It was workign fine yesterday and i didnt install anythign new.

I'd like to get my figures out to Photoshop with the shadows included. So I tried the solution with the shadow catcher brick as shown in youtube videos, but I can't get my plane to be invisible. What am I doing wrong? The videos are older, maybe the solution is different now?

Markus 

https://www.daz3d.com/genesis-3-female-s-victoria-7-high-heel-walk-aniblock

I didn't get all the options for the walk, I only got one aniblock. 

What do I do here? 

Can anyone point me to some documentation on this product?

Brent

there were several Genesis starter essential updates in the past. After one of these (up to now), I observed ever the message "data/daz 3d/genesis 3/female/genesis8female.dsf" file missing at the end of loading the base G8F character.
OK - the character loads successfully and works fine. But this message is annoying.

I already tried to replace the /data content with that out the DIM download zip. But no change.
Someone any idea what this could be?

last week or so I posted here in the forum about having issues with G3 and G8 females and the selection of body parts for posing. It’s happened again and I’ll try to explain. 

G3 and G8 load fine, will take 3rd party hand and full body poses, clothes, hair, shoes etc all conform. The issue is that when selecting individual body parts like the extremities there are no sliders to move the selected body parts. When I select the figure’s body and hit the arrow on the Hierarchy there is nothing in the drop down list but the hips. No hands, legs, feet, head, etc to select to pose.

The figure also doesn’t respond to shaping, surface, posing tabs. The only thing that works is the rotation and translations. Morphs will work on the figures as well.

Everything else like props, presets, etc load and work fine the issue is the selection of individual body parts to pose or the figures. 

If I need to post a screen capture I can but it doesn’t show much more than I described.

I uninstalled every thing, DS, Female essentials, IM and completely did away with my library. It seems there is something corrupt the only thing is I didn’t clean the registry or other Daz folders in the program folders on the C:/ drive so I’m at a loss as to what to do. All graphics drivers and windows updates are current (windows 10 64-bit).

I run a i7 six core and have a GTX 1060 6GB card. My scenes are not complex so I don’t think it’s my computer since the issue lies with the Genesis figures.

sorry for being so lengthy and I hope this helps.

I don´t why this option suddendly stop working. 

I mean being work along this morning, stop using daz, without close the program, and backing a while ago this stops working. Just doensn´t show nothing when I type on the search field.

Any help please?

Thanks.

1. I just bought Stonemason's The Pool House. (I already had the lights.)  A few days ago I got Lagoon Living.  Does anyone know if they come with skys, suns and clouds? Or do I have to furnish my own?

2. I have been trying to navigate in Daz the way I do in Lightwave. Quickly.  If I have a very large model at some x,y,z space (in Daz3D) I have a heck of a time trying to get a small object in that same space.

3. Oh!  DIM has not been loading everything I buy and I have a very hard time with that.  I wish I could have everything on a dedicated drive because my 250 gig system SSD is nearly full.  I have figured out that there is a way to assign various directories somewhere in Daz3D but I keep forgetting where. (Age, what!)  I better get these things in now and do more later.

But I wanted to edit the breast bumping. For me, the breasts are moving quite too far. I usually work with the breast and glute control for G3 Characters. 

Is there a way to delete the breast animation and build my own on the existing animation? 

Because the breast is moving, but my control parameters are set to 0%.

We know that one of the things that can make a garment, well, "have problems" with dForce is if its various parts aren't actually welded together correctly, intersect, etc.

Let's suppose I want to take an offending garment and modify its mesh to remove some of the issues.  I can see how self-intersections could probably be handled in Geometry Editor by deleting quads.  At least in some cases.

But if a garment has two pieces that need to be welded together, is there a way to do that without losing weight maps, rigging, etc?  I mean, I know you could export the garment's mesh as an OBJ to, say, Blender or Hexagon and edit it, but how would you then bring the modified mesh back to Daz without screwing up all the weights and rigging?

 I would greatly appreciate your suggestions. Thanks.

Well i think I really need help with 2 issues

-First one is a error message appearing just starting daz studio ( daz 4.10 pro)-attached-

I don´t understadn weel what this means, seems some problem with my Contnet forlder?

I´ve using the same content folder for years along diferent versions of Daz, just exporting to a new one or a new reinstalation of the software.

But i don´t know why this message appears now...

Anyway all seesm work as always, can load everything working... except one thing!

Which drives to the second problem:

-Second, I use this set as my recurrent ligthing tool:

https://www.daz3d.com/downloader/customer/files/prod/17456/

Very effective for me so I´ve using for years and in each new version, even alternating with Iray render mode, depedning what I want to create.

The problem is, that despite 99% of daz stuff, this plugin or set, donesn´t works after exporting the content database to the new reinstallation or cersion of DazStudio.

Seems somethign fails because the set is avaliable to use but doesnt work. The options to configurate the ligth are not visible and all the scene rendered looks black.

I instanll and reinstall the item but can´t made it work as before... I don´t know why. I think there must be some script that doenst loads properly but i don´t what to do.

Any help please?

Thanks

This does not happen every time but, when I save a character preset there seems to be like a 15% chance that it saves assets directly over the top of the base Genesis. Like I'll save an actor that I customized and when I load the normal fresh Genesis into the scene. Often times its tethered to morphs associated to my last Character Preset.

I have DAZ Studio installed on my Mac and on my Windows 10 PC. Strangely I cant login to the Install Manager on the Win PC anymore, but on my Mac without problems. All with the same account of course.

Any remedies?

Thanx, Markus

i clicked it to instal. and it does not instal it open an adminstration box and i click accept

but after that nothing happens. i tried restarting the computer en trying again, even deleted it en downloaded it again ;

but still nothing happen; can anybody explain this to me ? 

or help me ?. :)

thx

1. Some content have a zip file called "Runtime" and I thought I'd place it in Documents/DAZ3D/Studio3/content but it doesn't show up in DS, not even with the search feature. So, obviously I'm installing it wrong and the ReadMe is useless. Something about right clicking the files or some such and it's not really all that in-depth on where to unzip this RUNTIME folder.

2. Then I ran into another problem. Let's say I downloaded a morph for Genesis. The ReadMe tells me I should place it here: All morph files must be placed at
\My Library\data\DAZ 3D\Genesis\Base\Morphs\HellFishStudios\HFS Races. There's just one problem. I don't have a My Library Folder that I can se and installing it in /content wiill not work because it doesn't show up in DS.

3. As I looked through my Daz Studio Content folders, I noticed a lot of stuff is meant to be installed but it doesn't show up in DS. Such as metal shaders I had downloaded from ShareCG, but they don't show up in DS for some reason. And get this, these files are already installed. So, they should show up, but they aren't.

Any help would be appreciated.
 

For context, here's the costume in question.

One thing that I have noticed is that the sections of clothing that I didn't weight map that are the ones that explode. For instant, the cape. I weightmapped the bulk of the cloth because I want it to be effected by the dForce simulation, but I didn't weight map the metal clasps. But when I ran dForce, it was the claps that explode.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

I have 32 Gb ram on an intel i7.  Windows 10.  My DAZ version is 4.10

I have two GTX 1070 cards (8 GB), not in SLI configuration.

With a simple scene setup, a G2 this room: https://www.daz3d.com/dream-street-bedroom-suite (I mention this because I really doubt my scene has over 8 GB of data to process)

I added an overhead ghostlight, because Iray likes more light.

For some reason, I've been having slow IRAY renders lately.  

Tonight, I found out that it was rendering via the CPU, even though I only have the GPU's checked in the settings.

Somtimes, it will tell me it's starting with the CPU; if I close DAZ and restart, it might use my GPU's for a few minutes, then change over to CPU.

One time, I noticed the screen went black jsut as it switched to CPU.

I was concerned my cards were overheating, but I'm using afterburner to keep them cool--never much over 50 C.

This is really vexing, as I invested in the NVIDIA cards to make rendering faster, and now I'm getting slow CPU renders.

Here's a code I found in the log, if it helps: "2018-04-08 04:56:05.152 WARNING: dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray ERROR - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.7   IRAY   rend error: CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1070): unspecified launch failure (while de-allocating memory)"

Anyone know of how to get maybe pre-animated scenes in daz, into blender to work, or atleast get the figures and maps in and alookin' good? I'd love to use blender's assets like physics and particles and stuff with the excellent daz models.

(For example, export a fully set up clothed genesis 2 into blender, to be animated or, already animated,)

I animate on the timeline to make a figure kneel on the floor. I then create an aniblock from this.

When I apply the aniblock to a figure instead of moving down to the floor, as done on the timeline. the figure starts to float above the ground when it should crouch.

I think the y axis information, either the body or hip translation, is not being transfered, but I cant figure out why or how I can fix it

Any ideas please?

I'd really like to be able to use the capability for my brick groups, as it would make modular composition and re-use much, much easier. Other discussions I've found on the forums indicate that this should be (or once was) possible, but nothing I try works. Does anybody know what's going on?

I hope this wasn't a bunch of confusing rambling! Thanks!

:)