Technical Help (nuts n bolts) - Daz 3D Forums

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.

Public Outdoor Pool

JMCarrigan — Wed, 27 Jun 2018 22:30:00 +0000

I don't like sending stuff back SO I was looking - without buying this time - at the Public Outdoor Pool. I was wondering what it includes. Is there water for instance? The other models mentioned won't be there, but there's a lot of other background items that aren't mentioned in the Additional Promo Products. If it is nothing but the pool. how fast can one move around. (It takes forever to move around The Cave Island for instance. Which I actually bought based on what I THOUGHT of it.) Customers here! Thanks for any info!

Saving pose preset for a figure with ERC sliders

eckhart3d — Wed, 27 Jun 2018 16:28:55 +0000

Hi,

Is it possible to save a pose preset for a pose created using ERC sliders(Control slider that moves other sliders but has no geometry itself)?

Tried to save it as pose preset, shape preset and properties preset and when I load it nothing happens.

I tought that saving pose preset will save values of those other sliders that my ERC slider changes but nothing happens when I load it.

Transfering HD Morphs

mlominy — Wed, 27 Jun 2018 18:06:30 +0000

Hello! Is there a technical reason why HD morph can not be transfered?

Crash at dforce simulation

mail_df8520f7d1 — Wed, 27 Jun 2018 16:20:41 +0000

Dforce simulation used to work just fine, but today Daz crashed during a dforce simulation and keeps crashing now the minute I hit the simulate button. Even on scenes that worked fine before. I've reinstalled Daz Studio, I've put Daz Studio and related library items back from a time machine back-up. Nothing helps.

Anyone any idea what can be done to resolve this (and what could have caused this to start with)?

Crushing/flattening effect on models?

RedSoul — Wed, 27 Jun 2018 03:19:06 +0000

As if they were crushed by a heavy object.
I know that sounds a bit morbid, but it's something that I have been looking into. However, I can't see to get it just right. Using hidden perimeters to play around with individual X, Y, or Z scales works only if the model is left in their default T-pose; moving any limb will cause it to stretch out, perhaps to infinity (and beyond).

The d-Former, unless I'm doing something wrong, seems to only work on the model itself, not any hair or clothing attached to them. And the flattening effect also seems to move with limb as well if they are turned rather than maintaining it in place.

Is there a way to get this desired effect, either in the program or with a morph or add-on?

product not connecting

Dotsonkt — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 17:51:19 +0000

So I'm opening a file that my partner sent me in Daz, and I didn't have all the same product on my computer, so I got them, but some of the files aren't linking. The list I started with 3x longer, but I used it to get all the products I needed. In the first picture is all the files that are missing.

The second picture is all the product I got. The Genesis 3 Female Morph Package, Legacy UVs for Genesis 3: Victoria 5, also one file in the KHC Boxbraids G2F. I know I installed them manually

So I have the Cayman files its asking for but they aren't registering right

data/cayman/legacy uvs/geograft_head/uv sets/cayman/legacy uvs/victoria 4.dsf

data/cayman/legacy uvs/geograft_leg_l/uv sets/cayman/legacy uvs/victoria 4.dsf

data/cayman/legacy uvs/geograft_leg_r/uv sets/cayman/legacy uvs/victoria 4.dsf

data/cayman/legacy uvs/geograft_shldr_l/uv sets/cayman/legacy uvs/victoria 4.dsf

data/cayman/legacy uvs/geograft_shldr_r/uv sets/cayman/legacy uvs/victoria 4.dsf

data/daz 3d/genesis 3/female/morphs/d3d gen x/genesis 2 female/keshi-head-for-g3f.dsf

data/daz 3d/genesis 3/female/morphs/d3d gen x/genesis 2 female/quinty-head-forg3f.dsf

data/daz 3d/genesis 3/female/morphs/fwart/fw_phmlashes.dsf

data/daz 3d/genesis 3/female/morphs/fwsa/camile/fbm-fwsacamile.dsf

data/daz 3d/genesis 3/female/uv sets/cayman/legacy uvs/victoria 4.dsf

data/sdeb/sdeb hair/hr boxbraids g2f/bb zero_403086.dsf

/\__/\ All the files above I have but aren't reading right for some reason

data/auto_adapted/rapier_bracers_6026/geometry_fe55a374_ae54_27ef_f34c_6c0739ab7cea/rapier_bracers.dsf

runtime/geometries/mestophales/coalition/rapier_bracers.obj

runtime/textures/mestophales/coalition/ref-map-04.jpg

/\__/\ Files I still need

Decimator

dominiqueegarcia — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 16:55:51 +0000

I want to buy the Decimator plugin. However I am concerned before I drop $100 on it. I read online that you absolutely have to have Daz installed in the default location on your computer in order for the Decimator plugin to detect Daz. If you don't then the installer will say Daz not detected and will close the installation. That will not work for me since I have Daz installed in a different location on a different drive. I do not want to spend $100 on a plugin that I cannot use. How would I install this plugin?

Or does it install through the Daz Install Manager.

Q: Retro Shaders Script.

Blackbirdx61 — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 10:56:58 +0000

I am looking for a script that will return any SSS, or IRAY shaders in the scene to the DAZ baseline Shaders. If anyone knows of such a product please let me know.

Saving geometry shell for geograft

eckhart3d — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 00:45:10 +0000

Hi,

I made a geograft for g8f and a geometry shell for it. My problem is saving the shell with its own materials.

-If I make a shell for g8f with my geograft attached I get all the material groups but when I try to save it as wearable I get to choose the shell and when I go to the materials it only offers to save g8f material groups but no geograft materials.

-If I make the shell for the geograft alone I get only geografts materials but thats what I need and when I save it it saves the materials because save dialog offers me to save only geografts materials wich is what I need but then when I load it I need to select the geograft in the scene pane and not Genesis 8 female for it to work.

So my question is how to make and save a shell that will keep my geografts material groups but can be loaded properly with Genesis 8 Female selected in the scene pane?

Looking for content in all the wrong folders

Rakuda — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 13:03:11 +0000

I have noticed this issue when loading Satine HD and Ophelia7 which I just purchased. I get the following message when trying to load the figure:

Why would it be loking for the Genesis 3 female within the Genesis 8 folder? What could be causing this?

System Requirments for iMac computer -- Am I missing something? Please help

nenis_hernandez_65_d7f40e1570 — Sun, 24 Jun 2018 15:39:36 +0000

The rendering process takes forever and the final result doesn't look good. Perhaps I'm missing something for Daz Studio to work properly. Any ideas or suggestions? I'd appreciate a lot. Thanks

Where do Maps go?

Toonces — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 12:55:29 +0000

There are some cool freebies on this site: https://texturehaven.com/tex/?t=brown_mud_leaves_01

I'm trying to determine where all the maps go in Iray surface properties:

Normal - Normal Map

Bump - Base Bump

Diffuse - Base Color

Displacement - Displacement Strength

Roughness - Diffuse Roughness??

Specular - Glossy Specular?? (which only appears if you have Base Mixing set to PBR Spec/Gloss)

AO - ???

Thanks for any help in determing where I should put maps for those with the ??.

DimensionTheory HDRI's - Render Issues

TATSU 3D — Sun, 24 Jun 2018 23:03:25 +0000

Hey everyone,

Today I've purchased two HDRI sets from the same vendor. The sets are:

Both products are by DimensionTheory.

Ok, I'm a little perplexed. I see the environments, and I see the corresponding light sets. (ie Urban Storm 1 & Urban Storm 1 Lights). I load the environment and it's lights, hit render and..... BLACK SCREEN.

The same thing happens with the other set - Rain City Chicago. Load up the environment, lights. Black screen!

Every other HDRI scene I load works perfectly out of the box. I just can't get any scene from either of these products to render! I have tried tweaking the environment intensity but this has no effect.

This is also true wether I try to render in IRAY (my default) or if I switch over to 3DL. (I'm not even 100% sure HDRI's are affected by this!)

Anyone who can help would be much appreciated. Otherwise I just spent a bunch of money on some expensive black screens! lol

I need help with My Cart.

JMCarrigan — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 23:32:49 +0000

It says there is nothing in My Cart, but I just put 4 items in MY CART that I need. How do I get them?

Can I delete these?

sapat — Sun, 24 Jun 2018 20:53:48 +0000

Every time I open either G3F or G3M, I get this popup box asking me to choose which one I want to load. There is another of each figure in some Cloud thing. What is that, and can I find it and delete it? What is it for? I don't want DS to keep making me choose one or the other.

Thanks.

Had to reinstall and lots of packages NOT installing at all

AEgames — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 09:04:29 +0000

I've had to reinstall my whole Daz3D because of space problems on the drive it was on. Now with the new install, my Kids, Michael and Victoria v4 packages are not installing completely. The props & clothing of these packages DO install as well as the skeletons. Oddly enough, the Base and Morphs don't. All content inside these packages are labeled as Orphaned References, which I can delete but to no avail.

By now I have updated the meta data a 100 times and it's not bodging at all. What am I missing here? and how to correct this problem?

Lighting - one light only comes on when another goes off?

AbnerK — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 10:14:06 +0000

Hi,

why is that sometimes you switch on one light and another seems to switch off? I'm trying to increase the lighting on one of my models. I've lit 2 of them pretty well but wanted to add more light to the back of one, I coppied a light that was half doing the job but the new light didn't seem to add anything at all. I switched off the other lights to see if the new light was actually doing anything and it suddenly appeared to switched on, I switched on the other lights again and my new light went off.

All the lights are spots.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks

DAE export models not preserving mesh volume

schlop3d — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 01:27:13 +0000

So for example I manually rotated my model's knee so that it's bent with correct volume preservation. I then export DAE and include transformations, and when I open the DAE in Maya the knee is squished. Am I missing a step in exporting the pose correctly?

I usually have no problems exporting poses if they're made through pose control sliders, but I guess because I made the pose manually, I'm now running into this error.

Facegen Help with Eye Distortion

infinitetofu — Sun, 24 Jun 2018 17:35:54 +0000

I just picked up Facegen and I've had some mixed results with it, but overall I'm pleased. It's a good springboard for creating interesting asymmetrical characters. But the eyes keep getting distorted. This is a known problem, but I think I might have a solution, I just don't know how to execute it. Could you just swap out the distorted eyeballs in a program like Zbrush with a fresh set from your base Genesis model? Does anyone know how to do this and still keep the active points count intact? Thanks!

Daz3D 4.10 Loading With Full Screen Viewport...

Animated_Citizen — Sun, 24 Jun 2018 16:33:46 +0000

[Daz3D 4.10 Loading With Full Screen Viewport...]...and ignoring my saved workspace.

Hi all,

This problem I've been experiencing for the past week or so has now become my impetus for me starting to contribute to the forums (something which I should have done ages ago). I do not believe this is a "bug" (I haven't found other people experiencing the same problem) therefore I haven't opened a "Technical Support ticket". I have been using Daz3D for three to four years now with little to no problems that are out of my control so to speak. Whilst I'm certaintly not a novice, I still feel that I have a lot to learn. My first inclinaiton is never to go around asking questions that may have already been asked but I have not been able to find a solutuon to this conundrum.

Daz3D has for some reason start loading with the viewport undocked and in full screen mode. I don't recall changing any settings since this viewport situation has arisen and have been using the same workspace layout for months with zero problems. If what I am describing does not make sense then I have made a short one minute and forty second video showing the situatiuon with Daz3D loading in full screen mode and not remembing that the viewport is docked. (I hope it is okay to link the video to as I have not seen any rules that say I should not be linking videos).

Thanks.

How do you sort folders by Date and NOT Alphabetical Order?

PlacidFalcon — Sun, 24 Jun 2018 19:11:56 +0000

Greetings :)

I ask because my Scene Folder has 200+ scenes. It would greatly assist my workflow if my scenes were organized by date so I could instantly identify my newest scene.

I know there are ways to do this in Windows 10 (by sorting them in File Explorer) but I want to avoid snapping out of Daz Studio for this seemingly simple issue.

Thanks ahead of time for any help.

Why is my wine glass rendering black?

adoniogts — Fri, 22 Jun 2018 19:15:10 +0000

I'm rendering using 3delight.... Everything in the scene looks great except for the wine glasses... They render black with a little bit of transparency in some places...

I've tried tinkering around with all the options in the surface tab... But I can't seem to eliminate that black color....

Semi OT how do I uninstall one drive on win 10

Xyetzt — Fri, 22 Jun 2018 14:48:50 +0000

How do I uninstall One Drive on Windows 10? It is acting up and I need to reinstall it as that is how I keep my content backed up. I cannot download my backups now.

OptiX and Image Series falls back to CPU after first frame.

3djake — Fri, 22 Jun 2018 17:42:23 +0000

Hello,

When I render an Image Series with the Iray renderer with OptiX enabled the first frame renders with the GPU(GTX 780 3GB) as expected but every frame after that falls back to the CPU because it runs out of Vram. If I disable optiX then everything works as expected.

Is this a known issue?

Moving DAZ to portable hard drive

wolfcreekmt — Sat, 23 Jun 2018 17:01:42 +0000

I currently have DAZ on my laptop, but am running out of hard drive space. How can i move DAZ and all content to a portable hard drive more room?

DAZ to Motionbuilder

kulebaboris — Sat, 23 Jun 2018 14:38:02 +0000

Helo,

This is my first post on DAZ forum. I am trying to characterize Daz character in MB but I am always getting the same message at the end:

Invalid roll bone(s):

RightForeArmRoll

LeafLeftForeArmRoll1

https://drive.google.com/open?id=11yI992iacmW0o1_3T8ZsWnuEJoJx6Qrd

I folow tutorials from Flipbook Market user on yt and everything is fine until end. :(

I am new user on DAZ and dont know what am I doing wrong.Maybe I am doing something wrong while prepare character in DAZ to export or something.Please help.

Thanks in advance

Boris

Which is the specularity map for Genesis 8 Male's face?

ForestBoy — Sat, 23 Jun 2018 21:00:13 +0000

Hello!

I think that the specularity map for the face is ´"G8MBaseFaceMapS01_1001.jpg", but I'm not perfectly sure about it.

The reason why I would like to know which one the specularity map is is that I would like to learn how to create one, and I would like to see a really good template to learn from it.

Thank you very much!