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[Solved] Does anyone knows why this is happening?

Ralf1958 — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 11:46:21 +0000

Hello! I actually don't know when this started to happen.

There are a few items in my library that are actually causing the same issue when double clicked.

If I drag and drop them, they open normally.

Just installed the new version 4.11 of DAZ but the probem is still there. Same problem with 4.9 and 4.10.

Does anyone knows why this happens?

How do you tile the bump map, but not the base color map?

Flortale — Wed, 18 Jul 2018 03:39:25 +0000

I want to tile the bump map and not the base color map. Is there an easy way to do this?

Deleting custom assets but they're still in smart content

Kyan001 — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 10:28:20 +0000

Hello, I'm trying to delete custom assets from my library, but for some unknown reasons they're still in the smart content tab, how can I fix that?

Can I save my character morphs?

gsil247 — Fri, 20 Jul 2018 01:08:45 +0000

Hi all. So I worked on a character for hours creating fixing her face to the way I want it. However, after playing with the makeup, surface settings and other add ons a little too much, she pretty much looks like a failed arts and craft expirement. Like a dumb ass, I clicked saved and closed out, so I can't exactly go back.

My question is simple, but I am not sure if possible; can I save all the character adjustments I made to her face/model as a like a slider? I don't want skin because its beyond repair at this point. And please, talk to me like I'm an idiot because I am new to Daz and recetly learned what shadders meant.

Thank you all for your time.

Will there ever be a fix for the not at (0, 0, 0) iRay rendering problem?

nonesuch00 — Fri, 20 Jul 2018 01:01:29 +0000

Will there ever be a fix for the not at (0, 0, 0) iRay rendering problem?

eg, just today, even though the character (Jonah HD for Ollie 8) was only about (335, -75, 665) from (0, 0, 0) the eyes rendered dark, mostly noticable in the sclera appearance, like transparency or refraction wasn't working correctly.

I've since shifted the enviroment to (-335, 75, -665) and the character to (0, 0, 0) but I will have 3 other characters in my camera viewfinder.

RW Letters and More

montygm — Fri, 20 Jul 2018 00:38:02 +0000

Has any one purchased the new alphabet that is recently in the store? Can you use all shaders with it? I ask because I recently purchased an older version, and when I select any of my current shaders that are textured or patterned, I seem to get a solid single colour loaded instead of the selected texture.

Wood floors

wleenen — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 20:46:14 +0000

I just purchased "wood floors". Some high quality shaders, but i don't understand how they work.....there are two different lists...? When I click it turns out white all the time. No readme..no nothing....

WHY IS THERE NO EXPLANATION IN A README??

Please help....

dForce Not Working with Granny Nightgown on Mabel

luci45 — Wed, 18 Jul 2018 23:38:58 +0000

There is a strange problem with the dForce Granny Nightgown. It doesn't drape right on Mabel, making weird puckers under the breasts. It works fine on other Gen 8 females. I haven't used dForce much but this is the only time I have seen this happen. It isn't just me - the promos have the same issue even though it appears an attempt has been made to hide it with the flat lighting. Mabel is not a "Supported Shape" even though this came with her bundle but I don't think that matters with dForce, or does it?

GPU's suddenly failing while rendering?

allfunandgames3D — Wed, 18 Jul 2018 04:09:05 +0000

Thanks for taking a look at this post, I've tried to find an answer but had zero luck. My situation: Yesterday I started up DS fine, designed a scene (to be honest it was larger, but not larger than what my system had rendered before. 2 characters, clothes, hair, enviroment), hit render and was stunned when I saw my CPU usage spike to 100% after the scene rendered for a few minutes (in testing it was falling back to the CPU anywhere from 2% to 94% convergence). I thought I had obviously done something wrong and started researching. The troubleshooting log gave me the following errors:

-an illegal memory access was encountered (while launching CUDA renderer in core_renderer_wf.cpp:832)

-an illegal memory access was encountered (while initializing memory buffer)

-an illegal memory access was encountered (while de-allocating memory)

- All workers failed: aborting render

-Falling back to CPU rendering

(Sorry, I cant seem to get a screen grab of the actual log to post). Has anyone run into this problem? I am far from an expert, so it is entirely possible I am missing something stupidly simple here. But it is really frustrating...

System: i5-8600K (8th gen), Z370 Aurus MOBO, 64 GB DDR4 ram, 1TB SSD, 4 TB HDD, 3x 1080ti (2 FTW and 1 SC), 1060 (6GB-running monitor) also non of the cards are overclocked, Corsair CPU Cooler, Corair 1000 watt PSU, windows 7 (64 bit).

Tried restarting DS, restarting the computer, checked to make sure all Nvidia drivers are up to date, I even tried reinstalling an older version (no luck), GPU heat isn't an issue (I use GPU-Z to keep an eye on them as well as the Corsair link). Tried reinstalling DS, even ran a virus search of the whole system (grasping at straws with that one but...), loaded a scene with just a GF3 with nothing else (no hair or clothes or add ons at all) and still the same errors (so not exceeding the memory limits of the cards). Checked PSU wattage at the plug with a belkin tester, no change from the normal while the system is under load. Literally nothing changed on the system thats run fine for months, so I'm at a loss. Scenes I rendered 2 days ago with the GPU's now fall back to the CPU. I even tried turning the cards off in the advanced settings one by one and redoing the render, but nothing changed.

The last thing I can think of is that I keep getting Windows warnings that I have unsupported hardware (newer processor on windows 7) and I need to upgrade to Windows 10 (which I have been avoiding). Could that be part of the issue? This system has been running fine for almost 4 months (with the warnings), just seems strange to have it start acting up now. I tried google searching for an "illegal memory access was encountered", but mainly ended up with hits for crypto mining issues...

Thanks for any input on the situation, and sorry if there is any missing info from this, its my first post on the forums....

Why can't I install DSON? How can I get Genesis over to Poser?

SasquatchIsCool — Wed, 18 Jul 2018 21:43:52 +0000

I have been trying to install DSON so I can get my Genesis 8 character over to Poser. I've been racking my brain.

I have followed the tutorials but first I don't think it installs DSON on my system. Then the other problem is I don't see where it even puts my files and why that area that I need is blank.

Here is a video of the first problem. I have it mapped out just fine.

Here is the video of the 2nd problem.

How do I get it to Poser if the option is missing and I cannot even find the folder. Oh I did do the change rigging part it said.

Please help. My project depends on it.

Diffuse going crazy in some areas. (IRAY)

Flortale — Wed, 18 Jul 2018 03:52:42 +0000

I have a hidden mesh light behind the window that I'm using to shoot light into the room. It's a strong light. The problem is the curtain seems to be forcing light back into the window sill causing that hard burn area. Is there anyway to fix that?

Genesis character head morphs made in Facegen as products

MGLANT_5da732d0aa — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 19:30:18 +0000

Can the morphs in Facegen be used in place of or as a prelude to sculpting the base mesh in MODO or Zbrush?

Thanks!

M Glant

Content Gatherer

Jason Galterio — Tue, 21 Nov 2017 23:07:46 +0000

I just discovered that Content Gatherer ( https://www.daz3d.com/content-gatherer ) doesn't appear to work if you are using DAZ Connect.

Is this a known issue? Is there a work around?

Nail system: Transparent nails

katjesarts — Wed, 18 Jul 2018 19:40:27 +0000

I have the following problem: In the new environment the nails look transfluent (see picture). Does somebody know what I can do to fix that issue? Thanks in advance

Camera Controls

DarkRepast — Wed, 18 Jul 2018 16:15:42 +0000

When I click on the camera controls under View Selection, my camera often jumps to wild places. It'll spin by huge numbers and do it quite often.

It started when I installed 4.9. I've reinstalled since then but it still happens.

How can you save copies of a render as it progresses?

Flortale — Wed, 18 Jul 2018 09:11:09 +0000

I just canceled a render that was going for 2hours. I wanted to save it then resume so I could compare a 4 hour render to a 2 hour render. The problem is as soon as I saved the render window closed and I couldn't resume. Is there anyway to save a renders progress?

For example if a render lasts 8 hours, could I somehow save out renders every hour? That way I can compare how a 2 hour render looks vs an 8 hour render.

Bike animation

MegaP — Wed, 18 Jul 2018 03:26:49 +0000

Hi Daz people,

Just wasted a 12 hour render on an animation where by I thought I'd parented the bike and person only to find out it wasn't a smooth transition.

All choppy,bike moving leaving behind Genesis 8 then catching up again.

Bascially a mess..Wondering what I'm doing wrong?

Any help would be much appreciated

Wearable Preset Prop for G8

Coquette3D — Mon, 16 Jul 2018 16:30:05 +0000

I have a couple of questions regarding making a prop a wearable preset.

1) If i create a prop, say a bench, and make pose for G8 sitting on the bench, when I save it as a Wearable Preset, what settings do I select to make G8 'move to prop' in that pose so to speak if the prop is not at world center 0/0/0, ie: if I move the bench -125 on the X and -300 on the a Z?

2) do I parent G8 to the prop, or the prop to G8? I've tried it both ways, and there are different options. When I: A) parent G8 to prop, when WEARABLE(S) PRESET SAVE OPTIONS window appears, I select POSE tab, INDLUDE POSE SETTINGS IN PRESET, do I check SMART PARENT TARGET TO WEARABLE at bottom of window, and what do I check/uncheck in the hierarchy tree? when I B) parent prop to G8, in WEARABLE(S) PRESET SAVE OPTIONS, I select POSE tab, check INCLUDE POSE SETTINGS IN PRESET, so what do I check/uncheck in the hierarchy tree?

I've tried so many different option combinations, and sometimes it loads G8 in the desired pose, but only at world center, not where I moved the prop to located away from world center. Other times with different option combinationss, it loads G8 AND the prop at world center, so now I have 2 props in the scene.

I know there is a way to save the prop as a wearable and have G8 snap ot 'move to' the prop where ever it is located in the scene, because I have bought props that do this. I appreciate any advice, I've been working at this for days and am at the point where I'm tearing my hair out in frustration. :P

Converting V4 to G3

mlominy — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 13:48:56 +0000

I'm interested by the head of a particular V4 character, but would like to convert to G3.

Is the process as straight forward as converting , let's say, G3 to G8? (using the Transfer Utility with V4 as source and G3 as target)

Regards

Primitive Color and image Rotation

plarff — Sun, 15 Jul 2018 16:35:44 +0000

Hi all

I am using a primitive and added an image to it to act as a logo on a wall. But it's blue and looks like it's swopped horizontally and verically.

If i swop the actual plane then the image/lettering is still wrong. Any ideas?

Animating problem

gjprice_8d6aa09c3d — Mon, 16 Jul 2018 01:07:50 +0000

Hi All

Ive been working on a simple animation where the figure (G3F) goes from a standing position to a kneel.

Started using aniblocks to get everything looking how I want it, then baked to timeline.

Then I make a new aniblock from the timeline to use later, and refine some

Problem is that although the basic animation is ok the figure floats up afer a few frames and stays up in the air, meaning that to use the aniblock I have to reset the y axis on all frames again.

Its probably me being dumb (again) but this has me stumped.

Any help would be very welcome TIA

Weight Map Projection Template for Shoes?

MaxHancock — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 11:44:36 +0000

I've modeled some shoes and I'm creating weight maps for it. It's for Genesis 8. For the most part, the standard projection does ok, except for the toe region. I probably I can fix that, but I'm wondering if there's a better way— using a projection template specially made for making shoes?

I've seen some use their own template for shoes, but I'm guessing they made their own? Is there one I can download and install for use?

I send object to Zbrush, make 0 changes, when I GOZ back, DAZ says the topology has changed?

Flortale — Mon, 16 Jul 2018 14:56:28 +0000

I have a curtain object in my scene. I send it to Zbrush via GOZ. I make no changes to the curtain while in Zbrush. Then I click the GOZ button in Zbrush. When the curtain comes back into DAZ, Daz says, "The topology has changed", but I didn't even change anything. Anyone know how to fix this?

The mesh resolution of the curtain is set to base. I exported the curtain with export deformations and export at current resolution off. I even tried exporting with both of these options, but still the problem persists.

Hidden properties

Herald of Fire — Mon, 16 Jul 2018 08:06:17 +0000

Going way back to the days of the original Genesis figure, I recall that clothing used to inherit the morphs of the parent figure and this is still pretty much the case. However, I also recall that those morphs could be selected in the figure and zeroed out if need be. This was a common fix for hair that used elf ear morphs, for example. However, besides the full body morphs I'm not seeing any of the smaller morphs in the shaping tab. Be it elf ears, breast size glute morphs, nothing seems to be inherited from Genesis.

Is this something that has changed, or are these properties now hidden from view even when 'show hidden properties' is active?

Doing this wrong??

carriemorency — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 16:59:59 +0000

Hey all! I just purchased an awesome item on sale; https://www.daz3d.com/laguna-mermaid-set-for-genesis-3-female-s . Well, for some reason, when I put it on my Gen 3 female model, I get a big spot on the hip that is sans color. It shows up in render as well. I'll attach a pic so you can see. I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong? Or is there some way I can message the creators to get some advice? It's gotta be something I'm doing, I just can't figure out what it is. :p Thanks all in advance!

DIM Manifest File location (question)

dlm4001 — Mon, 16 Jul 2018 18:06:42 +0000

I moved the DIM download folder from users/public/pubic documents to free up space on my C drive. I moved it to a storage drive. I also keep My Library on the same drive. I dont delete the packages after install in case I want to uninstall them and then have them for reinstall later without downloading. (I am not sure that is a great idea, but, it is what I do. )

After moving the DIM folders, and pointing DIM to the new path, I downloaded a file to test. It worked fine, but I noticed, it recreated the user/public/public documents/... and put the mainisfest files there. (The download package files went to the new location. Is there a way to make DIM put the manifest douments in the new location? They are not big files and I can live with it, but wanted to know if there was something I could do to keep DIM from writing stuff to my C Drive.

GOz Why topology has changed?

Ilovekaijufilm — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 05:12:12 +0000

Why does everytime I change a character morph it always says "the topology has changed" I didn't the character or anything. How do you morph if you cannot even move the character a bit?

computer keeps restarting itself when i'm rendering the environments

khung90s — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 01:46:50 +0000

it works fine yesterday, but today there's something suspicious hapening to my computer. I tried render the picture of group of 15 person in the background picture. i tried 10 times today but the computer restart it itself. i have no idea what happened, it looks like it needs a laptop repair. And i still have 55 GB left on my drive

Moving Morphs From V4 to G8 (with broken Genesis)

zededd2000 — Mon, 16 Jul 2018 15:30:38 +0000

I know there are a lot of very helpful tutorials getting morphs using clones and the such from V4 to Genesis (and 2 and 3 etc) but I'm struggling... My Genesis is pretty messed up after trying (without succeeding) to get my V4 morphs to it. All I managed to do was apparently break the Genesis files.

From what I understand, my only option is to load(fix) genesis, load my morphs to that one, then convert up to 8 using V4 clones or to buy something that I don't quite understand (therefore should not mess with). Sadly, I am trying to convert several hundred morphs I made for V4 but don't work on Genesis (random spikes appearing)

Is there any 'did you try...' options that I'm missing?

My to do list:

-Ininstall/Re-install Genesis and try from scratch with the tutorials

-Spend money on a legacy to Gen3 converter

Re-importing from ZBrush claims "topology has changed"

bwise1701 — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 17:53:27 +0000

I have a wierd issue with some models - in this case a hair model fit to a G2F figure that I wanted to sculpt into a slightly different profile - so I hot GoZ as normal ( export with deformations checked - export at current resolution unchecked - as always) into Zbrush make the change - hit GoZ ther as normal - it goes back to Daz - and then complains that the topology has changed and it will only bring it in as a new obj. I've seen this a time or 2 before but not sure why. All I'm doing in Zbrush is use the move tool to push the mesh around a bit - no topology changes.

Any ideas folks? Thanks