Technical Help (nuts n bolts) - Daz 3D Forums

DForce Hair

D Ov — Sat, 28 Jul 2018 01:31:43 +0000

Does anybody know if DForce allows applying it from a certain keyframe? I have an issue where the hair collides with the hand and then explodes. It is specific to the seated pose where the hand supports the head (imagine someone sad). I applied DForce simulation to the animation where the model just walks without touching the hair, it works just fine. My animation starts with the seated pose, then rising and walking. So can I apply DForce from the moment she stands up and starts the walk? Or perhaps I might play with some collision settings to avoid the explosion? Thank you.

Can't get to my message inbox?

Serene Night — Sun, 29 Jul 2018 23:38:21 +0000

I used to have no problem getting to my message inbox... I even have it bookmarked, but now whenever someone sends me a message, and I click the hyperlink in the message, it takes me to my account detail- not my inbox.

When I click messages inside my account, it goes nowhere... How else can I get to my messages?

Daz Freezing up When using Transfer Utility.

acharyapolina — Sun, 15 Apr 2018 22:01:13 +0000

Hi, I am back again. :P So I am again having the same problum as before. Some of my models go through and so cause my daz studio to Freeze up,. I am trying to create a wearable helmet for my character, but as I go through the process of using the transfer utility it freezes on 22%. I dont know what is causing it. I have tried everything I can think of.

Any help is very greatly aprciated. Thank you so much!!!!

Exporting fitted clothes

SoNa — Sun, 29 Jul 2018 14:58:40 +0000

I want to export clothes only, but I want that the clothes keep their fitting. When I keep Genesis in the scene (even when hidden or not selected) and export as FBX, the genesis model is part of the export no matter whether I chose to export only selected or visible. So I have to delete the Genesis model, but then the fitting is gone. Is there a solution for this problem?

Thanks!

Question about dual cards

gsil247 — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 19:27:30 +0000

Hi all. Not sure if I'm posting this on the correct forum, so if it needs to be moved, I appologize for that. My question is, when using dual cards for IRay, is there some specific setting or workout that needs to be done in order for Daz Studio to use both cards? I am looking into purchasing another GPU next month when the Nvidia releases a new series, so I have not been able test out two cards at once. I have read that SLI is not recommended for Iray, so I won't have SLI mode on, except for gaming.

Basically what I"m asking, is it complicated to get 2 cards working together for Iray, or is it something simple (or it auto detects two)? Thank you all in advance and have a happy Monday.

Having trouble changing skin tone on Nylyssa for genesis 8

TabooGood — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 11:42:36 +0000

I just bought Nylyssa for genesis 3 and 8, intending to use genesis 8 version. As with other characters I have there are multiple options to add shapes, make up etc and they all work, but when I try to change skin tone nothing happens. I'm still pretty new to Daz Studio so I might be missing something or doing it in the wrong order, could someone who has this product or understands what I should do please explain to me, I would really appreciate it.

Hexagon pan and zoom not working

gjprice_8d6aa09c3d — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 17:01:26 +0000

I.ll admit I.m a noob to this, but this has me puzzled.

If I make a cube primative, say, I can rotate, pan and zoom the camera around with no problem.

However when I import a not very complex object I can still rotate the camera but pan and zoom do not work,

that applies to both mouse and keyboard inputs, any ideas anyone?

Cheers

Surfaces and UV Maps

Crios — Sat, 28 Jul 2018 13:56:17 +0000

Hi, i've created a raw obj, and created surfaces with Geometry Editor in DAZ. Now is possible create an UV Maps from the surfaces?

Please increase timeout threshold on the website

Azaism — Sat, 28 Jul 2018 12:52:32 +0000

I put too many things into my cart and now I can't even access my cart anymore because I keep getting "Error 524 - A timeout has occured".

Also please add a link to bulk move the entire cart to the Wishlist. (or if such a link already exists, if someone could paste it here so I can click it and hopefully fix this problem that way)

New Asset black in Aux Viewport

plarff — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 08:18:48 +0000

Hi all

Apologies if similar have been asked. I acuired a new asset and in Texture mode all is fine. Once i do an Aux Viewport or Render it comes out black.

I have the DA Lighting environment asset activated so there is light. I am guessing it's a keyboard command or somehting i need to press to light this up for Render/Aux viewport?

THx

PWToon and Hair

akmerlow — Sat, 28 Jul 2018 21:23:26 +0000

How do i make PWToon work on hair? It works nice on people and clothes, but with hair i dont get cartoon rendering. What should i change?

GoZ and Genesis 8 eyelashes....

IsaacNewton — Sun, 29 Jul 2018 08:56:51 +0000

Has anyone else noticed that sending a genesis 8 female (I don't have the male yet) to Zbrush via GoZ results in a strange artifact. The first time I use GoZ to send a G8f figure to Zbrush it works fine, the character and any conformed figures such as the eyelashes get sent to Zbrush as individual subtools. However, if I close Zbrush and send the figure again, then only the eyelashes appear as subtools (three copies of them!!)

I can work around this by clearing the GoZ cache, either manually or from within Zbrush, after which the figure will transfer normally (once). What is going on here? Something strange about the eyelashes? Is there a more permanent solution?

Michael 4 clone for Genesis 8

Noah LGP — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 11:41:39 +0000

Hi,

Just I discover there is something wrong with the M4 clone for G8M, now I understand why the armpits are strange when the figure wears the M4 bodysuit.

Michael 4 clone morph

OBJ imported displays gloss over diffuse texture in Iray view

RA — Sat, 28 Jul 2018 14:53:29 +0000

Hello,

I successfully imported a landscape in .Obj format. I add the Diffuse texture in Texture view and it displays properly. When I switch to Iray view, a heavy white or black haze overlays the diffuse texture. (Depending on the color I set for Diffuse. This occurs before and after I apply the Uber shader. I played with the settings, but cannot make the haze disappear.

Any suggestions appreciated.

Thanks

Can't Change Subdivision Level to 5

mwokee — Sat, 28 Jul 2018 13:56:05 +0000

I'm using Peeled Orange and it says to set the Subdivision Level to 4 or 5 to reduce the jagged lines but when I try changing the setting it will only go to 3.

How does one change this to 4 or 5?

Thanks

GoZ Zbrush 2018

EC3D — Thu, 12 Apr 2018 21:54:14 +0000

Is GoZ for ZBrush 2018 supported ? I updated the path in DIM installed applications and Daz simply cannot find Zbrush when I try to export out. Before that it worked seamless. I've tried uninstalling GoZ app via the Daz install manager and reinstalling did not resolve the issue.

GoZ Addon keeps shutting down Zbrush

ben_roprim — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 00:31:56 +0000

The GoZ Addon keeps shutting down Zbrush whenever I try to upload from Daz3D.

Even a fresh and most basic sphere cannot be transferred.

This was working before 2018.1 came out.

I really need some help in trying to get it to work again, anyone know how?

Here are some things to know before giving an answer:

- Freshly installed a few times, did not work.
- Operating System is not at fault.
- Not using other programs that may cause conflicts in tandem: Hexagon, Bryce, Maya, etc.
- Zbrush works just fine as a whole, models can be made and used as normal. Just GoZ is broken.

Any help is greatly appreciated. I use the GoZ Addon a lot, but now I don't know what is going on.

From what I can tell lots of people on art forums and CG forums, have been having issues with GoZ in the newest update to Daz3D.

Sadly, no answer have been given to the solution that may help.

I got commissions I need to do soon, and I can't work if GoZ won't work.

I asked for the same help in the Zbrush forums, but someone has told me the problem isnt with Zbrush but with Daz3D.

I am pretty lost sadly in trying to locate the possible problem.

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What's the fastest way to refresh a texture? (IRAY)

Flortale — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 20:17:07 +0000

I change a skin texture in photoshop. Now I want the results to rapidly show up in IRAY render. This is what I normally do:

1. I switch to texture shaded.
2. I right click surfaces and click refresh.
3. I switch back to NVIDIA Iray render and it reloads everything. This gets the new texture to show up.

Is there a way to speed up this process?

I tried "automatically refresh images" setting under surfaces, but it doesn't work.

DazStudio_Won't Open

premierart_2340fada0f — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 16:17:06 +0000

Help! I get this error message every time I try to open the program. I've tried to uninstall the program and reinstall it. I even tried using different drives to get it working, but with no success. I did submit the bug report as was suggested, but that doesn't help me get things back up and running. Can anyone help me understand what's going on and get this fixed? thanks

SOLVED-Lip Surface Outline Visible on Default Mats for V8 & other G8F's

xyer0 — Sat, 28 Jul 2018 03:53:28 +0000

I can't post an image at the moment, but I've had a recurring issue of the outline around the Lip Surface being visible when using the default/plain lips materials. What settings can I adjust to remedy or mitigate this? It happens on Victoria 8 and some other skins I've tried.

I'm using G8F in DS 4.9 on Windows 10. Help!

I had added some displacement to the lips and changed the Face and Lips Normals settings; so, I just went back to the stock settings.

SpaceNavigator Mouse Question

CGHipster — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 23:20:40 +0000

Hi, so I have a 3d mouse (3dConnexion) and I wanted to ask if there were hotkeys available to switch the device mode in Daz 3d? ie. hotkey to switch from "Orbit" to "Transform". It would be a great add-on if Daz does not have this, being able to switch from Orbit with the mouse with one of the side buttons to transform would be a great workflow improvement.

How Do I Get Help Installing?

romangirlinperil — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 06:27:31 +0000

It has been impossible for me to contact the vendor or DAZ.. I need tickets? Coupons? WT-?

I recently purchased "Beach Life" and "Party Time" from DAZ.

I can easily contact vendors in Renderosity, but OMG not here!

I tried contacting the vendor, River Soft Art (I googled him) , but no email address.

I'm a Poser person and not very good at installing DAZ files.

Can any one help me? Thanks!

What are instances?

heinzerbrew_f94794efff — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 21:26:33 +0000

What are the instances that are affected by instancing optimization in the settings? From other threads I understand that one should leave it on speed unless you run out of memory, then change it to memory. I would like to know what is considered an instance. Is it every object in the scene, such as hair, pants, victoria etc. Does it include cameras, "bones", materials, lights, targets, groupings etc?

Send in the clones Pro Question

MilosGulan — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 06:49:43 +0000

I have just got this and only now seen that it is for DS3 only in Notes. I think there was DS4 version but I can't find it now in store https://www.daz3d.com/send-in-the-clones-ds-pro

I was thinking to ask for refund but would just like to know if there is DS4 version https://helpdaz.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115003500163-What-is-Daz3D-s-refund-policy-

DIM and Daz Studio Reinstall Troubles.

bshugs1525871 — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 17:34:46 +0000

I recently had to wipe and reinstall my main drive. This included the OS as well as Daz Studio, DIM, Hexagon, etc. What I didn't have to reinstall was my Daz Studio Content. Since I use and SSD for my main drive, the content is on a second HDD. I reset the pathway in DIM to the correct folder on the second drive. I set the Content Libraries in Daz Studio and Re-imported the Metadata.

After all that, everything is great in Daz Studio. My Content library is there, My Smart Content works. It's good.

The problem is in DIM. At the moment, everything is listed as Ready to Download, instead of installed. I double checked the paths and even downloaded a package to make sure it's going to the right place, and it is. I'm not going to re-download and reinstall 2500+ products that I have installed already. I could just "Hide" the packages, but I'm concerend about missing an update if DIM thinks the product is "hidden" instead of "installed".

Is there anyway to convince DIM to check the /runtime/support folder to see if something's already installed? Any suggestions are welcome.

How to save an object with new material zones

jakobrh — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 19:36:42 +0000

I've taken my first step and created my first 3D model without a tutorial.

Now I've imported it to DAZ. Created material zones and assigned faces them.

1) How can I rename a material zone? Default is a bit boring.
2) How can I save the object. So next time I load it. It loads the material zones and shaders too?

System ram requirement for a 1080ti?

Kitsumo — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 22:27:00 +0000

So like my signature says I have 16Gb of RAM and a 1080ti. So when I render, the most I have been able to use on the 1080ti is around 7 or 8 Gb, beyond that, once RAM memory usage hits around 15Gb, either DS drops to CPU render, DS crashes, or the whole computer freezes. So my question is how much system RAM would I need to fully utilize the 1080ti? I'd hate to buy 32, then find out I needed 48 or something. Oh, and my slots are full, 4Gb x 4, so I'd have to replace them completely.

Although I do have a lot of stuff running, I shut down all the memory hogs, Firefox especially. So when system RAM usage is 15Gb or more, DS is using like 14 of that.

Custom Character - Gen 3 Clone?

MelissaGT — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 16:22:13 +0000

Hi there! I'm relatively new to DAZ, and I'm usually pretty good with figuring technical stuff out...but I've hit a roadblock on a couple things. I've been trying to recreate characters as part of fanart, and one character in particular has rather unique facial geometry in the form of brow stalks and bone spurs along the jawline. My initial thought was to try and sculpt Gen 3 and create morphs, however I am also very new to that concept. I know that I cannot alter the geometry in any way and be able to load the morph back into DAZ. But upon sculpting with zBrush (I'm new there too, but learning), I noticed that just tugging and pulling the existing geometry where I wished resulted in...not so nice pixelation in DAZ later. The topography was just too stretched. I want to -add- geometry using the dynamic capabilities in zBrush. Ideally, I want to slice the specific topography from the in-game model and sculpt it right in (because that looks the best and keeps me as accurate as possible to recreating my loved in-game character). I was able to do this with zBrush, and the model looked great...however, as you can imagine, that also broke my ability to load the alterations as a morph.

So, I moved on to the next step. Or thought. Or possibility? This character body is still Gen 3 in shape. 100%. I was able to use the Transfer Utility to get my customized character rigged up and working as far as facial expressions and posing. That was relatively easy, because this is a character that is for all intents and purposes, Gen 3 with just a few bone spurs added onto the face (in terms of shape). UV mapping and everything works - I just have to create new groups for the geometry I added (that's the least of my concerns at this point - I just want to get this guy working mechnically first). What I can't for the life of me figure out...is how to fit my catalog of clothing to him. I was hoping there was a way to make the clothing just follow a Gen 3 clone or something...because like I said, his shape is that of Gen 3 (obviously customized using proprietary and purchased morphs from the shop). Is this a possibility? Is there a way to make DAZ recognize this as a Gen 3 character? It should be noted that this is for my personal use completely and in no way will be shared. I just want to make fanart.

I've attached a screenshot of them side-by-side (Gen 3 to the "No Longer Gen 3" character). I still need to fix the UV mapping and work on the rest of his face, but as I said, I won't even bother if I can't get all this to work. But at least this gives an idea of the geometry and how close they are. I just really don't want to have to live with a stretched-looking morph, but I will if I have to.

Thanks bunches!

Setting up new computer

sfaa69 — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 00:21:02 +0000

I have a new computer with a small SSD with Windows on it and a 1TB HD for files. What is the way to move D/S and it's files to the new computer from the old which has everything on the C drive? Is there a way to do it and still keep the layout and plugins the way they are? Surely this has been covered before, but I can't seem to find any discussion about it.

GenX2 Expression Transfer: GF2 to GF3

Tobor — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 20:09:53 +0000

I've tried using GenX2 to transfer some expression presets from GF2 to GF3. All use only base morphs for GF2. The process I'm using for doing one preset at a time:

Load GF2, apply preset
Source: GF2
Target: GF3
Mode: Create single morph
Select: Get values from sigure in scene
Select: Transfer On: for all non zero

Clicking on transfer gets me to the naming dialog, and I enter a name. The expression is created, and when applied only some of the face morphs are present.

I've also tried using the Preset tab, but I always get an error that the constituent morphs cannot be found. The docs say the morphs must be selected in the Transfer tab, and even when I'm sure they are selected (like lip pucker), but the error says the morphs cannot be found. There is a file created but it's mostly empty. This happens with any set of G2F expressions.

Other morph moving parts of GenX2 seem to be working fine.