Thank you for your time. 

Sorry I don't know if this is an actual thing. Though I've been rendering a scene here, where there is alot of area within the viewport that doesn't change or move. However, the light in the room does bounce off the surfaces in order to hit the figure. I'm wondering if there is a way to render only movement, or a selected area for each render. Similar to the way you can render a select area within the view port by clicking and draging(sorry don't remember the tools name), but I was wondering if there was a way to render only things that are changing, or render a select area for each frame, that is predefined ahead of time.

If this isn't something that can currently be done, then if possible could this be moved over to the suggestion page? I think it would be great if when this option is active, it would simply just render out the defined area and save it within the resolution and aspect ratio of the camera being used, but as a png, so then that way you could render the background as a seperate peice, and layer them in post processing to maintain acurate lighting. This would drasticly reduce rendering time, in scenes where there isn't much going on. ie. Where a character would stops to take a breath for 15 seconds, it would'nt take just as long as the previous scene of them sprinting down an allyway.

Thanks for your time guys!

I'm prepping a product for submission and am in the final stages of trying to clean up auto-generated FBMs. But I'm running across an issue that I quite don't know how to address.  I've seen this appear on morphs that I've created for Monique, Olympia, Stephanie, Teen Josie, Girl, and Sahel (All G8 figures, all seem to have scaled body parts, so I think this problem relates to scaling.

So here's what I do ...

1) Load the freshly-saved to library clothing onto the default Genesis 8. Fit to figure.

2) Dial the desired FBM into Genesis 8. The auto-morph shape is dialed in.

3) Try to GoZ to ZBrush. I have one of two problems quite often. Either not everything in the scene shows up, or the clothing items are translated and/or scaled differently when they are loaded in ZBrush.

4) So for the workaround, I hide everything except the clothing item that I want to export as OBJ.  When I open it up in my modeler, I see that it, too, is translated or scaled differently than in the DS scene. The shape itself is correct, but it might be 105% scale, and raised up. So I position and scale it properly to fit the figure (which has also been exported as a morph).

5) After cleaning up all the morphs that need cleaning up, I then save the clothing morphs in the correct size and position.  I load in a "clean" clothing file from the library, and create the morphs fresh and new (Make Unique) instead of adding deltas to the auto-generated ones.  

6) Then I dial the character in. Now, with my "cleaned up" morph, the clothing again doesn't fit. Because I scaled and repositioned in my modeler, now the clothing is smaller than it should be.

I must be missing something somewhere regarding creating clothing morphs that have scaled body parts. I thought the loaded morph would automatically adjust for the scaling, but it's seeming like that is not happening.

I'm not sure how to attach an image, otherwise I would add one. 8-)

(Image removed due to nudity. Please review guidelines here: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/3279/acceptable-ways-of-handling-nudity#latest​  ~Mod)

I got V7 for V8 on her birthday sale and gave her a quick test run. So far her eyes always look as if she suffers from a cataract, sometimes worse than on this pic. I presume this has to do with some reflection setting, but I don't know where it is. Can anybody help?

Problem 2 - I have set Install Manger to install everything to my custom location. Install Manager says that about 500 of my over 3000 products are installed.  If I go to the Ready to Install tab and tick the boxes and tell Install Manager to Start Queue, they disappear from that list and appear in the Installed tab.  DAZ Studio has almost everything greyed out (it only shows the basic items that come with the DAZ install), even if Install Manager says it is installed.  Everything was copied over from my old computer to my new one, so everything should be there, right?  If I click on the product that is greyed out in DAZ and ask it to install, it thinks about it for a bit, but does nothing. 

I did finally figure out that if I go into the Content Library and delete the default directories and left only my custom one, I can load scenes that I created in my old computer.  Before I deleted the old directory references I got multiple errors and people made out of giant blocks. 

But I can't actually use things this way.  The DAZ directory structure is a nightmare to navigate!

So how can I get DAZ to see my content and get it to import my User Database?

Thanks!
Helene

I am new to Daz Studio and i am trying to manually install some swimwear into Daz but dont know where to install the templates folder.

Appologies if this has already been discussed on the forum but i can't seem to find anything that relates to templates.

Thanks in advance

Peter.

And what's with these type of errors once a render starts??

3Delight message #43 (Severity 1): R2001: object 'shapematerial_straps_2724_a98' (displacement 'dzdisplace', surface 'dzplastic') exceeded its displacement bound by 0%

I've been getting them for ages but just now got around to asking about them..

And it's constantly (optimizing images).

Which I've learned over the years means the previous attempt was off..

Anyone??

Can any1 tell me if there is a way to fix this

First off, I'm not sure if this is in the right place, but I can't see a forum relating to the DAZ Helpdesk.

I just have a general enquiry, if anyone can help!  How long is is normal to wait for a support ticket to be answered?  I only ask as I have had a ticket open for a couple of days now and it hasn't been updated or even acknowledged at all.

Having never had cause to use the helpdesk before, I have no idea what DAZ's usual response time is. Any ideas?

Thanks

John

I' trying to convert some poses that are generic Genesis poses to either Gensis 2 or 3 with the end goal of using them on Victoria 8.  I have the Genesis 2 to 3 converter and the 3 to 8 converted but I can't find a way to convert these Genesis poses to Gen 2 or 3.  Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks

Cammy

basically this is the layout

folder/some number/Files/ *.zip

folder/some other number/Files/*.zip

folder/Yet another random number/Files/*.zip

folder/Hopefully you get the idea/Files/*.zip

Once upon a time there was a software that could do it but it got discontinued.  Is there another way I can do this without going through all the folders?

edit: I forgot to say that it was not four folders but over two hundred. o.0

So, in my example, I'm using v4 with Lynette morphs and the poison suit from Daz3d, I have all the stars parented manually, as well as the bow, arrow, and others. I have also recolored textures that I want saved as well.

It was time consuming, to say the least. I would like to just save this all as one character to load into Daz with everything fixed on already like in this image. I know it may not be perfect, but it would be huge on time saving.

I tried looking for tutorials with no luck, and I think there was a Daz tutorial, but I wasn't able to save any props onto the figure, just the pose. I'm missing something.

I would love an easy explanation, and this forum has been really helpful before. Thank you.

1. Can't download DIM. With either Chrome or Edge, and attempted to download with two different PC's both running Win10.
2. Downloaded Manual Install "DAZ Studio 4.10 (Win 64-bit)"
3. Manual wont install. 
   1. After right click > run as admin: it takes forever to get the permission screen to popup and allow to install
   2. After that it takes forever to get a little window to popup titled "DAZStudio_4.10.0.123_Win64"
   3. The window is empty and nothing happens after.
4. Created a new windows user account with admin privlages
5. Still couldn't download DIM
6. Downloaded manual to desktop 
7. Tried to install again as admin same issues

So is there anyway to actually install this thing? :D 

Help greatly appreciated!

I have too much content and it has filled my main mac internal drive. All other comments or posts are not even using the precise folder names so I will do so for clarity.

It appears that the main content folder is called "My DAZ 3D Library"  (exact spelling) 

Would I be correct if I copied this entire folder to another drive and then pointed to it from the Content Directory Manager? 

And did the same for the DIM?

(There is no way that this could be rocket science so PLEASE keep answers to less than two paragraphs - I have no time or inclination to read four pages of explaination for something that must be very very simple on mac machines.)

Thanks in advance 

Help appreciated!

I do most of my animation inside of Carrara 8.5 Pro, which does not recognize content installed via DAZ Connect - so I want to completely avoid using that.

I've attached an image - which shows small blue squares on the bottom right of some icons for various content, and others show small white squares at the top right of those icons, some have both and some neither.  Can anyone describe what that means?  And if I'm using DAZ Install Manager - is there anything else I need to do to make sure content has actually been installed (aside from running the manager and having it search for and install new content?)

Thanks

It works fine with Blender though 

Any Help ? 

Anyhoo...I have an old product RDNA V4ULTAMorphs.I can't find my readme on it either and it does work in Daz,  however, I can't find the file to inject the .PMD file? Anyone know/remember where it is?

I'm a total newbie to Daz Studio at this point. Been using Poser for years. I've been browsing and found a lot of GenX2 help threads here but none which actually tackles my particular problem. I went through the entire process several times to make sure but the outcome is always the same. The process of transfering finishes, but even after restarting Studio 4.10, I don't get a "GenerationX" folder in the Shape tab as all tutorials say I would. Does that mean the process wasn't complete or am I doing something wrong which causes the Shape tab not to update? I tried converting a Mike 4 character to Genesis 1, just to test it.

I have Mike 4, the morphs++ and Genesis Starter Essentials correctly installed and also the Generation 4 to Genesis set.

I've been following this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYCapNih-A4

Thanks in advance!

This is my current workflow. I'm creating my clothes in Marvelous Designer. For that I import my avatar to MD, then I apply the pose so that the folds of the clothes are generated. Then I export the result of the clothes to Daz. So far, so good.

Here my problem:
I would like to continue making alterations to the clothes then in ZBrush. For that I am using GoZ to go from one program to another. The problem is that when I change the geometry of the clothes in ZBrush to return to daz I lose the pattern and the texture of the clothes in the parts that I edited in ZBrush (in the image this is going to be easier to visualize. Pink is the original pattern/color. Violet is where I edit in ZBrush)

Is there any way that I can alter the clothes in ZBrush and not lose the texture and design when I go back to Daz.

Thanks a lot!

What does this mean, please?

So then I set all the skin surfaces to Translucency Weight = 0.75 (0.0 - 1.0 scale) which as it turns out is too translucent as I can see shadowy areas under the eyelids and lips area that are the models teeth & eyes.

So I need to adjust the dept penetrating of this SSS effect but what are the correct values needed for 0.75?

I think it involves mostly these two sets for the 'SSS' part of the skin and eyes.

a) Translucency Weight = 0.75

b) Base Color Effect = Scatter & Transmit Intensity

c) Transluncency Color = 1.00 0.93 0.90

d) SSS Reflectance Tint = 1.0 1.0 1.0

and

a) Transmitted Measurement Distance = 1.00

b) Transmitted Color = 1.0 0.84 0.76

c) SSS Mode = Mono

d) Scattering Measurement Distance = 0.50

e) SSS Amount = 0.30

f) SSS Direction = -0.50

Thanks.

Can it be rendered in Iray even though its not built for Iray?

Thanks in advance.

https://www.daz3d.com/shantara-city