Do you use the same sofware to create clothing as you would a building or a tree?

*** Scene Cleared ***
Invalid node selection for "preset_shape" type.
Error reading file, see log for more details.

I feel so stupid I didn't have the figure selected kay yeah this is closed

Every googling attempt leads to some weird complicated ways. The thing is I didn't do anything, I just pressed ok on the metadata window. And I've never seen this window before that. And obviously after. The only tutorial link I've found on that subject is actually dead. 

But when I go to change the Scene Identifier, I open the preferred base window and it's blank -- I understand this can happen if I manually install stuff and don't use Smart Content or DIM. There's an icon in the window to add a new base, and I enter Genesis 3/Female, thinking this is the correct format to use.

When I click OK, D|S instantly crashes to the Please Wait... message, and then closes after the crash dump is completed. Is this a known problem? Am I using he feature incorrectly. Anything I can do about?

Thanks!

Everything works out fine except DAZ, I got the dreaded "PostgreSLQ CMS connection could not be established" message.

I have no idea what it is or what to do.

I have looked within past answers on these boards, NONE was helpful!

Is there a simple way to fix this that does not assume that I am computer litterate?

I would appreciate any help.    

Thank you ;)

http://drowelfmorwen.deviantart.com/art/Aynatmey-the-Warrior-Na-vi-638516511

It's lovely until you realize the base of the back plant set is *missing entirely*.

However there is NO reason why it should not be rendering. It's there as evidenced below in the screenshot of my viewport.

http://orig08.deviantart.net/3096/f/2016/280/b/2/render_not_renderingvisible_by_drowelfmorwen-dak9axx.jpg

Someone please tell me I'm not the only one experiencing this problem. I've had it happen before with another product though not I cannot remember what it was. But the other day Iray did render another plant for me, only to have a section of it render completely black!!

Need some help if anyone can.

I loaded an obj custom clothing into daz to be fitted to G8F. I had previously dialed some breast morphs into the figure so that the clothing look nice.

However, when I use the transfer utility to transfer the rigging, I get this result instead.

And when I look at the perimeter tab of the clothing, there are the breast morphs I used on the GF8 model.

So I zeroed those out. And now my clothing look like this.

I have no idea how to fix this, and am unable to find any resources on dealing with this. Any advice would be greatly appreciated .

Regards

When I try to simulate using dforce, I get the error message "Error initializing openCL kernels".

Does anyone know how to deal with that on a Mac? I have DAZ 4.10 on a Macbook Pro (ATI Redeon HD 6750M) with OSX 10.9.5.

Nothing. No thumbnail appears. It's as if I didn't go through any of that process.

What's going on? Am I the only one?

I apply the LIE asset over an MLD skin material and it looks fine in the active viewport, but when I render it, it's very faint.

Any advice on what's happening here would be greatly appreciated. :D

Why am I wanting to uninstall everything?  because I feel like my laptop's harddrive is too small for everything and trying to figure out how to conserve space by uninstalling everything and then reinstalling just what I need.

Does anybody here know how to achieve an ultra violet light effect with Iray? Like in a nightclub?

Thanks in advance,

G

I recently re-installed my OS (Windows 10, same as before) to have a general clean out and speed up my PC.  Everything is way faster, that is, apart from DAZ Studio!

My library is on the same external drive, with the same mapped drive letter.  Literally, everything is as it was before the re-boot, which is why I cannot understand what is going on.

Basically, I had no issues prior to the re-install loading 4 or 5 figures into a scene, with moderately complex backgrounds.  Since the re-install, some environments that I could cam around in prior to the re-boot now are very laggy, and I struggle to have more than one figure at a time with hair applied.  I've noticed I can still have many figures in a scene, I just have to hide hairs to be able to move the cameras - I them simply make the hairs visible again to render.

Why would some environments that my PC handled without issue prior to the re-boot now run awfully? And also why does my PC now not appear to like bodily hair on figures of any sort?  I'm puzzled!  Also, whilst DForce simulation was never lightning fast, it also is noticeably slower now.

Note: I do not have the prewiew pane running, but I do have a 4 monitor setup with DAZ occupying all of 3 of them - the 4th monitor is used for GPU monitoring software and notes.  Also, no hardware has changed whatsoever from the original setup.

System: Windows 10 Pro (64bit), AMD Ryxen 5 6-core Processor @3.20 GHz, 2x Gigabyte GTX 1070 GPU's (not SLI'd), 16GB Corsair DDR4 Memory, CoolerMaster 1000W Gold Edition(?) PSU (Anything I've missed??)

Any help would be greatly appreciated, as this has slowed my workflow down to a crawl.  My PC should be able to run a lot better than it is doing, proven with the fact that is was before the re-install!

Thanks in advance,

John

I have Daz3d on several computers and on one of them nothing shows up in the Smart Content area (daz1.jpg & daz2.jpg) but the content does show up in the general Content Library tab (daz1a.jpg). Please see the attached pics. 

I can load content from the CL no problem and use it as intended.

Any suggestions as to how I get the Smart Content working again?

I deleted and reintstalled the CMS file. 

I deleted and reinstalled the DAZ3d install file.

Even in the tutorial section the dialog box says Smart Content but the arrow points to Content Library (daz3.jpg). 

Thanks

I'm sure there is a simple answerr to this.

CAN ANYONE HELP!!

EDIT: I took a screenshot of the progress bar it always closes on.  It closes when the bar in the attached image reaches 50% completion.

Just being wondering if better GPU will decrease rendering time dramatically.

As we know GTX Series have

1050ti- 768 cores

1060- 1280 cores

1070ti- 2432 cores

1080ti- 3584 cores

But will it really help if I go from 1050 to 1070? Yes, it will be better, but what will I get?

I mean if anyone made or saw results of tests, like how long does it take to render the same scene with different GPUs?

It seems to me that double CUDAs won't make rendering twice faster. Am I right?

And another question, to not to create more threads. What lighting is faster to render: light sources, iRay emitter or HDRI map?

Curious if anyone has issues when rendering character animation (using the puppet tools) and the animation is different to what you see in the view-port? I'm rendering a 100 frame sequence and there's a lot of differences in how the body moves .. in the view-port its smooth and nice, as i expected, however in the rendered sequence, the body motion is quite erratic. For example the say the arm, moves very slowly, then suddenly jumps to the target position within a few frames .. where as in the viewport, its a smooth arm movement.

Thanks, Marie

I am trying to change the default install directory for content since my C drive is mainly for my OS and not particularly large. These are the settings I have entered followed by the error I receive. Basically, it seems that Daz is not recognizing the custom library path.