I7, gtx 1080, 16gigs ram

 Could not find local ReadMe for: HeadShot One Click (WIN) 

Has anyone experienced this and can you give me some suggestions as to what I can do to get a successful installation. I have DAZ 4.9 and I have not had a problem installing any other product that I have purchaed from the DAZ catalog. I greatly appreaciate anyone's help. Thanks!

Gabe

Question: If I use DIM, can I batch uninstall then batch reinstall? I realize this will take a long time, I have over 2,400 Daaz products. Should I also reinstall Daz itself when I do this? I will be reinstalling in :  D:\My DAZ 3D Library

I feel like this is a basic question, but it has me stumped.

Some characters come with separate morphs for the head shape and body shape. This is very easy to use. However, some only come with one overall character shape.

What is the best way to transfer a head shape from one Genesis figure to another in cases where there is not a separate head morph, only a full character morph?

Thanks!

I just installed Daz3D and something really went wrong, I created my Account here, downloaded the DAZ Install Manager and changed the Directory, probably where the trouble begings:

I installed the Install Manager to E:/DAZ 3D/DAZ3DIM1, no problem so far, fired it up and because I wanted to have all components/libraries also on E: I switched the Directories to:

-Downloads to E:/DAZ 3D/InstallManager/Downloads

-Installation to 32Bit/64Bit E:/DAZ 3D

-Content Folder to E:/DAZ 3D/My DAZ 3D Library

-DAZ Studio 4.5+ to E:/DAZ 3D/DAZ 3D/DAZStudio4

-Hexagon 2.5 (32bit) to E:/DAZ 3D/DAZ 3D/Hexagon2

Installation worked smooth, all Modules were downloaded and installed, should work fine, right? Nope.

In DAZ Studio all my Products show up, but without previews, a warning triangle at the bottom and I cannot load anything to work with.

Allright, lets reintall the modules and start again, well, now DAZ Studio is somehow completely whiteish with barely readable buttons, and nothing is usable.

Reinstalling again, this time make it a clean installation, DAZ Studio looks again like it should, but I cannot add my Account or use the Login-Button, and of course my Products are again without Preview and not loadable.

So were do I mess up? Is it generally not recommended to change the paths to the directories?

Hopefully someone knows what to do.

I was following the exercise in "Digital Women II" which is based on 4.8 covering iRay usage, but I figured was probably good for 4.10. The author advises checking both CPU and GPU options to allow the CPU to help out. I did so and the render took two hours with the laptop out of action for the period, task manager showed the CPU was running almost constant at 100% with the GPU barely stirring. I have a GEFORCE GTX1050 TI in an MSI GV72 7RE

I ran the same render with the CPU unchecked and it took 1hr 45 mins with the laptop fully functional for other tasks, task manager showed about 30% usage by DAZ but puzzlingly still showed nothing above 0.1% for the GPU, not sure I believe the GPU report but the difference in performance during render time was huge

Would be interested in any similar issues or insights as I am about to build a custom render server to hand these tasks off to and need to figure the best hardware config within my budget.

The easy way seems to be taking the face texture and directly add the makeup to that, but when exchanging the face texture it doesn't always show in the render or sometimes kinda it looks off. So i wanted to create seperate textures for makeup that can be overlayed on top of the skin texture, again it doesn't always show, and when it does it looks nothing like the texture itself. I've been trying to apply skins and makeups on different preset characters to see what would happen, the results are vastly different and i lost any sense of consistancy.

So i realized from the characters i own Aiko 8 is the most applicable, her makeup even works well on a dark skin texture or monster skin texture, with some exceptions where nothing shows. So how do i go about doing that, because simply applying makeup and exchanging the texture gives terrible results and i dont know why.

I can render a full 3 minute animation with great light settings in Blender in 20 minutes. iRay is making me want to quit Daz and I just got it. Spent a couple hundred bucks on Characters I later found out didn’t come with hair or clothes.... Thank god for freebie sites.

Not a huge fan of the Daz store pricing or IRay right now. But iRay renders some BEAUTIFUL images.

Can Someone share with me their render settings and any tips to get faster renders? One hour for a still image just won’t cut it for me. If I can’t fix this I’m going to have to export everything into Blender just to get Cycles Re

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Working away at my project.  I keep getting these horrible artifacts with my maps.  I even redid the shorts and turned around and LEARNED how to use RizomUV Unfold program to get a very square UV to rule out any issues with the textures.  I'm still getting these weird artifacts.  This is using iRAY in the current version of DAZ Studio.  If I didn't know any better I'd swear that iRAY is set up somehow to give a preview render, as the renders are very very fast but I've checked all the settings that I know where to check and I can't find where to turn it off... if that indeed is the issue...

Notice my logo?  It does NOT look like that on the mapping..... very straight lines, should be as sharp as a tac but this is what I keep getting!  Same with the crotch fly, jagged lines!  

Am I doing something wrong? I have 6 bison in my scene but the distant ones are depth of fielded and naked but the two up close look weird without fur.

Is this an old issue due to the different UV? or is it a new one connected to the G3 essentials uppdate as I have not noticed it before? 

If I knew how to phrase it then I would have done so in the Forums search bar but I have no idea, so I will have to ask here.

I need to use an existing portrait or picture in a DAZ scene but i want it to show an image of my own. Do I change the subsurface or Texture of the portrait/picture in the scene?

I can do this afterwards in Photoshop for sure but it would save me a lot of time.

I hope I make sense.

Thx

Now I understand this is essentially morphs battling against the main rig, but has anyone come across a good trade off? What's the best solution here, jcms, altered weight maps, specific morph targets based on character pose? I understand it's not a new problem, and if it could be fixed it would have been by now – but are there any brain boxes out there that have any tips/tricks?

And yes, i've tried pretty much every bend fix solution package out there, which work great on slimmer frames but don't really solve the issue for weightier characters. I'm not even trying to render Goliath sized figures, just maybe a size 12-14.

I've attached an Example below, it's not a huge problem at this stage but gets progressively worse from here on in...

Thanks!

How can I lock the genesis 2 model's bones so they don't morph when parenting.

The textures that I applied are in the my daz library and in the same folder as the stock uv and when I go to surfaces I can see them already populated in the list of textures.

Does anyone have any idea why this is happening?  It keeps trying to find things in the temp folder.  If this is going to happen every time I load a custom figure I will lose my mind.  I have so far had issues when saving and having figure morphs revert to base model, and now this.

I'm on a brand new system I have a fresh install of all of my content and all user folders are default, everything that was done to a figure was done inside Daz and when saving I am using the Daz "save as" and it processes everything fine when saving.  But when I later try to open a scene with a figure that has a custom map it loads without out its textures and daz reports it cannot locate files in the temp folder.

Now... that being said, what I REALLY need to do is, reset ALL my settings to default.  BEFORE anyone suggests that I uninstall and reinstall, I've already done that three times and the new pathway settings are still the same (and possibly incorrect) I need someone who knows how to reset all my DAZ studio settings to factory default and please, I beg you,  do NOT tell me  Edit>reset" because AS of DAZ Studio 4.10 (as seen in the screenshot below) that is NO LONGER AN OPTION (So please don't suggest it) 

Now, if anyone WANTS to explain how to correctly repair ALL the pathways to move my library from C drive to D drive, I've also included screenshots from my DAZ studio AND DIM so you can educate me and help teach how to move everything CORRECTLY... and remember, this is DAZ Studio 4.10... THAT'S 4.10 so adjust your knowledge for a new version which MAY have changed the settings and therefore the way it functions. 

Thanks M J

I imported an obj and set up surfaces on it using the surface editor, applied the IRay Uber Base to them all, now I'm trying to apply IRay materials to those surfaces, but not matter what I do they always come out in render looking like coloured plastic with no detail, despite the surface showing all the correct maps and settings as far as I can tell.

I went to the Brickyard file but it was empty, this problem had happened before and I had deleted the files in that folder some days ago, but that didn't solve the problem. I solved it by loading the character once again and deleting the characters with the problem... But it happened again, and I think it will continue to happen. What can I do to solve this with out having to load the character again?

It's most present when I leave a D|S scene open and idle for a long period of time..like I'll open a scene then walk away for 5 minutes or more. Reloading the scene might help, and restarting D|S is sometimes helpful also, but the flickering always returns.  

Any help would be tremendously appreciated. <3