I'm having some trouble it would seem. Whenever I try to load the dforce Hanfu Outfit for Genesis 8 Male I get the following error message in the log file:

2018-11-23 19:55:56.493 Beginning Install of "dForce Hanfu Outfit for Genesis 8 Male(s)"

2018-11-23 19:56:23.245 "dForce Hanfu Outfit for Genesis 8 Male(s)": Install Succeeded.

2018-11-23 19:56:27.970 D:/DAZ 3D/Studio/My Daz Connect Library/data/cloud/1_56655/people/genesis 8 male/clothing/dforce hanfu outfit/hanfu !outfit all.duf (1,1): Syntax error - expected '{' or '['

2018-11-23 19:56:27.974 Error reading file, see log for more details.

Any suggestions on how to fix this?

Product in question: https://www.daz3d.com/casual-spikes-hair-for-genesis-3-and-8

First off, the product took an AGE to download, and now that it has, the hairbase (skin texture) loads fine, but the actual hairs don't.  They show as being present in the scene tab, and all of the preset shapes and materials are present, but the actual hairs are definitely not to be found anywhere. Not in viewport, and not in an actual render.

With the DL taking so long, I thought it may be an issue with a corrupted transfer or similar, so I completely uninstalled via DIM, and deleted the package. I have re-downloaded (still took a while but nowhere near as long!) and I am having the exact same issue.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! :)

Anybody have any experience with this?

Please, help to find Decimator installed.

Tried to install via Install Manager, via direct link in Order section of the Web-site, to install manually through the binary.

After each method restarted DAZ Studio.

But still there're no Decimator entry in Window - Panes

Thank you!

Anyone know why?

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ULT0IQTfoOy3GceIS5Feyt-JsBFZNP_b

Am I doing something wrong? Does the purple indicate something?

Thanks.

I want to setup a scene on every frame, or better, just let my model stay on (key)frame one, sit on frame two, jump on frame three, next one stays and has another shirt on, the one after it has new make-up. I think you get the idea. I want to work on my project at day and render it at night or when im gone, doing other stuff. So i could say, hell im out of here three houres and just render some images while im gone. 

Is this even possible?! The create keyframe function seems not do do the trick and if i "play the animation" the model just stays there in the same shirt, nothing changes at all. I dont have done it with posing yet in this case. But it would be nice too for sure. So is this a bug, or is it impossible to do?! 

I would like to ask if anybody has a lo res resolution for Genesis 2 Female.

The Base Resolution has around 40k triangles, but I would need a resolution of 20k triangles.

If anybody has such a LOD, could he share it?

Thank you for the help!

I WANT to replace the floor with something that looks identical to what I have, but that is simply a plane-prim with custom shader applied that consists of an image of my special-built floor as seen from above.  I tried moddifying one of the Creative Emissive Lighting for Iray shaders, probably KE White Neutral Iray tho I don't remember for sure, by inserting my made texture into the Base Color, and the floor pattern showed up in Viewport, but didn't show up in the scene when I started a render.  Obviously I'm doing this wrong.

Is there a fairly simple, straightforward guide to making an emissive Iray texture of the sort I want?  Ideally, I want something that has a sort of grid-pattern where the lines of the grid are dim, but the square areas visually are functioning as a light-fixture, projecting light UP into the rest of the scene, illuminating everything above it.  I'm guessing its just a matter of inserting similar images into various other parts of the made shader, I'm just not sure what "tab" goes in what "slot," and how I'd go about rejiggering the seen-from-straight-above-the-floor image I made into the other sorts of texture needed for each respective "slot."

https://imgur.com/a/sCqdqw8

Waht do I do?

How do you move both bones together?

I have included a screenshot of simply moving the shin bone’s green arrow down and second one moving the green arrows forward. You can definitely see a red and a yellow bone in the second one.

I've heard people talk about getting stuff rendered by third party companies for a fee. Is that a real thing?

Anyone know anything about it. 

im using DS 32bit on a current project, purely for the lip sync plugin. I’m wanting to clarify whether the 32bit version will install and run on Mac OS Mojave or not?

Thanks

Adam :)

So...I need Jamacian / Rasta clothing for a project.  I cannot seem to find any such items male or female.  So thought I might have to alter some existing textures for clothing I have to make them "Rasta" style and colors.

Any thoughts on how one would do this and be sure everything lines up?

Alternativly any links to Jamaican or Rasta clothing sets or textures already in production would be great.

Thanks much.

I know that the 1080 TI with 11GB of Memory will be a big improvement over my GTX 970 with 4GB of memory, however, will my CPU or PC RAM now become a bottleneck or does IRAY run entirely on the GPU?

I have an i5-3570K running at 3.40 GHz and 8 GB or RAM.

Another question is if I should keep my old GTX 970 and if it can help with rendering?

Thanks in advance!

Would it be possible to hide/delete the body polygons from G8F, and save as a new figure? (where everything from the neck up maintains it's current functionality, bones and all)

I've tried it once, but DS thought long on it, then crashed on me...so I figured I would ask.  :) 

I have attached screen shots of both, one rendered without clothes and the other with clothes.

This happens with all my characters not just this one.

This just started to happen tonight.

I downloaded and installed the following today, Metalized Glass Shaders For DAZ Studio, West Park Basement, DAZ Horse 2 Pro Bundle. I used the West Park Basement and Metalized Glass Shaders and everything rendered just fine. But when I used the DAZ Horse 2 Bundle is when I started having the problem. 1st time I rendered the horse (just horse nothing else) the horse rendered fine. When I rendered the horse with the armor the horse was very transparent but the armor was fine. I re-rendered and the horse and armor rendered ok. Then I added a character and clothes on the character and the character was transparent when I rendered it. So I deleted the character and added him back into the scene and rendered without clothes and everything (horse, armor and character) rendered good, then I added clothes to the character and rendered it, and the character rendered transparent, (The horse, armor and clothes rendered ok.) So then I exited out of DAZ and loaded DAZ back up, I tried rendering just characters (no horse or armor) without clothes and with clothes and when I render, everything renders fine until I add clothes. Then the characters become transparent again. I even shut down the computer for awile and turned it back on and still the same thing happens.

Could someone please help with this.

Image removed for nudity

The main problem I see in all the HDRI Environment Maps is that they always apply a land or mountains between the sky and the model, so I can not create a scene in which my model seems to be in the sea completely because it always has ground below .

Example for this problem

I want create a complete ocean with sky, removing this ground, what could be the best way for that with realistic results?

Examples

I don't use one Content Library for Daz Studio. When l first started using Daz Studio I put everything i had in just one "My Library" folder and  i just found it too difficult to find stuff and it just was a mess. A couple of years ago I had a hard drive crash and so when i reinstalled my content, i separated the content according to how i was going to use it.

For example i have a People Folder (characters, hair, clothes),  one for shaders, one for plant and trees, and so on. i actually have 36 separate folders plus matching folders for my older Poser content.. I might sound crazy to some of you and i might agree with you.  i attached a few images of all my directories so you see the how far go with this., i even gave each folder a unique icon (weird huh?)

Finally my question is there a way you include these many, many folders in Smart Content. I'm not the biggest fan of the Smart Content  but it would be helpful sometimes, especially with my shader folder.

Any ideas?

I tried reinstalling the program, and still don't have them. HOWEVER, I tried installing it on an old laptop, and sure enough, the missing features are available. What is happening here?

have no idea what it means or what it does and so far DAZ Studio works as normal for me!

Any idea?

Alf

I purchased Reality 4.3 on March 6, 2017 (order number 104537148) but I did not install it then because I planned to get a new computer at that time. I had some unexpected bills though and am, for the time being, stuck with my old computer. So early this morning I downloaded Reality and installed it to DAZ as well as Luxrender.

It seemed to install okay and I was able to load some lights to a test scene however, when I click on "Reality Render" nothing seems to happen so I click on it again and I get the attached error and DAZ locks up entirely. I'm not really good with technical problems but hope someone has a suggestion for straightening this out. Thanks much in advance.

I'm using my 980ti for rendering only, on-board graphics to drive the display.
Win7.

  Just wondering if anyone knows how to removr portions of geometry from packaged models. For example I would like to remove the side walls and footer lights from The asian Stage model completely. I realize that I can just turn off visability, but I just want to save the the base stage as a prop without walls or curtains. Thanks!