Technical Help (nuts n bolts) - Daz 3D Forums

Grrrrrrrrrrr... Postgres.exe

handel_035c4ce6 — Sun, 02 Dec 2018 01:48:33 +0000

What exactly does postgres.exe and why several instances restarts non-stop after I close DS?

(Which reminds me about "Who is this general Failure and what he is doing with my HD???"}

Application or Script to Make Mirror Poses

inquire — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 21:08:55 +0000

Is there any script or application that can quickly and easily make a mirror pose? I'd love to be able to click on a character, and choose "Mirror this Pose," and have it happen.

ok i need help with daz studio 4.10

lasagnaman — Sun, 02 Dec 2018 20:01:35 +0000

my firewall is blocking the software how do i tell the firewall to let it go through

i cant disable the firewall it wont let me its part of windows

also it says cant find look at my hair

and reality 4.1

how can i fix that

G8 Dao & Cristina Seem to Have Issues. Suggestions?

magog_a4eb71ab — Sat, 01 Dec 2018 16:34:41 +0000

I recently got three new characters from the marketplace here, two of which seem to have a problem. The Genesis 8 Female Dao ends up with a mismatched facial texture that produces seams around the top of the head, in front of the ears, behind the rear jaw, and the front upper part of the neck if any of the included eye shadows(non-layered/LIE) are applied. Its partly comparable in looks to how makeup is applied to individuals imitating Donald Trump in a parody. Its still workable for me as I have another product with which to apply make-up, but still, we're generally paying the same price for other characters with similar features.

The Genesis 8 Female Cristina is just straight up broke for Iray. Apparently the Iray skin option included with the character isn't Iray because it doesn't render. I suspect that the Iray texture is 3Dlight because it renders the same way. I've included screenshots. I also noticed some of the lip colors on the thumbnails don't even come close to resembling the rendered colors. When it comes to the eye textures... WHY on earth would you burn like half a dozen reflected lights into the eye textures? It looks as if they lifted the texture from one of their other character renders that contained a bunch of spotlights/primitives and used that for this character's eye textures. If you're rendering a portrait or anything from a similar proximity & angle, it looks kind of silly.

I understand little mistakes are made every now and then, but this is starting to get VERY irritating; especially if I have to load, test, and spot render every individual component of a product. If Daz doesn't test these vendor products via download and installation through the marketplace shop, may I make the suggestion of making some kind of a product review available so we all don't have to suffer through so many of these "mistakes" for ourselves, lol.

Surface color texture problem - need help.

rob.glass.42_2b48d8746c — Sat, 01 Dec 2018 22:36:46 +0000

Hey all,

I am a returning user to Daz and am in the process of getting some basic IRAY texture skills back. I have been running into a problem when I add multiple surfaces to a single primative. In particular. I have a cube that I want one surface on the top and the rest as a separate surface. The top surface has a rubber texture with an image. The side and bottom have a rubber texture with just a light grey color. The process I used (in summary) is as follows:

Created a cube primative then scaled it to the size I wanted (am am making a hobby cutting mat for an image I am working on).

Added the uber-base iray surface to the entire model.

Changed the shader to a shiny rubber shader.

Added the texture image I want to appear on the top of the image.

Edited the geometry and added a second surface to the sides/bottom of the cube.

Applied the rubber-matt shader to this new surface. I did not keep the texture image.

The problem I am running into is that the side/bottom surface is still displaying the texture image. No matter what I do, even resetting the surface completely, I cannot get the texture image to not display. Below is screen grab showing the model and the settings for the side/bottom surface. You can see there is no texture image in the base color parameter.

Does anyone know what is going on? Any help would really be appreciated. It seems like a very simple issue but I've not been able to find any similar posts on the forum on the 'Net in general. It has be kind of stuck at the moment.

hi headshop 11 is not showing up unde edit in daz studio 4.11

lasagnaman — Sat, 01 Dec 2018 22:29:09 +0000

i dont know where to install it too it wont show up no matter where i install it too can someone please please help ,me thanks

Driver support for GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

Angel_2232633 — Sat, 01 Dec 2018 22:06:18 +0000

I was thinking about buying the RTX 2080Ti. However. I'm not sure if Iray has 2080 support yet. Does anyone know?

Can Geometry be Duplicated?

TomDowd — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 19:24:34 +0000

Can geometry, isolated with the Geometry Editor Tool, be duplicated ending up as its own object?

I suspect not, but...

Thanks!

Stretched surfaces maps are my problem

TheCediz — Sat, 01 Dec 2018 20:54:25 +0000

Am I the only one that has this problem?? I can't seem to find anybody else complaining about this issu. You know, when you play with the shaping of a figure ; lets say you want your G3F model to have really large knees (yes knees why not heh?) so you somehow enlarge the knees in a way you like, but then of course the texture map and every others get stretched. After render you can see all the enlarged skin pores and thats a problem for me.

Now, I know I'd have to play with the UV maps or ... I actually don't really know how to get through this.. Can you imagine a solution? I'm not that much of a computer and software freak, but more of an artist..

I want my big realistic knees (lol)

No but seriously, is it doable? how would you go about

DIM issues

DekeHedd — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 20:28:42 +0000

I'm having major issues with DIM. It is not installing or uninstalling any content. It reads all of the zip files in the manifest archive every time I hit the refresh button. Once I install anything, all that info dissapears when I refresh. DIM is starting up postgres, but does not appear to store anything in CMS. The attached images show the initial state with nothing installed. I install one package (2nd image), and it's information is shown in dim (3rd image). Once I refresh, all the installed items dissapear, and it thrashes through the zip files again (4th image). Because of the amount of content, it takes about an hour and a half to re-read through all of the DIM zip folders. I have uninstalled and re-installed DIM, CMS and Studio to no avail. The DIM log indicates the correct folders and CMS connectivity, yet isn't retaining any of the install information. As per images, it is DIM 1.2.0.6 (64 bit) version, CMS is PostgreSQL 9.3.4. Any help or suggestions appreciated.

Genesis 3 Turns Grey when Shader added

xaviorbat_0cb88f6d6d — Sat, 01 Dec 2018 18:29:06 +0000

Like it says in the title, I add on of the included shaders (orange toon) and it turns gray, cannot figure out why.

Move Content Library to a different drive

IsaacNewton — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 18:58:17 +0000

I think I read something about this but the Forum Search Engine has not produced anything useful.

Essentially, I want to move "My DAZ 3D Library" from my C: drive to another larger drive. Preferably I would like to do that without corrupting the links that DS11 uses to find things.

If anyone knows of a tutorial or guide for this process, I'd be happy to know.

Thanks.

How do I make a product for DAZ Studio? (Solved)

lukon100 — Wed, 28 Nov 2018 23:39:20 +0000

I made a set of .obj files that comprise a single prpoposed product. I want to make a downloadable DAZ Product from this.

Any good video tutorials out there?

Help with ColorWerks Hair Shaders for Iray

OmegaSamurai2006_3f7ee04db7 — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 11:15:09 +0000

As the title suggests I am having trouble with ColorWerks Hair Shaders for Iray. Every time I place a base color it looks nothing like the sample image in the content library. The hair color looks way to fake and cartoony in the actual render. I've tried changing the shine, turning off Headlamp in render settings, and changing the Base Mixing but I still can't get it right. Can anyone help me with this problem and has anyone else had this problem before?

Boolean Problems

dave_0b9a2b7941 — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 23:47:08 +0000

In Hexagon, I used the Boolean operation when making a drywall knife and a handplane. The items look fine in Hexagon. As the "send to Daz Studio" function does nothing I "export>Wavefront OBJ", then import into DAZ, and see the problems highlighted by the red arrows. The rivet holes are ragged, the plane blade has extra facets, the plane base is messed up. Maybe the problem is with the OBJ and if I could get the DAZ bridge to work...

Convert timeline animation to an aniblock (SOLVED)

bsaltzman_aaab29dd05 — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 19:07:07 +0000

I apologize if this is a bit of a dumb question, but I've been racking my brain trying to figure this out. I'm using the excellent AniLip software for speech animations, but it only writes to the Daz timeline. I've been trying to figure out how to convert that timeline into an aniblock so I can incorporate the speech into larger animations, especially since AniLip only starts from frame 0 (my problems would be solved if I could get anlip to begin its animations at a particular frame).

Long story short...how do I convert timeline keyframes into an aniblock? I've tried right-clicking on the Animate2 tab, but all it gives me is "preferences" and "undock pane" options. Any help would be really appreciated.

UPDATE:

For anyone who clicks this wondering the same thing, it turns out you have to click the empty area underneath the timelines.

renders in superfly

CardinalBiggles — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 21:10:29 +0000

if any partial message took when my cat walked over the keyboard and did things I apologise for repeating myself.

I upgraded to Poser 11 and I'm trying to get to grips with Superfly. I know my way around Firefly in the materials room, kinda sorta [the brute force method perhaps] but I am stymied. I just bought the BladeRaptor and TurboHawk, and I was looking forward to some spectacular renders.

WELL! I can't even figure out how to make the cockpit transparent, and the damn render looks like it's made of plastic, even with ramped up pixel samples. I pulled up shininess but nothing. What ought I do be doing?

I sussed out how to make Sub-surface scattering work on people eventually, I still haven't got the Sword Sisters textures for V4's armour to work properly [or in the case of one, at all] and I am despondent. Please help!

How to create Masks for Postwork?

Alien Alloy — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 20:00:33 +0000

Evening folks.

I've been trying to migrate from my good old Poser Pro to Daz Studio and I keep encountering those persky "how do I do that, in here" scenarios.

This time I'm trying to understand how, if it is possible to create mask for postwork: you know that nice flat white surface that then you can use for ... masking?

I've been testing out a Mask and Multipass Toolbox but it doesn't work with any iray texture and surfaces, it produce a mask allright but it's pretty much a gradient gray render of each model I select.

So the questions is pretty simple:
Given a full picture with multiple props and figure, is there a way to select only what you want to mask out and produce that nice black and white picture for later postwork use?

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me!

RSSY 3Delight to Iray throws an error on startup

AlecGraf — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 21:33:29 +0000

Starting today, after what appears to have been an update of this fantastic product, I'm getting an error on opening the utility: "An error occurred while reading etc."

Here is the relevant passage from the log file:

2018-11-29 13:26:56.495 Loading script: /Volumes/DazLibrary/Content/data/cloud/1_53295/scripts/riversoft art/3dl to iray/rssy 3delight to iray.dse
2018-11-29 13:26:56.502 WARNING: Script Error: Line 1
2018-11-29 13:26:56.502 WARNING: SyntaxError: Parse error
2018-11-29 13:26:56.502 WARNING: Stack Trace:
()@/Volumes/DazLibrary/Content/data/cloud/1_55317/data/riversoft art/common/rsconstants.dsa:1
2018-11-29 13:26:56.502 Error in script execution: /Volumes/DazLibrary/Content/data/cloud/1_53295/scripts/riversoft art/3dl to iray/rssy 3delight to iray.dse

My understanding of that is that the error is in the app. If not, does anyone have any ideas what I should do to get this to work (I've tried uninstalling/re-installing to no avail)?

Or do we need to wait for an update from the developer?

Thanks.

Easy environments infinate sands

Adruzo — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 04:39:40 +0000

Does anyone know how to make Easy environments infinate sands work? As near as I can tell it just deosn't. Whenever I render this scene all I get is a black screne. Its like the lights just don't work :(

Presets/Pre Renders/Tutorial to lighting interiors easily?

scummgrog — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 22:32:46 +0000

I'm a little lost with so many types of lighting.
I have seen that there are several HDRI Iray presets in the store to illuminate (outdoors) in a simple way and get started with extraordinary results.
Is there a preset that applies interior lighting recommended and easily configurable to start?

P.D: I have done tests with the typical 3 points of light manually, but it is quite complicated to illuminate always when starting.

Thank you

Making a return

jedijudd — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 17:42:59 +0000

I was wondering what the process is to make a return? I purchased a couple shaders, tried different lighting but still not to happy with how they look, they looked a lot better in the promos, I don't think I will ever use them

Jerky/Skipping Playback

D Ov — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 14:33:21 +0000

I have an issue with animation playback. It skips about 15 frames and I cannot get an idea of what the animation looks like before rendering. I think I pinpointed the culprit and would like to know if the playback issue is inevitable. I use G2F for the base figure and apply V4 Ruffle Blouse and a G3 Jacket. They certainly don't fit so I have to do quite a number of adjustments inluding smothing modifiers and transformers (V4 to G2, G3 to G2). When I remove those two items the playback i s normal. I use DAZ 4.10, my computer specs are Intel i7-7700K @4.20 Ghz, 16 GbRAM, win 64 and NVIDIA GForce GTX 1060 6Gb.

Any suggestions? Thank you

Can you bake clothing textures on skin?

MPCreativeArts — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 20:17:18 +0000

Hi there! I have a rather interesting project ahead of me which requires the human body to be extremely morphed (to inhuman proportions) and I've found that clothing isn't much of a fan of what I'm trying to do. Is there an easy way to take the clothing textures and apply them directly to the skin? I understand the clothing patterns would be distorted with the morphing but that is a heck of a lot better than fixing each frame in photoshop (there will be movement of the model in this project)

Thank you in advance!!!

PLEASE HELP: HeadShop 11 - Loader Error: 'Unable to export .obj file'

IainW — Mon, 26 Nov 2018 23:27:18 +0000

I've just purchased HeadShop 11 but keep getting an error whenever I try to use it:

I load Genesis 8 Male and select it in the Scene Tab.
I select the Edit menu from the title bar and click 'Start HeadShop...'
A dialogue box opens entitled "HeadShop 6: Genesis 8 Male" (I'm not sure why that says '6 'instead of '11'...)
I click 'accept'
An error box appears entitled 'HeadShopLoader' with the error message "Unable to export .obj file".

The product is installed and the registration key has been entered. My PC meets all of the specs listed on the product page.

My log file reads as follows:

2018-11-26 23:10:22.972 WARNING: Object::connect: No such signal QButtonGroup::clicked(int) in dzfacemorphloaderdlg.cpp:190
2018-11-26 23:10:22.972 WARNING: Object::connect: (receiver name: 'DzFaceshopMorphLoaderDialog')

Can anyone tell me how to fix that problem, please?

Is there a Material Randomizer?

GamesOverCoffee — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 19:57:33 +0000

I'm looking for a material randomizer that I can use on eyes and hair. Similar to how SimTenero Randomizer2 works on figures to morph things, I'd like one that would pull from the eyes and hair (and other materials down the road) that I have in my library.

Is there such a beast out there?

Thanks!

--Kevin.

Didimo heads to Daz figures

RA — Sat, 17 Nov 2018 19:01:04 +0000

Hello, I need help putting a Didimo head on a Daz g3m figure.

Didimo makes the most accurate heads from a photo that I have seen. No marking points on the photo necessary. However, I know of no way to connect the mesh with a Daz G3M figure. FaceGen creates a slider within Daz to apply the faces it creates. However, I have not found FaceGen to be accurate.

Does anyone know how I could attach the Didimo mesh to the Daz figure and rigging?

Thanks,

Nathan

viewport blinks to white

anjuso_2130d16811 — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 01:13:38 +0000

Hi all,

not sure it this the place to post this issue.

i have bin working with Daz studio for a wail now and it was working great but today after launching DAZ Studio my viewport windows goes completely white. when i rotate within or when i load a charater the viewport blinks to show a normal grey viewport and then it blinks back to white. any sugestion on what might be causing this?

Thanks

Iray Scene Rendered Much Faster With CPU Only

LenioTG — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 13:53:08 +0000

I've noticed that sometimes the same scene, with all Iray materials, is rendered much faster by the CPU alone...does this make sense?

For example, to reach 70 iterations it took my GPU (1060 3Gb) 40 minutes, and the PC was slowed down a lot.

Now I'm rendering it with my CPU (Ryzen 5 1600), and it's at 100 iterations in just 15 minutes: these are 3,8x more iterations per minute!!! And the PC is much more usable.

Do you know why? Am I doing something wrong? I'll attach the render made by my GPU.

Lights through solid objects

Anaark — Wed, 28 Nov 2018 03:59:09 +0000

I am working on a project but when I pan out to look at the enviroment from above, the lights installed on the cars continue through the "solid" buildings and cast no shadows. I have also noticed that the way that it looks on my screen and the render is totally different, screen Dark ( making a night scene) render looks like daylight .

Is there a setting for the lights that I am missing? Plus I cannot adjust the falloff for the lights so my spotlight continue all the way through the scene.