I have just realized that the parameters that can be applied to a poseable figure - and the individual body parts of that figure - have been reduced.
Previously, parameters included XYZ Scale, giving one great control over the proportions of a figure, or parts thereof. Now there is only Scale, which only increases and decreases the size of a figure or body part at its original ratio.

I'm an illustrator and heavily rely on the XYZ Scale to create extremely exaggerated figures that serve as my models.

Am I simply missing a setting that can be turned on?  Am I experiencing a glitch unique to me?  Or will I be forced to restore an earlier version of Daz?

 

I am new to all of this and am curious if this is possible and where would I find that information.

I see how DAZ is claimed to be used in motion pictures and wondered how this might apply to gamming.

I recently read where this was done with Renderosity and an online VR platform.

Thanks.

Thanks!

Stonemason's Willow creek was the culprit in this case loading camera presets

but I am wondering in general what could be stored in a camera preset that makes all cameras even user added not work in Octane render?

a new scene with one's own camera works fine

but loading that preset makes any camera unuseable in Octane, the preview camera still works

without knowing what to look for I am lost, presumably a new feature added since my OrDS2 plugin and it affects any other cameras

Also I own daz 4.9 Pro  how do i access the texture atlas it is also in plugins but not on the interface.

Can some one help me please,

Thanks   Paula ;)

Deciding what the hey I tried to render it in a low quality at first and it did show the clothing/hair there.  So going back to viewport I decided to hide the outside window only to have everything but the girls lower half shirt reappear.  The glass divider separating the walkway from upstairs was still making her shirt invisible.  Understand I am happy that in the final render the clothing and hair will be there, but do I have something setup incorrectly?

Cayley

https://www.daz3d.com/cayley-bundle-for-genesis-8-female-s

Apartment

https://www.daz3d.com/z-two-floor-living-room-and-poses

The included possibility to do stereoscopic shots with one camera setting by using the "Lens Stereo Offset" is a nice feature.
So far ...

But I noticed that the parallaxe automatically couples to the Focal Distance (if DOF set to "ON").
For a lot of sets I have the necessity to have different distances for the parallaxe crossing point and focal distance.

How to do?

Is there any way to get a figure without the shark chomp out of her ankle?

Doesn't Daz have some kind of a special archive they maintain for themselves they could share from?

Thank you

I then passed the same scene, repackaged thanks to a script, to a friend who owns a gtx 1070TI (8GB of VRAM) and he rendered it. His reading was... almost 8GB of Vram used.

Shouldn't the same scene, using the same textures and settings in every regard, use the same amount of vram on both video boards?

My quandry is that I'm wondering if there is a way to update that version to 1.2(+). I installed the latest and "greatest" driver from nvidia (I believe it was 398.xx), which was a catastrophy and resulted in my machine not recognizing the card at all and had to roll back. I understand that I can fall back to using the CPU for OpenCL calculations, but I'm actually unsure if my CPU is capable of it. I have the latest Catalyst software downloaded (which states OpenCL 2.0 inclusion) but am finding conflicting reports about whether my particular platform is supported at all (Windows 7 Ultimate). One site states that K10 architecture is supported while another states that AMD dropped support for the Phenom II entirely.

I suppose the crux of the matter is that I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with similar situations or can perhaps shed some much needed enlightenment on the issue at hand.

Thanks in advance!

When using HDRi scenes, particularly DAZ Studio Iray HDR Outdoor Environments, how do you make the loaded scene show in the viewport so that you can place and manipulate/pose characters and props easily? This does not appear to be automatic in this product.

Thank you.

And you guys REALLY need a one button push send report and be done alright??

Not everybody is interested in/has the time to be a Daz Guru. Meaning knowing every nut and bolt of how this thing works.

I don't want to send a report then have to explain it!! I want to send it and get a note it's fixed...

That's what I come to tech for.

Cause as I've pointed out, I'm already over an hour behind now and these crashes are happening WAY to often!!

Sorry for the rant. Love this software. Love the service.

But some more ease of flow needs to be made..

Later

Debbie

 I am wondering how i can work around it? Because i want to continue making free faces for the V4/ m4 characters for those who still use them. my 8 yr old laptop wont be in use anymore .. until i get a SSD and new fan for it. so in the meantime, my slightly less older Packard is in use :)

I use Reality.... when I copied the plugin into Daz 4.11 beta I got the PostgreSQL Connection Error and when I removed the plugin the error went away.

anyone else encounter this?

general\dzscript.cpp(658): Unhandled errorwhile executing script. QscriptEngine::popContext()doesn't match with push Context()

then, the script stops after converting about 200 frames and then  V7 (G3 when used with v4 to G3) is suddenly placed to the side of V6 and has all the upper body muscularity morphs applied. I have used this script before many times to convert from V6 to V7 with animations exceeding 6000 plus frames and it worked fine. The only difference I can think of that I have now is that I istalled muscularity morphs for G8 recently. Any help would be appreciated.

Kwan

I'm new to Daz3D and to the 3D medium in general.  So this may just be me not knowing how to work things.

I purchased the Charice Hair for Genesis 3 Females(https://www.daz3d.com/charice-hair-for-genesis-3-female-s).  I installed it and it shows up in my Smart Contents tab, under Long hair.   However, when I select the Genesis Female body and look for the hair, it's not there.  If I deselect the body, then it shows up again. 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

https://screencast.com/t/yiiJLvAwFrM

The image looks broken.  The clothing doesn't go on it and the eyes don't appear.

Any pointers?

The computer is relatively new.  I got it in March of this year.  

I might be able to see if I can start in safe mode with networking.

I am trying to figure out if getting the full version of Mcafee would be a good idea.  Are they a monthly subscription or annual?  Or is there something else that is better to work with than with Mcaffee for 3D and DS work?   I can try malwarebytes too, but is it needed if I have mcafee?

hmmmm, I know that Windows says my OS is out of date, would that cause the computer to be slow and throttle the internet?

What software is free, legit, and safe to diagnose my computer woes?

If an object is inside another object does that slow down the render? I have some freebie rocks that I'm using. I'm not yet able to morph them, so doubled them up with just the bit I needed showing. My render is taking forever but, this is the first time I've rendered a complete scene. After 24 hours I've only got 96 itterations. I'd normally have finished a perfect render of a Genesis 8 figure hours ago. 

Thanks

Mike

1) Create plane, position plane under characters where the shadows should appear according to the lighing setup.

2)Selected its surface (default) in the surface panel, go over to the content library panel and double-clicked scripts->utilities->Create Advanced Iray Node

3)In the display parameters, set Enable Iray Matte to yes

4) Go back to the surface and change the difuse and ambient colors to black and the lighting method to 'Matte'

5) great success!  shadow catcher working.    

So i started working on other parts of my scene.   Added another character and some props and added a 2D background image to the environment panel

Then i noticed that my shadows on the catcher had disappeared in both the Iray viewport mode and when it renders.  The plane is set to visible and everything looks like it is set up right, but no shadows.  The shader settings all look correct too. I've tried everything i can think of to get them back but with no luck.  

So then i tried creating a new plane primative and doing all the steps again.   The shadows are being cast onto the new plane and it is working just fine.  But I really want to know what happened to mess up my original shadow catcher.   Then things got even more weird.  On the original plane i tried setting Enable Iray Matte back to no and set the difuse colors to a bright color, shined a big 10k lumen light right at the plane, but the darn thing refuses to catch any light.   Opacity is at 100%.. Difuse 100%  All the different lighting modes (Plastic,Metalic,Skin,Glossy)..    i've tried multple shaders from the presets, nothing is working to bring the plane back from the nether.   I've tried switching Render Environs (dome, sun/sky, hdri map),  I've removed and reapplied the background image,   I've tried closing down Daz Studio and re loading the scene, nothing has worked.    . I just tried rendering in 3Delight..  it is invisible there as well.  It is visible in the viewport in all modes except Iray view.   I've been at this for over an hour now, sure I could've just deleted the object and went with the newly created plane that was working fine, but I feel I must figure out what/why this happened to this poor object.    Any experts here know what might have happened?

If I rename the map it goes away but then the missing textures pops up everytime I load this actor. I cant be having that. I did rename it once. It used to be 0001 now its 1010 That fixed it... for a second, then it came back...

Ive tryed resaving it in photoshop. Detelted and saved new. That didnt work. So I stripped it down to a JPG and saved in Paint, even that didnt help...

I realize someone else has posted something similar recently and was unsure if I should post this in that thread or not.

I've recently installed Daz4.11 beta and tried experimenting with dForce only to get a  " no valid OpenCL device found" message....my card and drivers are supposed to support OpenCL ....anyone know what I have to do?

thanks

I have a room I am using for different renders.  I have a hidden G8 Figure and some furniture that is used in one render and not others, so I hid them.

I am NOT hiding all the furniture outside of the camera view because I like complete lighting effect I have.  I am only hiding the items tht are not part of the current render. At some point, I may want all of the objects and second firgure in the room, so I kept the scene file together.  Before I break it into two different files and delete all the hidden stuff, I thought I would ask here. I am rendering at 4K by 4k with two mesh lights and one spot. It seems slower than ususal. 

Will deleting the hidden objects improve render speed?  And will deleting hidden objects reduce Video Card Memory consumption?  Thanks!