Everytime I load Victoria 8 An error message appears  data/daz 3d/genesis 3/female/genesis8female.dsf

Is there a way to download or fix the missing file?

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Ash.

Thank you so much.

I have been noodling writing a script that would allow a character to hold a prop with two hands. For instance the character holds a rifle. One hand would hold the stock and trigger. The other hand might hold the barrel. Usually this means parenting to the right hand, posing the character and then laboriously moving the left hand into position on the rifle with many small movement of the left arm. Grabbing the hand and moving with IK is a good start, but eventually fine tuning is required.

My idea is to parent the right hand to the trigger/stock. Then move the left hand into place. The script would calculate the spatial relationship between the left hand and the rifle. Next, change the pose. The left hand will no longer be on the rifle. The user will click a button in the script dialog and the left hand will move back into position along the rifle.

This first step has partially been done. The wonderful 3dcheapskate has published numerous scripts, some of which address this issue. But, looking at the code, it seems that the function is pretty simple. It relies on lengthening (or shortening) the arm. It also does not correctly place the second hand on the prop. (Please excuse me if I have mis-represented or mis-understood the scripts. I am in awe of what 3dcheapskate has provided the community.)

My next step would be to code a wrapping function. The idea is to manually place the second hand near the prop. The script would calculate the pose necessary to have the character literally grab the prop. Many other applications leap to mind from this base.

So before I even start I have a question. Is it possible to move the hand with a script? Natch I can rotate in three dimensions, twist, side-side and bend. What I need to do is specify an x,y,z three-coordinate and have the hand move to that position. This means engaging the IK chain from a script. In other words, I want to move the hand to a position in such a way that the forearm, shoulder and collar all move in concert automatically. Coding for three rotations for each of the body parts would be difficult and unlikely to give a good looking result. Daz has already figured the IK chains out very well. I don't want to reinvent that wheel.

Long way of asking, "Can a script move the hand to a position in space and have the rest of the arm follow?"

Thanks

I was working with a Sakura 8 figure that has the smaller bust.  A bunch of the clothing has a collapsed look surrounding the breast area with a ridge running down where the cleavage area is.  How do you make clothing items like the basic tank top fit a very small busted figure?  Is there something I need to adjust or turn on?

thanks

I'm having the issue where the G8F eyes are suddenly "off" (crooked, crossed, each eye is looking in a slightly different direction). And I can't find the offending morph. 

From memory, the idea is to unhide all of the properties in the parameters pane, and try to find the morph that's causing the trouble, right? If that's all there is to it, I'm just missing it but if there's somewhere else I can look, I'd appreciate the help. Cheers,

When looking at the Sun Dial asset in the scene, how do I Dial the Sun around to the direction I need it to be?  oO

I've been thinking about purchasing ZBrush Core, mostly to create my own Morphs, so I was wondering if Pixalogic had addressed this Glitch in their Sculptris Pro component of this app or not. Would appreciate input from any ZBrush Core owners as to whether or not they have successfully created morphs with this app for Genesis I-III,

TY in advance. BB.

I do own some morph products but do not have them installed at the moment so am running just the base genesis 8 essentials with the default genesis 8 head/body morph packs that come with the figure pro bundles. Note this issue only seems to be afflicting my female figures not their male counterparts. I do use more female figures in my renders but use should not corrupt the base figure should it ?

And on that note if this has happended to anyone else how did you resolve it. I have ensured the figure is zeroed when I load it. It is hard to describe but I will upload some example pictures when I get home from work in a few hours. I really do not wish to uninstall my whole library and install it again from scratch, especially if that is only going to be a short term fix with corruption reoccuring.

SDL.

I'm sure this is all very obvious and everything, but how do I use dForce? I think I've found an option to use it in a menu, but I can't get it to actually do anything. So basically, I need help with the absolute basics of dForce, right from the very beginning. I appreciate any help.

Heres the lighting I'm using

https://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/sc-hdri-lights-for-daz-studio/76735

Editing to add: I just finished a render where I increased the cutout opacity and now my transparent surface looks gray or brown. So I think cutout opacity isn't the way to go.

Can someone share what they do to change opacity and why? Thanks in advance!

https://i.gyazo.com/20a3fd9b3079c8c2ae7589fc5ef5e6b0.png

I have no clue why it's happening but it's driving me insane. It's ruining many renders.

Edit:

Shadow ring in main characters eye: https://i.gyazo.com/f5d518328a7be2504336c78cb7a2e565.png

EDIT: To clarify, I would like to know where the left-hand side menu stores the info to the "add custom action" scripts/info, and not the original scripts from the library folders themselves.

I am somewhat new to DAZ and I am returning to 3D after a hiatus, so am updating my skill set.
I have been learning DAZ by Google for about a month now.

There is this character Little Ones - caucasian.

Bokeh HDR lights.

When I try to do anything with the character, it "blows up."

When I render it I see none of the blow up.

It looks fine in the render, but I can't work on it because of how it looks in the display window.

Tried opening and closing DAZ, but that did not work.

Any ideas?
Thank you.
:-)
Christine

I need some help/advice about packaging freebie props. I have seen several posts about packaging freebies, but I just seem to be getting more confused :)  I have been working on a wide variety of simple props, and would like to share them, but I am not sure what the best way to package them is. Ideally, I would like to make them so they could be used either with DAZ or Poser. The one I made today is a Route 66 sign that has both the shield suitable for hanging on a wall, and one mounted on post for a retro highway scene.

Like most of the props I have created, this one was built using a variety of programs and then assembled in DAZ.  I would appreciate any suggestions on how to best package them for sharing.

Thanks

Edit: I've found out the source of the problem. Apparently Daz3d uses my base intel graphics card for everything outside of rendering. Something happened in the last few days where the intel graphics card isn't powerful enough for the OpenGL rendering of the viewport. This caused the viewport to not load properly. I switched the program over to always use my nvidia graphics card via the nvidia control panel, which eliminated the error, and caused the viewport to be normal. Leaving this up incase anyone else has this issue.

I just got the V7-to-V8 and would like to know how I can transfer K.H. Image Studio's Ultimate Natural Bend Morphs over to their gen 8 characters, thanks in advance for any light that you can shed on this issue! 

(I also hope to hear from K.H. Image Studio themselves with any info for a UNBM for gen 8!)

EDIT: Note that I will STILL purchase the product no matter the transfer solution as that cannot replace the original product!

I found a G3 mask that might have worked, and I turned it into a G8 mask using Sickleyeilds tutorial. However, if I tried to autofit it to G8 it would scrunch down into the character's neck and upper torso. If I tried to simply parent it to the head, without autofitting it (and thus scrunching it), then anytime I posed the character the mask would move with the character but the mask would no longer join at neck to the suit below.

(Note, I'm trying to use it inconjunction with the simple supersuit.) (I can't really use the luchadore masks out there, because the eyes and mouth are cut out, and I need a full facemask. I cannot use the Head that comes with the dynamic supersuit, because it has nose/eyes/mouth, and it is not a full face mask.

(Note 2: I can't wait till I've developed enough proficiency to make my own clothing in Blender and fit them to existing G8 characters.)

As soon it was "free" it gives a 404 NOT Found- Error...

And now it completely disappeared.

Will it be back soon??

Would even pay for it, cause it was cool!

EDIT

Now it is visible again, if you click on it, you get the 404, you can put in cart but if you go to cart it is not there...

Also looked in Parameters tab as well.  There is a spin slider there, but can't get it to affect the final render for the blur effect.

See attached for the look I am trying to achive with the fan blades

Thanks for any help!