How do I prevent this?

Thanks,

Art

I hardly use Iray, anymore, because rendering is too slow, on my (now) old computer.

Does anyone have any suggestions of what kind of processor, graphics card, RAM and memory I should hunt for, when I pick up a new computer?

Should I look for a solid-state hard drive?  Or does that matter.

And...What does Iray require, to be practical?      

I downloaded the installer, and used that to install DAZ.  I also installed the Default Reources, and PostgreSQL.  Tried to start up DAZ,- stuck in a loop for eternity  "Upgrading CMS".  Researched that,- and there were suggestions to open up ports in firewalls, change ports in the program, and so on.  Tried every single option I found so far,- still no bueno.  

On a hunch, I started removed all the extra stuff that I had downloaded and installed using the install manager,- except for DAZ.  Low and behold, - it FINALLY loaded for me in about 2 seconds.  Then I got an error that PostgreSQL wasn't installed, blah blah... so I figured this is probably an important file.  Closed DAZ, and installed the PostgreSQL using the installer.  Started DAZ up, stuck in the eternal loop of upgrading CMS.  Tried deleting the whole thing, including the installer, and reinstalling from scratch.  Same thing.  

I decided to try and check the log file.  When I have the PostgreSQL CMS thing installed, and start DAZ, that log file fills up with an error.  And it doesn't stop until I stop DAZ (Have to end the process).  I'm at a loss here.  I have no clue how to interpret the log:

2017-04-27 23:05:08.469     VBO supported
2017-04-27 23:05:08.488 Creating Asset Manager...
2017-04-27 23:05:08.653 WARNING: dzpostgresqlobjectdatabase.cpp(37): Init db error: ERROR:  schema "dzcontent" does not exist

2017-04-27 23:05:08.653 Init db error: ERROR:  schema "dzcontent" does not exist

2017-04-27 23:05:08.654 WARNING: dzpostgresqlobjectdatabase.cpp(37): DB Select error: ERROR:  relation "tblType" does not exist
LINE 1: SELECT "RecID","fldType","fldDefaultLoad" FROM "tblType";
                                                       ^

2017-04-27 23:05:08.654 DB Select error: ERROR:  relation "tblType" does not exist
LINE 1: SELECT "RecID","fldType","fldDefaultLoad" FROM "tblType";
                                                       ^

2017-04-27 23:05:08.655 WARNING: dzpostgresqlobjectdatabase.cpp(37): DB Select error: ERROR:  relation "tblBasePath" does not exist
LINE 1: SELECT "RecID","fldBasePath" FROM "tblBasePath";
                                          ^

2017-04-27 23:05:08.655 DB Select error: ERROR:  relation "tblBasePath" does not exist
LINE 1: SELECT "RecID","fldBasePath" FROM "tblBasePath";

This is just a snippet.  It literally repeats, to the point where the log file is 1,231,478 KB big.  The first log I couldn't even open because it was so large, and had to delete it and let the program generate a new one so I could get whatever error was in there.

Support is insisting the following:  

If the Windows 10 update was done after your drivers updated last, it could result in issues like this. It also looks like a lot of files Daz Studio is attempting to read are missing. Did you manually install Daz Studio?

I updated to WIndows 10 when it first became available, which was what, a year or longer ago?  I've updated all my drivers and done all other updates since then.  As I mentioned earlier,- my videocard driver is from 4/25/17.  And, I've mentioned on several occasions I didn't do a manual install, at least not initially.  I've removed the whole thing and reinstalled it several times, one time which was a manual install.  

Someone brighter than me,- any ideas?  This program looks amazing, and I'm at my wits end on how to get it to work :(  .

Thank you.

So, I brought out my laptop, which already has DS installed, to compare. This one only has one drive, so everything is nice and straight forward, right? On the laptop, there are DAZ files installed on "programfiles," "programfiles 86," "shared documents" and in the location simply called "this computer/documents." The latter is where the Content Directory for DS is located, and thus all the gigabytes. And that's okay on the laptop, since the C-drive has all the space.

On my desktop, however... it's F that has the storage space. I've set it up to look exactly like C, as much as possible, to keep things nice and familiar for my ADHD brain. So "programfiles" "programfiles 86" and "shared documents" all exist on there. Now, here's the problem... Like I said, the Content Directory is located in "Documents," in a place simply called "this computer." I'm assuming this is not the same folder as Shared Documents, found under Users. Am I wrong here? This folder - Documents - exists on this two-drive computer as well, with no further indication of which drive it's on. Now, I'm guessing it's on C, because that's the default for everything. But like I already said, I cant have the DS Content directory there. I need to have it on F. Which brings us to:

Problem 1 - I need to have these files in a location I can easily identify, and where DS can find them and load them. Can I make a folder on F called "Documents" and put the Content Directory there? Last time I asked for help, I was simply told that it didn't matter what I called it, so just give it a name I would remember. Now, that didn't work as intended. DS couldn't find its content, which was in the default location on "this computer" instead of where I wanted it to go.

Problem 2 - I have bad inattentive ADHD. Trying to explain stuff always makes me stressed, because I know from experience that finding the correct words to describe the problem is necessary if I'm going to get help. Getting stressed makes my ADHD worse, and makes finding the right words more and more difficult, which makes my thought process more and more frantic. So, I'm just hoping that you understand what I'm trying to say. My brain feels like it's wanting to escape already, and I'm having problems even typing straight. 

ISSUE: Update of custom morphs appears to have failed, with the original morphs all that is showing through on a fresh load.

A search of the forums did not seem to find anything directly relevant.

I'm working on some custom morphs for a particular scenario.  They are both fairly extreme distortions of the base mesh and "cascading" in that, to achieve a sequence of "action", first one morph is applied, then a second and then a third. All good - and I was happy with iteration one, but then I had to change the object which the morphs were trying to fit around.  All good again and I came up with my three revised morphs.  The new morphs were created with slightly different names. When I was happy, I deleted the old morphs (edit mode / delete property) and renamed the new morphs to the old names.  I saved the scene .duf and I saved the three morphs using save as / support asset / morph asset.  As it happened, I can see after the event that I used a slighly different product name for the new set so in ... data / .../ <model>  /  morphs / <me> / , there are now two product directories with my three morphs, with the same names.

But when I reload the .duf, or put the model into a new blank scene, what I get appears to be my 6 Feb version of the morphs, not my 12 Feb version of the morphs.

I have tried renaming the 6 Feb morphs in their product file to different names - same problem.   I have tried copying the 12 Feb .dsf files into the 6 Feb product directory - same problem.

Any suggestions on both how to make my 12 Feb morphs ascendent now; and what workflow to follow in the future to not end up in this bind.

Thanks, Lx

Just an hour ago, it was working just fine, the minute I use power pose (1st time) they disappeared.

Now I can't find a way to move eyelids/eyes, even my poses expressions are useless.

Help!

Oh! I've already tried to do a re-import metadata and dial expressions are also useless. 

I can still move eye direction.

Here's what I am trying to do: I would like to create a New Property and link it to an existing property (XRotate) so that the new property is in a place that is more convenient for me to use it. Basically, I have a property way down in a list of nodes that I want available at the parent node so I don't have to dig down every time I want to make an adjustment.

So, how do I do that then?

Thanks in advance,

G

 This is strange and I am at a loss in how to correct it.

 Any suggestions would help.I am getting desperate.

 Thanks

I was told by the shop that water cooling isn’t needed for rendering. Unless there’s overclocking of course. Anyhow can I have iray experts’ opinion? Thanks so much!

When I reload the setting, it clears the other camera positions from the timeline.

Is this a bug?

Is there a way to keep this from happening?

I looked at the videos, but I can't find any tab for Look At My Hair in my DAZ app, so I'm stuck with bald animals. GRRRR. I have a MAC. Does that make this impossible? So sad about it.:( Where can I find it?

What might be going wrong?

I wish to achieve something like this using DAZ and with my library of assets... 

thanks

Any suggestions on how to fix this?

They'll be on the same network but is system to system the best way to go?  Would installing a fresh copy of DS & using current account re-install all of my product library from that, or will DIM be aware of all of my past purchases allowing me to install them through it?  I've other non Daz items as well & not quite sure how to sort those out; I susppose just see what's not reinstalled.

TNX

I purchased the following product:

https://www.daz3d.com/advanced-spotlight

I set up a test with these mushroom props.

I was hoping it would be a good light to light up my scenes, with a nice intense spotlight, but it does nothing. Worse, it renders a completely black scene. (see pictures). 

I cannot figure out what the heck I'm doing wrong. The viewport shows the lighting effect of the spotlight (see attached) but the render is black.

If I delete the spotlight from the scene, the scene renders normally with the default headlamp (no scene lights).

Am I missing something?

The first render is with the default headlamp, and the last render is with the spotlight and you can see nothing but a black screen. I have the spotlight turned up as far as it will go, 200% and yet the screen is black. You can see from the workspace screenshot that the mushrooms are hightlighted with the Advanced Spotlight. Why is the render black?

Then i got Daz Dog 2 and with it i got Victoria 8 for free. (excellent offer btw, really happy)

Now i can see Victoria 8 in the "figures" menu, i can load her up, but then i tried to apply some of the makeup and stuff she came with. RSL works fine, MDL doesn't do a thing. So i press render to see MDL does work for some things, and that wich does work doesn't show in the viewport. (a little bit weird, and kinda annoying)

When it comes to Tara 2, she's nowhere to be seen apart from her dials. No figure, no materials, no props, nothing.

I tried re-installing them to no affect.

So...  how do i approach this from here?

However, I'm not able to save my morph if, for instance, I use clothes made for G2F and AutoFit on my G3 character. What am I doing wrong? To be more precise, I'm able to import from Blender, verify that everything works properly and save my work, but the morph is lost if I close and re open DAZ.