i have a slow 1050ti card that i will replace with the not so slow RTX 2080 ;)

i will get the 2080 later this week

one question.

i read somewhere that you need to use the latest beta build for the RTX cards

is that true?

and also can i just update the current 4.10 version or do i need to install the beta from scratch?

thanks

I am a new user and may be missing something pretty obvious. I created some custom characters based off miki2 in poser 7 years ago. I am trying to import them into Daz, but when I do, they are not there. The bones are there, but not the body. Everything shows up in the scene palette, and puts a box there when I select them, but they are not visible. It worked fine with Sydneyg2 and simonG2, but not with Miki2, JamesG2, KelvinG2, and KojiG2. Is there something different about these? Are they not compatible?

Thanks in advance.

I have a question about products with Smart Content. 

Many times that I use a product there are multiple duplicate choices for something. For instance, in the picture attached, you will see that for the Lash Utilities product, there are types of eyelashes you can choose from in the Shaping menu. However, many of these eyelashes are all given the same exact title, and they do the same exact thing. The "Lashes Utilities 06 Pin-Up" is listed 6 times, and they all add the exact same eyelashes to the figure. No difference at all in the name, the picture, or what shape they are.  

I have noticed this with a lot of DAZ content, where items are duplicated twice, sometimes more. Is there a reason to list the same choice multiple times as duplicates? In the case of the eyelashes, the lashes are grouped into types of lashes, and each one is listed exactly 6 times in the selection area. So I just pick one at random within the set. They are all Iray, and they are all the same exact shape. 

Just curious. It's something I've been confused about with DAZ Studio for a while now. It appears in many different products this way, where you have duplicate selections that have the same exact functionality.

Thanks for any help.

When I launch daz after it loads no window opens and when I try and click the task bar nothing happens. When I mouse over to see a preview of the app it shows what the attached image shows. No idea what has happened.

I have deleted roaming/daz and I have deleted daz and reinstalled to no avail.

Any help would be much appreciated, thanks!

I am new to Daz Studio and trying to create some characters that will be compatible with Anima from AXYZ design. One warning I am constantly coming up agianst  whilst importing the FBX into Anima is that there are "too many verts are weighted to 2 or more bones". It will then ask if I would like to continue and it will invoke quite a lengthy optimisation process.

Is there a way within Daz Studio to restrict the number of bones a vert can be weighted to without manually painting per bone? Thanks for any input

Any ideas? :)

I work with Poser 11 and Genesis 2 characters

Since yesterday I get the following message when loading the Genesis 2 figures:
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xed in position 19: unexpected end of data
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "G:\My Daz Libray\Runtime\libraries\Character\DAZ People\Victoria 6.py", line 2, in <module>
    dson.dzdsonimporter.loadCompanionDSONFile( sys.argv[0] );

SystemError: NULL result without error in PyObject_Call

I installed everything again, it worked first and now the same problem again.

Thanks in advance for your assistance

I own it.

Found it a while back with someones help.

Can not find it again.

He refuses to show up in smart content or content library

He needs to be updated so that he shows up in smart content.

Until then, anyone know where to pull him up?

Of course I did this, and now as I save my props into the proper product folder in my development library directory, support files get written out to the proper places under the development library's Data folder. All this is really convenient, because if I make a typo when filling in the Save As Prop/Figure Asset dialog, new folders or unexpected files will pop up in this directory tree, and I can immediately see what I need to go fix.

Anyway, now it's time to apply some texture maps, but the new directory structure doesn't contain a Runtime folder. So this is a question for experienced PA's: where do you put your texture maps during content creation so the product packages can be built correctly? Do you use the existing Runtime directory or is there a procedure to create another one somewhere else?

Cheers

Pete

I don't know what happened, but when I try to translate a bone, I can only move it in steps of like 50 cm, not freely anymore.

I don't know what this is called, else I could have already googled how to disable this function.

How can I turn this behaviour off?

Thank you very much for the help!

I have been having a weird display problem with Daz Studio 4.9. You can look at it in the attached picture...

Also when I upload a model and I chose the texture shaded so I could see it with some flesh/texture... Nothing happens at all... (see attached file please)

I am wondering if it's because of my GPU or something (I have a 1050Ti )

Thanks!!

When I start DS, all my products are where I expect them to be. That is, they are all installed in their various respective directories.

My DIM log doesn't report a crash, or a limit hit. It does show I've got a few duplicates, and a lot of content purchased elsewhere that lacks tags. I have a LOT of products installed in DIM, almost 16K.

Does DIM have a limit? Is there a way to force DIM to check the disk for what's actually installed, in case I've got something bad in DIM's cache or whatever? Is this a Postgres problem? Is there a way to check if that crashed building a LARGE table for DIM?

Thanks!

So if I hire someone  to do it for me.   I will be able to know what to ask for.

Let say I am making a game and I want this  Char  in the game

https://www.daz3d.com/alaric-hd-for-genesis-8-male

So  What would I need to purchase.

Question 2)  

Lets say  I want to make a came, and I want the above char  but  for him to be sitting in a chair such as

https://www.daz3d.com/classic-living-room &nbsp;

Is that possible to do.  or better yet how easy or hard is it for someone to that.

Aslo lets say I had https://www.daz3d.com/victorian-decor-3-iray

 Would that be two chair shots that would need to be designed or  could the same sitting postion be used  for each chair.

Sorry for not  using the right terms.  As I said I know zero about  any of this.

Saturday is the best day for hacking Uber Base shader, isn't it? ;)

Ok, New question is

How to save hacked shader in .duf format? Mixer saves it as .dbm file.

I want to save shader and check it in scene.

Thanks

I'm encountering some strange markings on clothing and skin in my renders... Preview looks fine, but in the render it looks weird.

I attached a few pics to show you what I'm talking about.

It also seems to be rather random....Same scene but different pose or whatever and it's gone.

Really hope someone can help me out here :)

cheers and thanks in advance!

https://www.daz3d.com/millennium-horse

but it looks like plastic. Is there any plugin needed? I had same problem with AM Wulf, but after I did a lot of work with plugins, the fur was great. But unfortunately there is no LAMH Preset for Millenium Horse.

I've recently moved all my DAZ content from disc C to disc D. I uninstalled all content, then changed the path in DIM and installed again. I've changed the path in DAZ preferences too. But not all content seem to work now. For some items I get this error: Could not open file ... File does not exist. I do see it in my smart content tab, but I cannot load it.

Any help is greatly appreciated! 

To maximize availability, I've been making versions of this costume for multiple Genesis generations. I've successfully created complete versions of this costume for G2F and G3F. But while I've been able to convert the bulk of this costume to G8F, I have to admit to being stuck in regards to the wings.

Any suggestions?

Within DAZ, I do see both listed under Render Settings > Advanced tab and do have both selected.

However, when I have Task Manager open during a render and watching the Performance tab, I do see both GPUs listed but only the GTX 1080i is showing any activity.

The GTX 1070 does work. I have had it in the 1080 Ti slot before.

Any thoughts as to why the 2nd card (GTX 1070) is not being utilized? I thought from reading the forums that you should not have the two cars connected via SLI.

Do you see the same thing in your Daz Studio ?

Genesis 8 Male (Base)

I got the TreeScapes Backdrop product which places the trees behind it.

I guess I can load an HDR for sky with clouds, but then what do I do for the ground? 

Are there any products that create beleivable looking ground planes, like grass, gravel, etc? ... The HDR images create nice backdrops and skys, but don't always create nice ground areas I am finding. 

So I was wondering if there is an all-around product to create a "carpet" of different nature effects.

I have multiple Content Directories, and I've used robocopy to ensure I'll have backups of those directories. I also have backups of my InstallManager/Downloads directory will ALL the zip files and manifest files. Will merely putting these files back to where they were (and re-creating the Content Directories list) be sufficient? I'm trying to avoid blundering into a situation where I have to use Install Manager to re-install everything.

I posted a related question in another thread (I think this one will be easier for folks to find later) and Richard Hazeltine responded:

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The content manager database is in C:\Users\YOU\AppData\Roaming\Daz 3D\cms (settings) and the \Content Cluster subfolder (the actual database) by default.

DIM tracks its installations via the manifest .dsx files in (as I recall) Public Documents\Daz Install Manager\Manifests

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Is there anything else from AppData that I need to preserve? Will Daz Connect data be preserved if I just robocopy the files from that directory?

If you've been through something like this and have experience to add, I'd love to hear from you!

But I would like to be able to use a different body (Girl 7 for instance). I can dial the Bucky body out, but I still have the Toon body.

If I add  the Girl body its still not right

I can dial out Toon Generations 2 but the face gets ugly

I need a way to dial out the Toon Generations 2 body ONLY. In order to do this, I downloaded a Genesis 3 Head split deformer by Esemwy

https://direct.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/2774606/#Comment_2774606

I then used these instructions to create a Toon Generations 2 head and body morph using these two posts

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/203791/simplified-steps-to-export-obj-and-immediately-load-as-morph-not-working

https://direct.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/2774606/#Comment_2774606

I was able to create the morphs but when I apply the head morph, I get this

What I need to do is pull out the head morph without changing its position. Any Suggestions?

I went over this in the Clothing thread, but in case people missed that:

A pose control is made by posing the figure, then setting up an ERC control for just that pose, thus resulting in a dial that lets that pose be dialed in to any degree. It is an incredibly powerful posing and animation tool.

I just checked it with my loincloth (which has a lot of extra bones) and a double-ended chain blade proof of concept, and here’s a workflow that seems functional:

1. Load the figure. Pose it in the position that you want to have as a pose control.
2. Load Property Editor again and right-click in the right panel. We’re still going to ERC Freeze.
3. Choose the clothing piece as your figure and ALSO as the Node.
4. For the Property, choose Create New.
5. For the Path, type Pose Controls. For the Name, create a name (MoveRightFolds, etc.) which should automatically copy to the Label. I’m not sure if having spaces will break the Name but it won’t the Label.
6. Leave everything else alone. Click Create. (N.B. With my weapon WIP I found I needed to uncheck the two options other than Create Controller.)
7. It will go back to the ERC Freeze options showing your new property. Click Accept.

Now you have a new pose control. The chain weapons in this pic were posed in about two minutes even though each has 79 bones (an anchor and two 39-bone chains).