This is what I'm trying to achieve (REAL PHOTO, not iray):

Texture preview is first then the rendered iray image

When I attempt to use the female bodysuit, I am told these assets are missing, and it does not work properly, instead displaying and rendering as grey bricks

data/mada/supersuitg3f/superhero suit/superherofemalesuit_11761.dsf
data/mada/supersuitg3f/superhero suit/uv sets/mada/base/default.dsf

The male super suit says the same files are missing

data/mada/superbodysuit/superbodysuit/bodysuitg3male_11806.dsf
data/mada/superbodysuit/superbodysuit/uv sets/mada/base/default.dsf

Something tells me I can find help on the forums for this. I'm a new user, what should I do? Thank you.

I vaguely remember watching a tutorial video once and the uploader brought up something about an "advanced distant light" (no I'm not talking about the product) that I've now forgotten how to create and I can't find the video or anything about what I'm trying to do anywhere. It could very well have actually been an advanced spotlight and not a distant light, I don't remember clearly, but it basically did the same thing as a distant light, except with more controls such as controlling shadow softness etc. I know there are better work arounds for that, but this is just a thing that's really bugging me atm and I would like to know. They were basically taking a distant light, or maybe it was a spotlight but regardless they took either of those and went to I think the "create" tab to apply something to it that would let them turn the light into what was supposed to be this advanced distant light that I'm looking for.  And before anyone asks, it was a relatively new video and I remember them working with Iray specifically and not 3Delight. That's all I can say so far... Any help is appreciated, thanks!

Ordinarily, I would simply back the camera up to get more of the scene. But if I back the camera up, I end up on the other side of a wall. So I can't do that.

So how do I get the equivalent of backing up, without actually backing up?

Please do not gove me an answer in terms of alanogies to what a photographer would do. I do not not anything about the camera settings that real photographers use. I don't know what fstop, depth of field and so on mean. Of course, the sliders that control Daz cameras have these names (fstop and so on), so I do expect to be told to adjust these sliders. That's fine. I just need someone to tell me what setting to apply, what sliders to asjust, without having to get a PHD in photography.

Iray Interactive

• Artifacts with stereo images and SSIBL (screen space image based lighting) have been fixed.
  • When rendering two stereo images at once.
  • When rendering a stereo image for one eye with spherical camera.
  • When rendering in batch mode.Iray Interactive
  • Artifacts with stereo images and SSIBL (screen space image based lighting) have been fixed.
    • When rendering two stereo images at once.
    • When rendering a stereo image for one eye with spherical camera.
    • When rendering in batch mode.

Iray Interactive

• A bug causing too bright lighting with translucent materials and irt_indirect_light_mode==2 has been fixed.
• A bug causing triplanar projections to be ignored has been fixed.
• Spotlight material was always facing the +Z axis when applied to emissive geometry. This has been fixed.
• A bug has been fixed that caused erroneous behavior when setting the aperture blade count to 1 or 2.
• A bug causing erroneous ground shadows in the left eye image when rendering stereo images has been fixed.

Iray Photoreal & Iray Interactive

• Swirl on poles in stereo renderings has been fixed.

I am fairly new to Daz, and I am experimenting with the software, with a view to possibly using it (With the right licences, of course) in some game projects that I am working on.

Daz-to-Unity seems to be reasonable straightforward, but I have run into a few issues with animations.

I am using a Genesis 8 character (Victoria 8, with some clothing that I purchased from the store).

I can export the character posed but without animations, but if I try to export a character  with an animation that changes the poses (with animations ticked in the export window) the characters arms don't move. The legs and body work, but the arms don't move.

I have tried all of the options that I can think of in both Daz and Unity, and this just doesn't seem to work. 

Can anyone offer any advice?

Thanks a lot!

can anyone please help me frustrated

I try to convert cloth of M4 to G2M. I bought "Michael 4 for Genesis 2 Male" but it doesnt work. The most M4-cloth don't load on G2M, the other M4-cloth bring DAZ to crash while loaing the M4Clone.dsf.

Is anybody experienced with converting M4-cloth to G2M

thank you

now my question is: is there a way to give daz studio the address of my installed files and let it recognize which files are already installed?
I tried changing the content directory to point to the old installed files but they didn't appear in the smart content, even install manager recognize the downloaded files but doesn't recognize the installed ones.
 

Now, my issue is, is there a way to get rid of that shadow without making it look like the character is going bald? Is there something in the shading or something that I can adjust to remove/make invisible this shadow? I know that adjusting the fit is the usual way to do it, but when the hair doesn't use all of the skull cap, like the braids in the attached pic, then it's a little difficult to hide.

I'm sure it's something obvious that I'm missing, but I haven't been able to find anything. Could someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks!

The eyelashes are too short, even if I set the length to 50,000

These eyelashes are from Victoria 4 which is what I'm shooting for:

I refuse to believe that Vicotira 8 is a downgrade from Victoria 4 when it comes to eyelashes, lol.

I would really like some suggestions, as I have been a bit out of the game lately when it comes to high end hardware.

Current specs are:

CPU: i7 2600K

MOBO: Asus P8P67 PRO Rev 1.xx

RAM: 32GB

GPU: MSI (Nvidia) GTX970 

All of it running on a W10 64 pro.

Thanks in advance :)

Rycharde

If you are done working on, and want to distribute or share the Morph, you will need to save it out as an Asset. Do this by selecting File > Save As > Support Asset > Morph Asset(s)...

You will be prompted for the following:

• Asset Directory - This is normally already filled out with a path. Check and make sure it is appropriate.

• Vendor Name - Your vendor name if you have one.

• Product Name - The name of the product you are creating.

• Properties - Select which Assets should be saved out, by placing a check in the box next to each of the desired assets.

It saved somewhere in my C:\DAZ folder, but I don't know where exactly.  Where are the saved morphs and how do I re-apply these saved morphs to a figure?

I don't want to distribute anything, I just want to save these morphs so I can re-apply them to other identical figures.

Does it make any sense to use the same color map for both base color and translucent color? I see a lot of surfaces do this, but it doesn't seem to make sense or does it?

For skin, the base color should be the skin texture alone, then for translucency texture it should be veins in addition to red to simulate blood capacity in certain areas yes?

I began to go back to work, and wanted to save what I worked on in Zbrush as a Morph.

So I did this: Save As /MorphAssets

This forum post here told me how to do it, but apparently it destroyed everything I ever worked on:

https://direct.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/128866/make-and-save-zbrush-morphs-for-daz-characters

So following those instructions, changed EVERY SINGLE ASSET I OWN AND EVERYTHING I MADE BY HAND!

In the image, this is what a Basic non textured, non edited, non sculpted Genesis 1.

Its NOT supposed to look like that when loaded up, and I am freaking out to the verge of tears.

I don't know what to do!

No matter what I load, no matter what figure it will be, it will look like this.

These are the products I'm currently looking at:

• https://www.daz3d.com/catalog/product/view/id/46979
• https://www.daz3d.com/eyedeas-5-extended-for-genesis-8-female-s

What are the best eye shaders/materials for Genesis 8?

I was able to make disappear changing Cutout Opacity to 0, however the object keep interfering in the rendering process. Specifically when I use a geometric spot light in the disk format, a black disk appear when the camera vision pass through the object.

How completely annul that surface? Just changing every surface property to zero is the way to go?

Thanks.

Here are some ideas that i think possible might work if I can figure out how to do them, but I'm open to anything that works. If there is a way to prevent daz from checking for open gl version maybe this will fix my problem. Also, there might be some way to make sure that daz detects the host machines open gl version and not my laptop/remote desktop version. Maybe there is a way to set the remote desktop to appear to have a different open gl version.

I'm a little desperate here. Any solutions?

How do I do that correctly?

So, basically what I have been doing is once I put my first figure in I do a render just the bare figure, I drop uber shader on it and do a render.  I don't close the render or save it, I leave it open and just minimized so it is out of the way.

All other renders after that just fly, but it only works if I don't close the first render.  Iray doesn't waste time loading that whole initializing part and simply runs into rendering.  It has worked like this for me since I first noticed it months ago.  

I had loaded in a figure of M6 and of course, waited while Iray initialized and loaded everything to begin the render, and then just by chance I didn't save the render but had minimized it and then tried another render and was surprised at how fast it rendered, almost half the time as the first.  I tried this several times and could repeat the same speed results, and then I basically deleted the first render as a test and also all other renders and tried it and was met again with the loading iray part and it basically took 2x wait to do a full render.

So, if you know about it already you were probably holding out on the rest of us  or if it is already in the commons it is long buried .  But, IF you didn't know about it I hope you give it a try and see for yourself and save time on renders in the same scenarios I have mentioned.