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[SOLVED] CPU at 100° Celsius, please Help!

yonatancicha — Mon, 17 Sep 2018 05:24:27 +0000

Hi! I'm new here, and I have a really big problem... I have 2 computers, And the same problem on both of them. When rendering an image, the CPU gets to 100°C, it's gonna fry, any help with this?
Here are the specs of both my computers:
1) gtx970, 16gb RAM, i7 4790k - Gets CPU to 100°C
2) gtx1050ti, 8gb RAM, i7 7700 - Gets CPU to 95°C

I don't want to burn my CPU's, but also I want to make some nice pics and trying to make a game :/

Genesis 8 PowerPose

Tourist — Mon, 17 Sep 2018 07:51:21 +0000

On every G8 character product page there is a video showing this cool PowerPose feature.

I have several G8 Characters but I cannot figure out where to find this power poser or how to use it.

Any tips?

Strange Cave issue: UV wireframe showing in renders

Ruthven — Fri, 14 Sep 2018 15:57:53 +0000

Okay, I'm rendering the product with Millenium Dragon 2 in 3DL and here's what I get: the wireframe is showing, thing I guess should be not supposed to do. I tried using a stone shader and this doesn't happen, but the result on the rock is less realistic than with the original texture. The picture is going to be printed in large size ad attached to the wall on the arrival of my house's basement's stair, to greet the visitors... so I would like it to be as realistic as possibile. Any suggestion?

Lights move when moved to group. [Solved]

AbnerK — Mon, 17 Sep 2018 18:17:05 +0000

Hi,

I recently started using 'Create Goup' to group my items in a scene. If you creae a, for example, lgiht group then try to add a newly created light to that light group then that new light moves position as soon as it's entered the group. The simple solution is to only create the group after creating all the lights but we are often not that organised. I know I'm not. Am I doing something wrong or is there a better workaround other than knowing exactly what you're going to do later?

Thanks.

GIMP 32 bit and Depth Map

3dOutlaw — Mon, 17 Sep 2018 18:21:44 +0000

So now that GIMP 2.10 has some 32 bit tools to load exr and change exposure, etc...has anyone done a tutorial on using it? :)

I can make and load them...and I found the old Focus Blur plugin, but not sure the proper steps here.

Also, not sure if there is a "correct" exposure setting for all images for depth maps, or just go with something between -10 and -14?

Unable to install postgresql cms

kaogire — Mon, 17 Sep 2018 10:35:32 +0000

Hi,
I am unable to install a bunch of packages from the Install Manager. Here is a log of what i keep getting when I re try.

Processed 1 products with 1 unique product downloads
Processed 49 installed products, totaling 3.8 GB
User Data Refresh: Elapsed Time 1 sec 28 msec
Processed 33 products with 83 unique product downloads
WARNING: Error while downloading to file "IM00018869-02_PostgreSQLCMSWin64bit.zip", content header has no file name
WARNING: Network Error while downloading to file "": Operation canceled
WARNING: Error while downloading to file "IM00005517-01_BeachVolleyballSetDS.zip", content header has no file name
WARNING: Network Error while downloading to file "": Operation canceled
WARNING: Error while downloading to file "IM00021848-01_DAZStudioIrayHDROutdoorEnvironments.zip", content header has no file name
WARNING: Network Error while downloading to file "": Operation canceled
WARNING: Error while downloading to file "IM00018009-01_DMsMemorialDS.zip", content header has no file name
WARNING: Network Error while downloading to file "": Operation canceled
WARNING: Error while downloading to file "IM00016280-04_Genesis2MaleStarterEssentialsPoserCF.zip", content header has no file name
WARNING: Network Error while downloading to file "": Operation canceled
WARNING: Error while downloading to file "IM00016280-01_Genesis2StarterEssentialsFemale.zip", content header has no file name
WARNING: Network Error while downloading to file "": Operation canceled
WARNING: Error while downloading to file "IM00016280-03_Genesis2StarterEssentialsMale.zip", content header has no file name
WARNING: Network Error while downloading to file "": Operation canceled
WARNING: Error while downloading to file "IM00021630-01_Genesis3StarterEssentialsFemale.zip", content header has no file name
WARNING: Network Error while downloading to file "": Operation canceled
WARNING: Error while downloading to file "IM00021630-02_Genesis3StarterEssentialsMale.zip", content header has no file name
WARNING: Network Error while downloading to file "": Operation canceled
WARNING: Error while downloading to file "IM00042071-01_Genesis8StarterEssentialsFemale.zip", content header has no file name
WARNING: Network Error while downloading to file "": Operation canceled
WARNING: Error while downloading to file "IM00042071-02_Genesis8StarterEssentialsMale.zip", content header has no file name
WARNING: Network Error while downloading to file "": Operation canceled

Kindly help me out. Thanks.

Morphing

Zipper730 — Mon, 17 Sep 2018 00:35:51 +0000

I was thinknig of an idea of creating a character that had an abnormal body-frame -- freaky long arms and legs. When I attempt to lengthen the arms and legs, I hit a length limit that I cannot get around. I had tried to enter in 200% or something into the display to get around it, but no good.

Rendering front and side profiles at the same time

RacerDC — Sun, 16 Sep 2018 21:02:22 +0000

Hello,

I'd like to render a split screen showing a front and side profile at the same time. I went into the viewport and selected Side by Side, but images render separately. Any quick way in DAZ or do I have to render 2 images, then go out and paste them together in PS?

See attached.

Can I add a Propagating Dial to Hairs?

carrie58 — Sun, 16 Sep 2018 19:07:29 +0000

Is it possible to add a propagating dial to hairs so they fit larger headed characters? Some hairs are not following the size of the heads and I want to fix that

Pixelated renders

wolfestocs — Sun, 16 Sep 2018 14:00:56 +0000

I've tried rendering this scene a few different ways now and it still ends up like this. My hardware is a gtx 1070 ti, and im not using the cpu; my rendering settings are, 1920 x 1080p, architectural sampler and caustic sampler turned on, note that ive tried rendering with these turned off and i still have the same result. 98 rendering coverage, 5 render quality, 10000 max time, 14000 max samples.The image is also after around 2 hours and a half of rendering.

So what exactly does iRay do?

michaelxm_a1dddd836b — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 12:07:42 +0000

Hi everyone. So after reading all the big deal about iray stuff, I built a new pc.. faster cpu, more ram, and even a 4 gb graphics card. But still for the likes of me, I can't see what the big deal is. I mean when I render it still seems 3Delight is a better choice. Not to mention it's faster. Is iray just all about lighting? I also notice it don't do so hot with the older models. I tried using it with the Daz Bear.. when I added the map.. it looked like a spotted leopard..lol But for the record,,the new build does help DS in general scoot along quicker :o)

Stop a started render

reserv888 — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 11:53:47 +0000

Sometimes I missclick and start a render without the intention of doing so. Is there any way to stop the process? When the image begins to take form there is no problem cancelling but before that has begun, how do I stop the process? If it is a complicated scene it can take som time before the image starts to appear and I would like to stop the render immediately.

Fun little question... MacOS -> Windows

Penguinisto — Sun, 16 Sep 2018 03:36:59 +0000

Typing this on a 5-year-old MacBook Pro. Works great, but iRay performance blows goats (all CPU - the puny GeForce on this thing just ain't got the 'oomph.)

Go to buy a new MBP, and guess which manufacturer went with Radeon instead of NVIDIA?

So... I have a new Acer Aspire 7 shipping to my house. Intel Coffee Lake CPU, GeForce GTX 1060 GPU, 32GB RAM, etc. I figure that oughta put some pep into the ol' render times, and a 17" screen is something I sorely missed all these years (trust me - if Apple had put a GTX 1060 into a 17" form factor MBP, we would not be having this discussion...)

However... Windows 10. Stop laughing. Obviously not MacOS, right? I'm getting too busy and too old of late to Hackintosh anything, so aside from the requisite tweaks to disable all the spyware/bloatware/unused-services/auto-update crap...

...what else is needed, per se? Yes, the obvious "download the 'doze version of DS you idiot!", and such (and I'm guessing a new download of the Reality plugin is in order... though I don't use it much these days.)

The point of this missive is as follows:
What I'm looking for is war stories of file format issues, plugins and scripts within the content tree that went 'splat, things like that. Shouldn;t be a big deal, but I want the gotchas out of the way ahead of time :)

Or maybe a miracle can happen and DAZ can (finally!) cough up a Linux port to DS? Not picky about distro here, guys...

bad looking shadows

kalina.pepa_29135cfc8e — Sat, 15 Sep 2018 17:11:49 +0000

Hello all, im using Iray and Environments lightning for Sun coming into a room.. its HDR and all this, but shadows one some places and characters look ugly and weird and some materials are shining, evne if they shouldnt like in attachment... , i have no idea how to fix that.. thanks for possible help

Ground Shadow gone NVIDIA Iray [Solved-Kind of]

AbnerK — Sat, 15 Sep 2018 11:16:04 +0000

Hi, I know this has been asked before but those threads seem to be talking about 3Delight. I'm using NVIDIA Iray and my ground shadow has gone. I don't seem to be able to get one back without switching on Dome. I've always used a ground shadow with Alpha channel then put a background on in Photoshop. Was I just not using NVIDIA Iray before or am I missing something?

Thanks.

How to get multiple video cards engaged in a render.

JMatteson — Sat, 15 Sep 2018 15:22:57 +0000

I have a large desktop machine with a pair of Nvidia 970 cards installed. The cards are bridged. According to the device manager, both cards are on the same revision driver.

I have a bear of a render to work on. It is multiple hours and pretty much locks the machine up with 98/99% CPU utilization. What is suprising is that the video cards are not being touched. 1% on one and the other is at 0% (according to the resource monitor). Where do I go to ensure that DAZ 4.10Pro knows that there are two cards installed, and both are availble for its use?

Thanks.

Slow downloads

wteening — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 07:35:36 +0000

Since yesterday, my downloads have slowed down from very acceptable (2MB/s) to a trickle (150KB/s). Is anyone else suffering from this, and if not, what could be wrong on my end?

Why won't it make a texture?? Zbrush?

SasquatchIsCool — Fri, 14 Sep 2018 22:00:54 +0000

I keep trying to make a map for my character and Zbrush keeps doing this mess. Why? Any ideas?

Why does it have to be so difficult and stupid. You Polypaint, you create textures from that Polypaint...why would it do that?

Is Mudbox or Surface easier than this and not have bugs like this?

To be honest you'd think Textures be a one button solution at this point. I mean you can do morphs and all kinds of stuff..why not paint and hit the GOZ button and boom..texture on the character.

Dynamic Clothing Controls disappeared

Xfitz — Fri, 14 Sep 2018 20:25:25 +0000

Before Dforce I used Dynamic Clothing. I noticed Dynamic Clothing Controls lacked "gravity" and "wind" settings since I upgraded to DAZ 4.0. SO I tried to reinstall Dynamic Clothing Controls and now Dynamic Clothing Controls are gone and none of my Dynamic CLothing will load. How can I get Dynamic Clothing Controls back? Thanks.

STORE CREDIT SECTION 503 ERROR

ProFotograf — Fri, 14 Sep 2018 23:15:25 +0000

I tried to see my store credit in my panel and keep getting a 503 ERROR which results in a crashed page.

This causes the store to break if you try to use your store credit as well. This will be a nightmare for all customers using their Gift Certificates or Store Credit.

Just a heads up before the weekend.

Antonio

DAZ to ZBrush 2018.1. How Apply texture maps

Softimage_Graphic_Artist — Fri, 14 Sep 2018 21:26:58 +0000

Any ideas on applying texture maps of daz models in ZBrush

Exporting an M4 character with morphs out of Carrara into DS?

eponica — Fri, 14 Sep 2018 21:12:38 +0000

Hi there ^_^

I've been using Carrara steadily for several years and with it have developed some Generation 4 characters which I love. Now I would like to use them in Daz Studio. What is the easiest way of transferring them from Carrara to DS?

Collada export didn't work for me. The only thing I could think of was to export my M4 character as an object with morphs, which worked well as far as it goes. But now I have a static object in DS with no rigging. I need to either be able to easily rig the.obj, or to transfer those specific morphs to another rigged M4 (or newer) figure. Does anyone know the best way to solve this?

get hair to snap to head. [Solved]

AbnerK — Fri, 14 Sep 2018 15:38:55 +0000

Hi, I wanted to test out three figures and give them all the same hair. Rather than create the hair separately for each figure I just duplicated the nodes but, when I changed the parent and fit nothing happened. That's worked before for me. What am I missing?

Thanks

Mouse pointer lighting up surfaces regardless of what tool is in use?

nowefg — Fri, 14 Sep 2018 18:59:57 +0000

I just updated to a newer computer, got my settings moved over. Only problem, the mouse pointer is illuminating scene element surfaces, as it will when Surface Selection tool is used, but it's happening with every tool, like Node Selection, Universal tool. Any time I move the pointer across the viewport, it lights up any surface it crosses. Very distracting, and didn't happen on my old rig.

I didn't see any "Edit preferences" categories to account for it, but I don't know if it's Studio reacting to my new machine, or the new machine itself:

Anyone come across this issue? The computer is a Lenovo w530 i7.

Renders ground to snail pace [Solved]

AbnerK — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 12:18:07 +0000

Hi,

for some reason, my renders have gone so slow it's just not funny. "IRAY rend progr: 0.03% of image converged
2018-09-13 11:07:05.400 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.0 IRAY rend info : Received update to 00541 iterations after 39921.883s." That's over 11 hours for 0.03% it's a scene with a single G8M, Morning Star Wings, Curly hair, Moon bow and an arrow. pixel size is 2500sq. No hdri but using dome set to midnight in England, December I've got spot lights pumped up to 1000% and and set to large circles. Every surface has a light hitting it to some intensity. What is going on?

I alwasy get this error too that I've always just ignored. "Iray WARNING - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.0 IRAY rend warn : Expecting restart after abort. Frequent abort and resume in batch mode can severely reduce performance."

Thanks.

Uninstall daz studio

camilopayasanchez — Fri, 14 Sep 2018 19:03:25 +0000

Hello

I've messed up DAZ, and I want to know, how can I uninstall Daz Studio completely?

I miss everyrthing in Smart Content, I cannot find none of the objects I'd installed using the install manager.

Can you tell me which files/directories or registry entries, needs to be removed to perform a clean installation, to reverse the correct bahaviour of the application?

Thanks

RW Wood Nymph for Genesis 2 Female(s) Texture Issue

fledermausmann — Fri, 14 Sep 2018 01:55:00 +0000

Hi all,

I just got the above product [RW Wood Nymph for Genesis 2 Female(s)] and no matter how I try to load the textures, it seems they're not mapping correctly or something. Here's a screenshot:

No difference if I choose Default UVs or Wood Nymph UV Set, and I even tried exporting the textures and flipping them around to see if something was backwards or whatnot but nothing looked any better. I also tried playing with the Offsets and Tiling to no avail. It's only affecting the two highlighted surfaces, "Perch_Large" and "Perch_Small"; the Dress texture looks fine. Wondering if anyone has any other ideas...thanks

Dynamic clothing without .obj sequence or mdd, alembic?

autodolor — Fri, 14 Sep 2018 10:04:07 +0000

Hi!

I am studying how to do a simulation of clothes with a model type genesis 3/8.
In theory, there is no major problem WITHIN Daz., As well as importing .obj sequences from Marvelous Designer.
This is a big problem if we want to export to glweb type formats, such as glTf, babylon, etc.
That is, there is no real "existence", since they are cache formats.
Let's say, an animation of a model genesis with an export with collada or fbx. I have no major problem in passing it to Blender or Maya / Motion Builder ... because they assume that there is a geometry with bones, and takes the reference only of the variants of rotation, translation, etc. with a reasonably sized file. A genesis 3 with animation bvh or aniBlocks, with a compression of textures, and about 350 frames, does not reach about 6Mb, fantastic thing.
Not so with dynamic clothing.
Despite having tried with free Optiflex clothes, which has a bone rigging, the result is the same. If I want to pass that animation to glTF, it's static.
The only solution that is valid, at least in my tests, is to pass everything to a .obj sequence with the size of exaggerated Mb and not optimal for glWeb.(Maybe, around 400Mb +/-..)
Despite using some scripts based on Morph Loader pro, nothing happens as if it were a figure with a hierarchy of bones or joints.
The secret would be to make clothes with an internal structure similar to that of the figure that accompanies it (You already know: hip, abdomen, spine, etc ...)
This is quite complicated when we have a .obj type clothes, despite scripts like AniMorph or DynCreator, which exclusively work within Daz, and do nothing more than a "render" simulation.
This question is really complicated, because my experience with other software is similar. It is only designed for 2D rendering, and, like other users, with problems for Unity or Unreal in video games, it is traumatic to obtain a clothing no longer than the "stuck" or fit to the body. I understand that in video games, we must prioritize the cost of minimum polygons acceptable for fluency.
In this case, what is sought is a structure model for clothes independent of morphs.
I do not know if I explain myself correctly!

mjcteleblender - please help

keithg — Fri, 14 Sep 2018 09:47:44 +0000

I've been trying to get mjcteleblender to work but keep having the same issue. It exports the object and materials fine from DAZ but doesn't create the matLib.blend file which is essential for it to import the materials into Blender.

When I run the mjc script in Blender it just brings in the scene without materials and the script fails at mcjBlendBot.loadfix( "F:/daz_tests/scene.obj", "CYCLESMATS", "F:/daz_tests/matLib.blend", True ) because matLib.blend doesn't exist.

I'm on an unusual setup in that it's a work PC and I don't have admin rights. I getb temporary admin rights when I need to install something. Could this be the issue?

DAZ (4.10) is installed on my C drive (solid state) and my DAZ Library (and the mjc scripts) are in c:\\Users\Public\Public Documents\My Daz 3D Library

I run Blender from my F drive (disk) and it runs like a portable App (i.e. not installed in the registry).

Both the mjc and the blender scripts seem to work fine it's just that no matter what options I try, or destination paths I choose, the matLib.blend file isn't created.

I'm on Windows 10 64-bit. Any thoughts.

DAZ Keeps Freezing When I Delete Attached Items from Scene OR Use AutoFit

DrowElfMorwen — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 02:38:06 +0000

When I go to delete a hair or clothing prop on G8F, every time my scene freezes up and it takes *way too long* to delete, and that's if I'm lucky--95% of the time it freezes to the point of no response, and I have to force crash DAZ. This also happens when I go to autofit items, again with G8F, from G8M or from Genesis 3.

Is it DAZ? What is going on? Is anyone else having this problem? This didn't use to happen. 4.10.0.107 is my current version--and I'm guessing it's DAZs too, cause I can never tell when DAZ actually updates Studio and I don't know how to check, either. :\