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hair poke through

toddthiner — Fri, 16 Nov 2018 20:38:19 +0000

okay as you can see i am using charm hair i have poke through and it doesn't lay flat either i have the sliders up to show you what i a have

Failed attempt to move content to SSD

johranshadi — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 21:57:50 +0000

I did as mentioned in discussions. Preferences-Content-Load Content Manager. I tried to create a new path to test before moving my content to external SSD. There i set a link to point to an empty folder I created on SSD. That is when I lost all my content on Daz. I deleted the newly created path but that didn't solve the problem. I still can't load my content although everything seems to be back in place. Is there a reset button to bring everything back to default? I first want to get my content to load from its original location, to make sure its not lost, and then I will try to figure out the incredibly complicated issue of moving content to external. Ps:im on mac

Gen 8 male has no Head posing options, can't move facial features at all. How to fix.

meanpride — Fri, 16 Nov 2018 11:50:20 +0000

From the attachements, I can't pose Gen 8 male's head (the expressions listed don't move the face at all) while Gen 8 female has all her posing options. What is missing here?

MHEglasses

goofygrmom3 — Fri, 16 Nov 2018 00:02:34 +0000

I purchased the wineglasses today. When I render them they keep coming up black. I've tried several different things and I'm not getting anywhere. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

50 - 60 NVIDIA P104-100 any good for rendering farm?

ISIKOL — Fri, 16 Nov 2018 11:07:40 +0000

hello guys....Lets say theoretically that i could have 50-60 NVIDIA P104-100...do you think that i could see some good resluts on rendering speed on latest studio?

thanks guys!

Can you auto fit from G3 to G8 without losing bones?

SheerANONYMOUS — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 04:44:58 +0000

The question is probably poorly phrased, so sorry about that, but basically I’m trying to use the dark fantasy wings and Sragelle tail on a genisis 8 figure, but auto fit turns them into solid single objects (and slightly distorts the right wing). Is there a way around this?

g8f measure metrics uneditable (updated 14 nov 2018)

Ikyoto — Fri, 03 Aug 2018 15:01:22 +0000

I can add MM, open the panel, but cannot edit values. This time I'm honestly stumped.

Exporting from Daz3D and importing in Unity

Kyan001 — Fri, 16 Nov 2018 05:35:48 +0000

Do you remember old gold times of Playstation 1?
Imported Genesis 3 Male FBX in Unity reminds me the Playstation 1 games quality.
People told me to do this in Unity:

Change the preview quality
Disable the compression
Increase the size of the texture

Still uglier than ever.

Any scripts\thing that will do the miracle for exporting or importing? It's like it doesn't care about morphs shapes, surfaces at all.

Primitive & Emissive Shader Pre-render

magog_a4eb71ab — Fri, 16 Nov 2018 01:03:03 +0000

I created a new Primitive in my scene and added the DAZ Uber shader "Emissive". For some reason, it doesn't show up like the other lights do. The light only appears to show up on the general target when I render, unlike what is shown in the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQv96j7myoo#t= where the light is shown in the viewport before rendering using Daz 4.9. How do I get this to show up in the viewport for Daz 4.10 prior to rendering in order to get a general idea of proper placement/proximity?

3rd Party Content Installation

ray.storm41 — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 02:51:09 +0000

I have read certain rules about discussing topics in a forum, hopefully not violating anything with regards to forum rules. I'm really having a hard time installing 3rd party content. Is there a step by step tutorial or a e-manual I could follow? I actually browsed through the freebies section and found some things I could use for my render, but I could not get them installed nor can I see it in the content library. I really want to create more diverse and realistic renders. Could someone please help me out?

Install Manager Filter options

Mouser — Fri, 16 Nov 2018 00:24:57 +0000

Is there a way to filter out 'Legacy' in regards to the downloads for Install Manager?

Duf Viewer

drafter69_696b99e42b — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 19:02:04 +0000

When scenes are saved they are in the DUF format... Is there such a thing as a "duf viewer" that allows you to look at the various scenes you may have created???

Reb

Surfaces (editor) not showing

Mortze — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 18:51:10 +0000

I came across this strange thing. In the Surfaces pane, Editor tab, normally when you choose a surface it shows all the surfaces properties on the right screen of the pane. But for some reason I can't explain it isn't showing now. Anyone has a clue how to solve this?

The best computer for working with DAZ?

switt1313_7709dc8a65 — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 11:36:10 +0000

Hi,

I'm thinking of investing some in a new computer for working with DAZ, and I'm trying to gain some basic understanding of cpu clocks, cpu cores and gpu. But in the end I get lost in petween all the numbers since working on a scene and rendering seems to need different things :(

Basically what I want to do most is make and render still scenes for graphic novels using Studio (I also have Bryce and Carrara, but I very rarely use them). I may also wish to continue learning Hexagon to create some of my own content. Lastly (and least importance) I may wish to try working with some basic animations for advertisment purposes, but this would be secondary.

So, basically I need good performance on the cpu clock to work on the scenes. But since I need to render a lot of different scenes for a graphic novel I'm still hoping for some reasonable rendering times as well. Do you have any suggestions on the best combination of cpu and gpu to get a good balance between good performance while working on a scene and good performance while rendering the scenes? (don't worry about price right now I do have some money saved up for it, I just want to make sure I spend it wisely).

Thanks for any hints you may have.

Sascha

Floyd 8 Maps Location

photographs — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 19:58:09 +0000

I've just bought this, but loads of the textures seem to be missing: Does anyone know where I can find these maps please?

Textures Include:
- 24 Texture, Bump, Normal, Subsurface and Specular Maps (4096 x 4096)
- 24 Texture, Bump, Subsurface, Specular, and Transparency Map (2048 x 2048)

Thank you

How To Export All Maps As FBX

photographs — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 11:06:57 +0000

Im trying to export an FBX file and take it into MODO. It all works, but only diffuse maps come across with the Floyd 8 model. Even if I click "Floyd 8 All Maps" - they all update in Daz, so I know they are applied to the model.

How do I get normal, bumps etc to export along with the difuse please?

Thank you

Two Renders happening again? [Solved]

AbnerK — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 15:16:58 +0000

Hi. This has happened before and I didn't get any answers but I'm on a brand new computer with an up to date OS and I'm still seeing two renders going on. I did a scene last night. It should have been done in 3 hours (but looking at the log my computer kept going to sleep, I think I've stopped that, it's a new OS a different settings) After realising I didn't like the direction of the eyes I started a spot render immediately after stopping the main render. I went out for an hour, when I got back the tiny snippet around the eyes was looking little better than after a couple of minutes. I looked at the log to check my computer hadn't got to sleep again but this time it appeared that the DS was doing two renders again. As before I only have on preview window which is in Iray and as usual it hasn't rendered anything during the spot render. It looks, from looking at the log, like it was continuing the main render from before. So, I cancelled the spot render and restarted DS.

After restarting DS and loading the scene I'm doing the same spot render. It seemed to be going well then after 30 mintues I cam back expecting it to be finished it looks no better than after a couple of mintues again. The log file looks like DS is doing two renders still and as if it is still doing the render from last night. How, what's going on? It doesn't always do this. It's been really quick for a while. Even before I got my new computer renders were going really well apart from the odd glitch.

I've attached the log file starting from the restart and in case anything thinks it will help I've attached a copy of the original, entire log file (the second one, on right)

Brand new

Model Name: MacBook Pro

Model Identifier: MacBookPro14,1

Processor Name: Intel Core i7

Processor Speed: 2.5 GHz

Number of Processors: 1

Total Number of Cores: 2

L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB

L3 Cache: 4 MB

Memory: 16 GB

Boot ROM Version: 184.0.0.0.0

SMC Version (system): 2.43f6

Thanks.

Iray Materials RSL/MDL problems (MDL doesn't work?)

scummgrog — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 14:50:01 +0000

I have a lot of confusion with the MDL and RSL materials.
I have an Nvidia GTX 960 card and selected Nvidia Iray as Engine in the Render Settings and Draw Settings.

I am testing with the Victoria 8 Model and as I understood it, for the Iray engine it is necessary to apply the MDL materials.

But it seems that when I apply a MDL- Victoria 8 All Maps material nothing happens (or almost nothing).
However, when I apply the RSL material if it looks better to the model and obvious changes are seen.

Default without All Maps applied

MDL All Maps Applied ( nothing change?)

RSL All Maps applied, (The figure has more volume (the skin), the color of the skin has changed, shine on the lips, the eyebrows disappear to have to apply later ... it seems that there are changes to better).

So, according to these tests, it seems that RSL does something and MDL does not work, am I right? Do I have something wrong? Is there something I do not understand well?

Thanks for the help

What's the best option for render a picture??

lord Adam — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 10:52:59 +0000

Hello guys!

I've got a problem with render tab... I chosed a diffrent partition for temporary/render files for DAZ Studio 4.10 but the whole process of rendreing one picture it takes about 1,5 an hour! (I chosed to render by INVIDIA iRAY and Geforce GTX 750 Ti for photoreal / interactive devices). When I render my picture only through CPU devices I get a lot white dots on final picture... (as you can see on the picture below).

Additionally I get a problem with ,,out of memory",so I guess the software need a very much of free space on C partiton (is there any way to change this operation in render options before rendering?).

On the second picture below there is a whole information about my PC.

I will be grateful for any small advice how to use render options for my version of DAZ...

Why has DS always got 3Delight-Specular-Glossiness so badly wrong when importing a Poser pr...

3dcheapskate — Mon, 29 Oct 2018 10:31:06 +0000

N.B. This question is of mainly historical interest... ;o)

Why has DS always got '3Delight > Specular > Glossiness' so badly wrong when importing a Poser prop/figure ? This has been a minor PITA ever since DS2/3 days. Ages ago I did some empirical wet thumb in the wind approximations and came up with this...

...which I used to create DS mats for anything I produced.

Of course with the focus on iRay (Iray ? Is it de rigeur to get the capitalization correct?) I realize that this is just pissing in the wind... ;o)

...but I find myself wondering nevertheless. Mainly because I'm just doing a new Poser prop and I recall what 'fun' (spelt ''irritation') it was creating 3Delight-specific materials...

Grainy Renders and Plenty of Light

gwennovynne — Tue, 06 Nov 2018 17:46:02 +0000

Hello all! I need some help when it comes to renders. I've looked this problem up several times before, and the answer I usually see is that the person didn't have enough light in the scene. However, my renders are coming out grainy even when my scene is completely flooded with light. In the studio picture, the "white" backdrop is actually a dark forest green that has so much light on it that it looks completely white. Strangely enough, when I don't apply any lights at all, the final rendered image actually comes out BRIGHTER than the one flooded by light. As you can see in the finished render, I'm still having big grainy spots on the final product no matter what I select. It's not going to a set time and then cutting off, either; pictures that take an hour to render are grainy, as are pictures that only take ten minutes. Can anyone point me in the direction of which setting would fix this? (the clearer of the two is how it looks with NO lights applied. It's brighter than the one with four lights on her)

Is it possible to merge two characters into one?

thegflash777 — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 02:50:07 +0000

Hello there guys

I have a question here. Is it possible to merge one character onto another? For example I'm using a Genesis 8 female morph pack by HFS which contains fatasy shapes, I want to merge a deer head, reptile body into one, but a problem I ran into was when I try to merge the deer head, the morph gets messed up. So is it actaully possible to merge two characters into one?

Is there a way to encode a zip file with a file not a password

Xyetzt — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 14:53:20 +0000

Out of curiousity is there a way to encode a zip file with a file not a password, so that someone can unzip it with same said file if they have it?

G3 females HANDS

andreretogasser — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 13:49:00 +0000

Hello

Strange things happen to my G3 female ACTORS: If I load saved scenes and then change the poses of G3 females, the hands go completely nuts! Instead of taking on new poses, they stretch out like tentacles. Who has similar problems? How can the problem be solved?

Michael 8's silver "parts"

nicholasstedman1_edfae500ea — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 15:27:46 +0000

I am a artist and a novice with Daz3d that I find quite hard to use. Basically I just pose the figure and then render it with the Iray Sun-Sky function. I have just purchased the Michael 8 pro kit. I found the "parts" in the eyebrow file and applied them. They remain silver or white before and after rendering with Iray or 3Delight. How do you get them to have a normal color. I noticed that in the Michal materials file there are things called Gen1 or Gen2 for Iray, but these don't seem to change anything so what are they?

Many thanks for help

DSON importer to Poser 11 64 bit

RexRed2 — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 00:20:45 +0000

Where in Hell do I install this?

Deleting Smart Content Thumbnails

Man Behind the Curtain — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 20:38:56 +0000

How do I delete thumbnails of items that I manually added to my Smart Content products. I removed the file folder containing the content, but now a missing content thumbnail shows up in my product thumbnail list. Thanks.

Sky Dome & Realistic Renders

kksmith6515 — Thu, 08 Nov 2018 23:01:04 +0000

Hello,

I'm going to be working on out door scenes using 22 Parker Road and I would like to be able to do it all from within Daz Studio, rather then in post render. The problem is I have very little experience with Sky Dome or what it can do. My assumption was that simply by turning it on, you would instantly get blue skies and puffy white clouds. Clearly, that wasn't the case.

I guess my question really is can you create realistic skys from within Daz Studio simply using the default Sky Dome or does that require the purchase of an additional third party app such as

https://www.daz3d.com/light-dome-pro-r

Thanks!

Can a dforce simulation be paused and resumed?

Joe827 — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 15:48:35 +0000

Browsing through the forum, I didn't find this answered directly. I was wondering if there is a way to pause a simulation, inspect the results so far, and then resume the simulation if I discover it needs to be run a little longer?

problem with genesis 3

perlecosemie_391cc66953 — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 10:08:46 +0000

hello anyone. I have to resolve this problem....When i open a genesis 3 character, i have first this message: " duplicate...." you can see in photo.

Thank you for your help.