Since there will be a Generational leap in technology here with the RTX series of cards, I have been wondering are the Titan X or Titan V worth grabbing if the go on sale? Is there a significant reduction in render times over a 1080Ti FTW or SC2? 

Also is the Daz3D Developer Team going to be optimizing for the Turing Generation of Technology? If so how long might we expect to see benefits make it down to us users for this new technology? Would it be wiser to just wait until we have concrete information about the RTX lineup of consumer cards (Which may be months away but rumors suggest they could be coming to market as early as August 30th for the first GeForce RTX cards.)

My goal is to get the best bang for my buck. And I expect that it will be a couple of years before we see any real games that can properly utilize the RTX technology, but how might this affect working in Daz3D? Will we see updates to Iray that utilitize this Real Time Ray Tracing? Should I be eyeing getting an entry level $2,300 RTX 5000? Or will it still be a long time before the benefits of using it can be felt by a Daz3D user?

https://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-rtx-2080-turing-tu104-gpu-pcb-exposed/

Edited to change iRay to Iray

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

Also, is it possible to just install the files into the install manager download folder as I have read somewhere you can. I tried it once but of course it didn't work. Please, someone have pity on me and take me out of my peronal hell of wrestling with this trying to get it to work instead of creating. 

I have two GTX cards running in none sli !  Im using older drivers for the cards as nothing would work.  Now im getting an error message when i open daz saying-    Daz requires OpenGL 1.3     You currently have 1.1  please update your video card drivers

Point At NONE...
Visible in Render ON
Render Priority NORMAL
Visible in Simulation ON
Visible ON
Selectable ON
Display Persistence OFF
Ray Length 2.5
Opacity Scale 100%
Ray Opacity 15%
Show Base OFF
Base Opacity 15%
Show Edge ON
Edge Opacity 20%
Illumination ON
Color 255 255 255
Intensity 100%
Photometric Mode ON
Spread Angle 60
Beam Exponent 4.00
Light Geometry POINT
Height(Diameter) 10
Width 10
Two Sided OFF
Render Emitter ON
Luminous Flux(Lumen) 80000(my setting) 1500(default)
Temperature 7500K(my setting) 6500K(default)

Like I said, my only guess is they removed/replaced the Decay setting with something else, possibly Ray Length. If not, where can it be found?? Also, are there any good tutorials that explain what all of these settings do? Some of them are no-brainers, but others I haven't figured out yet.

I purchased the ArchDetails_vol.3 product, which is a superbly detailed scene of a patio with furniture and numerous other props. The product loads as a complete scene, with all the furniture and props in place. I can select individual items and move or delete them, etc., but I don't know how to add an individual prop, in this scene or another. Is there a straightforward way to access an individual item, such as the table or a stack of books?

I just want to transfer to genesis 1.

Does genx specify a place for your genesis files, why cant it find it?

Has anyone ever done?

Thank you.

Whenever I bring in Poser assets into a scene and then save it all as either a Scene or Scene Subset, DAZ Studio always ends up putting a whole lot of stuff into the auto_adapted folder.  If, later on, I decide to delete the scene or scene subset, all of that 'crap' that was created in auto_adapted is still there.  If I look through that directory, I have no idea what stuff is and isn't still required for my existing scenes.  So I'm afraid to just boldly delete stuff in case it's still used.  This seems like a fundamental problem that really hasn't been solved.  I don't suppose there's any safe, automated way of cleaning out this directory, is there?

I purchased this RiverSoftArt clothing converter https://www.daz3d.com/clothing-converter-from-genesis-8-female-to-genesis-3-female and tired it once. It worked, but I got other stuff to do and a couple of weeks later I've tried it again and this time I can't make it work. 

I've followed the PDF manual, and set the Output directory as it's suggested, but the clothings don't convert successful. It says that failed converterd clothes remain checked on the script and that's what happens. They don't go to the Output directory converted. 

I've printscreened the script and the log. Maybe someone could help me.

Thanks 

Any help would be appreciated. I don't know whether the winterbrose gaggles and crows tutorial actually has this info or a script to do so. I could purchase this if it would help.

Regards

Ed

Thanks. 

I have serious issues when applying poses to genesis 8 male. Any idea to correct this ?

but what happens is i dont know how to do that after i created the morph in zbrush. 

for example when i send my character over to zbrush 

i  take the  move tool and i morph the head  now i dont know how to save the morph to my character and then import it 

back to daz studio and have it show so i can morph the head

can  someone please please help me this is so frustrating 

I'm sorry if this is the wrong sub for a question like this or if this question was asked before. I have absolutly no background in 3D so I don't even know what too search for.

As I said I'm a prime example for a noob. I just downloaded Daz3D and it's exactly what I've been looking for. I came across a problem though.

I'm trying achieve a certain look and I got it down but I can't wrap my head around how to export or render it as it always renders a photorealistic version of it.

Here is what I'm trying to get (basically the texture shaded look):

Is there even a way to get this out of Daz and into photoshop? Or is Daz only rendering photorealistic images?

Again, sorry for this stupud question I have no idea what I'm doing haha

Any help would be MUCH appreciated. Thanks in advance!

(Image removed for nudity. Please review https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/3279/acceptable-ways-of-handling-nudity#latest​ ~Mod)

Anyone willing to share workflow tips or point me in the right direction? I have had no luck searching an abundance of forums for current information.

EDIT: Thanks to SickleYield giving me a few little facts about the previous pit-falls of working with DS figures in SP, I was able to find a way to successfully bring in a human character figure from DS into SP and was just able to successfully bake out all the additional maps (Except ID) in SP with material zones that are layed out per UDIM, without needing an intermediate in the middle. WOO!

If anyone is interested... 

(Unless this was already a known thing and I'm just showing off my noobiness... in which case I'll just take a bow -- let me know if I should post the how-to?)

I tried many times, but those specific ones' values doesn't get registered in the puppeteer dots no matter what. I also checked their internal code but I don't see nothing that could make DAZ don't consider them

Someone knows how to solve?

I have a RTX 2080 Ti system already (1x) and I find that it is awesome for single scene renders, static renders. If I want to illuminate (max 3 people), animate them at 1080p, 24-30 fps what kind of hardware do I need so that the rendering doesn't take so long to do?

I'm currently looking at this workflow setup:

main rig (current one with Ryzen 5 2600 | RTX 2080Ti for scene setup) --> purpose-built rendering machine with a 2 x RTX 2080Ti and maybe another RTX 2070 for a total of 3x GPUs (because last slot is a PCI-e 3.0 x16 at x4 speeds). Would this allow me to render animations in a decent amount of time using iRay, Optix Prime accelerated? 

Do I need a monitor for that? CPU doesn't matter, right? Would a UPS be necessary? 

I just want the fastest possible rendering machine for my use case so that I don't wait days for animations to finish and hate the idea of using cloud rendering (even if it is faster). 

I know it's a lot to ask, but I'd like some feedback and help please. Thank you.

I made a minor geometry change to pants in hexagon to create morphs. I used the transfer utility after converting the obj to triax. I can't get the pants to fit again so I can create the morphs in hexagon. Is there a tut for fitting the garment to genesis again and will auto-fit work afterwards? thanks

I have problem with any genesis 8 figure, this happens every time when I apply a pose. Please help to solve this problem.

Now the fun begins. One directory on the c drive(the files in the daz studio) I just can not uninstall because it says there are open files being used by other programs in it. Dam if I can find them. So I go to the installer and change the path to install everything to the h drive. Works perfectly. Except. Sigh. It keeps wanting to try and reinstall the same gd files every time I open the installer up. They keep popping up as ready to download.It also says no files have been installed but they are clearly installed in the daz program. I can only assume it is seeing the few uninstalled files on the c drive and thus trying to reinstall the files I just installed prior. Also,to add excitment to the mix when I go into the installer to change the install destinations under the install tab it has the recommended path. Which of course is to the c drive. But of course it is grayed out and won't allow me to change it to the h drive. Sigh.

And theres more. Now I am getting the "dreaded " a valid postgrc squ...." message. I had gotten a few times before but rebooting daz always fixed it. But oh no, not this time. it is persistent and constant. I read unistalling it with the installer and reinstalling it should fix this problem. But becauce my installer keeps saying there are NO files installed, I can't uninstall it. LOL.

I suspect if I could actually remove those few files I can't remove from c a lot of this could be fixed. I am so freaking frustrated at this time it is making me sick. it's one problem after another and I spend all day trouble shooting things with varying degrees of success only to have a new problem pop up.

So any ideas?

Arc'