Technical Help (nuts n bolts) - Daz 3D Forums

spot rendering

alanthompson9187 — Sun, 03 Mar 2019 09:24:49 +0000

Hi Eveyone, I'm not getting a pop up window when doing a spot render, so can not cancel during the render, it keeps rendering until its finished.

I submitted a help ticket, but thought I would try here as well.

watsam — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 07:41:45 +0000

Hi, I've used Daz 3d for a long time. I have used 4.10 since it's release with no issue. About a week ago, I was doing a 3delight render, and the program froze. This has happened from time to time, no big deal. I closed everything and rebooted. When everything came back on, I tried to load Daz 3D. It started fine, on the loading screen, but when the loading screen disappeared for the main window to display, the program minimized. I couldn't get it to maximize. I found the render it froze on in the temp folder, and deleted it, but nothing would bring the program interface up. Since then, I have tried uninstalling everything, reinstalling to c:\program files, I've even tried reinstalling to c:\daz\ with an entirely new content folder as well but nothing solves the issue. I have tried with and without install manager. There have been no changes to my system at all, I didn't have any new assets installed, nothing, no windows updates, no driver changes or anything whatsoever - just that render error. I've had dozens of renders freeze up over the years, but none have caused any issues whatsoever. As far as I can tell, none of my system settings, including image/3d settings, were changed by this error. I'm considering a complete system restore but I don't feel like it should come to that - I've never been locked out of a program like this!

Here are a few images of what I'm seeing: https://imgur.com/a/ZEdkGJE

Splitting content folders

invisigoth — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 21:43:59 +0000

i have been thinking, of customizing my content folders...for practical reasons ...basically having one content folder for genesis and genesis 2

and another for genesis 3 and 8

my question is, would it cause much trouble in daz studio?...also, if i got genx2, would having the separated folders cause errors?

if you are wondering...i want to do this because i use carrara more than daz studio...and as of now, c8.5 can only work with g1 and g2 figures

Can't change facial expressions with Genesis 2 Male Head Morphs

TimeCrafter — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 07:34:37 +0000

I purchased the Genesis 2 Male Head Morphs and I do not know how to change the facial expressions of the figure using these morphs.

I get a lot of options to change the sizes and shapes of parts of the face and head, but where do i go to change an expression to sad or happy?

Thanks

exporting chars for other animation

ryotoole — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 19:05:15 +0000

Hi there,

I am in a strange situation. I am a director creating a new film with a DAZ 3D animator. The animator has created custom characters using DAZ assets (most of which are free from what I can tell). Can the animator export and provide me the file(s) necessary to have other animators use the same characters in other animations? They seem to think it is impossible or not allowed. Anyone have any information around this? How can I go about this in a fair and correct way? Is there a precedent? Any help is greatly appreciated!

Medusa Maker

Grovelight — Sat, 02 Mar 2019 09:03:12 +0000

Having a problem having more than one version of this hair on a character as when i come to apply materials it only affects the first one. I wanted to have a thicker set of snakes but using 2-3 sets of this hair in different poses but in essence cant seme to colour them past the first using the materials. Is there something I am doing wrong?

Max3Ds OBJ's (vray rendered) in Daz3D?

mx90209 — Mon, 04 Feb 2019 08:02:39 +0000

Sites like turbosquid sell a bunch of 3d models in the obj format, which I know daz3d can handle no problem. But almost all of these objects are done for the vray render. Would importing such an object be a hassle? Would they work out of the box OK in iray, just like 3dlight does? Or is it really hard to convert the materials?

UVs for Genesis 3 Female don't work correctly

Lagrange — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 09:35:13 +0000

May be this was discussed before, I googled a bunch of topics but they were so damn large with nothing clear. So I ask this ones again - what in the world happening when I try to put G2F skin on G3F? I do have UVs for this but you see the result. Face and body are more or less correct, other stuff is screwed.

I don't have same problem between V4, G1, G2.

This is not about one exact skin, this happenes to all of them, I tried.

None of the UVs give correct result.

How do we solve it?

Remove Script from Script menu?

vonHobo — Sat, 02 Mar 2019 04:21:50 +0000

Is there a way to remove a script once it's added to the Scripts drop-down menu of DAZ Studio?

I have looked everywhere for instructions but can't find any. There must be a way.

If you can add a script there must be a way to remove it as well.

Please help!

Small Room Kit

vonHobo — Sat, 02 Mar 2019 00:03:13 +0000

I purchased this item called Small Room Kit:

https://www.daz3d.com/small-room-kit

Although it's a great little room and very versatile, any figure that is merged into the scene is standing to where the feet are below the carpet, up to the ankles.

Is there any adjustment to fix this issue?

Do I lower the whole room? Then save it as a pre-load whenever I need it so that I don't have to adjust it again?

Thanks. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

See attached pic.

Adding products to a picture, getting red X

olofwessels — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 22:38:20 +0000

Hi guys,

I've got a small problem when trying to add a product to a picture, I'm getting a red X no matter what I try so obviously I'm doing something wrong.

I've tried adding just the text that pops up when you start typing your text in the input box
I've tried inputting the www link (with and without https://)

So what's the right way to do it? Because I'd really like to give credits to the creators of the products I'm using to create my renders.
Sorry for the noob question and thanks in advance for the help

USB C External Daz Lib

Advint — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 21:57:54 +0000

I know this has been brought up before but not specifically mentioning a USB-C or Thunderbolt drive. As the title says I transfered my library to the external drive in order to be able to work on things from my laptop when I was out for some time. So I transfered everything from my desktop PC library onto the external. From my Laptop I pointed Daz Studio 4.11 and 4.10 to the library on the external drive. However in both instances the library doesn't appear in the smart content or content library tabs of daz studio. I have further mapped the drive to F:/ in order to insure that it remains consistent. Installing the content through DiM seems to work, but I don't see why that would and the transfer of files wouldn't have. DiM points to F:/My Daz Library, just as Daz studio does. At this point I'm at a loss, so I'm asking for suggestions.

Oh and the laptop doesn't have a large enough drive for me to transfer the files directly onto it. I may try a seperate external drive shortly to experiment and see if it's a drive specific issue.

I have further attached images of the content directory for Daz Studio and DiM to avoid any confusion.

Help, how to install third party content

daancouzijn — Sat, 12 May 2018 10:01:48 +0000

Hey Guys.

I'm fairly new and I would really like some help for installing third party content. Could someone lead the way? It'd be very helpful!

Thanks in advance.

Daan

PostgreSQL CMS connection could not be established

daancouzijn — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 17:06:01 +0000

Hey guys,

I hope someone will be able to help me. I uninstalled and re-installed DAZ3D to clean things up but now, after I've re-installed, I get the following message when I start the software:

"A valid PostgreSQL CMS connection could not be established. Several DAZ Studio features that require a valid PostgreSQL CMS connection, such as context aware content views and loading content installed using the DAZ Connect service, will not be available. Check your network, anti-virus, and firewall settings for conflicts."

Does anyone have any idea on how to solve this problem?

x Daan

Wierd Artifacts in viewports

williamcathey — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 07:38:11 +0000

I'm getting some wierd 'echo' trails in my viewports. It's almost as if previous frames aren't being removed when a new frame is drawn. Anyone know why this is happening and how to fix it?

It's done this ever since I updated to 4.10

Daz carga pero no presenta nada en sus cventanas de menu

DACKZO777 — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 06:14:23 +0000

Tenía cargado Daz en mi Mac pero de un momento a otro dejó de aparecer al menú en las ventanas, solo aparecen grises las letras y no me deja seleccionar nada ni en las ventanas ni en el programa, ¿a alguien le ha sucedido, cual es la soloción? ya lo cergué de nuevo varias veces y el resultado es el mismo, ayuda.

Does anyone know if this product supports iray?

ac_mr_blonde — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 02:29:37 +0000

https://www.daz3d.com/mishka-hair-g2

I can't tell if it's 3delight or iray, and it's kind of old, so I'm wary of assuming.

Crazy large save files

Corndog36 — Mon, 25 Feb 2019 21:06:09 +0000

I've done about 40 renders with a scene containing 2 characters with clothing and a few furnishings. I was noticing that the save times were getting considerably longer as I went along with my story so I checked the save files. The first few are around 24 MB and the last one is 988 Mb. I'm using the animation timeline for Dforce simulation, which is the only thing I can think of that is changing from one render to the next.

AoA graphic camera + Atmosphere cameras ... Fusion ?

MaloneXI — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 09:21:53 +0000

Hi all ,

as part of my comic book project, I need your help about a thing I don't understand... Atmospheric cameras.

Explanations:

For that project , I didn't want a realistic rendering but a visual close to a manga or this kind of things.
In the project history, I tried some intersting things like Manga Shader, PwnTool , etc, but most of the time, the shader had to be applied on each part of the models of the scene. Really difficult knowing all my scenes are already composed with hundreds of elements, and still a lot of work in front of me.
So , in our beloved forums , somebody advised me on the use of Age Of Armour's graphic camera, that is exactly what I was looking for : a generated graphic effet directly in the camera itself. No need to lose time applying a shader (too late ... In the others case , If I had known I would have started with that right from the start).

The problem ( yes , excuse my english, I'm french, I'm a bit long to explain things lol ) is that I have to use atmospheric process to create a kind of fog inside my scenes. A pollution fog in a futur urban city. And it's the point I need you so much lol

For exemple :

In that case , the police car is flying to the depths of the city. I used the Marshian's "Above the Fog" prop, to simulate a kind of layer of pollution. I used it because I could. The fog is not generated by a fog camera. And that's my problem :

Once inside the city , the car must be in the fog. The problem is that I can't use the Above the Fog prop. I could by rotating it and give the same impression as the picture from before , but hey... It's not the subject. I want something cleaner :D

Well, someone else advised me on the use of Atmosphere Camera , from the same Author. F*** yeah ! That's exactly what I was looking for... The problem is the camera. I can't use the fog camera of AoA in the same time as the graphic camera.

So that is my question : how can I get a fog , or an atmospheric ambient in my scene while using the graphic camera ?

I'm a but lost about that , I never used volumetric fog or these kind of things... I eard about "Easy Volume Camera" etc , can somebody help ?

Thanx a lot !

(For the anecdote, I wondered if I was not going to render the scene in keyshot, for example , and import the pic as a baground, to composite the scene... But 1 , keyshot reads badly the .obj import, and 2, I'm sure that all is possible inside DAZ ^^ )

PANTS AND HIDE - SOLVED!

Dax Avalange — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 19:58:10 +0000

Helloooo Richard! (Haseltine)

After some new product almost ready for Daz, I'm here with a new question for you! Sure it's easy to answer! Like the previous discussions we solved!

Well, I have pants on my G8F character. What I want is, when they are dressed, hip and thighs has to disappear for all the time are weared. While, when I delete'em everything in the G8F appear. I know is possible to do this cause I see that with the Ravyn outfit from 3D Universe. I didn't use this technique before and now could be useful.

Pic1 : dress - Pic2 : dress hide, hip and thighs hide - Pic3 : dress deleted, hip and thighs back automatically

Thanks my friend.

Importing Models from 3ds Max – Smooth Groups?

ZveroboyPripyat — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 21:56:23 +0000

I would like to export a number of models from 3ds Max and import them into Daz Studio. From what I understand, Daz Studio only imports models saved in either the .obj format or the .fbx format. While 3ds Max can export models in these formats, I have found that the smoothing groups I labored to define in 3ds Max are not preserved or somehow corrupt upon import of models into Daz Studio. The smoothing groups are corrupt with import of both .fbx and .obj model formats.

So here is my question: Is there any way to preserve the smooth groups established in 3ds Max when importing .fbx or .obj models into Daz Studio? Perhaps some way to prevent Daz Studio from altering model smoothing on import?

And as a last resort/option - could the smoothing groups be redefined in Daz Studio via similar functionality I may be unaware of?

To better illustrate this issue, I have included several screenshots from the viewport (not actual renders) as an example below. The pictures were taken in perspective view with no scene lights (default lighting) in all cases/programs. Notice how different the model appears in 3ds Max compared to Daz Studio after import.

Image 1: 3DS Max prior to export

Image 2: Daz Studio after import - .obj format

Image 3: Daz Studio after import - .fbx format

Does Dforce replace Dynamic Clothing Control Plugin?

JDeerTay — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 20:40:06 +0000

I tried searching and didn't find the answer I was looking for.

I saw this plugin:https: //www.daz3d.com/dynamic-clothing-control

Was this before DForce was around? Is there any added benefit to it now?

Help finding a wardrobe item

vonHobo — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 17:08:59 +0000

Hello,

I am trying to find this wardrobe item featured on this product... see attached pic.

https://www.daz3d.com/karma-870-magnetic-accelerator-set

have searched high and low on the DAZ Shop and I just can't seem to find it.

Any help identifying this outfit would be so helpful!

Cannot find skin textures in folders

tinkuo16 — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 19:00:34 +0000

Hi yall,

I've been trying to find skin texture and clothing texture with tutorial on how to find skin texture, but I cannot find them even with brows on the base, it just leads to a library folder and then I click all the folders within Daz still couldnt find them ... help!!

Problem with Content Library

MilosGulan — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 12:07:15 +0000

I have problem with Content Library, it doesn't show my folder structure anymore and when I right click on it DS crashes. Here is screenshot. I have DS 4.10.0.123

Is there a way to convert FBX joints to DAZ rigging?

will2power — Wed, 27 Feb 2019 16:07:41 +0000

I was just wondering if it was at all possible to import an FBX into DAZ Studio that's rigged and weighted, and convert it to DAZ weight mapped bones. I"m not talking about figures, but like a rigged tail or toon hair with bones or something like that. If it's rigged already, is there a way to get it converted to DAZ rigging?

Super Hosiery

dragoneyes002 — Wed, 27 Feb 2019 23:10:48 +0000

Super Hosiery <<< Broken and missing files. Daz not honoring sale

As the title says the product is missing most of the bump bump.tis and displace files to function. having tried to contact Daz3d twice now on this issue and purchase I've recieved "Crickets" from this companies representatives. no reply nothing its been a week already and obviously from the site updating sales and other garbage they are in fact active during that period!

DO NOT BUY "Super Hosiery" until either they fix it or replace it the files are missing from the download (redownloaded a couple times to make sure)

as for Daz being horrible at customer service take note they obviously don't respond to requests with anything resembling reasonable service.

[on a side note wounder just how fast this post will be deleted for not kissing the companies posterior]

Transfering Clothing Morphs

j_stnk — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 15:54:48 +0000

Hello all,

I'm not sure if it is possible to transfer the original morphs of a garment where I had to change the geometry there of to create some new ones? I'm thinking no. Could it be done in the parameter tab? or some other way? thanks

Estelle Hair color

fiddleother — Wed, 27 Feb 2019 22:46:53 +0000

I just purchased the Estelle hair. It’s default color is white and I can’t figure out how to change the color. Any help would be appreciated.

Library failure

dubhahone_bf3ee3147f — Sun, 24 Feb 2019 21:15:10 +0000

I keep getting a Resource Error tht states.

A vails PostgreSQL CMS connection could not be established.

the result is no content in my Daz library...any suggestions?