I recently bought Terradome 3 and wanted to try it. So I set up a terarain and populated it by UltraScatter with some trees, grass clumps, bushes and so on. Well, "some" miiight be understatement - I put in about 240,000 instances altogether. Then I wanted to render in IRAY preview. I hit the button, then my kids disturbed me.

A few hours later, nothing had changed, but the "Preparing scene" bar moved... and moved... and moved... Since I didn't need my computer this night, I let him work. When I checked this morning, he was still busy.

Now my question is: Does DS really "Prepare scene" for every friggin' item in the scene, including every instance? Because, every "Preparing scene" runs about 10-15 seconds, with 240,000 instances, that's about 27-41 DAYS. What's the purpose of instances if you can't use them in large scenes because they will block your machine literally for weeks?

However, when I apply a full body morph e.g. the Height morph or the Victoria 7 shape, whilst the geograft's mesh is unaffected by the morph (except near the join with G3F) the geograft bones all become displaced from their correct positions.  As a result, because the bones and mesh no longer line up correctly any rotation of the geograft bones results in the geograft mesh breaking apart.  The amount and direction of the displacement varies with the morph applied to G3F.  To be clear, the bones are displaced because they are not moving; the mesh is moving but retaining its shape.  When I dial the Height morph, for example, the geograft mesh follows the end of the arm; the geograft bones don't, even though they move when the figures right arm is posed.  The geograft has a Right Forearm Twist bone, and I used the Transfer Rigging (Figure Space) to 'weld' that to the same bone in G3F.  The geograft bones and mesh follow the forearm when posing.

It seems I have made some mistake in creating the geograft, but cannot figure out what I have done or not done in error.  I'll be grateful for any suggestions how I can fix this.

It crashes, occasionally continuing to render in the background, but stops responding if I cancel, giving this reason:

DAZStudio.exe caused ACCESS_VIOLATION in module "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll" at 0033:000000001686D979, TpSetWait()+457 byte(s)

I had no problems with a few of stonemasons sets I played with before trying this, it appears to be a problem with the shaders for the ground plane, matground and matrocks, matwater seems fine. I rendered all levels of detail ok if I replaced both of just those mats on the ground plane with alternatives from other products.

I tried different combinations of gpu/cpu in the setting as well as the optimisation option, no help.

I just bought it yesterday and am just playing around with it. There's a few things I'm still a little confused about. In the promo images, it showed a night time render. Are there supposed to be settings somewhere to indicate the time of day? 

I'm assuming that since it depicts an outside and inside environment, that it was meant to be used with either the sky and scene or both. Something I don't have much experience in yet!

other than that, I'm very satisfied with the product! I hope this designer keeps adding new things to the Daz Store!!  

Thanks!

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I have included a screenshot to show the tools etc. that I have selected. I have also included a screenshot of what the narrator is doing - that I can't.

How do I get the arrows and dots back?

I modify character in blender, make legs and neck longer, body slimer, and export to wavefront (obj) with all appropriate settings.

I load g8f in Daz3d, open Morph Loader Pro, apply my morph with positive confirmations (no errors and geometry mismatches), crank it up to 100%, rigg it, apply ERC freeze, so far so good, no problems.

I load a few garmets, check eyelashes, all fit perfectly: eyelashes are hugging eyes on elongated neck, shorts are hugging waist and legs, all perfect, save it as scene or subset.

PROBLEM: reload character from scene/subset, eyelashes are not fitting, clothing is not fitting to the new figure with 100% dialed morph (everything fits original g8f shape, see picture attached) Please help! 

Current OpenGL Version:
4.6.0 NVIDIA 416.94


OpenGL Provider:
NVIDIA Corporation


Hardware:
GeForce RTX 2070/PCIe/SSE2


Features: 

MultiTexturing
Supported

Shadow Map
Supported

Hardware Antialiasing
Supported

OpenGL Shading Language
Supported

Pixel Buffer
Supported


Pixel Buffer Size
1024 x 1024


Maximum Number of Lights
8

Number of Texture Units
4

Maximum Texture Size
32768 x 32768

Other hardware: i7 4790K with 24GB RAM

I tried driver versions 416.81 and 416.34 but have the same result. Attached is an attempt to render the stock "slaying the dragon" ready-to-render using IRAY & only the GPU. The render window popped up for a moment and closed.

Changing to CPU + GPU starts the render with the CPU.

Changing the engine to Intermediete OpenGL with 16 passes per light made the GPU rev up, but is not the effect I'm looking for.

I have just started to use genesis 8 Female and am currently building up various morphs for her using Blender. I have exported the default base figure from Daz as a wavefront obj, Imported into Blender and created my morphs. 

After importing my newly created morphs back into G8 in Daz, all my morph dials etc work fine and as they should, so all is good so far.

Now, I'm thinking maybe other people may want to use some of my morphs, so I have saved as Support Asset - Morph Asset(s) called EXAMPLEmorphs. Do i now just zip up the 'EXAMPLEmorphs' Folder (from... \data\DAZ 3D\Genesis 8\Female\Morphs\EXAMPLEmorphs) and give it out??

Is this the correct/legal way to do it?. . . Do I need to do anything else??

Thanks

I have selected the mat.

I go to the surfaces tab

I click the little image under Base Colour, there is an Image Editor, but no Layered Image Editor.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks

Thanks.

could you tell me how to convert duf files to obj, fbx, czp files? with another software than daz?

thanks

I have shortcuts to scripts in the menu bar. I have got one in there I do not want and wondered how I remove entries? Can’t seem to see a way to do it.

Cheers

(100% closed for both eyes)

(50% closed for both eyes)

The left eye is fine; but right eye always distorts like that.

I looked at the parameter settings but everything looks same as the left eye parameters, so I don't get what the problem is.

I tried re-installing too but still this weird thing happens. Any suggestions?

(It has always been like this since I first got G3 male, didn't just start suddenly.)

I have the monk's robes which are dforce ready.
I've fitted them to G8M.
Every time I try the simulation the cloth falls through the arms and this is at the default pose which I used whilst trialing it.
I've noted that the G8M character is scaled up slightly and when I start the simulation everything seems to "drop" slightly but I simply do not understand why it fails every time.

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Here's what I have: GeForce GTX 980 ti 6GB

I'm just wondering if there's a $500 (ish) upgrade worth doing that would get me a significant boost in speed?

I don't do animation and I don't game, so those considerations aren't really anything I need to worry about.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

PS: The money's not burning a hole in my pocket – if there is something coming out by March or June of next year, I could easily hold off. I was just thinking that there might be some sales or deals worth catching as Christmas approaches.

My right eye is kinda bad, so it is a pain to work with this on right side.
Is there a way to put it back to left side? IIRC, in DAZ Studio 3.x, it was on left side.

I am having a problem with Opera browser and DIM.
I started using Opera Browser recently and when on daz site if I get content and click the Download and install using dim button i get and error message.
The message is "

Unknown protocol

Opera was unable to open the link since no application
associated with "daz3dim:" protocol was found on your system."

Yet if I open firefox and click button it works fine.

How do I get button to work properly with Opera Browser? Please.

Thanks in advance

Grendor

When I install on Mabel 8 the clothing is very smooth and stiff. I cannot figure out any controls that adds the wrinkles and folds.

What am I doing wrong?

UPDATE:

Video below explains what needs to be done. Another thing to pull my hair out over. I'm not a full time professional, it just seems a lot of knowledge is taken for granted, I'm still trying to figure it all out. But thanks for the help.