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Clothes not falling to ground using dforce

jeremy-2558557 — Fri, 05 Oct 2018 05:07:26 +0000

I’v succeeded at this many times and now suddenly its no longer working. The clothing just stay in mid air, slightly draping. Its a dforce clothing item and the only other thing loaded in my scene is a flat plane. The only thing i can think of is that i was experimenting with different layouts. No idea whats going on. Any help would be much appreciated.

How to fit a props on a character?

ale.bersanetti — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 14:06:39 +0000

Hi, i've modeled a bracelet that i would to fit to a genesis 8 character with morphs and it should follow in place the poses with the character. Please, someone tell me how to do, or link me a tutorial, i tried to find one on YT but without success.

Base figure havoc :/

Navi — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 16:09:05 +0000

Hello, about 3 weeks ago, I think I broke my Génesis 2 Female base figure, by mistake, while saving some Genesis 3 hairs as "figure/prop asset" for genesis 2 female. I am not sure what actually happened, but my guess is that I had G2F selected instead of the hair prop, when saving the support asset (saving was very long, much longer than for a hair prop). The hair was used on a custom figure when it happened, and now it seems a part of the morphs from that figure are applied to the base G2F whenever I load it. I put a screencapture so that you can see what I mean, right is the "broken" G2F base, left is the same base after I clicked "zero figure".

What I don't understand is : 1° I saved the new "thing" into a hair folder, with a hair prop name ("XYZ"hairG2F, aside the original hair), so I don't understand how it can overwrite the core G2F files. 2° There aren't any morphs with a non-zero default value involved, I didn't save any morphs at all (I save all my chars as scene subsets). 3° Now it breaks most of my custom characters, but not all of them Oo; some are totally unaffected, although they're based on G2F just like all others, which is really, really weird Oo. And those that are affected, the morphs modification is not "fixed", but variable, it will deform some a LOT, and some others, just a little bit (it seems the morphs sliders - Keiko 6 head, etc - don't indicate the "real" values anymore). 4° Resaving a clean and zeroed G2F base over the original one doesn't help, I still have the same issues with my characters, and even on very old scenes where I had some G2F base unmorphed.

Today, i've reinstalled the G2F Starter Essentials, to see if it would help, not only it didn't, but it "broke" again the the base G2F, just like it was after the problem in the first place (I mean, it overwrite the "repaired" unmorphed base G2F with the morphed one Oo).

I've really no clue how to solve this problem. I've searched and deleted all files that were created/modified the day it happened, into \data and temp \roaming directories, so there must be a &@§#! remnant file somewhere, but I am completely unable to locate it.

Problem Rendering once lights are in scene

tomgarden45 — Fri, 05 Oct 2018 08:55:38 +0000

Hey Guys, I'm having problems rendering my scene once theres lights in there. It turns into this 'stamped' effect. I have attached a picture to illustrate the problem. (I want it to look like the scene)

Thanks in advance,

Tom

How to get rid of LAMH Player?

Beat578 — Fri, 05 Oct 2018 13:19:22 +0000

I have Look at my hair and the catalizer. I love them. But i also had the free player once.

Every now and then, i accidently install the free player, because it's somewhere in the DIM under the new Installation, messing everything up. It overwrites the LAMH Files, so everything has to be uninstalled and installed again. I can only install and uninstall the LAMH Player over DIM, but not the full Version. Can you please PLEASE make it possible to either:

- deactivate a download once and forever (not only one time, and after the next refresh its back there again

- Make it possible to install / uninstall both the free player and the full product over DIM, so if you accidently messed up, you can fix it easily?

I'm really getting upset about this! Thank you for your help!

Kind Regards
Beat

Spotlight question

benniewoodell — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 22:58:36 +0000

Hello,

I tried searching the forums for an answer to this, but maybe I'm not searching for the right wording, I don't know, but I apologize if this is super easy or has been spoken about at length.

But I was just playing around with a spotlight. I don't know what I hit, but all of a sudden when I switched the light geometry to disc, the shape of the light showed up as a white circle. I turned it to cylinder, and a cylinder showed up, rectangle which changed to a rectangle, and I was able to see the lighting change on the character. I even changed the scale and made it look great. Then I went to move the character, clicked back on the light and all I saw were the beams coming out of the spotlight itself without the cylinder showing anymore. I added in a new spotlight and changed that to sphere, but nothing happened, the sphere didn't show up this time, it just looks like the point option. Up until that moment, any time I changed it from point to sphere or something, I just assumed it was doing something, but I never actually saw it make any change so this got me really excited.

I wish I could take a photo to show you guys what I'm talking about to help, but sadly I can't get it to show again. Same with the linear point light, earlier this week I was able to see a grid around the whole light that I could adjust to show what the light was ecompassing and now I can't get that back.

I'm sure there's one simple button I don't know I need to press, so any help would be so greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Bennie

Figure Setup help please - vertex groups not imported

andya_b341b7c5f5 — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 17:07:07 +0000

I am trying without success to rig a prop following the tutorial here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNFHv8K8qKg by Sickleyield.

I have modelled the prop in Blender, created a number of vertex groups and UV mapped them all. I have exported the prop to .obj, but when I come to adding the geometry in the Figure Setup pane, the .obj is imported but the vertex groups are not. I have one entry only below the prop name, and it's 'default' whereas I do not have a vertex group named 'default'.

The one thing I am not clear on is that my prop is one object in Blender made of several separate meshes. I cannot tell whether the object Sickleyield is using is one single mesh or not, but it would seem logical that it isn't - at least the door and walls as separate meshes would be my approach - so not convinced this is the issue

Any help/suggestions/explanations of what I am doing wrong appreciated.

eye render problem

ablage01 — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 14:53:39 +0000

Hi, I am new to DAZ Studio and entcountered a little problem.

The RSL-eye doesnt render properly.

I hope someone can illuminate/help me.

Thx

Custom morphs causing issue with Genesis 8 posing.

amuletofdelilah — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 05:41:46 +0000

I recently made a custom morph slider for a Genesis 8 female, the intention is to make a transformation sequence. However, as I move the slider it causes her eyes to go in wild directions when posing. I asked a friend and he stated that it was an issue with Victoria 7, but wasn't sure if there was a fix. Figured I would reach out and see if anybody knew a way to prevent this from happening. Thanks in advance for your help.

Moving product libraries for optimal network access

bwise1701 — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 15:48:01 +0000

I currently have all my software scene files and product libraries on one machine, an aging mac pro and I have a newer PC with a pascal Titan black and a maxwell titan x. When I use the PC for faster renders it reads scene file and data from the mac disk over the network. I'm upgrading the mac to have a faster 1TB PCie SSD and was thinking it would be faster to move all my program files scene and data files there. Shouldn,t that help performance, load times at least? ( I have multiple figure scenes that can take minutes to load)

Can I just move the all the applications directories and Libraries? I can add them to the Content Library paths in Daz - is that all there is too it? Any gotchas? And what DIM? Do I need to tell it the next locations for new content installs?

Thanks

Change the eye of Genesis 8

Gyland — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 09:11:49 +0000

I am nearly new to Daz3d and I want a tips if it possible to change a few things to Daz character in Blender and the imported back to Daz and still continue to work with morphs shapes, I have many body and face morphs. I am not happy with eyes shape at genesis 8 base female and that changes I can do with face morphs I bought, EJ Face Morphs.

lights make scene bronze

AbnerK — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 09:43:01 +0000

Hi,

I thought I'd solved this buy it seems I hadn't, however I have found the reason for it. It happens when viewed through a camera with the headlight switched on and set to < 0.1. Why? I have scene lights on, in fact the plane the figures is stood on has an emissive aplied to it. It renders perfectly well but I have to switch on preview lights to edit the scene.

Thanks

Motion Builder and Daz: A solution.

autodolor — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 19:07:21 +0000

Hi. I often read the problems that you have with animations in Motion Builder to return them to Daz Studio.
Let's say it clearly: It is impossible, due to the peculiar behavior of the interpreter of Daz, both bvh and fbx.
I've tried with free software, like Blender, or Bvhacker, and there's no way. The MoBu bvh is correct in other applications, but not in Daz.
All we need is the 3DXchange program from Realillusion (Those from iClone ..., which in this case we can ignore.)
With the animation of any well made Genesis in MoBu, which can have several takes, we open it in 3DXchange. Automatically, recognize the figure (with genesis 8 is the problem of your A-pose, but we can create a clone in T-pose), and take them, and export them as bvh. And it's already solved!
We open Daz and the model we apply unlock all bones. You can try with limits off, but I think it is not necessary.
Next, we import the bvh and remap the bones correctly. Save the map with a name, for example MobuPreset ..
And we accept the import.
And nothing else, except to be able to enjoy your work.

Bvhacker ... and the dreadful sentence: Problem with file: was the file saved using Mac line ending?

autodolor — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 10:01:44 +0000

Actually, it might be written on Mac. This has to do with the EOL or "End Of Line". On Mac the EOF is CR. Unix / Linux is LF. However, in Win it is CR / LF ..
I do not think the problem is that, easily solvable with Notepad ++, a free software. We only need to activate in View / show simbol / End of line .. In that case, go to menu / edit / EOL conversion ... and save.
The main problem of bvh, is its extreme precision, about 6 decimals .. Something redundant for these cases.
The general problem is that they exceed 2048 characters per line. This is a problem derived from Ms-Dos, etc. I'm not going to get too much into the MaxLength attribute.
If we look at Bvhacker's open source, we see the following:

// while (len == 0) {
BOOL success = pFile-> ReadString (* line);
if (! success) return false;
* line-> TrimRight ();
* line-> TrimLeft ();
if (line-> GetLength ()> 2048)
{
AfxMessageBox (_T ("Problem with file: was the file saved using Mac line endings?"), MB_ICONSTOP);
return false;
}
//}
return true;
------------------
You can see this at https://github.com/DaveDubUK/bvhacker where is your source code, inside BVHFile.cpp .. It is open source under GNU.

I'm remaking the program to accept that higher limit (very simple thing for those who know something about C ++, but I guess, is not the largest user ..)
I'll expose it to its time ... (Be patient ...)
I wrote a script in Perl (Oh, no! That weird language that only works for text like CGI, etc.)
This is the code to use. (Copy, paste in a notepad as text ... and save as "bvhReducer.pl" ... (For example .. to your taste ..)
If we already have this in a XXX.pl file, Perl should be installed.
I use this: http://strawberryperl.com/
Normally, Perl is added to the Path, but it must be ensured ..
Once this is done, we paste the extension files bvh to a folder, and the Perl script. Be careful with this, since it is irreversible. With a Command Prompt, we execute the command inside the folder. Like "C: / conversion / Perl nameScript.pl", or just "nameScript.pl"
This will "remove grease" from the bvh, creating a new xxx.bvh to xxx.bvh.bvh, totally acceptable in Bvhacker, without loss of quality.

Enjoy!

-------------------

@files = <*.bvh>;
foreach $file (@files) {
       open (OLD, $file) || die "Couldn´t open $file: $!\n";
       open (NEW, ">$file.bvh") || die "Couldn´t open $file.bvh: $!\n";
           while () {
               $line = $_;
               if (/Normal/) { while () { last if /}/; } $line => ""; }
               if (/normalIndex/) { while() { last if /[]]/; } $line = ""; }
               $line =~ s/[-+]?[0-9]\.[0-9]+e[+-][0-9]+/0/g;
               $line =~ s/([-+]?[0-9]+\.[0-9]{2})[0-9]+/$1/g;
               $line =~ s/0\.00/0/g;
               $line =~ s/[ ]+/ /g;
               $line =~ s/[\t]+/ /g;
               $line =~ s/^ //g;
               print NEW $line;

           }
           close OLD;
           unlink ($file);
           close NEW;
           }

-----------------------

Just the code, not the lines!!

DAZ Studio 4:10 Pro, parameter settings

kksmith6515 — Mon, 01 Oct 2018 03:58:23 +0000

Hi all,

I ran into something rather strange. Perhaps I inadvertently changed one of my settings in Studio. I don't know but here's the problem. When I go to the parameters tab in studio, then click on a part of a figure, say a thigh or fore arm, it just goes to the whole figure! In other words, I can't click on a certain body part and go directly to that part to begin transforming it where as in the past I could.

So my question, why is this happening? Did I somehow do something to change this or could it be a problem with the program itself?

Thanks!

Onto the new problem lol

D.Robinson — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 20:45:09 +0000

The recent Freebie, Mort Augur which is part of the bundle.When trying to load the set pieces just throws an error. it says it needs something in the scene to load it. When reviewing the log file, it says it is throwing a memory exception thingamabob.

The only piece of this that actually loads anything is the lights and camera. The set props...ie the walls and the throne etc. Do that error.

dForce Wild Winds Outfit for G8

Valkeerie — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 16:45:47 +0000

I bought this outfit this morning. It is a beautiful outfit.

I loaded the full outfit onto stock G8 and tried dForce on several easy poses. Each time it crashed. I've tried from an initial pose, and tried a timeline animation. I have spent hours on this. I have the latest 4.10, and I tried 4.11 beta with the same result. There is no warning - it gets a long way through the sim, everything looks good, no jaggies, then Studio terminates.

I have used dForce with other products a fair bit, and for the most part it has been reliable. I know what to avoid (e.g. hands or arms pinning the material etc). Most of my problems have been tears, not crashes, so this is annoying.

Apex hair on GIA 8 Pro bundle keeps throwing a Install failure notice on DIM

D.Robinson — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 11:01:42 +0000

[Apex hair on GIA 8 Pro bundle keeps throwing a Install failure notice on DIM] Just what the title suggest, i dont know if the file download is getting corrupted or what. Just not sure whats goin on here. Also i just noticed, the file size on this hair is 968 megs...somehow i doubt it.

Question about the "Retro Muscle Car" product

Tourist — Sat, 29 Sep 2018 02:55:00 +0000

I just bought the recent Retro Muscle Car: https://www.daz3d.com/retro-muscle-car

I enjoy it, it is a good Firebird likeness but it has 2 issues.

It is too big, it should be reduced to 92% or 93% for better results which is easy to do.

The other issue is trickier, the car seats too high on its wheels (the axles are not centered on the wheels).

On other vehicles I can often select the wheels and adjust their height the way I want but not here.

My question is this: How can I "separate" the wheels from the rest of the car so I can move them independently?

Saved Files with a new computer

ShaunBuilds — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 17:52:52 +0000

Hi all!

I recently bought a new computer and transfered everything over, including all my saved scenes. However, even though everything loads correctly my scenes don't pop up in the smart content panel under "Scenes" like they did on my old computer. This extends to saved characters and presets as well. How do I get is to show up?

[Solved]Materials of "Tribal Warrior Queen Outfit for Genesis 8 Female(s)" are unavailable.

qingliuhongtai — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 12:41:22 +0000

Materials of "Tribal Warrior Queen Outfit for Genesis 8 Female(s)" are unavailable.
https://www.daz3d.com/tribal-warrior-queen-outfit-for-genesis-8-females

I tried to install "Tribal Warrior Queen Outfit for Genesis 8 Female(s)" on DIM, but it said "Install Failed!".
And I downloaded manually, unziped, and copied to "My Library" directory.
The meshes can be merged into the scene, but the materials are unavailable.
So I installed on "Install" tab in DAZ Studio 4.10 Pro, but materials are still unavailable.

What should I do?

How to keep pregnant/large bellies from getting squished in the crotch area

remyspierings — Sat, 17 Jun 2017 19:39:26 +0000

Hi,

I've stumbled across a problem with the Gen 3 female models. If they have a large belly, the belly will get squished in the crotch area, especially if bend the abdomen and/or thighs. The crotch seems very rigid and doesn't really react to the shape of the belly. Is there any way of fixing this? See attached render of the issue.

SOLVED

dash2128 — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 17:01:27 +0000

PROBLEM SOLVED

Animate 2 question

UVDan — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 01:49:19 +0000

I bought animate 2. How come DS 4.9 won't let me use it?

genx2 with reptilian from g2m to g3m

naiora — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 21:33:28 +0000

hi all

i'm trying to use gen2x for to translate reptilian from g2 to g3

i'm having some issues:

when i load genesis 2 as source i have these errors:

GenX - Loading figure: Genesis 2 Male

Loading figure ...

F:/daz/dazcontent/data/DAZ 3D/Genesis 2/Male/Genesis2Male.dsf

Loading morphs ...

Analyzing dependencies ...

Invalid formula in morph: JCMM6ThighSideSideR

Invalid formula in morph: JCMM6ThighSideSideL

Invalid formula in morph: JCMM6ThighBndFwdR

Invalid formula in morph: JCMM6ThighBndFwdL

Invalid formula in morph: JCMM6ShldUpR

Invalid formula in morph: JCMM6ShldUpL

Invalid formula in morph: JCMM6ShldFwdR

Invalid formula in morph: JCMM6ShldFwdL

Invalid formula in morph: JCMM6ShinBndBckR

Invalid formula in morph: JCMM6ShinBndBckL

Invalid formula in morph: JCMM6ForeArmBndR

Invalid formula in morph: JCMM6ForeArmBndL

Invalid formula in morph: JCMM6CollarUpR

Invalid formula in morph: JCMM6CollarUpL

then i go to select transfer on all non zero values, click on transfer....

and nothing happens :(

someone can help?

thanks

Neva

Windows 10 DistributedCOM Errors Fix if your PC keeps randomly shutting down.

Minam — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 16:39:12 +0000

Here is the solution, and I'm not 100% sure it worked.
https://www.winhelponline.com/blog/fix-event-id-10016-distributedcom-error-event-log-dcomcnfg-permissions/

Here's the problem.
This is not the graphic card over heat problem:
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/247211/iray-rendering-on-cpu-only-and-it-s-overheating

How did I find this out? I downloaded both the CPU and GPU free monitering software from my 3rd party GPU and CPU from AMD.
This is a windows problem where the user is not recognized as the admin, and a program tried to do something unitl a crash is caused. The crash is random and it took me 2 days to find this solution.

Other's who look in the events part of windows will find these id numbers, which will start the process and take them to other places where people have had these issues.

 {C2F03A33-21F5-47FA-B4BB-156362A2F239}
 {316CDED5-E4AE-4B15-9113-7055D84DCC97}

The above solution is 2 days of my life excluding the week of random shutdowns. I hope this helps someone.

If this doesn't work for me, next is testing the power supple itself by buying and running another power supply :/

Charger: Fantasy Bridle in Poser not conforming or parenting

boni_m_ab7b32f625 — Mon, 01 Oct 2018 14:22:38 +0000

Ok, the topic says it all. I've used Poser since version 3, so I know how to use it (I'm also a Poser Ambassador) ... This has my stymied. I think there may be a hiearchy issue but then I haven't come up with this issue before so not sure there.

When I move the head of the charger, the bridle stays put after I parent it to the Charger's head. When I conform the bridle goes off in some bazzar position not associated with the Charger. I will look at the hiearchy again ... but thought I would bring this here to see what you all thought of it.

H&C Business Suit A for Genesis 3 Male(s)

andreretogasser — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 14:17:58 +0000

RE: H&C Business Suit A for Genesis 3 Male(s) from IH Kang

https://www.daz3d.com/h-c-business-suit-a-for-genesis-3-male-s

I don't know if I am the oly user: I have a systematic "poking" problem with this product. Sleeves and knees too often cause unpleasant surprises and the shoes are as particularly affected, that I do not even use them anymore.

Tested several variations of "Genesis 3 Male" - The problem persists.

Of course one can buy "anit-poke" software ... but actually I would have expected an update from the seller - but I own the product for more than a year and there have been no changes.

Am I the only one who has these problems?

Render issue with G8F Anatomical Elements...line around the area

marco_pasqualini_foto — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 11:21:56 +0000

Hello everybody,

like title suggests I've an issue with render of Genesis 8 female characters in genitalia area. I've noticed it because I rendered a character with a bikini that expose the higher part of pubic area and in render appear a line without texture...so i tried to render her naked and is all around the pubic area this line...I already tried to apply again full body maps, nothing change.

I can solve the problem with Photoshop but I would like to know if there is a solution for have all correct direct in render...maybe I make mistake but I don't know where.

Thank you very much.

Daz Studio freezes on start

Syrus_Dante — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 04:58:52 +0000

Daz Studio freezes on start?

Hi, I rarely ask questions but lately my DazStudio instalation is screwed up. Was working on a big scene lately then for what ever reason Daz Studio freezed up as I tried to close it, the interface was gone but by opening the task manager I saw DazStudio.exe still hanging in there taking 2GB memory. So I thought OK it just don't want to release the memory, I wonder why DazStudio is slow on that cleaning up by closing anyway so I forced to close the task. Now if I try to open DS the splash screen remains at the point where it says "Connecting to CMS..." and the exe is only using 35MB without loading any interface.

Should I uninstal CMS from windows and install it again with DIM?

Using Windows 7 and DazStudio 4.10.0.123