondary drive is having issues it's an old drive and from time to time every few minutes I hear a small thump. My question is if I should need to swap that drive out with another drive, in which I have with all the same Poser runtime folders on it, will I need to relink it to DS or will not effect DS at all? I'm guessing since the other drive is listed D:/ and swapping the drives will not change the letter of the drive DS should just see it as D:/ drive? 

If it's in fact the C:/ then that's a no brainer the drive will need to be replaced and will have to do fresh installs of everything. But I'm pretty sure it's that D:/ drive since it's it old. I really need to boot the mechanical drives out and move up to SSD's at some point.

Thanks

I recently purchased Actual Eyes 4 for Genesis 2 and find that, for the most part, it suits my needs perfectly. I can find a suitable colour preset for almost all of my models.

Almost.

There's one in particular that's proving kind of awkward.

https://pasteboard.co/I6gbRxB.png

Ain't no preset for this.

Usually when I want to change the colour of something, I just copy the diffuse image, edit it, then apply the edited version, but that doesn't seem to work with AE4. I also tried the layered image editor just incase. Am I missing something, or is this just not possible? Thanks for taking the time to read my question. Any help is appreciated. 

https://pasteboard.co/I6gj4cb.png

Thanks in advance

So far, no good. My old system is running dual 1080's. Rendering the same scenes with the same settings, both in the 4.11 public build, the following happens: at the start, the RTX's take the lead as you would expect. They're a bit slower to kick in but when they do, they rapidly overtake the 1080's on iterations. Then, several minutes in, there is an inevitable slowdown. Sometimes this is accompanied by a black screen, other times it isn't. If a black screen is there, I eventually get my feed back and it appears as though nothing has crashed and Iray is still rendering. This is half true. Iray does still render, though at a crawl, but canceling the render immediately shuts down Daz Studio.

The 1080's, meanwhile, are happily chugging along. While the RTX's outpaced them at first, they catch up and steam by. Basically, I've not rendered anything to completion with my RTX's yet, because they never make it through the whole process.

What is going on here? Is it Turing architecture simply not playing nice with the 4.11 public build? Then why do others get such stellar results? Is it faulty hardware, problematic drivers? Is it an insufficient PSU? I have an 850w Corsair that by all accounts should suffice, but it could be that a 1000w would've been better suited. I guess this is easily tested by disabling one of the cards and seeing what happens. Meanwhile, I could really use some insight from others. I'm worried that I might've gotten two RTX's from a sick batch, since what other explanation can there be for 1080's outperforming it?

Will this work as I hope it will, improving Daz 3D iRay rendering?   Does Windows 10 play nice with Thunderbolt-connected external GPUS?

Josh

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See the attached image; note that:

1) DAZ Studio says that the CPU and both GPUs are being used.

2) TechPowerUp says that the GPUs are running at  around 98% GPU load (only one is shown at a time, but the story is the same for both)

3) Task manager shows GPU Utilisation between 0% and 1%)

Am I misunderstanding Task Manager? Is it lying? Is TechPowerUp lying? I'm confused.

Could someone help me understanding why Daz skips my GPU and moves onto the CPU for rendering? Is it simply that 8GB is too less memory for this particular scene?

DS 4.11 Beta's Universal Tool highlights anything the cursor lands on, much like 4.10's Surface Selection tool. (Image2) Since the Universal Tool is what I mostly use, I find this distracting, annoying, and much less useful.

Is there a way to remove the highlight (i.e. change the view so it's like the older style)?

Thanks in advance.

Recently I've been experimenting with lighting when using the 3Delight renderer. I'm currently using UberEnviroment with AoA's lights bundle and so far i'm satisfied, but as my renders are getting better, I'm always looking for new ways to make them... even better.

After AoA's light pack, I purchased the new Reflective Radiance, but I'm experiencing MONSTROUS increase in render times. My last render (can't show it here because of the TOS) in full HD resolution took ~15 minutes to finish with AoA's lights and quite high quality settings on UE (occlusion with soft shadows) and the 3DL render settings itself. However, when I re-did the scene with Reflective Radiance, it seemed the render has completely stalled at 0%. 15 minutes of waiting yielded absolutely nothing, even a single pixel rendered, while my laptop got so hot I could boil eggs on it.

So my questions are:

1) how does IBL master impact render times? I know, there's info on the product page... but is it really faster than UE, for example in Bounce Light mode?

2) is this any good with indoor scenes? My scenes are typically indoors, but I always delete, for example a wall that's not in the camera viewport by turning its opacity to 0% to let UE light in. It works flawelessly in almost all situations. Does IBL Master gonna work the same way?

3) Where do I find compatible HDRI images to load onto the IBL sphere? Do I buy them somewhere, or is there any free resource that I don't know of? What resolution do they have to have?

4) Does this product work well with AoA's lights or standard DS lights? I use A LOT of spotlights for indoor scenes. I mostly work with naked figures, so I'm using these spotlights to bring all the details of the body to life.

5) are there any tutorials except for the one on DAZ page?

I am experiencing this weird issue when closing the eyes of a G8F. I was not able to determine whether the problem originates from a (resident) setting or a bug.

It happens with all the G8F figures I have: when I close the eyes of the character, the right eye closes normally while the left one remains a kind of open. Please, can you help me fixing this?

Thank you,

AH

I am interested how good will DS work on it and should I use it for rendering. I have older desktop that works good with DS but was thinking to use this one too after reading this article, for now I am ready to use Bryce on it as I think that is ok.

Can someone tell what should I do please, as I don't have that much experience and before I was advised not to use lap tops for serious rendering?