I have already posted the problem with a broader description in a different post but since it didn't get any response, I wanted to formulate the question a bit more distinct.

I used GOZ to bring Genesis 8 Female to ZBrush, then I modelled a hat with roses and leaves on that model.

I exported the hat, the leaves and the roses as separate OBJs.

When I import the hat in DAZ, it snaps perfectly to the head.

When I import the leaves / roses, they are obviously placed at 0,0,0 in the scene, so they are located on the model's feet.

To investigate what's going on here, I took a look at the translation of the hat and the translation (General\Transforms\Translation) of the roses / leaves.

All are at around General\Transforms\Translation -> 0,0,0.

I don't see why the hat snaps onto the head, but the leaves don't.

Where is the translation stored? Obviously not in the hierarchy of the model (General\Transforms\Translation), else the hat wouldn't have a translation of 0,0,0 in the hierarchy.

Thank you.

I would love to hear any actual experiences on the topic

Bob

So I uninstalled (and then went through deleting all the DAZ folders everywhere that remined), and then reinstalled. 

Note: I installed my content to C:\ProgramData\DAZ 3D\Documents\My DAZ 3D Library (I didn't want it in Public Documents, because Windows Backup kept backing it up and taking up loads of space).

Several issues appeared or remained:

1) I installed while logged on with my Admin account.  When I log in as a non-Admin account, I don't get the shortcuts I should in the Programs menu.  (Just DAZ 3D\DAZ PostgreSQL CMS\Uninstall DAZ PostgreSQL CMS).  The shortcuts to DAZ Studio, Installation Manager, and Hexagon are missing.

2) When logged in as Admin, none of the content was visible in DAZ Studio.  All the icons were blank, and when I tried to add something to the scene, I got a message saying the file didn't exist.

3) When I logged into my normal user account, the content was visible, but all the icons were greyed out.  Right-clicking gives me an option to "Install" them, whichseems to mean creating/copying a huge amount of data in C:\Users\[USERNAME]\Documents\DAZ 3D\Studio\My Daz Connect Library\data\cloud.  This is taking a very long time, and wasn't something I had to do when I originally installed everything.

Is this all expected behaviour, and if not, what do I need to do to make it behave properly?

anyone know the specs for mimic pro?

As you can see, his body texture looks fine, but his face texture... Well, something's out of whack, because his nose is not sitting on his actual nose.  (The other face textures have the same problem.)

I'm using Poser Pro 2014 with DSON to import this guy -- and other than the face, he looks great.

Can someone help me fix this, please?

Thanks!

-- Steve S.

The aim is to smooth out some ugly creasing in the mesh caused by a particular pose (within normal rotation limits).  This is failing as Morph Loader Pro always complains the geometry doesn't match.  Before exporting the figure, I have set mesh resolution to 0, and SubD iterations to 0  as well.  I have also searched for 'Currently Used' parameters with 'HD' in the name and set all of these to zero.  The number of verts in DS is the same as it is in Blender and again back in DS (I note that it is a little more than the standard G3F count of 17,418, but they do match).  Even a basic test - just moving one vertex - fails.

What else do I need to do to get this to work, or is it not possible?  I could put a base G3F in the same pose and morph that but the pose doesn't produce quite the same distortion, so the fix won't be quite right.

Why is that and what can I do to see the tags on my computer?

(I am using Windows 7 if that is of importance).

I can see and edit .pz & .ds fine in wordpad and notepad++, but not .dsf & .duf files. I run Win7 Ultimate (64bit) as my os.

I would really appreciate any suggestions.

Thanks.

Can t drag and drop too.

As said above I want to find the settings that will allow me to accomplish this...

Note: Setting the saturation bar to zero in render settings>tone mapping is not the same thing... not even close.

If you don't know about b&w film response to light... well I won't do that here, it is a complex set of photo-chemical and chemical reactions that occur.  The reason I want to try to do this is the specific look of a very narrow range of light response of the film is compressing the full natural (read HDR) light which creates a unique look to black and white photography that is extremely tricky using digital techniques.

I am experimenting, but any suggestions will be helpful.

thanks.

I am considering finally retiring my AMD FX8320 and getting a new CPU. I am divided between the AMD Ryzen 7 2700X and the Intel i7 7700K, since they are about the same price range. Does someone know which one is better SPECIFICALLY for Daz Studio/Iray? I am looking for faster scene loading/saving/manipulation since most of the render work is done by my graphics card. Thoughts?

P.S.: let me know if this is the wrong forum

All my morphs are dialed from Parameters tab->Morphs->Morph Loader.

Actually, all the .dsf files are in C:\Users\Public\Documents\My DAZ 3D Library\data\DAZ 3D\Genesis 3\Female\Morphs\MyName\Product

I tried to create folders in this location and manually move some morphs in them. However, they all stay grouped with the others at the same place.

How to proceed?

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AlOD-xvDTGfCg2MGGQrG3KnC6_gg

So, clearly not a finished product, but I was able to get the geo-graft to connect seemlessly gaplessly around the nose and eyes, like the image below:

However, when I apply a morph, gaps appear in the graft:

I'm not exactly sure what is causing this. The closest I can find is a comment by RawArt that suggests that maybe the verticies are not exactly in the right place. When building the graft I exported a G3 female at base resolution and positioned all the verticies from the graft in the same place as the corresponding verticies on the G3 face. I suppose that might suggest that it's a modeling issue, but was wondering if there is any other way to ensure they are lined up correctly.

Now for some reason i have a Onedrive DAZ installation folder. In DAZ itself i made sure it grabs the assets from my D-drive.

I have a feeling the annoying "Duplicate assests found" error i keep getting when opening a save file with a Gen8 character is a conflict between the OneDrive installed files and the D-drive one's.
 

Do i need teh OneDrive assets? Can i get rid of them or copy over to my D-drive install folder rather?

Not exactly sure what's going on but if anybody can be of help I would appreciate it.

Thanks

The older computer in the house that my girlfriend uses for web browsing is out of action temporarily, so I created a new account on my main pc for her to use.  What I've found is that once she logs out of the other account and I log back in to my account, the 980ti is running at a higher core clock speed unless I restart the computer.

Normally, the 980ti runs at a speed of 135 MHz (which means a fairly low idle temperature).  On starting a render, it immediately goes up to 1000 MHz until the actual rendering starts, when it jumps to 1200 MHz.  At the end of a render, it drops back to 1000 MHz and then back to 135 MHz once the scene is saved or closed.

On logging from a secondary account back to my main account, the 980ti runs at 1000 MHz at idle (and looking at the temperatures I assume it is running like this on the secondary account).

This isn't causing any major issues as a simple reboot sets the speed back to default, but does anyone have any ideas on how I can keep the 980ti at the 135 MHz core speed on all accounts rather than just my main one?  Only difference that I can see is that my accound has admin privelages and the secondary one doesn't.

Is there a way - like figure symmetry - that allows me to switch affected sides?

https://www.daz3d.com/wound-makeup-artist-geometry-shells-genesis-2-bundle