I reimaged my machine, and as usual when I do so, I backup certain appdata folders so I don't have to reconfigure anything.  (just a preface)

I grabbed DAZIM and installed everything as usual, nothing special - then I launch DAZ Studio.  Splash screen shows up as usual, then the main UI shows up, but is instantly frozen.  The spinners on the library are not moving, nothing is happening.

After a bit, Windows asks if I want to close it (unresponsive).

I tried rebooting, same thing.

So I uninstalled, cleared all related appdata folders, manually cleared the installation directory of remnant files, deleted the DAZ registry keys, everything I could think of.  Did the same for postgre CMS. Rebooted, reinstalled - same thing again.  I've reinstalled probably 5 times now, trying different things.  Nothing seems to work.  Any thoughts?

EDIT: Also, I tried using procmon to see what was happening, it looks like it's trying to use the CMS, but locking up maybe.  Not sure.

The last line in the log file is: 2018-07-23 12:17:33.731 Creating Pixel Buffer

Log file is attached

With the Pretty Base NG body shape applied, if the Nipples are dialed up, the head of the figure is reverted to the default G3f shape.

I am unable to find any reference to a dependency between the dials, and I am at a loss to explain the behavior.

If anyone else has this product and can confirm the behavior, that would be a start, but ultimatley I would really like to find a way to fix the problem.

Thanks in advance,

E.

edit: While the Pretty Base Next Generation (SKU:45259) shape is applied, (from People, or Full Body + Head) dialing up the Nipples morph causes the head of the figure to revert to the default G3f shape. When just the PBNG body shape from Full Body is used, the head seems to be having the difference between the head shapes re-applied, swelling it beyond the default shape.

Image attached showing these interactions.

Here's the thing. Several times I saw people saying something like "I always turn off CPU rendering in Iray", "Don't forget to turn off CPU" etc.

What if my CPU actually renders faster than my GPU?  Should I use it then?

I tested and CPU is actually x1.5 faster than my toaster GPU. What are the drawbacks in my situation? Are CPUs the last resort measure only and can't handle rendering for too long and tend to die fast? Should I use it or should I avoid using CPU at any costs?

Thanks in advance and once again sorry if my questions are dumb. 

Of course, being Daz, there is no help within the system at all for addressing this. Please help me, thank you.

Under Surfaces, I select an image for Difuse.  The color displays but the actual grain does not display.  Nor does the bump when I add a Bump map.

This occurs when the mesh is imported as .dae, .fbx, and .obj.

Does anyone have suggestions?

Thanks

Thanks. 

I bought a GTX 1080Ti 11GB DDR5 about 8 Months ago. I just ordered another one a couple days ago. Same exaxt model, from the same seller. I noticed after installing, that the card didnt show up anywhere. Yes I had the bridge adpater connected. Pluged in to my PSU. Both the 8 Pin and the 6-2 Pin were plugged in. Everything was as it should be. (To my knowledge)  I updated my driver. And nothing changed. I installed factory setting driver. Nothing changed. So I though. Maybe this is a bad card. So I took out my older one. The one that works. And installed the new card, in the same slot. Now that one shoes up. So then I thought. Uh oh. Maybe the lower slot is bad? So I took it out of my top slot. And installed it directly into my lower slot. I fired up my PC, and it works just fine. So, its not my cords.. Its not my slots. Its not my drivers. Its not the cards. I dont know what else could be causing the issue.

System Specs.

Win10 64bit

i7-5820k 3.3Ghz 6-Core Proccessor

Asus X99-A Motherboard

64GB DDR4 Ram 2133Hz

2TB Samsung 960 Pro SSD

850Watt PSU

Plus the GTX 1080Ti cards.

This confuses me a bit so i wonder what is going in these images. Is it compatible or not? Does it require something special for it to work? Cause sometimes i see something i like or i could use really well, but i don't have the required base character for it to work according to the storepage.

I did buy for example...

https://www.daz3d.com/x-fashion-hijab-for-genesis-3-female-s

I can wear it, but when the head is turned i see the item doesn't follow the movements properly. Does this occur with all incompatible items, or does it depend on the combination?

Maybe someone can give me a general explanation.

I got it because of the prospect of being able to move the wounds around the body to place them how you like. This meant I could use say for example, bullet wounds as makeshift vampire bite marks. Below shows what ended up happening there.

For some reason when rendered, the marks were displaced. This is on G8 and the product is for G3, but, from what I can tell, there is no G8 alternative. Which really hampers things because I really don't want to have to go backwards and start using G3 for stuff, after I've already spent months building a G8 catalog. So, does anyone know if 1: I can make this product work correctly on G8, or 2: Have a good alternative? It's kind of important that I be able to place these wounds and the like where I want, rather than just a static immoveable thing.

I need to set the viewport to something faster than interactive that doesn't need to constantly refresh by forcing the viewport to go black.

I need a way to render the viewport in real time with some decent quality.

Default
SubDivision Level: 1
Render SubD Level (Minimum): 2

Max
SubDivision Level 3
Render SubD Level (Minimum): 5

How much longer does it take to render with Max vs Default on Gensis 8 female in IRAY?

When I try to open the female model and male model this is what comes up (Could not open file:/Peaople/Genesis 8 Female/Genesis 8 Basic Female.duf File does not exist.)

So I right click it and choose (Browes to file location) and it takes me to where all my genesis files are. The genesis 8 female and male have their own indipendent file. If I open either the Female one or the Male one and click on the Duf. File it opens up Daz with the model there, however I am not able to apply clothing of hair or poses anytime I try to it Says (Would you like to save before closing scene)

Is there anyway that I can make Daz recognice the file so that it may open up and I may be able to use it and apply stuff to it.

Thank you

Izzy

Hi.

I've made sure to uncheck CPU from Advanced Settings in render, so the only thing checked is my 1070. Even when doing a simple scene with a model, a couple lights and some clothing, the render will speed through until about 80% and then crash to CPU. I specifically bought an 8GB card to be able to render scenes with it, but this is getting frustrating now.

System:
AMD FX-8350
16GB RAM
EVGA 1070 GTX 8GB - Newest drivers, literally got and installed the card today.
600w PSU (card is 500w recommended)
Windows 7 Ult x64
My Daz library is located on an SSD to help load speeds

Log file from a larger scene I tried. I reduced the texture sizes and deleted some lighting and this was the result:

2018-07-19 03:59:43.734 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Updating geometry.
2018-07-19 03:59:43.845 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Using built-in ray tracing (1.0.0).
2018-07-19 03:59:43.845 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Importing scene graph.
2018-07-19 03:59:43.845 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Importing geometry.
2018-07-19 03:59:44.307 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Geometry import (1 object with 1070k triangles, 1 instance yielding 1070k triangles) took 0.461462
2018-07-19 03:59:44.307 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Updating materials.
2018-07-19 03:59:44.356 Iray INFO - module:category(MATCNV:RENDER):   1.0   MATCNV rend info : found 235 textures, 0 lambdas (0 unique)
2018-07-19 03:59:44.366 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Emitter geometry import (12 light sources with 12152 triangles, 1 instance) took 0.00s
2018-07-19 03:59:44.366 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Updating environment.
2018-07-19 03:59:44.369 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Updating lens.
2018-07-19 03:59:44.369 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Updating lights.
2018-07-19 03:59:44.370 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Updating object flags.
2018-07-19 03:59:44.370 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Updating caustic portals.
2018-07-19 03:59:44.370 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Updating decals.
2018-07-19 03:59:44.390 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Allocating 1 layer frame buffer
2018-07-19 03:59:44.397 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Using batch scheduling, architectural sampler disabled, caustic sampler disabled
2018-07-19 03:59:44.398 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Initializing local rendering.
2018-07-19 03:59:44.560 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Rendering with 1 device(s):
2018-07-19 03:59:44.561 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : 	CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1070)
2018-07-19 03:59:44.561 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Rendering...
2018-07-19 03:59:44.562 Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.3   IRAY   rend progr: CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1070): Processing scene...
2018-07-19 03:59:46.392 Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.2   IRAY   rend stat : Geometry memory consumption: 35.4182 MiB (device 0), 0 B (host)
2018-07-19 04:00:22.651 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.2   IRAY   rend info : Initializing light hierarchy.
2018-07-19 04:00:22.651 Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.2   IRAY   rend stat : Texture memory consumption: 1.71384 GiB (device 0)
2018-07-19 04:00:22.944 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.2   IRAY   rend info : Light hierarchy initialization took 0.29s
2018-07-19 04:00:22.947 Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.2   IRAY   rend stat : Lights memory consumption: 2.04511 MiB (device 0)
2018-07-19 04:00:23.207 Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.2   IRAY   rend stat : Material measurement memory consumption: 0 B (GPU)
2018-07-19 04:00:23.209 Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.2   IRAY   rend stat : Materials memory consumption: 384.539 KiB (GPU)
2018-07-19 04:00:23.526 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.3   IRAY   rend info : CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1070): Scene processed in 38.967s
2018-07-19 04:00:23.531 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.3   IRAY   rend info : CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1070): Allocated 21.0941 MiB for frame buffer
2018-07-19 04:00:23.704 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.3   IRAY   rend info : CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1070): Allocated 1.65625 GiB of work space (2048k active samples in 0.171s)
2018-07-19 04:00:23.705 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.3   IRAY   rend info : CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1070): Used for display, optimizing for interactive usage (performance could be sacrificed)
2018-07-19 04:00:24.527 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.3   IRAY   rend info : Allocating 1 layer frame buffer
2018-07-19 04:00:31.368 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Received update to 00010 iterations after 46.809s.
2018-07-19 04:00:38.657 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Received update to 00020 iterations after 54.098s.
2018-07-19 04:00:46.522 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Received update to 00031 iterations after 61.964s.
2018-07-19 04:00:53.990 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Received update to 00042 iterations after 69.432s.
2018-07-19 04:01:04.175 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Received update to 00057 iterations after 79.618s.
2018-07-19 04:01:09.610 WARNING: dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray ERROR - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.5   IRAY   rend error: CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1070): Kernel [18] failed after 0.039s
2018-07-19 04:01:09.610 WARNING: dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray ERROR - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.5   IRAY   rend error: CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1070): an illegal memory access was encountered (while launching CUDA renderer in core_renderer_wf.cpp:807)
2018-07-19 04:01:09.610 WARNING: dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray ERROR - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.5   IRAY   rend error: CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1070): Failed to launch renderer
2018-07-19 04:01:09.610 WARNING: dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray ERROR - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.3   IRAY   rend error: CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1070): Device failed while rendering
2018-07-19 04:01:09.610 WARNING: dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray WARNING - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.3   IRAY   rend warn : All available GPUs failed.
2018-07-19 04:01:09.611 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.3   IRAY   rend info : Falling back to CPU rendering.

Also want to note, while rendering, I had CPUID open and my memory peaked at 87-90% on the GPU. The temp peaked at 59c.

Thank you.

I was wondering if Genesis 2 has an opacity map. 

I'm not really strong with names, perhaps it's just named differently. 

I'm just trying to learn the different map types.

Thank you!

I don't know if this is a program issue or if something is wrong with my computer. So far this only happens when I work in Daz.

I hope this is the right forum category to post in.

Any ideas/help?  Thanks.

Specs: 

Windows 10 | GeForce 1080 (x2) | Intel i7-5930K | 64 GB RAM

So, I need the help of someone who's been using this software a while, please!
Thing is, I'm an amateur character artist, having worked mostly with traditional tools making comics characters, and I have a fairly solid idea as to what I want to achieve when it comes to the amazing realism provided here.

- The ability to create unique characters with their own body shapes, sizes, hair, in the case of males facial hair.
- The ability to create and manage a decent wardrobe of about 5-10 outfits per character if possible. (Do I have to make individual versions dressed up or can they be dressed easily right before a render?)
- The ability to create and manage accessories such as hand-held objects, jewellery
- To import / export objects from and/or to Maya, if that's possible.
- To create scenes with assets created the above ways.

So basically what I'm asking is, what tools/plugins/resources should I be investing in to make the best of Daz3D? 
Obviously I'm intending to spend only so much as necessary to be able to create ... stuff. (That's a technical term, right?)

<456 Thank you


 

Anybody know how to do this?

Thanks!

I was wondering if it's possible to take a V4 morph (like the Utopian Head morph from the V4 Elite Body Shapes product) and convert it into a dial for Genesis 8 Female?

Thanks for your help!

• 4xGenesis 8 base figures
• max samples 1000

Scene B

• 1xGenesis 8 base figure
• max samples 1000

Will the Genesis 8 in Scene B look the same in quality as the four Genesis 8 figures in Scene A?  I assume Scene A would just take longer to render?