Let me give you an example;

Step 1) Make sure to apply the scalp preset onto anything that does not move.

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HOW?!  How exactly are we supposed to do that? You give the steps what to do to make them work, but you don't say HOW to do it?  I really have no idea how to select JUST the scalp on a hair because I've never had to before, and while I understand WHY you have to... I mean, you need an anchor point for the rest of the hair, you left out the HOW to apply the scalp preset onto anything that does not move.  I really have no idea what you are talking about so if you could a much more comprehensive tutorial, or make one available?  That would REALLY be a nice way to make this a much more effective product. 

The product "Studio Type Room" has its own lights set up as emissive surfaces, all of which are fairly high in lumen count (many of them over 1mil), and in the promo images, the room lights up quite well.

However, every single time I try to render it - no tweaking, no fiddling, nothing, just straight out of the box - the scene comes out incredibly dark.

So dark, in fact, that I've been trying to up the luminosity on the surfaces (by rather a lot), to little effect.

I've been running this test render of just the room, no other props or figures, for about 2hrs now, and it's not finished, but as you can see from the attached screenshot, it's never going to be anywhere near as bright as the promo images. This is with default emissive surfaces and default cameras as included with the product.

Anyone else used this, and had this problem? What was your solution? This room looks like it should have great lighting, but... apparently no?

I have dragonsborne armor for G3 and thanks to Sickleyield's method I managed to transfer it to G8 and it works flawlessly.

I'd like to take this further because the armor is assimetrical and I like the right side shape more.

I want to mirror/symmetry it to the other side.

I tried OBJ Export> Invert Possitive Direction (X) > Transfer Utility but the other shoulder got mishaped: https://imgur.com/a/60ZgF8H

I also tried duplicating the node and then doing -100% X Scale but it bends down for some reason: https://imgur.com/a/VKFdnit

Is there a way to do it?

Thanks in advance.

Question: how do I restore the My Library folder structure (the one where user saved projects, obj and mtl files, and products from other sites are stored)

The container is still in place, just no underlying folders.  Can I just start downloading and installing manually to My Library or is there some other steps I need to do  first.

thanks

(edited: Daz Studio 4.10, Windows 10)

The attached images are rendered on the same server, with the exact same settings (it's the same scene, only difference is that the eyes are closed on the one that is broken)

The scene is a simple, but very large (100m) room with four walls and a ceiling, and one point light 50m up.  It looks correct in the viewport in Iray preview mode:

But in texture shaded mode, it looks like this:

How can I fix this scene so I can work with it in texture shaded?

I know I can hit CTRL+L to turn on a camera headlight, but that doesn't work too well since everything in the actual scene I'm working on is still quite dark.

After tinkering, I've discovered that I can fix the problem by going into every object shader and assigning it a white Emission Color, but is that going to be practical later on?  Does Emission Color actually do anything if the accompanying slider is set to 0?

Edit: typo

Can anyone help, please? Has anyone encountered the same issue?

Whereas the issue seems to go away with Iray Photoreal mode.

These are all viewport previews but the issue appears exactly the same in Renders as well. I guess I have some problem with Interactive mode :s ..but its too slow to work with on viewport :s

The link leads to my gallery where I have uploaded the screenshots.

https://www.daz3d.com/gallery/#images/575921/

I have attached a pic that shows the issue in the outfit with transparency.

The scene just has a genesis 8, sporty ponytail hair and an outfit. No lights. All settings are default haven't tinkered.with anything.

Any help would be appreciated. 

Thank you.

So.  Today I bought the Iray Worlds Skydome which puts a Film-Cam in the scene and turns off (as best as I can figure) the Drawing of the Dome and various other inputs in the Evirnonment tab under Iray Render Settings.  I wondered if that might have something to do with things.

I am very happy with the purchase of the Iray Worlds Skydome.  I missed it somehow in my quest for a dome the included water and beautiful clouds, etc.  But.... Well help please if'n you can.

1. "ERROR: Memory Object Allocation Failure (-4)"
Seems to be the most common issue. I've had to switch to CPU (!) simulation just to avoid this one a lot of the time. I've heard it could be a driver issue, but rolling back drivers only seemed to make matters worse rather than alleviate it in any way. Surely the latest drivers should be the better option, and if not does the problem lie with NVIDIA or with the DForce system itself?

2. Terrible collision.
Outfits just don't 'collide' with the characters and prefer to sink through the skin. Oh, but not as a whole, that would make it too obvious, instead only parts of the outfit sink inside the character, while the rest is flung around as the dynamic engine desperately tries to reconcile the dynamics of an intersecting object. It makes some very interesting floral-like patterns (see attached) but ultimately fails to provide even a basic drape.

3. Simply failing to even try
Some times, DForce just gives up. I'll click the simulate button only to be greeted with an error before it ever attempts it. The generic error it provides probably won't help much, since it is basically just complaining about memory, but with 6GB VRAM and 32Gb RAM I should hope something as simple as geometry calculations shouldn't tax it quite as much. When I first saw this error, I removed 90% of the scene, leaving just the character and the outfit, and it suddenly started working, but considering all of those objects were far outside the collision area to begin with, it seems odd I would have to do this at all.

I would really like to get more out of this system, and I have a number of DForce clothing items I'd like to get some use out of (to say nothing of the non-dynamic items I want to add DForce to). If there are any solutions or things I can try out to get to the bottom of my problems let me know. It's been driving me crazy!

Is this a known issue or is it just me?

i have some G3M charaters that i'm made (they are all make through adjusting morphs not something created in zbrush or the like) and i'd love have them converted to G8M.

But i'd be happy if i could just tranfer the heads not the full charater. I would need their body morphs transferd just the head. 

can someone point me in the right direction.

It's a bit frustrating because an existing Fibermesh hair I've bought is soooo close to being perfect for a character, it just needs a little style tweaking in the front. But unfortunately, the built-in morphs don't quite cut it!

After I install Daz itself on the new PC, I'm hoping I can configure the DIM on it so it can use my old downloads without needing to download them all again. In the Settings dialog, there is a setting for the download folder (defaulting to C:\Users\Public Documents\Daz 3D\InstallManager\Downloads). I can change this to point to the place I moved my old downloads, on my file server. (Or I can copy all my downloads to the C: drive of my new PC.) But what do I need to do to make DIM know that all these files are downloaded but not yet installed on the new PC?

There is also a tutorial on "Installation 101" for Daz. It alludes to a checkbox on the 3rd screen (after you accept the program and content licenses) to customize cms. Supposedly if you checked it, then when it got to the cms installation, it would prompt you for where you wanted it. But this check box is not found on the latest version of Daz, and you never get a prompt asking where you want the cms database.

There might be a simple solution to this, but my tiny brain can't figure it out. I'm looking at doing some really simple almost "cartoony" characters, who have skin textures that are just flat colours. Problem is, when using a texture that is just all one colour, I'm getting these strange blotches as seen here:

As far as I can tell, it's only with certain darker colours, but not all.

Has anyone ever seen this before, and any idea what causes it?

Thanks,

Cheet.

Am I looking at a long and difficult process where it'd be easier to fake it with a mostly-invisible overlayed clone, or is there some sneaky way to do this?

After loading a male figure I click on the genitalia button but nothing appears.

Any help is appraciated.

For some reason the edge of the sleeve is assigned to the hip/right tight/lower/upper abdomen etc.

The result is an ugly stretch that's unworkable.

What do to fix it?