Googling also didn't bring any tool for that.

 Why no one cares? Pupil dilation, it's size tells  a lot more about character's feeling, soul, mood, than anything else.

Or maybe I just looking in wrong place? Please advise.

I have a question related to shaders/materials to apply on my particles.

As you can see in the attached image or in this video (took from the simtenero product page) the particles are able to emit light.

Do you know how apply this "self lightning"?

Thanks,

Ennio Bolondi

Can the Studio4 folder just be moved into the new machine?

I'm having some issues when importing to 3ds Max. I am exporting a Genesis 8 figure (Rylee for Genesis 8 with Elisnore Hair and some body and facial morphs) as an fbx with Morphs and Animations selected (because I am modeling some armor/head gear on top of the Daz Mes).

When I import them, the Mesh comes out super wonky. Has anyone been able to import a Genesis 8 character to 3ds succesfully?

I know the Genesis 2 figures are work easily in 3ds Max but Genesis 8 is what I would like to work with :(.

I'm creating a riverfront park set with a city across the river. I've created a custom cityscape and I would like to rig it so users can easily move the cityscape to be in-frame for a variety of camera angles. I know I can rig the cityscape bone (a partial cylinder) with its origin at the scene origin, so Y-Rotate will slide it around an arc centered at the scene origin.

I'd also like to be able to slide the cityscape closer/farther from the bone's ... to change the radius of that swing arc, without changing the scale of the image.

Is there an easy way to rig that change-radius for a single slider? If the swing-slider (Y-rotation) is at 0, the radius line (from the bone origin to the center of the cityscape) will be directly on the Z-axis. But if the swing-slider is not at 0, will a Z-translate move the cityscape along the bone's local-Z (directly toward/away from the bone's origin) or the global-Z? Is there a way to set and lock that?

Thanks,

Crissie

if i exported the figure as an obj and in my modeling program (Modo) put some lumpy geometry for the shaving crea that i can just inport back in to daz. 

would i geometry shell be usefull here?

i'm just throwig out ideas, if you have a thought on this please reply

Thanks

Believe it or not, I've been doing amazing work with an older HP Envy with an i7 - 4700MQ CPU, with 2.40 GHz processor, 4 cores, with a creaky GT 740M NVIDIA card, 16GB of RAM. If I keep my scenes relatively simple, with few characters and morphs, I can usually render my work pretty quickly, under an hour, at least to my satisfaction.

However, it's time to upgrade.  

I'm hoping to get feedback on some of the research, and ideal configurations I've come up with, sufficient for my needs. I don't need to render 5- or 6-character, fully-loaded scenes within seconds. I have a bit of patience and a mid-range budget - between $2,000 to $2,300 USD.

Here are my ideal configurations, based on what I've researched and what's out there. PS: the GTX 1080i is  out of my price range, at least for now:

- 2.8 GHz
- 17-7700HQ or i7 - 8750H processor
- 6 Cores - 16 GB RAM 2400 MHz DDR4 or better
- 9 MB processor cache or better
- 1 TB Hard Disk Drive Capacity 1 TB
- 256 GB or better SSD
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 or 1070 with 6 or 8 GB dedicated video memory

I am very, very concerned about fans noise and have been turned off by horror stories from folks complaining about overheating laptops and excessive fan noise.

What else should I be focussed on? I'm researching current gaming laptops, primarily, as these configurations do not seem to be available in other business-class or consumer grade laptops

I've been looking at the usual brands, ie: ASUS, ACER, HP, DELL, MSI. 

PS: I've studied this guideline from DAZ on ideal system requirements:
https://helpdaz.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/207530513-System-Recommendations-for-DAZ-Studio-4-

Thoughts? Suggestions? Recommended rigs?

André

does anyone know why all of a sudden since some time till now, you cannot export collada files from DAZ studio? you can go all the way to "File-Export-Collada..." even select settings and when you click export, there is a small empty window poping up and when you check the file, you can see a folder with all the textures and stuff except for the important .DAE file... does anyone know why?

Thanks!

What tool can I select to make a group locator vanish? 

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(Thorne, if you're reading this; Luca reminds me of Acorn, your male elf/pixie figure who was actually made from Victoria (can't remember which version). Those were the days. )

I've just been bitten by the "iRay doesn't render nicely away from the origin" pain-in-the-ass bug, and I need to shift things around so that deeply parented objects are near the origin.  The problem is figuring out where they are.  And I have more than one scene in which I have to do this.  Sigh.

(I guess I could un-parent "in place", write down the coords, and then "undo", but we know how long parenting and unparenting figures can take sometimes...)

In Edit Mode I choose some properties/morphs and change their groups with Set -> Property Group... But then I noticed that none of the changes I made are actually being saved.

So I looked here and found a guy saying that I can make my changes and use Save As -> Support Asset -> Save Modified Assets... But the thing is, when I load a default G3F (for example) and click on this, even without making any changes whatsoever, it shows me a list of things that will get modified and in that list I have some expressions dials from Zeddicuss, but also Genesis3Female.dsf and some Eyelashes and Mouth morphs.

Is it safe to overwrite them?

Is there a way to skip those and overwrite just the morphs I want?

Thank you.

Working on an image for a book cover and discovered this odd issue: the cap or scalp seems to be showing on his head... I'm using Mathius hair for G3M, and rendering in Iray. I used it's own Iray materials on it. I've used this hair a lot in 3Delight and not had this happen. Any ideas, tips, thoughts?

Any and all help is greatly apprecated.

I always thought I needed LIE or a Geometry shell to do that...but apparently not (unless it is a bug).  I was never able to do this via the Geometry tool (it would subtract faces away from one surface if applied to another surface).

What is the ruling on this?  Sure, that's fine, or no, you've found a bug that will end up giving you problems in the long run. 

(I did this by having a geometry shell on a figure, exporting as OBJ and re-importing...and I get two surfaces, that act just like the shell is still there, but it does not show in the scene tab.  Though maybe it is there, and the bug is that it is not showing?)

1. Are the DAZ default limits set to the correct anatomical angular and rotational limits of real limbs/joints?

2. What happens to a pose built with pose limits turned off (my default DS preferences setting) if you turn all limits on after setting the pose?

3. What is the "best practice" for using or not using limits with posing?

2018-05-11 12:26:45.932 WARNING: dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray ERROR - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend error: Degraining filter cannot be combined with "black pixel filter".

Any ideas what that could be?

i have tried tolerating this for a while now, but i just can't no more.

pc specs:

Intel Core i9-7900X cpu @ 3.30GHz

16 GB DDR4

Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080Ti

Samsung SSD 860 Pro 512 GB

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the viewport is beyond laggy, even when i barely have any G8M or G3M loaded in the scene. god forbid i put 2+ models in an environment.

it's a nightmare to work with Daz nowadays. rendering is even worse with a grainy result and very long rendering times.

Is there any way to get rid of something like this, or to "refresh" smart content so it checks if there's any assets associated with a smart content entry?  Attempting to delete from the Smart Content pane so far doesn't work.

However, I can't really do that until I can login. Any help would be greatly appreciated

Given a dForce item like the shirt in https://www.daz3d.com/hc-dforce-bikini--boyfriend-shirt-for-genesis-8-females, which is open in the front, how would you "pin" the two halves together to simulate them being buttoned?  So that, for example, the shirt would be held together at the bottom 2-3 buttons' position, but left open above that?  What do you add to the shirt, and what are the steps?

I have checked for all hidden parameters and found nothing.

The toes are not set as invisible in scene tab.

They are clearly not "posed" as you can still see the outline when selecting the surface, and the polygons are selectable with the geometry editor where they should be.

The surface is set to full cutout opacity with no map.

I'm at a complete loss as to why they're invisible.