I've currently got a system that boasts 8GB of RAM, 1.9GB set aside for video (built in) and a i5 3.2GHz quad core processor, and I'm wondering what everyone else is running, if you folks are willing to share. Here's why...

Lately I've been running into an issue where I get more than three or four characters in a scene, I get all sorts of screen flickering issues and stutters that I have written off to lack of either RAM or video memory. Also, I've hit an issue where the Daz interface itself is redrawing at almost seizure inducing frequency. Then, when I finally get to being able to render it's "Not responding, working fine, not responding, working fine, not responding, working fine leave me the f#$% alone!" rinse, repeat.

I do have a more powerful system on the drawing board, but it requires funding (more whining on that later), but this one isn't exactly a spud either. Is there some mystery setting I'm missing, or is it just a matter of raw power?

Thanks in advance for the input and opinions.

Am I doing something wrong? Is there a trick to this I don't know? Or what?

Thanks

S.

long story short James for Christian 8  is  loading with basc Genesis 8 figure and every other G8M character. See attached. 

I tried uninstalling James and the problem goes. 

I submited a bug report but in the meantime is there anything I can do to fix it myself? By the way, Demon HD Head Ridges also always loads but at least it's at 0%. 

Thanks

Just found this. https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/300991/

Yes I can edit the .hdr pano in Photoshop and bring up the exposure of just the sun area but what am I doing wrong initially? As I have good bracketed exposures, is the problem with the way I'm using PTGUI Pro - any experts out there who can shed some 'light' on the subject?

This is a problem with a particular product as it seems to happen with most skirts.

even if the skirt uses DForce, I get the nasty crease...

Any explanation?

Today I bought a GTX 1070Ti and added it to my GTX 1060 6GB. 

Both are shown in the render tab but when I click render. Only the 1060 is being used. 

So I tried a small scene with just a character, and the same thing happens. 

If I only enable the 1070, it will render the scene. 

But I want to use both cards for faster rendering. And Daz isn't dropping the 1070 bc of "not enough memory" (I tried the almost blank scene.)

Thank you.

I need the uniform morphed so I can retopo and UV it properly. Just importing to a nonmorphed uniform on an unmorphed figure and then morphing it makes my uniform look fugly cuz the UV's are all wrong.  And obviously retopologizing changes the topology so I have to make the UV map before I rig the model.

I've read some of the advice and evidently you gotta set something from zero to one and I couldn't find it and then some other stuff.  

Could someone please assume I'm really really stupid and tell me what do to so the body morph doesn't effect the clothing when I rig it.  It's the perfect size and placement already. Weight it like it is Daz.   Oh and I realize this is probably a difficult problem that sounds like a not so difficult problem so I'm willing to do hard work.  But I just couldn't find what the sam heck what was being said..   Maybe Daz being 4 10 has something to do with it.  The advice was from 2014.

The reason I am curious about this is that some scenes will take a very long time to complete this step, while others will only take a few moments, and I can't really predict which will occur based on scene contents or size. If I knew what it was actually doing from a technical perspective I might be able to work around it somehow.

Thanks.

I'm gonna come back to my main PC in a few days, I'll format it and install W10 from the ground, and I need to backup my Daz library: I don't know why, I always fail, somehow, at this.

I currently have

• 7Gb of freebies, with metadata applied dragging them into the correct Smart Content tab.
• 45Gb of Daz Connect products.

This is how I would backup everything:

1. DAZ CONNECT: Copy-Paste my datas into the matching folder, then let Daz check if everything's alright after the log in.
2. FREEBIES: Copy-Paste data and Runtime into "My Daz Library", and add the custom folders with Clothings/Footwear/Accessories/Tattoos/Poses in the same place where I currently have it.

But what about the metadata? I know I can backup them right clicking on "Smart Content" and selecting "Export Product Metadata". Then what?

Thank you all in advance!

I have a model done in Max. When I import it to DAZ I have weird normals behavior. Looks like they are unified? It's being triangulated on import. But what about normals?

When I cut the wall in Max, I had to break all normals in Edit Normals modifier to make them even.

But after export-import they are messed up.

Any solution for this?

I understand that whenever you produce rendered content, you are free to do whatever you want with it.  However, if you have to distibute the actual model details (not just a "picture" or "video" of it), you need a different license over the standard one.  My question falls in a grey area about this.  If an individual DAZ customer were to build and create games that used the DAZ content, but did not sell, or otherwise distibute it to anyone, and was only used for private and personal use, woudl that be allowed?  Thanks!

Rich S.

So, the Figure metrics and so on are on the contents, but then trial of use them nags of missing plugin.

Neext action: manual download/install/extraact and manual placing to the folder, or something related...?

Lets see, does it success.

[EDIT]Found that many contents were in similar folder hierarchy, but instead of Daz Studio's location hard drive, the installation was on otherwise empty folder hierarchy on other drive, where was plugins/such folders. So, when installation should have gone to C:, the plugin and found that few other ones from back times, were installed on the same path, but on D:-drive...

This is my 2nd try.

I'm using this product: https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-adrian-gown-for-genesis-8-females

I've installed it through Daz Connect, and it doesn't have any "Utility" file (like the ones I've used in my first try)

It simulates for a couple minutes, then it always shows up an error, seeing to examine the log files. Here are the last lines:

2019-01-03 13:16:47.899 Spring(46820, 46843) of node "8gf_AdrianFishtailGown" extended: rest length < collsion offset (0.169622 < 0.20001)
2019-01-03 13:16:47.900 Spring(46909, 46982) of node "8gf_AdrianFishtailGown" extended: rest length < collsion offset (0.0671265 < 0.20001)
2019-01-03 13:16:47.902 Spring(93065, 93067) of node "8gf_AdrianFishtailGown" extended: rest length < collsion offset (0.167058 < 0.20001)
2019-01-03 13:16:47.904 Shortest spring had length: 0.0183241
2019-01-03 13:18:13.049 WARNING: ..\..\..\src\dzopenclkernelfactory.cpp(32): Open CL notify: CL_MEM_OBJECT_ALLOCATION_FAILURE error executing CL_COMMAND_NDRANGE_KERNEL on GeForce GTX 1050 (Device 0).

2019-01-03 13:18:13.055 WARNING: ..\..\..\src\dzdynamicsengine.cpp(2867): ERROR: Memory Object Allocation Failure (-4)
2019-01-03 13:18:13.159 Total Simulation Time: 1 minutes 31.39 second

How could I solve this problem?

Is it over my VRAM capacity? Would this change if I reduced its textures? Couldn't the CPU do the simulation?

I have the same problem with another product (BG Dress, I can't find it on the store right now), but it has that utilitie I was talking about.

After the error, I can't simulate any other thing, and when I close Daz a crash window shows up.

Thank you - Have a nice day.

There are two files that you need to use to replace two samename files in your "HeadShop plugin" folder: "RH.Core.dll" and "RH.MeshUtils.dll".

The link to the zip folder is https://www.dropbox.com/s/ccpj5x9cza5edix/twofiles.zip?dl=0

Thanks for your patience!

I'm running into a problem with one of my characters on a new installation of Daz on a new laptop.  When I try to load this character, I get a long list of missing files to include the genesis3female.dsf file. 

After some very careful checking (including, of course, recopying the "data" folder under "My Library" and making sure that all of the files were present), and doing the de-regeur contend db maintenance steps, I was still running in to the problem.  I looked more closely at the error log as well as the Missing files message and discovered an oddity, to whit:

data/daz 3d/paula /paula/genesis3female.dsf

....  etc etc.  Do you see it?  No it isn't the double directory entry "paula /paula".  Look very carefully at the FIRST "paula".  It's "paula ".  With a space after the folder name.  Odd. 

I checked the folder structure on the old laptop and the space does not exist in the pathname. 

Here's my question....  how do I edit and what, exactly, do I edit, to resolve this oddity?

FYI this copy took place in two ways, first via thumb drive and when that presented this odd space thing, I did a direct copy via wifi on a homegroup.  Same result.  The old laptop is a Windows 7 machine and the new one of course is Windows 10.

Any ideas?

EDIT:  I have of course checked the pathname on the new PC as well, and the space of course does not exist there, either.  So this is something to do with Postrgres, I'm thinking.

Thanks in advance!

I added an image but it is just a small attachment. How do I make it larger like other peoples images?