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SOLVED! Everything Below Ground Renders Invisible

xyer0 — Sun, 01 Jul 2018 20:11:29 +0000

I have a template scene that has inexplicably developed an issue: Everything that is below ground level (floor) does not render. The transparent, that is, nothing is all that's there. Even with nothing in the scene but a character. Any ideas?

Install location issue SOLVED....maybe?

leo04 — Sat, 30 Jun 2018 21:10:15 +0000

After struggling with the issue of installing my files, assets and software I think I finally have found my solution.

I am posting the image in case anyone else has an issue like this and for peer review.

I think this works.

Thanks.

Weird Autofit Problem - everything is 'unsupported'

foobar4927 — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 21:49:09 +0000

Due to disk space issues on C:, I set the DAZ content path for all my content over to E:. I reinstalled all my content via Installer, and moved over all the Library folders - there are no C: paths still in content management.

Everything seems to work fine, except autofit. If I try to put a G2 outfit on a G8 character, or any similar issue, autofit only brings up 'Unsupported' as the source.

I have all my content installed, so everything from M4/V4 to G8 is available.

I assume there's some odd inconsistency that I'm running into - any bright ideas what I need to tweak?

Transfering G8F shoes to G3F

mlominy — Sat, 30 Jun 2018 21:37:18 +0000

What is the best tuto to fit G8 shoes to G3?

Genesis 8 Male mesh is... broken or something

walking75 — Sun, 01 Jul 2018 02:42:09 +0000

loaded in a blank genesis 8 male. applied lithe 100%. moved left and right shoulder bends to -35 and 35 respectively. You can see the problem in the attached screenshot.

Something is clearly wrong with the mesh around the armpit/shoulder/collar area. I have tried reinstalling the genesis 8 starter stuff. I have tried reinstalling DS entirely. I have gone through all the morphs and adjustments available to me. Nothing I have done has had any effect. Do I have to edit the mesh directly ? Is that even possible ? If I do have to, and it is possible how would i go about doing so. Please help.

How do you turn textures into shaders?

billyben_0077a25354 — Sun, 01 Jul 2018 01:37:59 +0000

I bought the ISource Wood textures Vol. 2 thinking they would work like shaders since the promo photos show them as Nvidia shader balls and the promos have the Iray symbol. But they loaded into the General folder as a selection of textures. How do I convert this merchant resource of textures to shaders I can use?

Ocean Water System without Animate2

JMCarrigan — Sat, 30 Jun 2018 18:27:22 +0000

Can I do single frame images with iREAL Animated Ocean Water System without Animate2? Animate2 is a bit expensive right now.

Daz Studio 4.9 Keyboard Shortcuts

Geoffrey_Woodget — Sun, 01 Jul 2018 10:40:17 +0000

What am I doing wrong? Every 4.9 shortcuts URL I look at appear to be the same commands, yet none work.

https://www.deviantart.com/peggywalters/art/DAZ-Studio-4-9-Shortcuts-614963510

https://shortcutworld.com/DAZ-Studio/win/DAZ-Studio_Shortcuts

Do I need something enabled on the top toolbar to get it to work...or?

I was specifically interested in the Viewport 'Zoom' controls- supposedly Shift+Z and Shift+A.

Thank you

Nipple poking through in some clothing

jmlynch2k — Sun, 24 Jun 2018 23:40:40 +0000

Whats the best way to remove poke through in clothing? The piece I'm talking about has dforce but it does it in others as well. Is there an easy fix?

Ultimate Stonemason Makeover - 14-in-1 Bundle

JMCarrigan — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 18:18:05 +0000

[Ultimate Stonemason Makeover - 14-in-1 Bundle] Does anyone know anything about the above.

I'm NOT about to return them dang it. I really need to look at things a little more closely.

I have a few products by Stonemason, like the Pool House. I saw the word LIGHTNING and just by that I decided I had to have it.

This Bundle is by DREAMLIGHT and I have to have other products. I'm just going to have to wait and buy the products by Stonemason that these go with. I did that with The Pool House by Stonemason. Before that is.

SO! Is there anything I can do with these in the meantime? That's the real question - except WHERE are all 14? I mean if you have the time.

details displacement maps for V4

Dreamweaver — Sat, 30 Jun 2018 19:56:04 +0000

hello!

I've just purchased those two products:

https://www.daz3d.com/displacement-for-victoria-6

https://www.daz3d.com/ultra-detailed-displacement-maps-for-genesis-3-base-female

I'm searching for a similar product for V4 - especially for the hands/feet details (prints textures). if anyone know of such an item - I'd love to know!

DM Uninstall

dash2128 — Sat, 30 Jun 2018 03:51:56 +0000

I jst inadvertantly clicked unistall in Download Manager, and it uninstallled something.

I don't know what.

Is there an activity record that would tell me what was uninstalled?

Shader Mixer - How to blend 2 displacement maps?

Falco — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 16:29:16 +0000

I have a shader I made that blends 2 sets of textures together, using a lerp or a blend colors node to blend the 2 texture nodes together by a mask.

Everything works great except that I can't figure out how to blend the displacement maps together since the displacement and displace max get outputed from the node seperately.

What is the best way blend the displacement maps together?

See-through windows urban background views

mlominy — Wed, 20 Jun 2018 21:28:00 +0000

I do a lot of indoor scenes and most interiors I use have windows.

Is there any tuto or products that allow having urban/city background views (with streets and buildings). Most of the HDRIs I have just give the impression my room is located in an open field... :-(

How to make a breast bridging slider

mlominy — Wed, 27 Jun 2018 18:46:19 +0000

There are many products that help attain a more natural look for the clothes around the female breast area like SY Clothing Breast Helper.

However, these products are designed to work correctly for an average sized/proportioned character. Very often, for a character having a heavily customized chest, body size and breasts, the results are far from being satisfactory.

My question: If I would like to create a slider designed specifically for one given character, is there an "easy" way to make it? What are the principles/steps involved?

Iconic shapes question

versora_vincent — Sat, 30 Jun 2018 02:08:54 +0000

I have a question pertaining to the Iconic Shapes for Genesis 1: I know it allows for the use of Gen 3 clothes for Genesis, but I am wondering if you can also use the morphs pertaining to the Gen 3 figures?

Example: I have Genesis 1 dialed into Michael 3. Could I also use Michael 3 morphs? Or is it just clothes only? I'd like to know before I invest too much time trying to do something I cannot do.

Creature Creator morphs not loading

reality123 — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 21:34:04 +0000

Just downloaded the creature creator morphs for V4 and manually installed them into my DS4 runtime library. They show up in daz studio, I click on them, they load, and then nothing. No morphs for creature creator are showing up in my V4 figures parameters. I've tried this on both the default V4 figure and my custom figures, nothing. Any help?

GenX help

Chelle the Cat — Sat, 30 Jun 2018 01:26:49 +0000

So, slowly I've been trying to port some of my characters from V4/M4 over to G2 using GenX to transfer morphs over.

I have found that one of the morphs I'm trying to transfer, but for some reason it won't select.

Has anyone else come acorss this or do some morphs require something special to be transfered?

Hide Large Sections of a figure?

jcalebdesign — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 20:52:24 +0000

I'm trying to hide large sections of a cyborg figure to be specific. I only need the right arm so I have to go in and hide all the small parts of the rest of the figure. Is there any way to highlight large sections of the figure in the Scene panel and hide them all at once?

Jake

DAZ Studio Scene File will not open

im_18f4b482 — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 03:49:04 +0000

Hello,

When trying to open any of my .duf scenes nothing happens just blank. Please help. I'm behind on a gig and panicked.

Thank You

Hair destroyed by HDRI

KlaudM — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 09:11:02 +0000

Hi guys,

I'm getting a very strange issue with iRay and HDRI, as you can see below the hair are "destroyed" by the HDRI map where the light is more strong.

Is there a way to fix it?
I thought to put a "light catcher" between the hair and the hdri but I hope there's a real solution...

Hair: Vertigo Ponytail
Shaders: Preset or Custom
Smoothing: Enabled or Disabled
HDRI: Iradiance indoor
Render: iRay
Filters: None
Burn HL: 0.0001
DoF: Yes or Not

looking for some help for the Blender plugin

Padone — Sun, 10 Jun 2018 11:04:43 +0000

I'm trying to help Thomas with materials and he did significant progress with the Blender plugin. But now I feel somewhat stuck with translucency and sss and the interaction between them. I mean the gross job is there and it works fine enough. But I feel we can do better so any help from anyone interested is great.

Below the links and part of the discussion reported for easy of reading.

http://diffeomorphic.blogspot.com/

https://bitbucket.org/Diffeomorphic/import-daz/issues/112/better-translucency-part-2-also-mixing

In my tests with iray it seems that sss doesn't work when traslucency if off. So sss needs some degree of translucency to do something. While translucency works fine even with sss off.

Also mixing sss and translucency colors seems to be a very messy thing. In some degree translucency seems to take precedence. That is, sss colors only appears clearly when translucency colors are white.

In this case blender doesn't match because the iray volume transmitted color is not considered by the importer. But honestly I didn't find any way to correctly handle it together with translucency. May be we can multiply it with the subsurface color of the principled shader if and only if the translucency colors are white. But this doesn't make too much sense to me either.

As for the chromatic mode it seems to be not documented at all in the official manual. But in my tests it takes the lowest precedence. That is, the chromatic color only appears clearly when the translucency colors are white and the volume transmitted color is white too.

Also, the chromatic color is the negative of what's specified in the in the input field. That is, if I specify red it comes out cyan (green+blue). Since it is not documented I don't know if this is a bug or its intended behaviour. For sure it doesn't make much sense.

http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/referenceguide/interface/panes/surfaces/shaders/iray_uber_shader/start

Now I feel to translate all of this to the principled shader is impossible. The principled shader is designed to be simple and it works best alone its own way.

I believe when we are in sss mono mode the setup suggested in the previous post works fine enough. It inputs the same color both in the base channel and in the subsurface channel. I guess that's how mono is meant to be used in iray anyway.

As for the chromatic mode I'd give up with it. It is really messy. Then something will not match for sure but we always have time to improve things.

Multiplane Cyclorama

lakotagirl — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 04:12:52 +0000

the most important file for the mpcycl is missing and I dont know how to get it back without buying the whole thing.

when I look in products I can see the poser version and the daz legacy. I can also see it in content library but when I try to load it a triangle shows up and says file is missing. so what do i do?

I already tried to parts of starter essentials only environment but it did not help.

evrything else is here the scenes, lights only the mainpart is missing. I cant see a way to get mpcycl as standalone.

please can anybody help ,me out in this matter

thanks in advance for your responses

Shader Mixer - What brick can I use to increase the contrast of a texture input.

Falco — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 23:28:31 +0000

I need to take a grayscale texture input and adjust the contrast on it within the shader, but I couldn't find anything that looked like a contrast brick/function like unreal would have. What brick can I use to increase the contrast of a texture input within the shader? I need to do it within the shader network, not any other way like editing the actual image.

How to solve shadows in wrong direction?

Prince Wao — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 14:37:02 +0000

I have an image in which just under midway on an 8:5 ratio 'canvas' is a horizontal railing which goes all the way across from right to left. The sun position is just right of centre, so the shadow just left of centre is what it would be in real life, but on the right hand side of the image the rail bars' shadows all tilt to the left while left hand bars' shadows all tilt to the right. There's a character approximately centre in the foreground so her shadow angles left as it should do, but in the middle left ground is a small building which has it's shadow angled right (the same directions as the left hand bars) and in the far right background is another building and it's shadow angles left. I have the same problems with other images, particularly those which are landscapes, but there's one in which the sun is dead centre and there are 4 characters evenly spaced across the 'canvas', so the shadows on the left 2 angle slightly right and vice versa on the other side when in real life all 4 would have their shadows going directly straight behind them. I assume the anomaly is caused because the virtual sun can never be the size of the actual sun and the same distance it is from Earth, but is it possible to fix this shadow problem in a render?

Miya

Trouble — Wed, 27 Jun 2018 17:13:14 +0000

Just bought Miya and loaded her and this is the result. Tried loading Gen 8 first and then Miya and comes up the same. Don't see that any other figure is required Am I missing something?

Thanks

G8F hip/pelvis distortion

cottrellitunes — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 14:46:05 +0000

Hi,

I have a recuring issue with G8F hip/pelvis as per my screen grab. I'm not sure why only G8F is effected as G3F is fine. Anyone got any ideas of whats up?

Nails bad when morphing body

the_untold — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 17:00:18 +0000

Hi, I exported a developers char 8 to zbrush, basemesh, in zbrush did a pose and imported back into Daz as morph, exported to morph asset, loaded a new figure and aply the morph, but the nails are weird, why??? everything else is fine, also an animation make the nails float ...madness.

Genesis 3 & 8 Characters - High Resolution or Base?

5200north — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 03:46:54 +0000

I won't have my all powerfull new computer i'm going to build until the fall so i'm stuck with my 10 year old PC with a nvidia 710 video card.

when i make a character should i make is high resolution or base? is there any difference that matters?

Need help, advices to create a custom special character.

glyonbal — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 18:48:07 +0000

It's been years i use DAZ. I note this soft is super good for customise and rendering the women realistic, providing that this women are "normaly", not big, not bodybuilder.

If I want to go far, example: create a BBW; I feel that this software handles it badly, or lack of option.

Example, It's been months i search to create this body:

I already tested a many products, in DAZ and Renderosity, impossible to create the same belly.

https://www.daz3d.com/big-girl-morphs-for-genesis-8-female; https://www.daz3d.com/body-by-sublime-series-8-female; https://www.daz3d.com/body-by-sublime-for-genesis-8-female etc ... Nothing can create the belly like previous picture.

And i show you this imperfections (in red) that this software don't manage.

I search to create a clean body, without imperfections, without visible bones; like this pictures :

Thanks for your helping. Give me advices ou maybe, i need other software ? Thanks for all informations.