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Smart content

Victor_B — Sun, 03 Feb 2019 19:25:52 +0000

Hello.

How to make "smart" product?

By default, after saving asset "visible" only in "Content Library" panel. How to make it visible in "Smart Content" panel too?

Thanks.

conflicting planes

Xellosz — Sun, 03 Feb 2019 11:39:31 +0000

I'm messing around with Hexa and sending things over to Daz. Like that bolt and the wood panel.

Is it wise to make holes in one object for the other? It probably won't have 100% fit and there will be a gap left. (see picture) Moreover, because how Daz does the rendering there will be a ring around the bolt even without the hole in the wood.

So if I do it less realistic I will get better outcome?

Error applying G8 material to G3

pwiecek — Sat, 02 Feb 2019 19:58:46 +0000

I'm trying yo apply a G8 Thistle Texture to G3 Bucky (from Rendo) but I keep getting this error:

An error occurred while reading the file, see log for details

The log entry is:

2019-02-02 11:49:00.337 WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile

2019-02-02 11:49:00.339 WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile

2019-02-02 11:49:00.340 WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile

2019-02-02 11:49:00.341 WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile

2019-02-02 11:49:05.463 Invalid hierarchy for selected node(s) and "preset_hierarchical_material" type; no root(s) found.

2019-02-02 11:49:05.463 Error reading file, see log for more details.

If I apply the textures to G8 and transfer tham one at a time, they look fine.

I can apply G3 textures to G8 with no problem.

Is there something I can do to convert these files?

Question Regarding Hair Render

thedoctor — Sun, 03 Feb 2019 00:40:45 +0000

Say, I have a question about a problem rendering hair. I've loaded the Tousled Hair with FWSA Gunner (Genesis 8) and when I have Iray visualization turned on in the Viewport it looks fine (left side of attached) but when I render there's big problems (right side of attached).

I'd be grateful for any help or suggestions as to what is going wrong here.

THANKS

Restoring bones to a character

Causam3D — Sun, 03 Feb 2019 14:45:17 +0000

Somewhere along the line of developing a dForce product, I accidentally screwed up the foot bones of one my characters. Essentially I can't pose her feet, toes etc at all. Is there a way to restore the rigging?

New morphs missing on my old character

skinwalker — Sat, 02 Feb 2019 12:56:18 +0000

Hi,

I have a problem, I bought new morphs package and they dont appear on my character that I made 2 days ago. The morphs only appear if I create a new scene and add the same character, so I guess my old file didnt update somehow, do you know how I can bring these morphs in? I dont want to recreate my character again just because of the morphs...

What exactly does "DForce Compliant" mean?

Causam3D — Wed, 23 Jan 2019 18:11:23 +0000

Products in the store which can be used in DForce simulations are labeled "DForce Compliant". And yet, according to DAZ, "any" object in a scene can "participate" in a simulation. So, by that metric, it would seem that anything is DForce "compliant".

I'm just trying to understand the ins and outs. Does anyone know what the standard is according to DAZ to be called "compliant" with DForce?

Thanks.

Help on how to cut holes in textures

Trex — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 18:14:47 +0000

Hi everyone

I'm looking for a tutorial which can help explain how to create a new texture for an outfit, but with gaps in it. For instance the regular textures for a top might include a fully covered back, and I'd like to know how to add a hole in the back material instead.

If a tutorial doesn't exist, I'd still like to hear someone describe the basics of what I should be doing as a starting point.

Thanks

Clothing on floor?

Midyin — Sat, 02 Feb 2019 15:34:05 +0000

how do i get the clothing to just lay on the floor all flat like they've fallen down or been taken off and tossed on the ground?

How to rig a drawer? I'm a noob to DS rigging and can't figure it out...

Inkubo — Sat, 02 Feb 2019 16:17:07 +0000

I have a vanity table with a drawer. The vanity and its drawer belong to separate "vertex groups" in Blender, so when I import the object into the Figure Setup tab, I get two bones; one for the vanity, one for its drawer. I drag the Drawer bone to become a child of the Vanity bone.

Then I create the figure. It appears in my scene, and after making sure it is selected in the Scene tab, I switch to the Node Weight Map editor, right-click in the Viewport's empty space, and choose Weight Editing > Fill by Bone Selection Group(s). I think this serves to make sure all vertices in the Vanity group are weighted 100% to respond to the Vanity bone, and all vertices in the Drawer group are 100% weighted to respond to the Drawer bone.

Then I rig the figure so the Vanity bone sticks straight up from 0,0,0 to where the drawer is, and the drawer's bone begins at the end of the Vanity bone and sticks out horizontally in the direction the drawer opens. After memorizing the rigging, I try the sliders for the drawer. It will twist and rotate in all kinds of inappropriate ways, but there is no way to extend it. No matter how I orient the bone, I can't find any position that will make the drawer slide smoothly in the desired direction.

I tried one more thing that I thought would be crazy: I recreated the figure, but this time without a hierarchy. The Vanity bone and Drawer bones aren't parent and child, but siblings. I thought maybe this would bring back the Translation sliders that get hidden for child bones. When I rig this up, the sliders do indeed appear when the Drawer bone is selected, but adjusting them moves the drawer's bounding box around without dragging any geometry--as if weight mapping didn't work.

What is the proper way to rig a drawer so the user will have a convenient Parameter slider to open and close it?

Shell change color of skin....

others1 — Sat, 02 Feb 2019 21:42:01 +0000

Hi guys. I have another question.

I have product which is "shell based skin add on". So it is creating geoshell ... probably not sure. I am new in working with DAZ 3D.

Everything work fine but shell change color of skin. Don't know what to do with it.

When I render it with iray, the skin tone on body part with shell is different than rest of the body.

What to do with it? Do I have to set something in render setting??

I add 2 pictures. You can see that one face is much darker.

Thank you for reply

Eyelashes

vonHobo — Sat, 02 Feb 2019 06:23:29 +0000

I am using the faces of Genesis 8 Females, such as Ai and Victoria, as reference for paintings, but I wanted to get the eyelashes longer for a more glamorous look.

The eyelashes in the scene pane do not seem to have any adjustments, ie. longer, thicker, etc.

Is there a way to do this, or is there a product in the DAZ Shop that is for longer eyelashes?

Group icon/cross

kalina.pepa_29135cfc8e — Sat, 02 Feb 2019 22:46:03 +0000

Hi, i want to ask how to remove, or hide this cross/target icon of the Group, i can either Hide entire group, and nothing else.. but i need props inside it, thanks for help

Why 3Delight is considered inferior then IRay?

handel_035c4ce6 — Sat, 02 Feb 2019 21:14:43 +0000

Why 3Delight is considered inferior then IRay? Just the fact it renders in tiles shows it should be much faster then Iray. And if Iray is really better then why 3Delight remains the default render? I mean not only some stuff I bought and most (if not all) freebies but the imported OBJ items are start with 3Delight too.

Install on MAC 2019 video? Please?

KuroFish — Sat, 02 Feb 2019 22:05:54 +0000

I have never had any luck installing basic genitals from anywhere. Or hair, poses, outfits, etc...

I've looked ALL OVER for install vids FOR A MAC but to no avail.

Any help? PLEASE?

Thanks

JCM Morphs

meseasis2 — Sat, 02 Feb 2019 21:28:51 +0000

Hello! I have a question about JCM morphs.
I create a tunic and want to add 3 pJCMShldrFwd morphs.
At first I added pJCMShldrFwd_110_L by morph loader pro. It worked good. Then I added pJCMShldrFwd_p40_L and used ERC Freez option and the also worked good together, but when I rotated Genesis Left Shoulder Bend to -40 and added morph pJCMShldrFwd_n40_L and also used ERC Freez option, one of the first morphs crashed. Add the images for example.

Keeping praying hands locked together while moving

johann.hesters_2e9dd0ece9 — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 20:32:22 +0000

Hello!

I have created a pose for a nun which has praying hands.

Now I would like to be able to move the hands up and down in such a way that the fingers still keep crossed together.

Could somebody please tell me a keyword that I might google in order to keep them together?

I haven't found a way to do that yet.

Thank you.

import obj or dae files

blanco1754 — Sat, 02 Feb 2019 14:03:57 +0000

Hello,
I create objects in blender and, that I export them to wavefront (.obj) or colada (.dae) formats, when I import them in daz they appear black or are deformed (see screenshots attached: the 1st is the rendered blender, the 2nd the import dae and the 3rd the import obj).
Can you help me solve this problem? Thank you in advance.

How to install an IMxxxxxxx-XX.zip file in DAZ

mlominy — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 23:54:43 +0000

I've dowloaded a product which comes as a IM00013176-04_XXXXX.zip file for DAZ. This is a freebee from AprilYSH. How do I install the product? Should I use the Install Manager for that?

Black Pixels in Renders

tomhelvey — Wed, 22 Nov 2017 03:51:34 +0000

I'm getting black pixels in renders and I have no idea what to adjust to fix the issue.

I think it's related to render settings.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Is Sandals heel height in DAZ3D adjustable?

function — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 11:43:23 +0000

Hello everyone,

I have a problem on high heel sandals, as shown in below picture, can not find any clue to adjust the height of the sandals' heel, is it adjustable?

I use this sandals model:

Product :

Name : Rope Sandals 2 For Genesis 2 Female(s)

Store ID : DAZ 3D

Product ID : 18770

If it is adjustable, could anyone please tell me how to adjust it? Thanks.

Emission / glow light System 46 / 50 Sci-Fi-fi suit

david4kravitz_437c04d353 — Tue, 12 Jun 2018 19:42:05 +0000

Just got both sci-fi suit system 46 and 50 but could not find out how to apply the LED / Emission effect on the suit that is apparently available as preset the only thing I got is a full body suit with the emision on the whole surface. Could not figure out how to limt the emission to a specific area.

Preset titled with emission mat should be as simple as a selection on figure to get a TRON like effect, but this does not seem to provide expected result. Scratching my head for an entire day. any help would be greatly appreciated.

Gen 8 Vertices/Geometry prob upper teeth

Dpiximaj — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 03:20:19 +0000

I've seen this problem pop up on a few female Gen8 characters I have. It looks like a stray vertice that pulls the geometry for Upper teeth morph. Suggestions on how to fix?

Pivot

droidy001 — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 02:35:17 +0000

Hi guys, stuck again

Is it possible to get my leg brace model to pivot at the points circled while keeping the metal rods stiff when the brace is attatched?

I have converted it to a figure and transfered rigging.

I need it to do so when posed not with morphs.

Thanks

Gen X 2 problem with Genesis 2.

Tramp Graphics — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 21:29:06 +0000

I'm having a problem I haven't had before with my GenX2. I have the addon for Genesis 2 Male and Female, but, when I try to load them as source figures, I get an INvalid Figure error, and a Warning tab in my options about a missing GHX for each. Help!!!

For the record, I'm working with 4.9

Getting hidden Rotation sliders back

johann.hesters_2e9dd0ece9 — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 19:10:22 +0000

Hello!

I've accidentally hidden a Rotation slider, and I see no way to get it back.

Here is a video of what I did: https://youtu.be/qoRk5PX8Vqk

Can anybody tell me how to do that?

4X 1080TI VS 2X RTX2080TI

Kyan001 — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 21:54:52 +0000

It could be worth in term of rendering time giving away 4X 1080TI to get 2X 2080TI?

What is the % of increased performance?

Problem with movement axis'

father1776 — Wed, 30 Jan 2019 20:26:23 +0000

I have a model that for whatever reason the creator made the movement axis completely off

allignment of the object.

It makes setting the object in the scene a nightmare

Is there a way to perminately adjust the movement axis on a model so that it will match it's symmetry?

thanks

Texture atlas trouble

master-2584099 — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 13:51:11 +0000

Hey.

There is such a problem: I tried to use texture atlas to combine texture Genesis 8 for export into a Unity. But in result i'm was get something like this:

Image removed

There were no solutions to the problem (except for the transition to the new version, which was relevant for Daz 4.5 yet).

Maybe someone knows how to fix it?

DIM will not install properly

Xyetzt — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 02:21:42 +0000

I am getting errors when trying to install DIM. I do not understand the error message, but it is causing DIM not to be able to open. I just downloaded it from Daz. I even tried to run as admin but same results. What is going on?