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Hair autofit on big heads not working great

mx90209 — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 10:17:14 +0000

On toony heads like Toon Generations 2, a lot of hair doesn't autofit great because it assumes models have much smaller heads, meaning the hair underneath the chin will always be "pulled in" underneath the chin. It's a cute look, sure! But not always what you're looking for. Is there a way to change how the hair fits to the body? Specifically, might there be a weigh to fix it using the node weigh map brush? (I'm finally becoming comfortable with this tool, so it'd be great if it'd be possible to use it for this!) I tried adjusting the "general" weight maps but nothing related to the fit happened, though.

No expressions work the mouth with Gen. 8

journeyde_72d2ab1055 — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 02:30:01 +0000

For some reason, none of the expressions work the jaw with my Gen 8 males. Only the eyebrows seem to be reacting. Even then only sometimes. Yes, I do have several different sets of expression packs for Gen 8. Nothing works. Is something turned off?

Help

Hi. I can't find animates I bought.

heavynecker — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 12:56:27 +0000

Hi. I'm learning to use Daz Studio 4.10. A few days ago I bought the Genesis 2 Alive! animation who comes with many animates. But today I open Daz and there are only two animates in Smart Content. If I search From Z to A appear two more. If I write Breathe, or Breathing, it appears only Breathe 2. I change figures, I select them, even reinstalled Genesis 2 Alive, but almost all animates gone. I search everyplace but I can't find them. Somebody knows how to solve this problem? I read sometimes it happens.

Thanks in advance.

Animate2 problems

Deadly Buda — Mon, 21 Jan 2019 08:40:26 +0000

I made an animation sequence using the Phantom II object where the flying skull flys in a circle. I used KeyMate and Graphmate to tweak the tension, control and bias.

Now, when I try to "Convert Studio Keys to New Aniblock" the resulting aniblock erases all the keyframes. I cannot seem to find any way to properly convert my simple animation to an Aniblock. Is there something major I'm missing here?

It seems if I make the animation within a empty Aniblock, Animate2 acts normally. I really like the motion I made in Graph/Keymate is there some weird incompatibility between these plugins?

This has driven me crazy for like, 3 days already.

Need Help Creating Prop / Material Presets [SOLVED]

guitarec — Sun, 20 Jan 2019 02:57:09 +0000

Okay - I'm hoping someone here can assist me with a bit of an issue.

I'm trying to create a prop made from multiple OBJ Imports to Daz. I'm wanting to have movement and rotations of these parts managed from a root Null Object I've created and parented all the imports to. Right now, I've got things working, but I'm hoping to simplify the setup with all control sliders in one place.

Also, when I try to create a Materials Preset for these multiple objects, it will only write the materials for the last object selected - not for the whole batch. Is there something I'm missing here, or am I going to have to setup presetes for each one?

I'd appreciate any help that can be offered.

Importing Objects?

huchzermeierm — Mon, 21 Jan 2019 21:42:11 +0000

Simply Put:

I downloaded a bunch of free items from places like Deviantart

Where are the folder locations for DAZ content so I can place the objects there?

Installing files on an external hard drive

gmohr — Mon, 21 Jan 2019 02:22:52 +0000

Does anyone know how to install your files on an eternal hard drive? Do I need to also put the Daz software and installer on that external. I have repeatedly tried and my images don't show up and it says some of my files are missiing. I have a lot of files and it overloads my hard drive if I try to keep it on my computer. Can anyone help me?

Considering Building A 3D Workstation (Need Advice)

SubGeniusZero — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 13:25:53 +0000

Hey guys. I'm considering building a 3D workstation, and will be using DAZ Studio as part of my 3D production pipeline (and using Iray and Octane as my primary rendering engines). I wanted to know what you guys think of this configuration:

AMD Threadripper 2950X Processor (16 cores, 32 threads)

X399 MSI MEG Creation Motherboard

NVIDIA Titan RTX 24GB Graphics Card

Corsair Vengeance 64GB (4x16) PC3200MHZ memory

Samsung 970 EVO 1TB - NVMe PCIe M.2 2280 SSD

Seagate IronWolf NAS 7200RPM Internal SATA Hard Drive 10TB 6Gb/s

1200 Watt Thermaltake PSU

Thermaltake Floe CPU Cooler (3 fans liquid cooler/radiator design)

Thermaltake View 37 RGB Computer Case

Windows 10 Pro English USB Flash Drive 32/64 bit

Any thoughts on whether this will be a suitable build? I'm particularly curious about the inclusion of the Titan RTX. I know from reading in other threads that the current iteration of Iray may or may not support the Tensor cores and the Ray-Tracing cores on the Titan; it's fine by me if it just uses the CUDA cores. There's over 4600 of them on the Titan RTX, after all. And if I render with the CPU + GPU, i should ger a performance boost, right? Am I also right in thinking that the 2950X will provide me with less memory latency than the 2990WX? I know the WX has 32 cores, and 32 cores is better than 16 cores, but I'm concerned about memory latency in reading from main memory, as well as the # of PCI-E lanes, and I'm also concerned about, of course, the price differential, and whether I'm going to see much of a performance curve given that the WX has a much lower idle clock than the X. Anyhow, just wanted everyone's thoughts on this.

Need help for skin on Anatomical Elements

pistolero — Mon, 21 Jan 2019 16:36:06 +0000

Hi,

I try to implement Genitalia on my "Michael 8 Pro Bundle" with Genesis 8 Male Anatomical Elements

But, my "element" don't have skin. I try to add color, texture, surface, skin but nothing works.

Can you help me to fix this problem ?

I need to buy another package on renderotica ? it's mandatory ? (like Easy Control For Genesis 8 Male ?)

Same problem for Victoria 8 female.

Thanks a lot.

Best regards.

Eric.

Mod edit - Image removed as not suitable for the forums

Eyes 'Point At' problem/bug...

mlominy — Sun, 20 Jan 2019 07:39:40 +0000

In a systematic way, my characters (whether G3 or M7) don't retain their eyes position when I use 'Point At' function, save the file, then re-open it.

After re-opening the scenes, I have to move the head a little (or the object the eyes are pointing at), then the eyes snap in their correct position (I undo the head move right after).

Very annoying because batch is not possible.

Epic Godrays & volumetric lights, removing shadows

katjesarts — Mon, 21 Jan 2019 16:28:55 +0000

Hello my friends,

I have a question. Recently, I got the got the Epic godrays & volumetric lights for DAZ Studio. Unfortunately, I have the problems that shadows appear when I am using the dust for the blurry effect. Any ideas how to fix it? Here is an example. Look at the background behind the guy's head.

Maxx is green?

tdc — Sun, 20 Jan 2019 13:15:12 +0000

Is this right? Do I have some kind of issue? He looks like The Hulk until rendered... A bit jarring at first.

Lettering on Frosted Glass - Solved

Chelle_Schock — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 02:47:00 +0000

So, I'm trying to make a frosted glass door with simple black lettering on it. The sort of thing you'd see before going into Sam Spade's office. Frosted glass shader is spot on, and adding a texmap with the lettering I want to the glass' colour channel seems to almost get the effect I want, but I can't seem to get the lettering centered. See images below. Any ideas are welcome.

Noob questions on making a morph

DigitalSteam — Fri, 18 Jan 2019 01:41:29 +0000

Just to be sure I have this right - when you create a morph for an object, a vehicle, wardrobe, anything, you export in base res, right?

And if it doesn't keep exactly the same number of edges, faces, and vertices (though I suppose, if you change one of those, you change all of them, but you know what I mean :) ), otherwise, it's not a "morph" but a geograft you want to use, and that's a whole different sack of cats[sup]1[/sup], right?

1 - SickleYield. (2017, January 01). Geograft/Clothes With Extra Bones In Daz Studio 4.9

deformed base figures G8

blueyescreations — Mon, 21 Jan 2019 09:58:16 +0000

hi there,

desperately looking for help. recently some of my base figures, like victoria 8 or genesis 8 male load with weird morphs. don't know what happened. re-install doesn't work. any ideas, please?

update: Problem solved

Center / end points stay put while model moves

johann.hesters_2e9dd0ece9 — Fri, 11 Jan 2019 00:29:01 +0000

Hello!

I need to change the origin and rotation of my model.

Therefore I parent the model to a Null Object and do my changes.

Now everything is fine, but I need to export the model without the Null Object.

Is there a way to "bake" the new origin?

Thank you.

Movie Maker Add On ??

mikedooley337 — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 23:13:15 +0000

Hi . I got movie maker downloaded and installed in Daz's install manager but when I open Daz 3D Studio I can't findd Movie Maker.I open Animate Lite but cannot find it anywhere.Please help if you know what's wrong.

Animation color change.

AliPop — Sun, 20 Jan 2019 23:33:56 +0000

So I am animating in 4.10 Pro, and am stuck at a point for what I want to do. I want to have something changing colors within the animation. Specifically in this case, I want to have someone's eyes visibly shift from green to red, as part of a vampire thing. But I don't want it to be instant, I want to be able to have it progress visibly over the course of many frames. The best visual example I can give is this:

Similarly, I'd like to know how to do hair, skin, etc all the same, but I guess the process would be all the same either way. In my searching, I haven't been able to find an answer, only people saying things in response that raise more questions for me. So, if there's a tool or plugin or anything, I might need an explanation on how to use it, since I've currently never used any plugins or anything before.

Anatomical Elements Broken after Windows 10 1809 Update

Escribano — Sun, 20 Jan 2019 17:20:23 +0000

Yesterday morning (1/19/2019) I updated to Windows 10 update 1809. I ran into a few issues with my local network, but Daz seemed to be working. I rendered an image with Centaur 7 around 7 pm in the evening, and everything looked fine. This morning I was setting up another render with the centaur. At first everything looked okay, but while I was working the human lower body (legs and hips) suddenly started showing up through the centaur body. After some cheching, I determined that the same thing is happening with other anatomical elements as well (horns, genitalia); if parts of the body are supposed to become invisible to when they are applied, they are not becoming invisible.

I tried rolling back the Windows update, but that did no good. I also uninstalled and reinstalled Daz3d. Also no joy. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Looking for help determining proper file paths

mike_42547761 — Sun, 20 Jan 2019 19:37:56 +0000

Hey there fine DAZ folks, I’m a professional comic artist with 20 years experience. My website is currently down while I rebuild a new multimedia website which will debut in February. One of the new features will be free resources, such as tutorial videos. Since DAZ is one of the programs use to make comics, I’d like to do a couple tutorial or advice videos featuring the software. I’d like to do a video about creating your own assets and textures, but I myself am not even sure of the proper file path to use. I thought I’d figure it out by installing third party assets from free sites, but it seems like 50% of those I’ve downloaded don’t work because those people don’t know the proper file directories either. I know data and runtime etc should be in the content folder, but not sure if things like readme, people, wardrobe etc should be in the same directory or in runtime etc.

I’d appreciate any help or pointers anyone can give me, and I’m happy to give you a thanks in a video or social media for your help etc.

What are the best file paths and directories to use?

Is there a file tree graphic or something similar somewhere? If not I’d be happy to create one and make it available for free for others to use, once I know that I have the correct file structure.

Any info you can offer would be great and thanks in advance.

Again I appreciate any assistance anyone can offer and will be happy to thank or promote you I some way.

Deleting References from within the Smart Content pane?

DrGonzo62 — Sat, 19 Jan 2019 21:21:44 +0000

Hi,
I am trying to organize my pose collection into categories.
I created a temp category "G8F Poses" and put all my G8F poses in there. Now I can go to the Smart Content pane, select all "standing" poses and assign them to a new category "G8F Standing".
But how can I delete those poses from the temp category, so that I have only the non-standing poses left? That would make it a lot easier to go through the temp category and find the "sitting" poses etc.
Categorize those, delete from the temp category and move on.

It looks like the references in a custom category can only be deleted from the Content Library. I was able to add a tag to all "standing" poses I had selected by using the DB Editor.
But when I try to filter the temp category that still has all poses in the Content Library using this tag, it doesn't work. I put "selectedposes" in the Content Library search field and get all those poses in Search Results, but I only want to delete the references from within my temp category as a means to organize them.

Did I confuse everyone, or can you guys follow what I'm trying to do?

Smart Content allows me to look at all G8F pose thumbnails at once in order to classify different poses, but it doesn't allow me to delete any classified references from that category.
Content Library on the other hand let's me manually delete those references, but it doesn't seem to let me filter and delete poses from a specific category that have been classified already.

Any idea on how to get this to work? Or another super simple way to organize an extensive pose collection? :)

Thanks!

Gtx 750 ti Cuda core problem

tolgaberk — Sun, 20 Jan 2019 12:56:53 +0000

Greetings to all,

Daz3d does not see CUDA. I tried to off OptiX Prime, I tried to render the volleyball ball just because the Ram capacity was small. My drivers are up to date.

My computer specs
i3 3.3 Ghz
8 Gb Ram
Gtx 750 Ti 2 GB

2019-01-19 15:07:07.559 Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.4 IRAY rend stat : Material measurement memory consumption: 0 B (GPU)
2019-01-19 15:07:07.559 Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.4 IRAY rend stat : Materials memory consumption: 332.84 KiB (GPU)
2019-01-19 15:07:07.559 Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.20 IRAY rend stat : Native CPU code generated in 9.33e-007s
2019-01-19 15:07:07.559 Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.3 IRAY rend progr: CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 750 Ti): Processing scene...
2019-01-19 15:07:07.559 Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.2 IRAY rend progr: CPU: Processing scene...
2019-01-19 15:07:07.559 Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.20 IRAY rend stat : Native CPU code generated in 9.33e-007s
2019-01-19 15:07:07.559 Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.2 IRAY rend progr: CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 750 Ti): Processing scene...
2019-01-19 15:07:07.559 Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.3 IRAY rend progr: CPU: Processing scene...
2019-01-19 15:07:07.559 Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.4 IRAY rend stat : Geometry memory consumption: 16.4908 MiB (device 0), 0 B (host)
2019-01-19 15:07:07.559 Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.4 IRAY rend stat : Texture memory consumption: 35.7253 MiB (device 0)
2019-01-19 15:07:07.559 Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.4 IRAY rend stat : Lights memory consumption: 3.36124 MiB (device 0)
2019-01-19 15:07:07.559 Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.4 IRAY rend stat : Material measurement memory consumption: 0 B (GPU)
2019-01-19 15:07:07.559 Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.4 IRAY rend stat : Materials memory consumption: 332.84 KiB (GPU)
2019-01-19 15:07:07.559 Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.5 IRAY rend stat : Native CPU code generated in 9.33e-007s
2019-01-19 15:07:07.559 Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.2 IRAY rend progr: CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 750 Ti): Processing scene...
2019-01-19 15:07:07.559 Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.3 IRAY rend progr: CPU: Processing scene...
2019-01-19 15:07:07.559 Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.4 IRAY rend stat : Geometry memory consumption: 16.4908 MiB (device 0), 0 B (host)
2019-01-19 15:07:07.559 Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.4 IRAY rend stat : Texture memory consumption: 35.7253 MiB (device 0)
2019-01-19 15:07:07.559 Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.4 IRAY rend stat : Lights memory consumption: 3.36124 MiB (device 0)
2019-01-19 15:07:07.559 Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.4 IRAY rend stat : Material measurement memory consumption: 0 B (GPU)
2019-01-19 15:07:07.559 Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.4 IRAY rend stat : Materials memory consumption: 332.84 KiB (GPU)
2019-01-19 15:07:07.559 Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.5 IRAY rend stat : Native CPU code generated in 6.22e-007s
2019-01-19 15:07:07.559 Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.2 IRAY rend progr: CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 750 Ti): Processing scene..

dForce

maicaolga — Sun, 20 Jan 2019 17:31:16 +0000

I do not have an OpenCL capable graphic card. What alternative to dForce does exist for cloth draping other than VWD?

When moving "eyes closed" slider..there are no eyelids

ABLAGEFACH5 — Sun, 20 Jan 2019 10:54:01 +0000

Hi there.

This one is really odd. All seems fine until moving the slider, to close the eyes, and the eyelids are gone. Figure is closing eyelashes, but it seems that the lids are totally missing. You see the upper part of the eyelids deform, when I close eyes, except the lids are gone. I checked visibility, all is switched on. Also I had done NOTHING to the eyes/head until now.

This is a animation project, and I was able to import the figure from a previous save, where eyelids are working,...copy pose, swap animation,...and so on. So all is working now.

But I really would like to know the cause.

Missing features/settings?

Causam3D — Sun, 20 Jan 2019 15:48:25 +0000

Hello all,

I just upgraded to a new laptop and have run into several issues with this installation of DS 4.10. I'm sure there's something I'm overlooking but haven't yet been able to find it.

The biggest problem is that now, when I export something as an OBJ file, it wants to export everything in the scene even though I have:

1) unparented the item, and

2) hidden all other items but the item I am exporting by clicking the visibility icon.

This worked on my old laptop with the same version (4.10 pro) of DS.

Another issue which is a little annoying, but when I render a scene with "Draw Ground" turned on, I used to be able to select the ground color under "Environment" in the "Render Settings" tab. Now I see no option for that.

Any hints here would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Convert prop into cloth object?

Diaspora — Sun, 20 Jan 2019 01:56:36 +0000

Hi, is this possible within DAZ? I have a prop that should work as a cloth object, the seams and what not are all correct, but I can't see a way to get the dynamic cloth engine to handle it?

Constant shading on figures?

monkeybeard — Mon, 24 Dec 2018 06:22:55 +0000

Is it possible to apply constant shading (i.e. not affected by light) on certain surfaces on my Genesis figures? I just want the texture to render as it is on the image file, without any dark or light parts.

why no aspect frame on startup

WendyLuvsCatz — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 11:43:08 +0000

DS has slowly been changing stuff it loads by default

I am using the latest beta

a while back possibly years it stopped saving my framerate preference loading 30 FPS everytime

there is also the 217 length on any saved animation longer than that

and now a new thing

the aspect frame has stopped showing in the viewport by default

not a big issue but annoying if I do a quick render and forget to look what settings I had for image size and dimensions, it still at least saves the last used for that

Animate2 changing Figure Pos after adding empty Block or Backing std Keys (Problem with char morphs)

ABLAGEFACH5 — Sat, 19 Jan 2019 10:03:23 +0000

FOUND THE PROBABLE CAUSE,....SEE CAPS AT END!!

I am trying for several days to get my head around this.

My figure is positioned on frame 0.BDSM with props, so positioning is important. Many rotations going on, also bending with limits turned off. The figure pivot point is 2 meters diagonal bottom right. Also the figure is at least 1 meter off from World 0()xyz

Strange things occur with animate2 now.

No animation.No keyframes.

Case1:

I simply add a new aniblock for my figure, and the position gets skewed towards the pivot point. roughly 10cms off now.Also slighty wrong angle.

I delete the still empty aniblock now. But positions still is shifted the 10cm.

Case 2:

I tried simple breathing animation only in Studio.4 simple keyframes for bending of waist/chest.Nothing more.Works.

I create animateblock from studio keys. Same result. Skewed towards the pivot point of figure. Animation still intact. I enter keyframemode in animate2 and restore figure position(or amply saved pos/preset) on frame 0.The position is ok again. (I tried both: clicking +key and not)

As soon as I go to next frame position is off again.Animation intact. No Matter what I try...off position stays. even going back to frame 0. Always loosing my position.

I have tried every combination. direct Copy/Transform to object POV...selecting morps/scale....selecting all bones in studio on frame 0, creating keyframes on key 0, or only creating the 4 keyframes for chest bend, and insert position keyframes in animate for all bones. asme result. Trying for several days. Even started fresh. Same strange behavior.

I read that figure scaling could cause that. very much looks that way for me. BUT my figure is always at 100% scale.

I think I found the error now.

IF I RESET MY FIGURESHAPE, I GET THE SAME SKEWING RESULT.It has to be the cause.

This has to be the cause.

Any Solution? Reposition is not an option, cause when I will add more animations and bake to animate2 it will cause more errors.

Also sidequestion: When creating aniblock from studio what is the difference (direct Copy/Transform to object POV)

Sadly the manual is offline from animate2. on gofigure.

Mats/Map making advice required

john1720 — Fri, 18 Jan 2019 18:51:36 +0000

Hi to everyone,
I am working in Daz3d to recreate the customised costume as seen in (Pic 2.)
(Pic 1 shows the Xurge3D 'V4 Barbarian' in its original form as purchased.)

I have, through much reading/learning here & elsewhere, managed to create the custom chest armour using a Trans Map. (Pic 3.)

Please could someone explain how I can keep the original patterning, But change the colour/metal material as in pic2.

I'm stumped and would be happy to buy a metal shader product, if it could do the job as good as in the pic.
There is also the question of how to handle Bump/Displacement to get the more heavily sculpted look.
I hope some people can help me out as I've hit the wall.
I've included an image of the two maps that come with the Xurge3D product.
Thanks,
John.

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