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

New Computer -- Can't See Content SOLVED!!!

melanie — Wed, 23 May 2018 02:57:32 +0000

I just bought a new computer and installed DAZ Studio and DIM. I have all my content on my external D drive which I used on my old computer. I told both DIM and DAZ what folders to find my content in and where to install it to when I download new content. My problem is, DIM shows that nothing is installed and DAZ Studio doesn't show any of my content, even though I told both the exact folders on my D drive where to find all my content.

Do I have to reinstall everything again? And will that duplicate all my content in my D drive folders? Every time I get a new computer, I have problems getting everything pulled together.

Thanks for any help.

More Tan Human Eyes materials on Genesis 3

megarandommadness — Thu, 24 May 2018 17:15:58 +0000

So I just bought all of "More Than Human" and saw that the G1 had these cool eyes they even worked on G2 but not for G3 is there a way to get it to work?

How do I get DS to stop creating icons for renders?

Blind Owl — Wed, 23 May 2018 20:00:36 +0000

Since I never access my Render Library from within DS, I don't need the icons it creates automatically, and sometimes they're a nuisance. They're especially annoying when I make various subtle changes and want to compare a series of renders without icons intervening (i.e. render/icon/render/icon/render etc.). So I delete all the icons in the folder...and the next time I fire up DS it obligingly creates a brand-new icon for every render in my library!

I've looked for a way to make it stop being so damned helpful but haven't found one yet. Can anyone tell me if it exists?

Thanks in advance!

Content Management Service (CMS) on Mac

BrianG61 — Sat, 12 May 2018 17:31:05 +0000

Hello,

I'm trying to follow a 2012 Rigging Original Figures tutorial by Blondie9999. At the start it is suggested to STOP the CMS and then RESTART it to ensure the "save" functions will work properly. Other than the pgAdmin3 app, in the PostgreSQL CMS folder, I can't seem to find this on my Mac. Even within the pgAdmin3 app I don't see a "Stop Daz Content Management Service" nor a "Start....". Am I missing something? Is this not needed on a Mac? Is this a moot point for Daz Studio 4.10?

Thanks,

Brian

Daz dragon 3 missing eyes

Chaosphoto — Thu, 24 May 2018 10:38:06 +0000

I have Daz dragon 3 and it used to work fine but I hadn't used Daz in a Dragon 3 and Hellborn Dragon. Spectral dragon has eyes. I deleted and re installed but the result is the same. It seems to me like the eyes are missing from the install package.

Any help would really be appreciated very much.

Massive Shader Updates

Sone — Tue, 22 May 2018 23:32:19 +0000

Today both my machines have massive shader updates in both DIM and DC. In my case it's over 10 GB.

Why so many at once for Product updates? and what is being updated?

I know or at least believe DC only updates certain files but I'm wondering if I should just hide the DIM shaders forever now.

Thanks

Daz is still crashing my machine

Xade — Wed, 23 May 2018 07:45:43 +0000

I don't know why but it still suffers from the random kernel crash every so often. I was messing abound with an old outfit and genesis, nothing important and I got the blue screen of death. I checked the crash logs and it only happens when I do not run daz. I've updated my video driver, removed the odd ram until I was down to 8gb and even uninstalled and reinstalled Daz itself in the hopes that it might be a ram mapping issue but still nothing. I've checked my install logs for when this first started happening and didn't find a clue. But I do remeber installing and fiddling with dazin December, when it all started. There has to be something silly we're missing. Please help.

Making an Undersleeve for Midriff

IceScribe — Sun, 20 May 2018 22:47:08 +0000

Lots of great outfits with a gap in the midriff to the hips. If I select "torso" and add a diffuse material and bump, darn thing goes up the neck to the ears. I just want to give impression of a tank shirt or undergarment between the end of a jacket or shirt, to the waistband of pants inside their respective hems, not as a belt. I tried to make a geoshell, but again, because of the configuration, I could not turn off the ears/neck shoulder. Is there a way to make a midriff "garment" that fits under the bottom of a top, and the top of a bottom? I realize there are different styles, but generally from under bust to just below crest of hip bone would work in most cases.

texture shaded becoming dark with environment from store

dirkbaeten — Wed, 23 May 2018 20:15:49 +0000

I have this happening with two environments I bought in the store.

I just load the whole setting and my view in texture shaded turns very dark. See picture below. As a comparison I give the same image with lit wireframe.

I have no idea why this happens and how I can get a normal view in texture shaded.

The product used in the image is this one: https://www.daz3d.com/contemporary-living-room

The other one where I experienced the same thing is https://www.daz3d.com/i13-clothing-boutique-interior

Thanks for the help!

Using emission shaders to illuminate the interior of primitives

The Brig — Wed, 23 May 2018 19:12:05 +0000

I've got a scene where a figure is inside a cylinder and I'm trying to get the walls of the cylinder to provide illumination to the figure. Here's what I've done to the cylinder in the Surfaces pane so far:

Applied the emissive shader; set Material ID, base color, and emission color to white (255, 255, 255); then set Two-Sided Light to "on" and set the luminance to 100,000 lumens.

I haven't made any other changes and the scene still renders black. What steps could I be omitting? Or does the emissive shader only apply to the exterior of primitives like this one?

problem installing via install manager

todascaionut77 — Wed, 16 May 2018 16:41:45 +0000

i have a problem when i try to install products via install manager.when i click on download and install its open install manager but cant find the product in list.i must install all stafs manual or via daz connect.maybe someone knows why.

thank you

Converting Carrara products to DS?

sjaammons — Wed, 23 May 2018 01:30:08 +0000

https://www.daz3d.com/the-cinema ; ----

So I didn't notice this when buying the Cinema but it was Carrara only. I wanted to ask if there an option to convert this scene/background into Daz? I need a good movie theater scene, and none of the Daz friendly ones work for my needs (Movie Night Cinema doesn't look as nice as "The Cinema" Nor as realistic, and the Art Deco one is a bit too abstract looking for what I needed).

So is there any option to convert these Carrara products into Daz?

dumb question (stuff I learned and forgot) about surfaces

father1776 — Wed, 23 May 2018 01:08:14 +0000

ok got model where the whole thing is just 1 surface.

I want to break that up into several smaller surfaces, example: got box, has 1 surface (the outside)

I want to break that up so each box side is it's own surface so I can use different shaders on various sides.

so what tool did I forget about?

thxs

Rendering Battle Armour for Genesis

Mouser — Wed, 23 May 2018 09:37:03 +0000

Not sure what I am doing wrong as metalic renders for other items have not been an issue so far but...

The Battle Armour for Genesis is not rendering properly, I have tried both NVIDIA Iray and 3Delight without success.

The steel material is a mat black and the gold looks like a dull copper.

Screenshots attached.

Any advise is greatfully accepted;)

Adaptive Subdivision?

Those Things — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 13:49:57 +0000

Does Iray have an automatic adaptive subdivision feature? As it is now, I can decrease or increase the subdivisions manually for figures relative to how far they are from the camera, but if I change to a different camera/angle, I have to do it all over again. Is there a feature in Iray (like in Cycles, for instance) that does this automatically? If not, is there maybe a script that exists?

Geometry Editor selects random polygons

aaráribel caađo — Wed, 23 May 2018 02:17:35 +0000

When trying to create a weight map, I like to select polygon loops with the Geometry Editor, then switch to the Weight Brush Tool to enter a precise value. However, I've run into problems where the Geometry Editor just picks random polys. If I use it as a brush, it will select polygons that aren't close to the brush, often picking things veritcally when I brush horizontally (and vice-versa), always away from where I'm brushing. If I just select a region, it usually produces the weird results shown below.

Annoyingly, I don't have this problem with unrigged geometry…but when I use the Transfer tool to rig an item, it clears out the simulation data and my dForce Weight Map.

I can probably get away with painting this, since the selection I want is simple and doesn't involve a complicated gradient, but it's happened to me several times and I'd like to fix the problem.

What does maximum texture units mean?

Philippi_Child — Tue, 22 May 2018 15:29:16 +0000

Hi,

Can someone explain to me what maximum texture units are on my graphics card? I have a GTX 1060 6GB card and saw this looking around at the different panes at the top of daz studio. How does this relate to the size of scenes I can render? Most of my renders are of a single human figure, with clothes, hair, etc in outdoor or indoor settings. I don't use a lot of large or complex items in my scenes.

Thanks

This is for Sloshwerk or anyone that can assist

Runtu — Tue, 22 May 2018 00:38:51 +0000

I did not know how to contact Sloshwerk, and hope you or someone can answer this question, I am interested in the product out by Sloshwerk, the product dForce Vernea Fae Outfit for Genesis 8 Female, will this beautiful outfit work on Genesis 3? I sure hope so.

DIM showing updates for items not downloaded..

Milo_471560 — Tue, 22 May 2018 16:18:30 +0000

DIM has started showing updates for products I have yet to download, let alone install its cluttering up the update area. Anyone else having this problem. I know just install everything would 'solve' this but I moved to a new machine and am being more selective of what I install at this point for when I am using it, as well as structuring the installed content. Some updates not downloaded or installed showing up is Happy Campere Essentials, Kids Toys DS, Pocket Filler, Scraac etc.

Errors Loading "H&C Business Suit for Genesis 8 Male(s)"

HiIAmMichael — Tue, 22 May 2018 08:21:48 +0000

I bought H&C Business Suit for Genesis 8 Male(s). However, when I try and dress my Genisis 8 Male with certain articles of clothing, I get the attached message—followed by the mountain of errors you can see following the screenshot (and that's only some of them... too many to share). I have the most updated version of DAZStudio and am running on a MacBook Pro with High Sierra (v10.13.4).

I've restarted the computer and DAZStudio. I've uninstalled and reinstalled the clothes. I've done a lot of wishful thinking and hoping. Nothing's working, not even the wishful thinking.

Help, please. This is beyond my skill level, and I'm a bit of a newbie. So please don't be afraid to explain it to me like I'm five.

2018-05-13 13:28:50.426 Error writing author data!

2018-05-13 13:28:50.448 Iray INFO - module:category(API:MISC): 0.0 API misc info : Loaded "/Applications/DAZ 3D/DAZStudio4 64-bit/libs/iray/libneuray.so"

2018-05-13 13:28:50.449 Iray INFO - module:category(API:MISC): 0.0 API misc info : Iray 2017.0.1, build 287000.7672, 23 May 2017, macosx-x86-64-clang

2018-05-13 13:28:50.449 WARNING: /src/pluginsource/DzIrayRender/dzneuraymgr.cpp(403): Could not add path: "/Users/michael/Library/Application Support/DAZ 3D/Studio4/shaders/iray". Due to unkown error -2

2018-05-13 13:28:50.450 WARNING: /src/pluginsource/DzIrayRender/dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray WARNING - module:category(CUDA:RENDER): 0.0 CUDA rend warn : CUDA module initialization failed.

2018-05-13 13:28:50.450 WARNING: /src/pluginsource/DzIrayRender/dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray WARNING - module:category(CUDA:RENDER): 0.0 CUDA rend warn : The version of your CUDA driver is 0.0, but 8.0 is the required minimum

2018-05-13 13:28:50.450 WARNING: /src/pluginsource/DzIrayRender/dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray WARNING - module:category(CUDA:RENDER): 0.0 CUDA rend warn : Please update your display driver (current version ).

2018-05-13 13:28:50.460 Iray INFO - module:category(PLUG:PLUGIN): 0.0 PLUG plug info : Loaded library "/Applications/DAZ 3D/DAZStudio4 64-bit/libs/iray/axf_importer.so".

2018-05-13 13:28:50.466 Iray INFO - module:category(PLUG:PLUGIN): 0.0 PLUG plug info : Loaded library "/Applications/DAZ 3D/DAZStudio4 64-bit/libs/iray/blend_render.so".

2018-05-13 13:28:50.474 Iray INFO - module:category(PLUG:PLUGIN): 0.0 PLUG plug info : Loaded library "/Applications/DAZ 3D/DAZStudio4 64-bit/libs/iray/cb_importer.so".

2018-05-13 13:28:50.480 Iray INFO - module:category(PLUG:PLUGIN): 0.0 PLUG plug info : Loaded library "/Applications/DAZ 3D/DAZStudio4 64-bit/libs/iray/ct.so".

2018-05-13 13:28:50.488 Iray INFO - module:category(PLUG:PLUGIN): 0.0 PLUG plug info : Loaded library "/Applications/DAZ 3D/DAZStudio4 64-bit/libs/iray/dds.so".

2018-05-13 13:28:50.490 WARNING: /src/pluginsource/DzIrayRender/dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray WARNING - module:category(LINK:PLUGIN): 0.0 LINK plug warn : Loading /Applications/DAZ 3D/DAZStudio4 64-bit/libs/iray/ffmpeg_video_decoder.so: dlopen(/Applications/DAZ 3D/DAZStudio4 64-bit/libs/iray/ffmpeg_video_decoder.so, 1): Library not loaded: @executable_path/libavutil.54.dylib

2018-05-13 13:28:50.490 WARNING: /src/pluginsource/DzIrayRender/dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray WARNING - module:category(LINK:PLUGIN): 0.0 LINK plug warn : Referenced from: /Applications/DAZ 3D/DAZStudio4 64-bit/libs/iray/libavcodec.56.dylib

2018-05-13 13:28:50.490 WARNING: /src/pluginsource/DzIrayRender/dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray WARNING - module:category(LINK:PLUGIN): 0.0 LINK plug warn : Reason: image not found

Why are products suddenly uninstalled?

Griffin Avid — Sat, 19 May 2018 20:28:15 +0000

Seems like it only happens to poses, where anything that was installed with DIM in now uninstalled in Smart Content.

Products that used to be fine, are now missing their thumbnails and need to be installed (through Smart Content) in order to be used.

Anyone else seeing this?

Model hands massive

plarff — Mon, 21 May 2018 07:54:38 +0000

Hi all

I used one of the models in DAZ not sure which one of the top of my head and made her younger using an age morphing add on but her hands are massive and very old looking. Ive scaled them down to about 80% but still long fingers and big hands. Looking at her in full view it does not appear at first so big but close up it's huge.

Any way to reduced it proportionately ? Below are best images describing the size. Trust me when i say it's big

Resource error. Please help! (images fixed)

Xade — Sun, 20 May 2018 22:12:24 +0000

I had to reinstall all my content today because after the reinstall of dazStudio, mentioned here but half my content went AWOL so I thought I would reinstall my content. Once I uninstalled it I renamed the my daz 3d library because I wanted to make sure everthing is clean, removed the renderosity stuff I bought, and reinstalled everything. However, I got this message and no content error.

This is my configuration

What am I doing wrong? Do I have to do a total fresh install or something? Or is it something so simple that I over looked it?

Edit. I found the issue, I didn't reinstall all the plugins. Once I checked the DIM settings and included plugins Daz returned to normal

Anubis head

giaour94_fdcc6cb22c — Mon, 21 May 2018 19:29:40 +0000

With the Anubis figure for Genesis 2 male, is it possible to apply the morph for the head only, rather than the full creature?

3Delight vr. Iray

LD1 — Sun, 20 May 2018 21:31:07 +0000

1) What is the exact difference between a 3Delight texture versus an Iray one?

2) If I go to Photoshop, what do I have to do to make an Iray texture?

3) Am I assuming correctly that the FilterForge textures are 3Delight? If so, I would like (if possible) to convert them to Iray using the answer that you give on question 2.

Thanks

Fix and Hold Feets on Floor

laiziyi1996 — Mon, 21 May 2018 13:07:14 +0000

Is there any way to fix and hold character's feet on the floor?So that when I am posing other body parts, the feet wont float on the floor or even sink into the floor

Collision Controls

scottstory_2926497e53 — Sun, 20 May 2018 03:41:38 +0000

I'm layering a costume, and the tutorial on the Daz 101 videos sugges that there is a collision control to separate the layers under the parameters tab in the item's dropdown menu listed after the mesh control. I cannot find it. I'm running Daz 4.10, if that makes a difference (I suspect it does).

Where can I find the collision controls in the latest version?

The UV map selected was invalid

johann.hesters_2e9dd0ece9 — Tue, 17 Oct 2017 18:25:59 +0000

Hello!

I'm trying to create new UVs.

Now I ran a simple test.

I loaded G2F and exported it with the following settings:

(See screenshot).

To test if that would work, I didn't change anything, I simply clicked "Edit"-"Figure"->"Geometry"->"Load UV Set..." and selected the just exported obj.

Now DAZ Studio asks me to enter a new name for the new UVs, and I entered one.

The next thing I see is the error message "The UV map selected was invalid".

Shouldn't that work?

Does anybody spot what I might have done wrong?

Thank you very much for the help!

Dragonelle Crashes Daz

nelsonsmith — Wed, 16 May 2018 01:49:49 +0000

Anybody else have this problem, and is there a fix? The Dragonelle Iray Character causes a fatal error in Daz everytime I try to load the character into the program. This is the only character I've ever had this problem with.

DSON does not work with all posers and platforms, CR2 does not include parameters in export

zanainternational_0b487b6a6a — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 19:44:41 +0000

I am really having problems, I have installed DSON in windows on bootcamp where my DAZ studio is, with windows versions of poser 5, 2012, and poser 11 exist. I have poser 5 in because it contains stuff I have colletec from all the years since 2001, which was given to me by a freind when I was in hospital from a broken back, as something to do.

I mostly use the poser 11 and 2012 in my Mac partition, I even installed DAZ studio on my Mac partition to get this DSON to work (but uninstalled it because it was staking up space) when i discovered the DSON is STILL NOT WORKING. I am so frustrated with this that people can get this to work, and I cant in windows and in OSX.

So I thought I would design the character using Genesis 2 female , had problem accessing the morphs with the snart content since they dont load in there.. only in the parameter dials and export the character as a CR2 in my poser library. Everything looks fine, textures etc... but when you go to the parameter dials,.. you cant move mouth, eyes etc.. because they are missing...

This is so frustrating it is making me cry...