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

How to change default install path in InstallManager?

pincorrect — Sun, 06 May 2018 04:01:17 +0000

I am trying to change the default path that Daz InstallManager uses to install content. The online documentation seems a little incomplete. When I bring up the Settings Dialog via the "Gear" icon in InstallManager, there are 4 tabs. The 3rd tab is "Installation". The top section provides the locations for installing 64 bit and 32 bit Software, plus a couple options about shortcuts. Those are all fine.

Next is a very confusing radio toggle "Content Updates" with choices Install to Respective "Installed" Paths and Install to Selected Path. Despite a little information in the tool tip you see when you hover over these choices, I cannot figure out the difference. Can anyone explain which one to choose?

But my real problem is the next section. It is a table with columns Label and Path. There is one line in it, but it seemingly cannot be edited. It's labeled "Recommended DAZ Studio/Poser Content Folder" with the path C:/Users/Public/Documents/My Daz3D Library. This is where all the DIM-installed content on my old PC ended up. But on the new PC, the C: drive is a relatively small SSD, and I have a much bigger SSD on D: where I want this content to go. I cannot edit the path, or use the "..." button to bring up a file chooser.

I do see that at the bottom is a "+" button, and it looks like it would add more lines to this table, with their own labels and paths. But that would not remove the first line. I think I want to change that so it will never pick that location on the C: drive for installing new content.

Here's a screenshot in case it helps. I cannot change "C:/Users/Public/Documents/My Daz3D Library" to my preferred location.

Use Decimator to export to Unity

Daedolon — Sat, 26 Aug 2017 10:27:30 +0000

Hi everybody,

I'm completely new to Daz and Unity and have been watching many tutorials for the past few weeks to import a Daz character to Unity.(Yes, I purchased the indie license).

Since unity is limited to 65535 verts (I'm assuming verts is short for vertices ?), I've purchased Decimator to reduce the count. So basically, I want to decimate in Daz any mesh bigger than 65000 verts so it can fit Unity. My problem is that the decimator panel seems to decimate using a polygon count not verts.

I do not know what's the difference between polygons and verts but when I do specify 65000 in the polygons count and create the new lod then export, first I still see the original number of verts in export window instead of seeing the number after decimation and second, the verts count is still too high for Unity.

How do I know which number of polygons I must decimate so the number of verts match Unity's limit ?

Thanks !

Generator and Lighting

Griffin Avid — Sat, 05 May 2018 23:01:14 +0000

This product, right here.

https://www.daz3d.com/generator-and-lighting-rig

HOW DO YOU TURN THE LIGHS ON?

It says:

- Morph List (remove Figures that have not been released)
Material Options: (.DUF, .PZ2, .MC6)
- Lighting Rig Lights ON/OFF
- Generator Lights ON/OFF
- Generator and Lighting Rig Full MAT

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Looks like the included the PAs notes in the description.

There SHOULD be a morph for lights on/off.

* all swear words removed to hide frustration.

Getting Connect to work AGAIN

larrygilman — Sun, 06 May 2018 03:22:09 +0000

Hi All,

My Connect worked very well for a time, then suddenly stopped.

Logging in via connect does not work, it keeps goi ng back to Login. I can't seem to find any thing the forums except on short blurb about reinstalling DAZ won't fix the problem. But that was for V 4.9. I am on the latest version of DAZ 4.10.0.123 Pro Edition 64 bit.

I would really like to get it going again.

Many Thanks in Advance !!!

Grandmother HD Eyebrows

Sigurd — Sat, 05 May 2018 14:14:17 +0000

Anyone else having problems with using fibremesh eyebrows on the Grandmother HD figure. Whenever I apply they are inside the browbone and invisible. Is there an easy fix for this?

Thank you.

Search failure and 'content cluster'... help needed

jontaylor99 — Fri, 04 May 2018 00:18:31 +0000

Hello guys,

I have a couple of very annoying problems that I could do with some help or advice on please.

1) For no apparent reason my Daz Search has suddenly stopped working and finds absolutely nothing from my content folders.

I've changed nothing, my settings are still the same now as they have been for months, I've not changed any locations or paths to anything and yet I can no longer search anything.

If anyone has any idea how I can put this issue right I'd appreciate it very much.

2) The next thing I've noticed, 'Content Cluster' - Can anyone tell me where this folder and all it's contents are suppose to be please? Yet again for no apparent reason this folder has now been placed inside 'My Library',

it's never, ever been there before but since yesterday it has now been placed in my content list along with all my other stuff.

Any ideas please?

Morph loader Pro crashing Daz

robin12boef — Sat, 05 May 2018 16:43:46 +0000

Heya!

I've just made an Morph and wanted to import it within Daz, but every time I use Morph Loader Pro and click on the button "Choose Morph Files" it freezes up Daz and I can't do anything anymore.

Hope somebody can help me.

Greetings

Editing clothing

Epichall — Sat, 05 May 2018 12:25:58 +0000

Hello everyone.
I need some non-proprietary clothing for one of my characters and I find that an item that I already have can be cut down and edited to produce what I need (it's not for resale or re-distribution by the way).
I've tried to do this in Hexagon and it seems to work to a certain degree (although it could be better) but from here on I'm stuck.
It won't come back as an *.obj but only as a prop and with several other difficulties that I'm encountering, I'm just floundering about.
Does anyone know of a good Youtube tutorial or something similar that might help me on my way?
Many thanks.

How to remove a colliding element but keep the collision effect?

mlominy — Wed, 02 May 2018 17:01:28 +0000

In a scene, my G3 character is sitting on a table. To simulate a crushing effect on the buttocks, I added a Smoothing Modifier to the character and used the table as a collision element. The result is perfect. Now, how can I remove the Smoothing Modifier while keeping the shape of the buttock? If I simply put the Smoothing Modifier to 0, then the collision effect disappear.

Studio: joint editing on G8 - how to lengthen index finger?

ttmmttmmttmm — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 07:03:56 +0000

i want to just lengthen the index finger. That's 3 bones. Unfortunately, there are only parameter dials for rotation.

how can I enable the bone's y-scale dial?

I don't want to use a custom morph for something simple like this. Do I have to?

Changing Parent of Prop Changes Scale

poorman_65 — Thu, 03 May 2018 03:24:38 +0000

I am having to spend a ton of time moving items around so that I can get them where I want them and do Parent in Place.

If I try to Change parent without doing it "In Place" it moves the items where I want them, but it re-scales them. Not sure why changing parent would change the size of my props. It doesn't make much sense.

I even tried parenting everything to a null and then parent the null to the prop that the items should be parented to. Even then it changes the scale.

Is there a way to keep this from happening?

Crash when saving as support asset

brckbrd — Fri, 04 May 2018 15:35:59 +0000

When I try to use the save as support asset feature and select the figure/prop option the program says "please wait" then crashes giving me a message saying "Daz Studio has encountered a fatal error and must close"

Problem starting Daz3D

Mescalino — Fri, 04 May 2018 05:35:07 +0000

More and more often i get the following error. I then need to restart my computer to get it working again. Anyone an idea what is causing this or how to solve it without having to restart my computer?

It often happens when i did a long render and close down Daz, i install some new content and then start DAZ again.

Deleted custom morphs not deleting (solved)

Samanthie — Fri, 04 May 2018 16:12:04 +0000

I've been creating and testing morphs and am trying to discard the ones that I don't like. I deleted them from edit mode in the parameters tab and also from the data folder only to have them reappear when I load a new base character. What am I doing wrong? Thanks for any help.

Moving content question

contact_0022f9aecd — Fri, 04 May 2018 18:37:32 +0000

Currently I have content in three directories. I plan to get a new CPU soon. Can I merge all content into one folder and with a new install on the new machine import everything?

Morphs sets: can a kind of "uvmap" of those be created?

Second Technician Rimmer — Thu, 03 May 2018 19:13:10 +0000

I'll explain: let's say I create a morph of some extruded irregularities on a character's face (veins, swells, whatever) is there a way to easly obtain a mapping of these so that I can paint colors on those ares for a texture map that would match these irregularities?

Emissive panel no longer lights objects in Texture Shaded mode in the viewport

contact_53ce1867 — Fri, 04 May 2018 03:16:35 +0000

Emissive panel no longer lights objects in Texture Shaded mode in the viewport. Works when rendered. Emissive objects used to work in Texture Shaded mode. I did a complete reset, but no love. I can preview in the IRAY mode but that is a bit time consuming. Any ideas?

fitting Harpy to other figs

thistledownsname — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 01:04:22 +0000

So, I just got the Creatura Harpy and it's working on V4 as advertised. I'm trying to experiment a bit though, and tried fitting it to Genesis and G2F (specifically want to try it with the Raven). For Genesis it worked surprisingly well. For G2F the ends of the wings bunch up a bit. But in both cases there's a problem with the feet. The insides of the feet are merging with each other, no matter where I move them:

Anyone got advice on how to fix it, or is it just not going to work on new generation stuff?

Twyla Hair Crashes Poser 11 Every Time

Db3d — Thu, 03 May 2018 20:00:03 +0000

Has anyone else run in to this?

I applied Twyla Hair (DAZ3D product https://www.daz3d.com/twyla-hair) to Victoria 4.2 in Poser 11. When I go to render with FireFly it crashes every time. Delete Twyla Hair off Victoria and it renders fine. Add it on, and it crashes. I even re-installed the Twyla Hair files and it doesn't make a difference. (It doesn't crash with SuperFly.)

Is it a Twyla Hair thing, or a Poser 11 FireFly thing?

Brent

Penny 8 Pro Bundle

theforceunleashed3 — Thu, 03 May 2018 21:50:27 +0000

I have the package but it seems that i can't add eyebrows just the RSL one but that changes the whole face. Can anyone help me or do you have the same issue? Thank you.

purchased figure installed but not available in DAZ Studio

terryhubbard_fa33094c7d — Thu, 03 May 2018 19:24:17 +0000

Hi,

I have had reason to upgrade my LaRoo character. Just bought the upgrade. Copied files to poser directory, but the delta injs don't show. So I installed via DLM to Daz Studio, and the character does not show up in the library. What am I missing. My workflow just took a nosedive.

How to use SY Victoria 4 and Michael 4 Clones for Genesis 8

ChadCrypto — Wed, 02 May 2018 08:52:54 +0000

Hi all, I just got this , I can't figure it out. it says to load the clothing , then choose the clone. how do you do that? There is nothing except 2 icons and they both bring me to SY's Store page. Weird.

Iray Fails After Rendering 1 Frame

poorman_65 — Thu, 03 May 2018 17:17:38 +0000

I am just getting back to DAZ Studio after being off for about two months. I have updated everything through Install Manager and Daz Studio is at the latest released rev.

I get the error shown below after Rendering a single frame of my Animation. The Frame renders fine but the next one fails immediately. This is with a GeForce GTX 1070 TI with the latest Drivers installed and Daz Studio 4.10.0.123. A small popup appears when it fails simply saying something basic like "An Error Occurred". When I click OK on the popup the Mouse Pointer looks like DAZ Studio is busy, but I can click on things.

If I try to Render again I get "Unable to render. Renderer is already in use." I was having a similar problem with a Scene last week but it seemed to go away once I turned off Iray Rendering in the Viewport (which I usually do anyway).

I tried removing some objects that I had added to the scene and also removed hidden objects & figures from the Scene with no luck.

I read where someone else has a similar error and they though it was due to SubD being greater than 1. I am not sure where this would be set but maybe that could be my issue.

One thing I noticed in trying to debug this is that in Windows 10 Task Manager, there is an instance of Daz Studio Application that appears to be taking up 4-5GB of memory. In the Gpu Engine column it show "gpu 0 copy". Maybe this is just how Windows is showing the GPU usage but I thought it might be a clue.

I have my Advance Render settings set to GPU only with OptiX Prime Acceleration enable. I am attachning a screenshot of my Render settings.

18-05-03 11:58:27.894 Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend progr: 94.80% of image converged
2018-05-03 11:58:27.916 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Received update to 02161 iterations after 908.421s.
2018-05-03 11:58:37.041 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Received update to 02183 iterations after 917.547s.
2018-05-03 11:58:46.212 Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend progr: 95.02% of image converged
2018-05-03 11:58:46.243 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Received update to 02205 iterations after 926.748s.
2018-05-03 11:58:46.243 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Convergence threshold reached.
2018-05-03 11:58:55.426 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Device statistics:
2018-05-03 11:58:55.427 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1070 Ti): 2227 iterations, 26.186s init, 909.689s render
2018-05-03 11:58:56.001 Saved image: D:\DazContent\My Library\Sorority Sweethearts\Scenes\Vixens\Riley - First Approach\Series\Riley - First Approach - 80.png
2018-05-03 11:58:56.003 Rendering frame 81
2018-05-03 11:59:05.871 WARNING: dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray WARNING - module:category(API:DATABASE):   1.0   API    db   warn : Transaction is released without being committed or aborted. Automatically aborting.
2018-05-03 11:59:11.518 Total Rendering Time: 16 minutes 15.46 seconds

Perspective View

Cricket — Wed, 02 May 2018 23:15:55 +0000

Somehow my perscpective view has gotten messed up. It's now giving me a fisheye view when I zoom in and I have no idea how to fix it. Any suggestions?

Convert a camera to a virtual camera?

Griffin Avid — Thu, 03 May 2018 05:54:17 +0000

Couple things, figured I ask first before making a product request.

Sometimes I want to convert a camera into the virtual viewport...viewer...the default viewing port that exists BEFORE you make a camera. Does that make sense?

So instead of choosing to create a new camera from the current view, I want to do the opposite and change a Camera into the default viewer.

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Related as I wonder if it's possible to create a script that moves the active port a certain distance from an object. In your camera control doo-hickey you can press the [+] sort of thing and get a better focus on an object in the scene. BUT! If I want to jump large distances, I'd like to be able to select an object in the scene and run this script and have THE DEFAULT VIEWER move a certain distance (of the scripts choosing) from the object. Maybe with orientation presets. A certain distance from its central axis. Or always floor level pointing up...

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Or a script that can CREATE A NEW CAMERA pointing at an object, and also a certain distance away from that object.

I know I can make a camera myself and use the align tools to move it about and then look through that camera, but I want to move the Daz default viwer about.

Any ideas?

I only have 'Light Sets'

anaximanes_2000 — Wed, 02 May 2018 20:59:41 +0000

I have never encountered this, but maybe I am having a brain fart. I was doing a render, and afterward, I only see Light Sets for Smart Content or under files. Everything else will show up if I select ALL, but I no longer have 'environments', figures', and so forth. What the heck did I click on to make it only show lighting?

I figured it out! Wow, that was perplexing, but it turns out it was just the little arrow next to 'Default' must have got clicked so it minimized everything but the thing I happened to be in at the time- lighting! So, I feel like an idiot. Easy fix in case anyone else runs into this!

- wrong post - please delete @ Mod

SF-Design — Thu, 03 May 2018 05:38:14 +0000

can be deleted please

How to model a morph using a pose?

ttmmttmmttmm — Thu, 03 May 2018 03:13:01 +0000

I am attempting to create a morph that better shows the neck tendons when posing the head looing far to the side - to achieve a more realistic look.

Problem is, once I model based on the pose, when importing with MLP, the dial insists on changing all the other vertices as well.

But modeling on the zero pose is really difficult because I can't tell how exactly my vertex position deltas need to be set for the right looking result.

I tried to set/unset "reverse deformations" in the import settings, but that doesn't really give me the right result.

UV sets for creating a new character texture?

Causam3D — Tue, 01 May 2018 20:42:05 +0000

Hello everyone,

I want to create a complete custom texture set for one of my G3 based characters. My question is, where would I find/purchase this? I want an image file that I can paint (or is there a better way to do it?)

Many thanks in advance,

Bill

Figure Metrics

Dareshiranu — Wed, 02 May 2018 21:32:36 +0000

Is there a way to modify the bulk of the metrics rather than the five basic ones? It seems a shame to have all those stats and not be able to alter them.