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

Fresh install Iray problem

Dareshiranu — Tue, 01 May 2018 23:04:50 +0000

I can't get it to render past 41 iterations for some reason. I've fiddled with the settings, but nothing seems obviously wrong. The defaults looked okay. I turned a couple of other things on, just in case but all I managed to do was my the figure look glowy. I increased the max time. Turned on the Architectural and Caustic Samplers. Also turned on the Noise and Bloom Filters (I'd guess that's where the glow/haze is coming from). Just in case I updated my NVidia driver for my Titan X. It is rendering on the GPU, though both CPU and GPU boxes are checked. Just a basic scene, G8F with a couple of primitives with shaders for floor and backdrop, an Elianeck light set and maybe a Dreamlight Studio HDR.

Any ideas?

I may start the scene from scratch and try again, turn off the bloom and see if I have better luck.

Iray behaves strangely in viewport

Second Technician Rimmer — Sun, 22 Apr 2018 19:20:21 +0000

Ever since I reinstalled my OS clean and proper, with all the latest drivers (yes, NVIDIA too)and Daz Studio as well, the use of viewport in iRay has behaved strangely.

As long as I am in OpenGL, no problem. As soon as I switch it to iRay, the transitionnary look, which used to be a white-ish coating, sports some bright pink surfaces.

It happens with commercial products which load as full scenes, not just things I composite myself from several sources.Also, the viesport keeps refreshing like crazy, over

and over, depixellating as the iray engine calculates, then repixellating to do it again. At this time, I have no special scripts loaded in DS, its folder is devoid of any alterations.

This is how it looks like . It also switches to the same thing in pink. I really am at a loss there, I have solved about everything else I think, but this one's got me stumped.

One product on which it happens everytime, and which used to work great: Secluded Island

Reset of Windows 10 Pro 64 Bit AND the need to Have Daz Content Elsewhere

JMCarrigan — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 17:29:41 +0000

I apparently need help VERY much. I reset my system and have started adding Programs. Photoshop CC 2018 - Easy as pie. Blue Iris? Can't remember Camera Config, but It was easy to download and activate, the same with ESET NOD 3 and Adobe products. You get the picture.

So the only DAZ 3D programs I have installed are DIM and DAZ 3D itself. I have tried adding one model to the fray but it goes to the C:\USERS directory. I want EVERYTHING (except Programs) elsewhere. Easy except DAZ3D. I want EVERYTHING DAZ 3D on my other SSD drive in the box itself. D:\DAZ_CONTENT etc or any name on D:\.

I see that DIM I guess has already had a My DAZ3D Library on D:\! So I have to deal with that somehow. Lightwave goes anywhere you tell it for OBJECTS and SCENES and SOUNDS, etc - a Content Directory of which you can have 9 of 'em on any drive, whatever!

SO- I know I have to tell DIM and DAZ 3D where it all is installed but I can't somehow. HELP!

Iray using too much CPU instead of GPU

thethesmall — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 13:17:29 +0000

I am using DAZ Studio 4.10 and am trying to render a scene with just one actor without any backgrounds/prop/anything at all.

I looked at the CPU usage and it's around 98% while the GPU usage is ~1% and 10% on very occaisonal spikes.

I tried to look at the DAZ output on the render image log and it is

Rendering in NVIDIA Iray

Compiling Shaders - 0/1

Rendering image

Rendering...

Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.3 IRAY rend progr: CPU: Processing scene...

Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.9 IRAY rend progr: CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 970): Processing scene...

Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.8 IRAY rend stat : Geometry memory consumption: 35.4222 MiB (device 0), 0 B (host)

Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.8 IRAY rend stat : Texture memory consumption: 8.43222 GiB (device 0)

Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.8 IRAY rend stat : Lights memory consumption: 1.37891 KiB (device 0)

Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.8 IRAY rend stat : Material measurement memory consumption: 0 B (GPU)

Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.8 IRAY rend stat : PTX code (8.16 KiB) for sm52 generated in 0.0239s

Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.8 IRAY rend stat : Materials memory consumption: 155.34 KiB (GPU)

Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.4 IRAY rend stat : Native CPU code generated in 0.005s

Can anyone explain what might be the problem for DAZ to use CPU instead of GPU

My specs are i7-6700K, 16GB of Ram, GTX 970 with 4GB of VRAM.

Please let me know if you need anymore info. I'll do my best to provide it.

I am not super familiar with DAZ yet so any help is appreciated.

(PS: I'll try to format this better but I am not sure how to make spoilers to hide the iray output)

Still Don't Understand Hierarchical Pose Presets

inquire — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 21:15:51 +0000

Sometimes pose sets for sale will say something like this, which the Surge set of poses and props does: "The set uses hierarchical pose presets to make sure your props go where they are supposed to . . ."

I still don't understand what the difference is between just a pose and a hierarchial pose. Could someone explain this simply for me? I often save my own poses, and one of the options for saving is as a hierarchial pose. But I don't understand what benefit it would be to use one or the other.

Problem while opening Genesis 3 Female

matheco57_21bfb55f9b — Tue, 01 May 2018 14:09:02 +0000

Hello Everyone,

I was a long time user of Daz studio. I wanted to get back to 3d and I added to my librairy different character morphs for G3F from renderosity.
But oddly, since this morning, when I open a G3F, it appears like this instead of appearing normally!But no morph is activated. I tried to reinstall G3F, the problem persists!
Help me please.

Thanks.

Blacks to Reds...

Lady_Kazu — Wed, 02 May 2018 02:32:09 +0000

I have a question! Why is it that whenever I render a black texture, i.e a tattoo, it ends up red in the final render? Is there a way to keep this from occurring? Or is this a translucency thing....!

Slow in menus but IRay renders fast.

lordofchaos_1 — Wed, 25 Apr 2018 19:14:42 +0000

I have asked in other forums and Facebook groups but nothing helped. I have sent a ticketover to Daz support but thought I would try here too and see if any of you can help me.

Problem.

I load up Daz Studio 4.10 (64bit) comes up no problem. but when I go to my Content Library tab and try to look for my bought items it is realslow to react with my request. sometimes not opening the file tree at all.

Also any Tab I try to open is the same. takes for ever or nothing happens. And try changing view.. Default camera to Front or Perspective view is a nightmare too.

But once I have something in the scene moving around is instant, loading an item (once the content library has caught up) in to the scene is instant too. and Render takes max 3 to 5 minutes.

I chatted back and forth with many when I posted this in Groups and someone mentioned Virtual Memory which i changed from System Managed Size to Custom and filled in the recommended size.

This seemed to fix it after a restart of laptop. but to be sure and before I installed all my content I closed Daz and opened and the problem returned.

My laptop is a MSI GT72 6QD Dominator gaming Laptop.

Nvidia GTX970M

Intel i7 2.70GHz

16gb Ram

So is there anything else I can try?

Transferring custom morphs on props?

barnabet14_6e3228f4c2 — Wed, 02 May 2018 10:26:48 +0000

Hi, I can sculpt or D-form custom morphs, but unlike "official" ones, clothes don't follow these. I tired "transfer active morphs" but I don't know how it works. how to apply custom morphsfrom base figures on props?

Sets with items ungrouped...

Serene Night — Wed, 02 May 2018 04:54:15 +0000

So I have a question. Sometimes I'll get an environment set where the items are ungrouped. I usually try to group items together, so I can move the environment while keeping the character at zero, but sometimes grouping them causes the items to lose their position. Is there a better technique to do this so ungrouped items will keep their position and can be moved 'as one.' Some items when grouped leap out of place while some do not.

Wishlist bug

Noah LGP — Wed, 02 May 2018 08:03:45 +0000

Hi,

Yesterday my wishlist got 1344 items, I purchased 9 items (no bundle) now my wishlist gets 1316 items.

It's not the first time it happens but this issue doesn't always occur.

I don't know if Daz-Deals Chrome plugin is the cause.

Genesis 8 Gloss & Top Coat Settings

Patroklos — Wed, 02 May 2018 00:21:34 +0000

Hello, I pretty much understand these settings on G3 , but it seems different on G8. Can anyone give a quick run down, or point me in the direction of a primer.

Thanks

G8 Skin Tone

dash2128 — Tue, 01 May 2018 20:31:17 +0000

All my older characters have skint tone sets, already.

But my new G8's do not, and the skin is a silvery color. (Prior to renderering, at least.)

I want to add some G8 skin tones (for pre-render use, also), does anyone have any suggestions? My searches didn't produce much.

Photoshop Bridge with Quixel for editing and creation

skippyefa — Tue, 01 May 2018 21:54:10 +0000

I'm looking to use the photoshop bridge to use Quixel tool set so that all the maps work as they should. Does anyone have any experience with this or am I on my own to discover if this works?

Problem with viewport commands

MilosGulan — Tue, 01 May 2018 15:04:43 +0000

My viewport keybord commands doesn't work anymore, that means I cant move my viewport in DS with keyboard anymore. Also I can't choose parts of figure with mouse anymore and also I can delete them with delete key, instead I need to right click on it and delete with option. I tried searching for help and I think there is Shift + k for turning viewport key on and off but it doeasn't work.

Can anyone help me with this please?

Background Help

dash2128 — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 22:07:37 +0000

I have been setting up blackbackground lately, and I use Environments and Backdrop to swithch betweem black and normal.

This time, however, the black did noot fill the screen, as I needed it to do.

(This happened after I loaded a Daz Studio set. But even after I deleted the set, all my other saved files now do the same thing.)

I enclosed a screenshot to show what I mean.

How can I get the black to fill the entire backdrop again?

ALSO: Here is a screenshot of the set. Why does the backdrop not appear in total black, when I bring it up?

iMac 5K 2017 + eGPU + Daz Studio

SombraVega — Sun, 29 Apr 2018 17:46:15 +0000

I have an iMac 2017 5K, and love to work in daz studio, but the renders take forever, so I have been trying to find the way to make those renders take less of my time, and I just saw that there are some new eGPU on the market, but i don't know if they'll work on my imac and specifically with daz studio. Do you know if they'll work? which one is the best for a iMac 5K 2017 on High Sierra? Thanks in advanced.

Can't get Genx2 to work at all - Error loading figure/error creating morph from clone

marcussrjbates_b1589f87c6 — Thu, 12 Apr 2018 22:45:56 +0000

Hiya!
Am having some real issues with my recent(ish) purchase of Dimension 3D's "Genesis Generation X2"...so far I've been unable to get it to do anything! I get the same error message every time I try to click "Transfer"..."Morphs should be in the morphs folder for the according figure. Continue anyway?" If I click "Yes" as far as I can see, nothing happens. The "History" Tab for Genx2 shows the following;

"GenX - Transferring morphs.
Creating clone morph ...
Loading figure ...
C:/Users/BONEIDOL/Documents/DAZ 3D/Studio/My Library/data/DAZ 3D/Genesis 3/Female/Genesis3Female.dsf
Creating intermediate clone morph ...
Loading figure ...
C:/Users/BONEIDOL/Documents/DAZ 3D/Studio/My Library/data/DAZ 3D/Genesis 2/Female/Genesis2Female.dsf
Creating intermediate clone morph ...
Loading figure ...
Error loading figure.
Error creating intermediate morph from clone.
Error creating intermediate morph from clone.
Error creating morph from clone."

I haven't the faintest idea why! All my morphs for V4, Genesis 2 and Genesis 3 are installed exactly as specified by Daz. Please help!

Extremely long rendering time (movie)?

Nalfeyn — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 19:49:34 +0000

So today I wanted to animate a movie with 30 frames.

I was rendering in Iray 16/9 Full HD, max Samples to 500.

I was wondering, after 7h it just had rendered 25 frames. Is this normal?

I have a GTX 1080ti with a I7 7700k.

Any chances to improve rendering time?

Rare Stone's Morphs

Zipper730 — Wed, 25 Apr 2018 02:50:57 +0000

Has anybody had any irregularities with this?

I've had some issues and I'm curious if htis could be the culprit...

Vid card upgrade from Nvidea 970TI to Nvidea 1070TI

Thomaslazz_8c99518003 — Tue, 01 May 2018 07:52:20 +0000

I have a 970TI Nvidea card and am looking to probably get a 1070TI Nvidea card. I am curious if anyone else has done this and how noticeable the render time improvements might be?

face morph

office_f10421c9 — Tue, 01 May 2018 04:32:57 +0000

hi im new to this.....bought the 200 plus face morph....but cant find the dials....

can anyone please help?

why has daz to hexagon bridge quit working?

Xade — Sun, 29 Apr 2018 19:50:16 +0000

I've been having issues with the hexagon bridge recently. For some reason while I was working on a complex model it quit working when I went to move the hair over to hexagon to ruffle it up more to be the way I wanted. All it does is load an empty scene while daz crashes. I dont know what happened. How can I fix it?

creating morphs

andrushuk1 — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 13:01:34 +0000

Hi , I'm looking to create my own morphs for existing G3 / G8 characters and I'm wondering whitch program would be the best to achieve this ? and is their a tut on this some where ?

Crash on load (Exception error) [resolved]

Herald of Fire — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 09:04:39 +0000

Daz Studio 4.10 was working perfectly fine until I got back from my holiday. Now, for some unknown reason, it crashes whenever I load it. It could be that some Windows 10 update broke it or something, but I've tried reinstalling the software, along with my video card drivers, and neither one has worked so far.

The error I receive is in the image below. Anyone else experienced this and knows how to fix it?

External Solid State Drive

2busy4render — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 20:04:41 +0000

I just came into an external 256 GB SSD that uses USB-C. I'm wondering if it is worth using it with DS, and if so, how? (Like would it be better to move my content library to the SSD, or to somehow use it to assist with rendering?) Thanks in advance!

Dforce blow ups

Pennes From Heaven — Sun, 29 Apr 2018 16:27:14 +0000

I have been having allot of crashing of Daz when using dforce simulation but when it does actually complete a simulation part of the outfit that I'm using blows up. Any ideas on how to get the simulations to work?

I work on an

iMac

Runninf High Sierra

3.4 GHz Intel Core i5

32 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M 4096 MB

Restoring deleted eyelashes... or applying current dial settings from one figure to a new figure?

Kaleb242 — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 02:21:53 +0000

I've been working on a character, spinning a million dials here and there, and managed to delete the eyelashes from the scene along the way... is there any way to restore the eyelashes on Genesis 8 Female after they've been deleted from a scene?

I really don't want to lose the dial settings that I have so far... is there some way I can generate a list of all dial settings I'm using for the face? Or transfer them to a second instance of Genesis 8 Female brought into the scene in Daz Studio 4.10 Pro?

External Graphics Card

Tig-71 — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 21:17:51 +0000

Just looking for a bit of advice. I have a Macbook Pro that's only a few years old. I've been using DS4.9 for about a year...The only thing I wished was faster rendering. It takes about 8 hours to get 1000 iterations for a 1920x1080 image.. My images usually have 1-2 characters in it.. yada yada..

I am thinking about a Bizon Box.. which is an external GC made for Mac's. Will one of these make a big difference in render times and quality? I know it depends on which one you get but Im thinking about getting a NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti, 11 GB, 3 DP, HDMI (3584 CUDA Cores)..

Would love some input.. If anyone has any.. maybe get something less powerful? More powerful? Will it even make a dent in my render times?

Thanks in advance to all the vets out there.

Strange Reflection Problem

Geminii23 — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 14:20:07 +0000

Hi. So I have been using this environment for a long time and have never run into this before, but for some reason the boots (Urban Edgy outfit) are invisible in the reflection on this render. The floor is actually the Plexiglass prop that came with Fashion Studio environment. I believe there is something wrong with the settings of the boots themselves because when I try a different footwear item it works fine. Any ideas on what I need to change here?

Thanks!