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Invisible toes, help (solved)

hesperasmith — Sun, 09 Sep 2018 01:40:47 +0000

My figure's toes have become invisible, I think by some footwear product, but I can't track down which.

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.

Suddenly resources getting "file not there" error (Workaround found)

nautiwood — Sat, 08 Sep 2018 06:06:56 +0000

I suddenly started getting errors when trying to use about half of my products. Everything from Genesis 2 figures to Iray shaders. Same error stating the file does not exist. I have confirmed the files are still there, but for some reason, Daz can't see them. I even uninstalled a couple items, then reinstalled them, but no joy. What can I do to fix this? File is pic is of the error.

Thanks for any help.

FBX import to DAZ

leo04 — Sat, 08 Sep 2018 23:18:07 +0000

Can anyone direct me to information about importing an FBX file into DAZ?

Thanks.

Epic Skydomes: Cloud Haven HDRI crashes DAZ during rendering

XpiderMan — Sat, 08 Sep 2018 21:07:15 +0000

I'm using DAZ 4.11 beta and I've tried to render a basic Epic Skydomes: Cloud Haven HDRI setting, but it crashes Daz after a few seconds. Anyone knows what could be causing this? Thank you in advanced.

Problem with Nvidia render using dim lighting

Man Behind the Curtain — Mon, 03 Sep 2018 22:29:40 +0000

I know I've seen this addressed before but I can't seem to find the thread. When I use a dim lighting level with Iray, my renders seem to look grainy and have small light colored speckles throughout the image. My Macbook Pro has 16 GB of RAM and an Nvidia GeForce 750M with 2GB of it's own Ram.

Thanks for any help, or point me to the thread.

Loading New Characters Resets Morphs of Others in Scene

chloeplays_baf6042174 — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 21:41:30 +0000

So if I have a character in a scene, and I load another (either by merging the file or using the Content Library to load new characters) quite often the morphs on the character already in the scene will be reset or displaced. It used to only happen when I was using custom characters that I had created, but just today I loaded a commercial character (G3M Sasori) and when I loaded the base G3F into the scene, his morphs reset themselves. I have un- and re-installed DS with no change.

Has anyone seen this behavior before? Have any help?

LAMH Crash when loading scene

DarkRepast — Sat, 08 Sep 2018 17:06:52 +0000

If I do a scene that has LAMH and save it, when I try to open it, Daz crashes.

This happens every time I use the product, regardless if they are hidden or not. I have to save a scene prior to LAMH if I want to preserve it.

Just a report. I've got a work around.

aniMate 2 serial number?

Mouser — Mon, 03 Sep 2018 00:43:27 +0000

When I added my serial number for the Fluidos plugin I noticed that the plugin aniMate 2 requires a serial number.

Unfrtunatly I dont have an aniMate 2 serial number listed under the "my serial number tab"?

Is a serial number required and if yes where do we get it?

Having issues...

carriemorency — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 17:52:11 +0000

Just made a purchase of a model for Gen 3 and Gen 8 female models which was supposed to be installed using the Daz Installer but for some reason it's not showing up correctly in my Daz program. I attempted to manually install but that wasn't working either as I did not know which folder to place it in. I'll attach a link to the product if anyone is able to direct me either how to manually install it or give me some advice as to why I am encountering the errors that I am. Thank you!

Also, it states that is compatible with both G3 and G8, however in the folders, it is only listing for G3? Again, thank you in advance!

https://www.daz3d.com/leenda-for-genesis-3-and-8-female

New Computer, GPU not present in settings

KCY5 — Tue, 04 Sep 2018 17:53:02 +0000

I recently bought a cyberpower tower in the Hopes my renders will be quicker and while a considerable help from the CPU upgrade has done some good the GPU isn't present in the advanced settings of the renders tab. Any idea? Am I missing drivers? Using a windows 10. GPU is a newer radon(I think radon I'm not at home atm). Any help is appreciated

Editing Gen 8 in Blender than importing back to Daz, iclone pipeline

Bradmc — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 18:29:51 +0000

I am a novice in 3d design, I have seen a lot of vidos on people importing into blender, editing cloths, animating etc but not showing how to bring back into Daz. I really only have expenience exporting obj's and fbx's to blender but never out. I would like to bring characters into blender, touch up/ decimate/etc and bring it back to daz, ulimately exporting into iclone 7. Wouldn't be changing any rigging or animating, just cosmetic changes but there would be changes to the mesh. Is this possible? The process would have to not create any issues with the way 3dxchange converts and bone maps the Daz character when it comes time to send to iclone.

oooor, is there a way to skip the whole 2nd daz leg and just export the rigged daz model from blender directly through 3dxchange? For those who are familiar with reallusion software that is, I realize this is a Daz forum :)

Thanks

Ancient Mystical Forest

musicaz_e77234656c — Tue, 04 Sep 2018 16:53:54 +0000

i just purchased this Ancient Mystical Forest from content store . the AMF scenes load correctly its just the quality is so poor i am going to ask for a refund unless someone has a solution . I have a very high end computer , monitor , even my video card is a gtx 1080 ti Everything in daz studio looks awesome as i have the pro version . Only this new content looks simply awfull and absolutely not usable . Doesnt matter what iray setting i use its a fail

Geometry Editor and Rigidity

Second Technician Rimmer — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 16:32:10 +0000

Hi! I wanted to use this tutorial but there's one problem: the menus don't look the same. I understand that the Polygon Group Editor has become the Geometry Editor but in the submenus, other denominations have also changed. I am a bit lost...

Phantom mouse clicking

Xyetzt — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 20:41:52 +0000

Since Sunday my computer has had attacks by a phantom who has been touching my screen randomly. It lasts a few minutes which makes the computer useless. Before I assume it is a real phantom or something I am going to rule out software or driver issues.

I have uninstalled the driver for the touch screen but it keeps coming back. It started after I used a different driver for my keyboard and touchpad. I am trying to update to latest version of Windows but it is slow at updating.

My custom morphs won't stay in my chosen category

Angells — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 00:40:28 +0000

My custom character morphs are loaded in morph loader and the slider is in there. I tried to move them into the catagory I want them in and save the morphs. I close DS open it up and the morphs are right back in morphs /morph loader again. I did save the morphs as an morph asset I even created a new property and saved to example : body morph, into actor/full body. It moves there but as soon as I close it up it goes back to morph loader. What can be the problem . My other character morphs I did the same never moved from the category I put them in. Where are the morphs in morph loader installed in the Library? I can't find them to move them to where I want them. I hope someone can help me.

Confused about the DAZ Studio Version numbers

endlessloving — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 03:43:30 +0000

Hey there,

I just read some information about the installation of the DAZ Software and I came across some inconsistency (at least this is how I look at it) in the information provided.

It really confuses me that the Quick Start Guide as well as the User Guide for DAZ Studio is talking about DAZ Studio 4.6 (http://docs.daz3d.com/lib/exe/fetch.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/userguide/daz_studio_4_x_quickstart_guide.pdf)

and when I go to the download page: https://www.daz3d.com/get_studio

I see there is DAZ Studio 4.9+ as well as DAZ Studio 4.1 available.

To me this is highly confusing!
When I open the Install Manager, I can download DAZ Studio 4.1 but if the Quickstart Guide tells me that I need 4.6, I am buffled!

Where do I get Version 4.6 from?

I am really surprised about this and I am trying to understand what's going on with the Version numbers of DAZ. I am also experiencing problems in using the products that I bought in the DAZ Market and I have writtten another forum post about this yesterday, trying to wrap my mind around DAZ. So far it has been amazing to see the possibilities but very frustrating to not being able to use the software properly.

It would be great if someone can shed some light on the version numbers. :)

Iray decal on/over geo shell?

lemips — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 07:49:22 +0000

Is there any way to project an Iray decal onto a geometry shell, or force it to show up over the shell? I have tried attaching the decal to a blank shell with a higher displacement than the one to be covered, but I have learned the decal seems to go straight to the base figure geometry.

I am trying this because decals are easily animated, while shells follow posing and morphs. Both properties are needed in the scene.

Decimator is 'hiding' anatomical elements in renders

NudeFan — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 07:06:00 +0000

I want to use 'Low-Poly-figures' created with the decimator to fill some scenes like a changing room with background figures. I applied a decimation of 80% to a nude G3 male, in details it looks a little scrambled but fine enough for a background figure. This is also valid for the anatomical elements. But when I do a render of this figure, the anatomical elements are gone. What do I have to do to see them also in the renders?

Mod Edit to change thread title slightly to avoid it being misconstrued.

Keeping chacters synced across dozens of scenes?

Falco — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 15:28:26 +0000

I'm using a G8 character across dozens of scenes. My workflow is that I have a character master file that I update over time and add new morphs, clothing/props and adjust existing morphs and shapes as I find issues and add new facial expression sliders etc. How can I make is so that the character changes will update to all of those scenes without me having to reimport the character to each scene every time there is a change?

Daz & Poser Products

Tourist — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 18:22:54 +0000

I am not a Poser user, only Daz Studio.

When I install a product that has both Daz and Poser files, should I install both?

Blue around hair when rendering V8 Please Help

Laandan — Sat, 01 Sep 2018 20:02:46 +0000

for some reason, I have looked, I am getting blue skin around the hair when Rendering, does not how up in preview mode

Image removed due to nudity

Any way to generate list of missing files?

snart — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 14:59:59 +0000

Hello,

I accidentally started deleting my content folder on a network share (so no recycle bin). Is there any way to generate a list of missing files so I can reinstall them?

Thanks so much!

re install daz studio

jimlin — Tue, 04 Sep 2018 20:03:51 +0000

I have had to reinstall studio, I downloaded and install studio 4.10 32 and 64 and 4 11 beta 32 and 64. on desktop states 4.10 and 4.11 beta, on opening program 4.10 is 4.9 and 4.11 beta is 4.10 beta anybody help please

Shaders not working and Black Viewport background

plarff — Tue, 04 Sep 2018 16:23:56 +0000

Hi all

As you can see the shaders, specifically UberIRay Shader just gives me missing error yet it is in the folder and DAZ sees the ,png file.

Then i dont know how but i made my Viewport background black and not gray anymore.

LAMH Model & Decimator = crash

uezi — Sun, 02 Sep 2018 14:19:28 +0000

Hi,

I recently got me Deciamtor because my scene was becoming too large and no more handable in either the GPU or on the CPU.
My scene contains some G2M Chimp HD models with LAMH applied...

When I now try decimator on the hair-object of the cimp, decimator crashes (resp. goes into a mode where on Win10 the DAZ Studio main window disappears, only the progress is showing AND cpu consumption is around ~13% resp. 1 thread and memory drops to something like 500 MBs).
it unfortunately didn't recover even running for more then 10 hours...

Any idea what I'm doing wrong ?

Thanks & best regards,

Uezi

Any Other Way of Contacting DAZ ?

rendersapien_335090c69f — Tue, 04 Sep 2018 18:48:05 +0000

Does anyone know if there's a phone support number for DAZ? I don't see anything here at DAZ3d but the "submit a support ticket" page, so I searched the net. There were several places that had a phone number but none of them worked.

I did submit a help ticket yesterday, but I took advantage of the "one day only 20 percent off" on a gift certificate, for myself, and I never got the email with the code for it. I got the confirmation email that shows the transaction went through but nothing else. So I'm out 200 clams with nothing to show for it. Having to wait two or three days until they get back to me is causing me to miss out on sale items I want to buy but can't. Not to mention, I want to find out what happened to that code, what if it went to someone else and they're happily spending my money while I sit and wait for the overworked DAZ help staff to get back to me? Surely there's another way to contact them in a case like this, right?

Iray warning - what does this mean?

rames44 — Tue, 04 Sep 2018 01:47:41 +0000

What does this warning mean?

2018-09-03 21:42:47.684 WARNING: dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray WARNING - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.10 IRAY rend warn : RTKernel: please check the input geometry (degenerated/inefficient RT hierarchy)

Help accessing files

iglov4 — Thu, 14 Sep 2017 09:39:21 +0000

I woinder if anyone can help me with this problem: i am unable to access my files and i keep getting this message

I had a friend who is far more familiar with computers than myself look at the problem and he tells me that my network, anti virus and firewall are all fine. I would appreciate any assistance. i am not a digiatal native so you will have to explain using "for dummies"language. Thanks heaps

Cheers.Ian

3Delight versus Iray lights

LD1 — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 13:06:26 +0000

1. What makes a point or a spotlight a 3Delight verses an Iray version?

2. When you create a new point light etc. how do you know which version you are making?

3. Is there any way to convert 3Delight rigs, e.g. the “Rim Light Rig” and lights to Iray (so I don’t have to recreate the rig from scratch)?

AMD PC

plarff — Tue, 04 Sep 2018 13:31:53 +0000

HI all

I've seen a few computer specs mentioned for DAZ Forum but can't remember seeing AMD only. I dont have anyting against Intel as such only that i feel they are overpriced and out of principle i do not buy there products. So anyone here who uses AMD Ryzen or similar to below ?

Mobo:

ASUS ROG STRIX B350-F GAMING AMD Ryzen AM4 DDR4 HDMI DisplayPort M.2 USB 3.1 ATX B350 Motherboard

CPU:

AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Processor with Wraith Stealth Cooler - YD2600BBAFBOX

Memory:

Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 DRAM 3000MHz C15 Desktop Memory Kit - Black (CMK16GX4M2B3000C15)

For GPU im getting a single GTX1080Ti 11GB and not going to wait for an over expensive RTX2080 series or such. WIth DAZ4.11 my renders are now pretty fast and look very good so a faster / higher end pc to what i have now can only help.

As I have not bought any new pc parts in last few years I am not to clued up with regards to latest AMD tech.

Thank you