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I've managed somehow to remove my 'content' pane from it's normal place.

lryhall_17d185bd0d — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 22:47:39 +0000

I was clicking to my render settings pane and chose the setting I wanted there. Boom! I was ready to render! (Not so fast there, slomo...) I clicked out of render settings pane and found somehow I'd placed the render settings pane to where my content library pane used to be. My content library pane went away. I did manage to find it under Window/Panes. I just can't figure out how to undo the damage I've done. When I click on the Window/pane/content library icon. A tiny little box pops up that I can't figure out any way to make it entirely visible. What I'd be eternally grateful for is for someone to say, 'There, there, you poor man. ALL you have to do is.......' One day I'll be a veritable Daz Studio Wizard, (Can anyone live that long?) and I won't have to bother anyone ever again. Except for my dog. And he's been staring at me with a concerned look all day.

What causes dark halos around irises?

Toothtail — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 06:10:41 +0000

Hello,

Could someone direct me to how I might troubleshoot this eyeball problem? Eyes seem to be duller than expected, and dark halos appear around the irises.

I am using that standard genesis 8 head morph tool to combine the Girl 8 and Paige --it results in large eyes, and I wonder if that might be causing this. I tried a number of different eye maps but same problem. (I already reset all iris and pupil shaping so that doesn't seem to be it.)

I've attached pictures of the render and viewport. I'm sure this is a simple problem, but I just didn't know what the effect is called. Could someone clue me in?

Thanks!

Genesis 8 Problem to Pose

mrjo_7 — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 16:28:29 +0000

Genesis 8 Problem to Pose.

What caused someone? Will there be a solution?

Help Me Please. Thank You Sir.

DS 4.10. Very long selection and deletion of characters

GETSX — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 07:30:16 +0000

For example, I put an basic G8 (M or F, without a difference) in an empty scene. First I choose a character in Scene Tabs, RMB, in the drop-down menu I click "Select All" and wait a long time. Daz Studio doesn't react to anything for more than 3 minutes, while the CPU load stably keeps at the level of 32-33%. The same thing happens when I delete a character (although it seems to be a little faster). Exactly the same behavior on Genesis 1-3 and Aiko 4.

When deleting clothes/hair dressed on a character, there is no problem. Partial selection of characters, for example Neck Lower -> Select Children proceeds normally (~1 sec). DS and related directories (DSON Cache, etc.) are added to real-time anti-virus check exceptions. What could be the reason for such inhuman behavior?

PCI lanes and rendering with AMD

spswafford — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 02:08:34 +0000

Looking at the Ryzen and Threadripper series. Was wondering if someone has experience to say if more PCI lanes makes a difference for rendering. Ryzen has 24 and Threadripper has 64. If it doesn't make a difference, then no reason to spend extra money on Threadripper.

Keymate asking for registration!? [SOLVED]

takezo_3001 — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 23:49:44 +0000

I have the serial, and it's installed through DIM yet when I input the serial it says: This plugin must be registered to be enabled.

EDIT: I also filled out a support ticket, but hopefully it can be resolved sooner...

Thanks No45 it worked and I am silly for not realizing this before I posted and wrote out a ticket!

Simulation Settings options missing?

butterflyfish — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 05:27:42 +0000

OK, nevermind. I think I figured out the problem. I need more caffeine.

Daz4 search engine

Vitachick — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 16:49:13 +0000

Any reason why I do a search and everything not realated to the search shows up? I keep trying to use Daz but extremely

frustrating

Reinstalled Goz

cole4965 — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 22:24:10 +0000

I was having a some glitches and I reinstalled Daz Studio. I also had reinstall Goz.. Now when I take Genesis 3 figure into ZBrush at the base resoluiton and then try to go back to Daz through Goz it starts a new instance of Daz studio and only wants to import as obj. Anyone run intot hat before?

Thanks

DIM won't install Heilong outfit textures

WendyLuvsCatz — Sat, 02 Mar 2019 12:04:11 +0000

DIM just won't install Heilong outfit textures, I have retried downloading, is it just me?

I can try manually grabbing the zip otherwise but want to know if it is some issue I just have or a general one

LAMH 2 Iray Catalyzer Does Not Show Up

DarkElf — Sun, 13 Jan 2019 02:30:02 +0000

I purchased LAMH 2 Iray Catalyzer long ago and it used to be visible in DS. I even had a tab for it set up. At some point the tab disappeared - don't know when - and now I cannot find or access it.

It is not in my DS Window/Tabs even though the DIM indicates it is installed.

I even went into the DIM and uninstalled it and reinstalled it and nothing.

I rebooted - nothing.

I uninstalled, reinstalled and rebooted - nothing.

Can anybody tell me how to get this thing to show up so I can use it?

I can put in a help ticket but will have to wait until Monday for any help. ;-)

Broadway lights problem - missing files

ValKyrie — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 19:32:44 +0000

Getting this error message when I try to load the high intensity bulb (and low as well) materials. I did an auto install followed by a manual install. Notice the path. Why would it be looking for files on the desktop?

In case it's hard to read the attachment it says:

Some assets needed to load the file were missing. The content may not work as expected. The following files could not be found:

users/admin/desktop/broadway_light_bulbs_letterings_ansiko/runtime/textures/ansiko/broadway light bulbs letterings/blbl_baselamp_basecolor.png

users/admin/desktop/broadway_light_bulbs_letterings_ansiko/runtime/textures/ansiko/broadway light bulbs letterings/blbl_baselamp_height.png

users/admin/desktop/broadway_light_bulbs_letterings_ansiko/runtime/textures/ansiko/broadway light bulbs letterings/blbl_baselamp_roughness.png

Le Village help - I think it's reversed normals

nonesuch00 — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 09:56:33 +0000

Faveral's Le Village Bundle help - I think it's reversed normals.

It has 4 building types but I don't want to repeat them so much so as a test the scaled the Book Store -100.0% on the X axis, last building on the right, it is not so visible it looks like a black smudge in the attached example render.

It works as now the doors & windows & such as reversed and backwards to the other side but even though the surfaces are still there & configured the surfaces of the scale -100.0% on X building is completely black.

I think the normals are reversed. How do I again reverse/flip the normals without undoing scale -100.0% on X?

Thanks!

Genesis 3 to Genesis 8 Pose Converter - Error

fibyken — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 14:13:23 +0000

Anyone know how to resolve issue with converted poses not working?

I converted a group of poses and most of them work but some give an error when I attempt to use the converted pose. This is what I find in the log file.

2019-03-01 08:59:32.791 C:/Users/Public/Documents/My DAZ 3D Library/People/Genesis 8 Male/Poses/Converted/Sleeping and Napping/SAN Him Bed 04.duf (1,43): Syntax Error - expected ',' or '}'

Has anyone else experienced this?

Thanks

How to work with a Virtual Assistant onDAz

ds1695 — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 14:23:40 +0000

How can I set this up.

I want to have Daz3d. I would be buying items from the shop. I would like my Virtual Assistiant too design and render the graphics, but I want to have control of the stuff I buy so if does not work out

I still can use the items that I bought from the shop. I do nor want too give the VA remote access to my computer.

How would I go about setting this up so everything is legal?

Separate subdivision levels

Drakhian — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 17:52:54 +0000

Hello, I have a question. Is it possible to have separate subdivision levels on a figure like, for a genesis figure, the face at subdivision 0 and the rest of the body at subdivision 2?

Daz to Maya Help

RYC — Sat, 23 Feb 2019 04:57:07 +0000

Trying to use the daz to maya plugin. Installed per the horrendous directions however when I click daz to maya within maya nothing happens.. at all. Could it be that daz to maya has not updated to Maya 2019? When I get to the plugin manager in maya and hit refresh I get the following error..

Error: file: C:/Program Files/Autodesk/Maya2019/scripts/others/pluginWin.mel line 1211: Object 'PluginInfoWin|windowLyt' not found.

Any ideas?

Creating new figures: some setup trouble

guilledcf — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 00:16:48 +0000

Hi! I'm having some problems setting this old model of mine into DAZ:

Notice how the bounding box looks all wrong when i select the main body. Dammit i should have used the gizmo tool -- well trust me, it's all zeroed. Bounding boxes for each bone other than the main body look fine. I remember this happening to me in the past. I'm not sure how (or if tbh) i fixed it.

help plz :)

(SOLVED) PostgreSQL Error at loading Daz // downloading from DIM

Cherubit — Sat, 02 Mar 2019 08:09:18 +0000

Today my Smart Content disappeared. I close Daz and opened again, and got this message:

Closed Daz again, opened DIM to check for PostgreSQL, and for some reason they were in the Ready to Install tab. I clicked to install, and nothing happened (was forever at 0%).

I force closed DIM, opened again, right clicked all postgreSQL options and deleted from my computer, to download them again.

Downloaded and installed.

Loaded Daz, same problem.

Now I see a version of PostgreSQL I had never seen before that comes with Valentina name. Is it new?

Also in the image above the symbols on the right look weird, and there is a question mark on the first one where it was supposed to be the file size. (the one i downloaded was around 27 or 37 MB, and both show as if they occupy zero memory)

Can someone please help me figure that out? :(

Recommendations for best PC

fiddleother — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 00:37:48 +0000

I use a Mac and I average a couple hours rendering a single picture, a full day or more to render 10 frame animations. Since my low end Mac does not allow for alterations and upgrades I’ve decided to go with PC. Any suggestions on what would be the best commercial (as opposed to built) PC capable of dramatically speeding up my rendering? I’d like to keep it around $1500 if possible.

thank you.

Another half a day wasted....

Causam3D — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 18:37:24 +0000

Yep, another crash that cost me two hours of work plus the two hours it'll take me to reconstruct what I was doing. Submitted the crash report to DAZ, again... undoubtedly they'll ask me to duplicate the error as opposed to reading the crash report.

"Sure, I'll spend four hours trying to duplicate the error, that'll be $100 in my paypal for the consulting fee, please."

Here's an idea. Instead of generating an error report they apparently don't even read, why not have the software save the session to a temp location so that you can recover it? Gosh, I think that would be a fantastic feature. Never happen though.

Workspace Custom Styles

allanon — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 21:54:26 +0000

While just goofing around today I loaded a custom color scheme style that I hadn't used in a while. Well one goofy thought led to another so set out to locate where these style configurations are kept; just to see how long ago I put them together. I was able to find he file location for the Styles that originally loaded with the progrm, but was unable to find the file location for the custome ones that I made. I'm currently using ver 4.10.0.107. Does anyone know where these files can be found?

Morphs Disappearing on Scene Load

circapunk23 — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 16:21:40 +0000

Hello,

I am having an issue with the FBMFitness morphs. When I use them on a Gen 8 figure and then save a scene, close it, and then reopen the scene I get a notice telling me the FMBFitness morphs I have used are missing on the figure. But when I load a new Gen 8 figure into that same scene, the new figure will have the morphs in the parameters tab- while the old figure still does not. It's worth mentioning, that similar morphs such as Bodybuilding are not impacted when reopening the scene- just the FBMFitness.

Any ideas what could be causing this?

Thank you.

NVIDIA and link to driver 417.71

damselnoir007 — Fri, 15 Feb 2019 21:21:55 +0000

Just finished a chat w a crack NVIDIA customer tech. She refused to comment on, if NVIDIA was working on a patch to allow my card, the RTX 2080 to render in DAZ3D ever again. She did rebut me as to the 2080 being a gaming card and its not meant for use in any professional application.... anyway, I did manage to get a link to the driver ver 417.71 out of her. Which is the driver version, folks say will make NVIDIA cards work with the Iray softway, NVIDIA help create with DAZ3D to render images...that their tech reps say "shouldn't work"... So if you have a NVIDIA card that need the old driver, heres the link form their site

https://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/141906/en-us

Good luck!

When newly created JCM's are saved, controller link is missing.

Falco — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 15:07:16 +0000

When I create JCMs by overwriting existing JCMs, I can save them and they work fine. However when I create brand new JCMs by creating the morph and ERC linking them to the joint, they work fine in the original scene, but when I save out the asset as a figure/prop asset, and then save the morph as a support asset, when the clothing item is applied to a new character the morphs exist but the controller information linking them to the joint is missing and the morph doesn't move with the joint.

How do I save this out properly?

The part circled in red is what is missing when the morph is saved.

Can material zones be easily deleted in Daz Studio? (Solved)

lukon100 — Sat, 02 Mar 2019 16:57:41 +0000

In my screenshot you can see that my object/node called "Headlight_Bezels" has multiple material zones. I want it to have only one. So. can all but one be deleted?

The multiple material zones come from errors in the file conversion process I use to convert Sketchup .kmz format models to .obj models. The materials often come out all scrambled. And after I try to delete all the extra material zones in Blender, such zones still show up when I load the model into Daz Studio. (Yes, Blender, that "gold standard" of "do anything", will fool you into thinking you are delting material zones, but it actually just hides them from your interface and keeps them. And "really" deleting them is a complex process that Blender gurus can't even agree on.)

How to erase the noises during the rendering

Hjacob — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 12:52:55 +0000

Whether I used the domes or the linear lights, the little white points (noises) always occur in my rendering images. How to erase them? shall I change the render settings or install some plugins?

Where Is It: Daz Studio Content Creation Mastery Bundle

mwokee — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 00:39:56 +0000

I purchased and installed "Daz Studio Content Creation Mastery Bundle" but I am unable to find it inside Daz Studio. I assume it's a set of videos but it's not in any of the video menus when I drill down into them.

Thanks for any help.

Missing Surfaces on Object

Advint — Sun, 03 Mar 2019 23:46:07 +0000

For context: Daz Studio public beta (Though I think this is an issue unrelated to it being the beta version)
As the post says I'm missing 6 surfaces on an object applied to an actor. I was messing around with their settings and had the viewport running in Iray mode. Next thing I know while daz stops responding to start using Iray, the surfaces I had selected are gone. (Or at least I think that's what happened.) And gone they have stayed, so I need to find a way to restore them. Now, I do have another computer with Daz installed, and everything is fine there, so if it's something like copying over a user file to fix it, I have a back-up.

Ex of missing options in surface tab:
Torso front (followed by it's subsets)
Torso back (followed by it's subsets)

I've tried a number of things such as overwriting the files for the object from the original package. As well as importing the database metadata from my other PC, and reinstalling the database dependancies on the PC with the issues.

Problems with installing Smart Content from Daz Connect onto External Hard Drive

Epic82 — Sun, 03 Mar 2019 14:16:29 +0000

On February 7, I started a discussion here in which I asked whether I could use an external or internal hard drive to store the large amount of Daz Connect content I own. I decided to purchase a WD 4TB My Book Desktop External Hard Drive. I installed this external hard drive and followed instructions on videos like this one to create a storage pool to combine my 1 TB internal drive with the 4 TB external drive, thinking that would be the way to combine both drives. But even though I’ve created a storage pool, as you can see in the second attachment below, when I install more content through Daz Connect, the content continues to fill only the internal hard drive. And when I fill the internal hard drive completely, different programs start to crash, like Daz Studio, Google Chrome, and even my desktop wallpaper disappears. I’ve uninstalled some of my content so I can write this post without the internet crashing, but the first attachment below shows how much storage space I have left on my internal and external drives.

I, honestly, don’t know what I’m doing. How can I get my computer to install Smart Content onto my external drive?