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Vertigo Hair on G3F

mlominy — Sat, 16 Jun 2018 13:26:30 +0000

I've loaded Vertigo Hair for G8F on my G3F character.

The fit is perfect.

However, the controls (to move, twist the tails) don't work (as they do on G8F). Why?

Muscularity Neck Volume dialing in at zero in my characters

Serene Night — Sun, 17 Jun 2018 22:45:39 +0000

Hi:

I'm having an issue where the Swole Neck Adjust which is part of the Muscularity package is dialing in at zero in my characters. Its annoying to me, since I want to save poses, and it shows up. It only started happening. I removed muscularity and it went away. Is there something I can do to turn it off, but still keep muscularity installed?

Help Genesis 8 loading with morphs everytime she starts up.

Angells — Sun, 17 Jun 2018 15:05:13 +0000

I made the mistake of not zeroing my character after using erc freeze. Now Genesis 8 keeps loading with the head and body morphs from the morphs I imported with morph loader pro. How can I get the base Genesis 8 back without it loading my morphs every time I load her.

Nylyssa Shaders

lauradgraves — Sun, 17 Jun 2018 18:20:09 +0000

I am trying to apply one of Nylyssa's darker shaders to her skin and it isn't loading. I've tried rendering to see if it just didn't show up in the scene builder but no such luck. Every other skin shader I just double click to apply and it goes on but not with these. Anyone have a solution or encountered this?

Real World Morphs Missing

Hoplite490 — Sat, 16 Jun 2018 19:01:05 +0000

Genesis 8 model. Shaping tab ( for example mouth morph) Real World morphs, no morphs there. Gen 2 and Gen 3 the morphs are there. Missing morphs are Face, Nose, Mouth, and Ears. Missing a lot for the Eyes. I am assuming this is by design or is something wrong with my installation.

Geometry shell on Victoria 8 iray problem

eckhart3d — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 21:39:41 +0000

Hi,

I'm making a product that needs a shell on Victoria 8 and when I create it and apply materials I get some strange effects when I render it. I've hidden parts of the shell in this sample to point out the issue.

The thing is that when the light source is behind the figure the shell glows red. Which looks like SSS to me but its just copied from V8 so it should look the same...

Can anybody help?

Eyelashes...what happened here??

Alfawulf — Thu, 23 Nov 2017 18:30:36 +0000

Hey guys!! Say hello to April!!

April would be otherwise stunning but to get her sweaty I used https://www.daz3d.com/skin-doctor-wet-wild-for-genesis-8-and-3-female-s

For some reason her eyelashes didn't render as they should and trying to replace them doesn't work!! Hell, trying to kill their opacity doesn't either!?!?

Any ideas??

Highlighted hair problem

AdeleAdventures — Sat, 16 Jun 2018 20:36:29 +0000

Hi everyone,

I'm having a very annoying problem and I don't know how to fix it. Some items, like these hair are always highlighted with a strange color. It's really weird and I don't know how to turn it off. It's not linked with draw tool setting. Maybe the shader ?

You got the picture of my problem below. Hope you'll be able to help me.

Thanks !

Fit Control for Genesis 3 Male(s)

kksmith6515 — Sat, 16 Jun 2018 19:30:46 +0000

Hey Guys,

Just a quick question. The Fit Control for Genesis 3 Male(s) by ZevO, I see that there are morphs for lowering pants/underwear but I can't quite tell, are there also morphs included which would allow you to raise up a shirt? As through you were pulling it off?

Thanks!

My selected morph object won't load in moph loader says one or more files won't load

Angells — Wed, 13 Jun 2018 00:48:28 +0000

Reading Sierra.obj
2018-06-12 20:19:05.396 Vertex count mismatch in Morph Loader
2018-06-12 20:19:05.412 Morph Loader reported no effect for the following file(s):
2018-06-12 20:19:05.412 C:/Users/Barbs/Documents/DAZ 3D/Content/People/Genesis 8 Female/Character/Sierra/Sierra.obj this is what is in the log file after getting the morph loader failed to load on new zeroed genesis 8. I exported the object after using the custom morphs on my genesis 8. I tried to import using morph loader but got this message. Can't figure out why it isn't loading. My Genesis 8 now starts up with another custom morph I saved too but can't find it. I am using merchant resource morphs on zeroed figure. Using export, morploader to load, and erc freeze. Only one file loaded in morph loader, but it has the whole figure, and when I save it as a morph asset it never shows up in the library. Don't know what I am doing wrong. Hope someone can help, I am trying to create a character using custom MR morphs I purchased.

How Much Would This PC Speed Up My Render Times

kocammy — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 16:51:38 +0000

Hello,

My current machine is a dog - I realize this. Its an Intel Celeron N2840 2.16GHz Processor with 4GB Ram.

A fairly simple render - 2 characters - Uber Environemnt - a Single Spotlight - Background prop set (like a bedroom for instance) takes over 2 hours to render using 3Delight.

I'm looking at an Intel i5 Processor with 8GB RAM and a 4GB INVIDIA GTX 1050 card w/ a TB hard drive for $699 - (I need a laptop)

I realize I could spend a lot more, but this is a hobby for me and I don't want to spend a $1,000 plus. Would this configuration give me a good performance boost? I'd also like to switch to iRAY. Again, I kow there are better machines out there but this seems like a good value for the price and am really interested in how much faster it would be than what I have now.

Any comments or insight would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Cammy

One of my custom categories has vanished from CMS. (Solved)

lukon100 — Sat, 16 Jun 2018 02:37:32 +0000

I was adding things to my custom catergory called "Shapes", and then my shapes category vanished.

I certainly didn't issue any delete commands of any sort.

Is there a way to get my custom "Shapes" catergory back?

Disappearing Cursor is Making Me Crazy

Three Wishes — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 23:20:10 +0000

ARGH!

No, wait. I don't get to do that yet. Specs first:

Mac, 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4GB Ram
OS X 10.8.2
ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT 128 MB
64-bit DAZ Studio 4.5.1.6
Logitech Performance MX Mouse.
(I also have an Intuos tablet, but I rarely use it inside of DAZ and keep it turned off unless I'm using it.)

There. Now. *cough* *ARGH!!!"

I load a moderate-to-large scene. Start moving things around. At some point the mouse cursor just..goes away. I can roughly track it around the UI because things light up as it passes over them. I can struggle with it briefly to save the file, by bumping against the Apple menu bar to reactivate it, but as soon as I move back over the DAZ UI it disappears again.

Sigh, save the file, restart DAZ, reload scene. Work another 5-10 minutes, aaaaand here we go again.

I know there's been at least one other post on this somewhere in the forums. I wish I had something to contribute, like a definite repro. But all I can bring is my whinging that the devs will spend some time tracking this for their next minor release. It is incredibly frustrating.

If there's any other info I can provide, or (please) a quicker workaround than saving/restarting/reloading files, please let me know at your convenience.

Thanks!

Issues with Bridge -

LadyStorm — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 17:00:34 +0000

I am having issues getting the bridge to work.

I have tried 1.2, 2.1 and 2.2 in terms of Iray Server.

Help would be appreciated, thanks! ♥

GPU rendering how do I know I'm using the GPU?

Philippi_Child — Sat, 16 Jun 2018 16:15:51 +0000

Hey all

I have a question and I may have answered already but I' making sure. Is my GPU being used? Please see my screen shot using GPU-Z.

Sorry this is during a render in Iray.

Thanks

Need help with the Daz Studio/Photoshop connection.

wildbillnash — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 17:35:06 +0000

I've been trying to figure out how to get Daz Studio and Photoshop to talk to each other. I have Daz Studio 3D 4.10 (64 Bit) and Photoshop CS6. I installed the Photoshop Bridge to Daz. In Daz, under the file menu I have the "Initiate Photoshop 3D Bridge" option. I checked tutorial videos, read stuff, and still get incomplete information. For instance...

1. What exactly does it do? What is its purpose?

2. How do I get it to work?

3. Do I design an object in Photoshop 3D and export it as an .obj file, then open it in Daz? If so, how do I keep the colors? Right know when I open the file in Daz it's WAY too big (I scale it down several times), and it's neutral in color. For instance, I created a control panel in 3D Builder, added a metal pattern in Photoshop and I want to add some controls to it, but I don't think it will transfer over to Daz that way. The pattern didn't.

Any help will be appreciated.

How to make clothes conform to a knife?

Patroklos — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 11:38:47 +0000

Is there a way to make an item, such as a knife, part of a character, or other method, so that clothes will conform to it?

Ultimate Eyebrows replaces skin with base g8 skin.

Hoplite490 — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 20:32:48 +0000

I cannot remove eyebrow texture from any skin without replacing the characters skin with G8 base skin. I tried to open up the supplement.dsx but Adobe Acrobat could not open because it is either not supported or damaged, I downloaded manually and tried to open but it just won't. Could somebody provide a link to a guide on Ultimate Eyebrows or explain how I can remove the textured eyebrows and keep the models default skin?

error opening program

lsm_cnc — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 03:38:00 +0000

I was almost a month without using the program and today when I tried to use it again it presents this error!

Custom toolbar movement in DS

GETSX — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 15:35:45 +0000

Hi.

I was faced with the fact that I can not attach the newly created custom toolbar the way I need it. When dragged, it disengages from the main panel, and (which is extremely unexpected) even from the entire DAZ Studio window and no longer wants to attach to any UI element (to the edge of the window for example or even back to MainToolbar).
I would like to attach it vertically to the right side of the program window, instead of toolbar "Tools". Is this possible somehow by standard means? DS - 4.10, layout - SityLimits Lite, OS - Win8.1x64

P.S. I tried to drag Main Toolbar and now I can not return it back Help me please!!! In addition, I have dozens Custom Actions and there are changes in the layout of the menus and panels, so resetting to default values will make me very upset.
P.P.S. By the way (since here is the problem from the same series) - with the preinstalled toolbar "Tools" I can't delete the buttons, when restarting the DS they appear again. That's why I wanted to make my toolbar.

Can DIM and DS run at same time?

Xyetzt — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 15:59:42 +0000

Can DIM and DS run at the same time or is that a bad idea?

Edit old info I tried to open DIM from the start menu but it appears that only the 32 bit version runs. I tried to find the application file in the program folder but not having any luck. What can I do to make sure I get the right DIM to run?

edit: I tried to run DIM it wanted an update, so I updated it. I ran it again and now it was another update? What is going on?

Why does the DELETE button no longer work?

Griffin Avid — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 09:55:37 +0000

So in Daz, I'm usually able to select something in the scene tab, press delete and have it removed from the scene.

That no longer works. I have to now right+click to delete items.

What happened? Daz Update?

Someone not like how this worked?

How do I find out if drivers are up to date?

Xyetzt — Wed, 06 Jun 2018 21:14:36 +0000

my computer was acting sluggish. How do I find out if it is slow because of old drivers? Or something else?

edit: what is a good security suite that is either free or has a free trial? I do not want to pay for something and find out it sucks.

Saving a Morphed Toon with Textures Intact - Possible???

hctilghman — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 08:35:44 +0000

Hello All

I want to be able to save a character that I have fine tuned with Morphs and Textures. I have been saving them as a "Scene Subset" (which seems to be working ok) BUT there has to be an easier way that is less resource heavy (or at least I hope that it's possible). If I could save the Morphed toon shape and skin seperately THAT would be most awesome. I am primarily working with Genesis 3. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks

How do I import morph target animation curves into Unreal Engine 4?

acrionx_68d402a6e1 — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 11:43:01 +0000

If I have a character in DAZ Studio and I animate one of its morphs, how do I transfer that character along with the morph target animation into Unreal Engine 4?

No Simulate tab in my list of Add Pane

My 3D Spin — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 11:29:23 +0000

I cant see any tab for Simulate in the list of Panes. Is it to be found elsewhere?

Genesis 8 Figure Collision Item issue

Doku3500 — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 07:18:38 +0000

Hello,

So I am having a little bit of an issue with a figure attachment for my Genesis 8 female character. The figure works fine as long as I have the collision item set to none. However the default setting when the scene starts up is for collision item to be set to Genesis 8.

This wouldn't be a problem if it wasn't for the fact that I want to batch render scenes, but the scene always loads up the figure attachment to collide with Genesis 8. I have tried locking the Collision Item setting so it is set to none, but it keeps reseting it to Genesis 8 when the scene is opened again no matter what. Is there anything else I can try to get it the scene to stop opening with Genesis 8 as the default collision item? I have attachted an image with the collision item selected to give you an idea of what setting I am talking about.

Thank you very much for your time and help.

Sincerely,

Completely Hopeless and Frustrated... 3rd Party Content Help

eriray076 — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 23:19:00 +0000

I don't know what to do, I'm literally in tears. I've spent the last maybe 5 hours trying to get this to work and I'm at my wits end. I have spent $40 USD and have nothing to show for it.

I bought this and this. The reson I bought the V4 and M4 Shapes for Genesis is because the Canidae Wolf Bundle said in the readme:

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© Sparky's Productions
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Thank you for purchasing Canidae Wolf V4 Expansion.
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Texture expansion for Canidae Wolf V4. Includes four more types of anthro wolves for your runtime.

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Packing List:

...Runtime/libraries/pose/Sparky/Canidae V4/
Wolf MAT black Paws.ds
Wolf MAT black Paws.png
Wolf MAT black Paws.pz2
Wolf MAT black.ds
Wolf MAT black.png
Wolf MAT black.pz2
Wolf MAT buff Paws.ds
Wolf MAT buff Paws.png
Wolf MAT buff Paws.pz2
Wolf MAT buff.ds
Wolf MAT buff.png
Wolf MAT buff.pz2
Wolf MAT carpatian Paws.ds
Wolf MAT carpatian Paws.png
Wolf MAT carpatian Paws.pz2
Wolf MAT carpatian.ds
Wolf MAT carpatian.png
Wolf MAT carpatian.pz2
Wolf MAT white Paws.ds
Wolf MAT white Paws.png
Wolf MAT white Paws.pz2
Wolf MAT white.ds
Wolf MAT white.png
Wolf MAT white.pz2

...Runtime/textures/Sparky/CanidaeV4/
CnV4_Eyes_BiBlueBrown.jpg
CnV4_Eyes_BiBrownBlue.jpg
CnV4_Eyes_Blue.jpg
CnV4_Eyes_Yellow.jpg
CnV4_Wolf_Black_face.jpg
CnV4_Wolf_Black_limbs.jpg
CnV4_Wolf_Black_paws.jpg
CnV4_Wolf_Black_torso.jpg
CnV4_Wolf_Buff_face.jpg
CnV4_Wolf_Buff_limbs.jpg
CnV4_Wolf_Buff_paws.jpg
CnV4_Wolf_Buff_torso.jpg
CnV4_Wolf_Carpatian_face.jpg
CnV4_Wolf_Carpatian_limbs.jpg
CnV4_Wolf_Carpatian_paws.jpg
CnV4_Wolf_Carpatian_torso.jpg
CnV4_Wolf_White_face.jpg
CnV4_Wolf_White_limbs.jpg
CnV4_Wolf_White_paws.jpg
CnV4_Wolf_White_torso.jpg

...Sparky Readme/
CanidaeWolfV4Expansion.txt
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Required:
Poser 6 or Higher/DAZ|Studio 4 or higher
The following products:
- Victoria 4 Base (Available from DAZ3d.com)
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Installation and Usage Instructions:

-Unzip to your desired poser runtime.
-Load Victoria 4 into your scene, and apply the included MAT/INJ poses.

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NOTES:
If you have any problems, questions, or feedback, feel free to contact me at support@philosophersegg.com
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USAGE RIGHTS

You may use this product in renders, commercial or non-commercial.
The content of this package may not be redistributed, sold, or copied in any way.
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COPYRIGHT

This product is copyrighted © 2012 Sparky's Productions.

Thank you for purchasing the Canidae Wolf V4 Expansion!

I didn't see until just now that you can buy just the Victoria 4.2 base, and not the pack which is over $100. I can't get a refund on the V4 morph so I'm stuck with it, unfortunately. Is there something anyone knows to help me get the Canidae morph to work? I am completely new to Daz3D; I know little to nothing. I've read up and watched videos on how to install custom content (copying files into directories and whatnot) and I can get the skins to work but not the head and leg morphs. I feel completely lost and bereft.

Please help me. I was needing this model to use with my commission work, and I can't really afford to lose $40 for nothing.

Thank you.

Used to be able to see all parameters at once, now can't

grinch2901 — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 21:09:03 +0000

i used to be able to click on an item (in paramaters or materials tab or wherever) and it would show all the items contained under that. Like click pose controls -> expressions and all the expressions would list. Or click on a bone and see all the rotations (bend, twist, FWD/BK) and the tranalations and the scaling paramaters at the same time Now I click on those and see - nothing. To see rotations I need to drill in and click on rotations. To see scale I have to go back up and drill into scaling. It's like this for all my menus now.

What did I do wrong to change this behavior and make it so unfriendly and how do I change it back?

Thanks!

Uninstall / Reinstall

gwilson_0c357fe1 — Tue, 12 Jun 2018 17:47:17 +0000

I have uninstalled daz and am attempting to reinstall.

It starts the process and then just hangs up and will not continue.