When I made the morph and applied it to Antonia, I saved that as a scene file.

When I load that scene file, I can easily find my morph slider in the Shape section.

But the morph slider does not appear anywhere when I load the Antonia Standard figure "raw", so to speak. I want it to appear there.

1. G3s and 8s have those extra twist bones. I understand that in Daz Studio's UI, say, lShoulderBend's twist drives lShoulderTwist's twist. But what should an imported BVH look like? Should it even have an lShoulderTwist node at all? Maybe it has one, but it only has one channel for the twist? And what about the seeming conflict between the rotations from lShoulderBend and lShoulderTwist? Wouldn't one "overwrite" the other, so one should be set to zero, or something? How is this handled?

2. So, assume I am trying to map a simpler skeleton to a G8. What do I do when I get to, in the simpler format, something like LeftShoulder, which would have a child of LeftForeArm, but no twist bone inbetween them? When writing out a BVH file to be read in and applied to a G8, is it OK to "skip" bones in the hierarchy that were not present in the original BVH file? Or must all bones be present, and just zeroed?

3. Does the channel order in the BVH file implicitly set the rotation order for the joints of the skeleton to which the BVH is being applied?

Thanks to anyone; the more I experiment, the more confused I get...

Donald

But now when i load Genital it doesnt hide the original Groin. I have not done anything, neither rename or move files.

why can this be?

Can someone help me please.

I hope my English is understandable :)

I have a number of Age of Armor lighting rigs from older Daz environments... I would like to put them to use, rather than just uninstall another old item that was very useful until IRay took over. But I have no idea how to go about this conversion.  I would need to do it once, and save the result as a NEW personal product so the settings are ready to go.

Anyone tried this? Can it be done? If so ... How?

Thanks, LB

Also, why is it that when I open a saved .duf file of any length, it ALWAYS loads only 217 frames and I have to remind it to extend the range to the proper number of frames??? Annother annoyance that's been around many many moons and revolutions of Earth (Mars too for that matter).

If there's an answer somewhere in here already my apologies it's a WIDE forum...  THANKS!!!

I bought the Iray HDRI Space product by KindredArts for space scenes I want to do.

https://www.daz3d.com/iray-hdri-space

When I load up the preset I want to use then render it the scene is all black. I have the draw dome on and the draw ground off mind you I'm still very new at using Daz Studio so have I done something wrong? LOL

Thanks for the help

animate2, Timeline, keyMate... I cant do it.

I don't get this one. I've tried to use this product a number of ways on a number of different models and it always comes out looking badly. Base Victoria 8 model with the Victoria 8 Fix Slider at 100%, I still have clipping into the face.

Some of them don't even appear.

Any thoughts on how best to utilize this morph? It's kinda pricey for having to draw them in post production.

I have what I hope is a simple question on Hard drives and content storage.

I have quite a bit of 3rd party content on an old FreeAgent Hard drive.  I've been a bit worried about it since its been in service a long time.  To be specific.  The Volume was created in September 2008.  So it a bit over 10 years old and still running fine.  But I'm beginning to think I'm pushing my luck on its age.  Now  Heres the thing.  Some of this content is being used in various projects I'm still working on.  So I want to still be able to open these files.  Now the question:

If I buy another drive, (possibly another FreeAgent drive)  And it has the exact same name on my desktop.  Does that mean Daz will just be able to access it as before and wont even notice the change?

2ndly, If I get say a LaCie or some other brand drive.  And just change the name to FreeAgent Drive.  Will that cause problems or not?

Thanks.

Dale

I can work on my renders till then on either two verions of my rig.

Version 1, Z97-K, i7-4790, 2 x 1080s with 32gbs of ram

or 

Version 2, Z370, i5-8600k, 2 x 1080s with only 16gbs of ram - this would be the mobo and cpu I upgraded to....but i haven't finished off my ram.

It's worth noting that I never got to run the 1080s on my original rig (z97 and 4790) so i'm not sure how that would go. 

What do you think?

Here is an example from a snapshot of the parameter hierarchy. This is a correction for a joint bend. What do the keys mean and the key type TCB?

I've gotten by with adding in a Gen 3/2 model to look around and see my options and saving wearables I use a lot as Gen 8 wearables, but the first one can be a bit time consuming and the other will murder my computer if I save  ALL of them for Gen 8.

Any advice has my thanks!

I want to know if it's possible to make something like this inside daz studio.

https://goo.gl/images/eySDu7

I want to turn a hand or arm into leg or foot and vice versa.

With the plugin X-Morphs you can mix different morphs from different figures, but i want to be sure before i buy it, if i will be able to do it with this plugin.

Thank you

I can't change the video card on the Mac, so I am looking at getting a Windows machine with Nvidia card to run alongside it. The advantages as far as Daz is concered is not only ?much? faster rendering, but being able to do other work on Daz at the same time as rg render.

Does anyone here know or can point me in the direction of info on which card should I go for &  how much faster rendering on a machine with such a  card be?  etc. etc.

Thanks

I reinstalled Daz on a new drive and pointed it to the location of all my content. The same location it was before. But now when I open any of these files next to nothing loads - from hair to shoes I get a "files cannot be found error" even though they are exactly where they were before - drive letter, path - everything is unchanged.

Someone in another thread described how you can load the items that make up the old scene into a new scene and save that as temp.daz. If you do that for all of the items in the scene it should recreate the missing files and allow you to open the old scene file. I tested this and it does work and on a small scale it would be reasonable. But I now have hundreds of daz files that won't load.

Please tell me there is a solution that doesn't involve loading thousands of various clothes and enviroment objects into temp files to get my work back? :(

Thanks.

I did a custom G8 height morph with some dFormers and adjusted the rigging to the shape.

Did work everything well, so far. But it seems that the new height ignores the eyelashes or hair, they just don't move the shape.

Any idea what I did wrong?

Edit: The same is true for cloth, it's just ignoring the new shape.

WARNING: dzpostgresqlobjectdatabase.cpp(39): DB Select error: ERROR: canceling statement due to statement timeout

DB Select error: ERROR: canceling statement due to statement timeout

The export itself appears to start in Daz, it says Gathering User Data, like normal, but then never proceeds with the counter starting at 1%. It just shows the hourglass thing like it is loading, but then just stops after a couple minutes.

Last working Valentina data file consists of 4 user data files, in addition to metadata.
UserData_1.dsx
UserData_2.dsx
UserData_3.dsx
UserData_4.dsx

I can reset database and then re-import the data just fine. Just cannot then subsequently export. I can though, after resetting database, create a couple of categories and then export fine through PostgreSQL, so PostgreSQL seems to function normal with a smaller database capacity.

Also, I can uninstall PostgreSQL and restart back with Valentina, and then export data fine, as a workaround, and then reinstall to go back to the more secure PostgreSQL to access and continue to add more categories, etc. In other words, use PostgreSQL while adding categories and using the software, and then every once in a while uninstall it with the install manager, open up Daz and check log to see it is running Valentina, then export through Valetina, and then once exported, go back to PostgreSQL by reinstalling. (To be honest, I hadn't really felt the need to backup the data since using PostgreSQL as it works very well and I encountered no issues, I am just hesitant to not have backups with all the Valentina database collapses I had experienced in the past.)

Wondering if this error has anything to due with a larger user database file. I did try reinstalling, resetting databases, using the conversion tool, etc.

THANKS! Any suggestions are appreciated!

**Special thanks to Kitakoredaz for pointing me to the log file**

In C:>Users>Public>Public Documents>DAZ 3D>Install Manager>Downloads

That folder is filled with compressed files and my C: drive is maxed out. I'm wondering if I can move that content to another internal drive. I'm pretty sure I told Install Manager to put my storefront purchased content in that second drive, but when I woke up this morning my C: drive was completely choked with no space left and I got error messages that many remaining downloads had nowhere to be downloaded to.

I have to make space and I can't tell if all these zipped files are backups because of the upgrade. I didn't delete the old 4.7 version and don't know what has to remain on C:

I have to either move or delete a whole lot of files and would like to know what I can safely move to my second internal drive which has lots of space and this is what I bought it for.

Thanks.

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Thanks!

I'm trying to simulate a scene that involves the follwing cloak on a G8 figure - 

https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-ssc-knight-cloak-for-genesis-3-and-8

It will simulate fine alone. It will simulate fine with a wind node set to blow back or away from the G8 figure. However, my ultimate goal is to get the cape to blow to the side and forward, so that it billows up against her leg. Every single time I try this, the simulation will either error or DAZ will crash to desktop completely. It happens as soon as the cloth hits the body/armor. Is this something that cannot be done? I've tried using the default dForce settings that come with the cloak, and I've also tried using the various options here - https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-master-cloth-simulation-presets (including turning off self-collision).

My system specs should allow for me to do pretty much whatever I want, so that shouldn't be the problem (AMD Ryzen 7 1800X w/ EVGA GTX 1080TI FTW3 and 32GB Corsair Vengeance 3200 RAM)