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Studio Program Showing Too Small to Read in HD Laptop

borgtrekker — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 06:55:29 +0000

Hi, was unable to find anything on this so hope it has not been covered elseware... I own a new HP spectre 15" 360 Laptop running Windows 10 Pro 64 running at its normal resolution of 3840 x 2160 and when running DAZ Studio it is impossible to see anything as everything is so small. Without fully changing my screens resolution or setting that will effect all my other running programs,- which are well seen using this native resolution - is there any way to increase the veiwing size of Studio so I can see everything clearly? If not will Windows 10 Pro allow me to change screen resolution for specific programs such as Studio without affecting my other programs or are there any apps you know of that will do this?

As always many thanks to my fellow Forum Members who have assisted me in the past.

Wade

Genesis 8 Problem

scottstory_2926497e53 — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 15:32:18 +0000

I've purchased and installed the Genesis 8 male and femail body morphs, head morphs, and expression, but none of them seem to come up. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but nowhere have I found that they come up in the shaping pane. Also, while they are present under G in the Products list, they tricker no icons in the pane to right where all the options usually pop up with thumbnails.

Advice needed. Is there something I'm missing or not understanding?

GenX Transferring

Jay Jay_1264499 — Sat, 07 Apr 2018 19:41:33 +0000

Hi. After getting GenX sorted I've been reading through the manual and could do with a little assistance. I've several custom figures I've made for my comic which are Genesis based which I'd like to upscale to Gen2. They all have custom things like eye shapes etc so I initially thought GenX would allow me to load up a custom figure and then do the rest!! But it seems to be created to look at morphs instead of a custom .duf file. If that's the case could someone point me in the direction of how I can take my custom .duf file and make a morph of it? I've looked through YouTube and searched but can't seem to get anywhere Any help would be awesome. Thank you!

Registering GenX on an offline PC (Fixed)

Jay Jay_1264499 — Sat, 07 Apr 2018 09:08:58 +0000

Morning. Title says it all really. I installed the 64bit version last night (had to manually install as DIM didn't couldn't see it) But then, appreciate I have to register the plug in. But my problem is that my PC is always offline due to being miles away from my router etc. I think the answer is no but does anyone have any suggestions on how I can get round this? Also I thought DIM would have installed it OK but it failed to see it in the ready to install section. Anyone know the answer to that either? Thank you to anyone who can help

Grain on point light [Help needed]

ThatOneDude226 — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 22:26:03 +0000

Hi all, I've been using Daz for a few months casually and only now have I just started trying out lighting and camera settings. On a image I'm trying to render I have a point light in a hand which is orange and is there to be the lighting that will come off of a post-added fire effect. The light is bright enough to add a really nice effect on the characters body and face. Now I've read various pages however upon testing I cannot seem to match the original effect with changes to rendering such as more samples, higher quality, and dropping the point lights lumens, etc. Same with enabling caustics, everything detracts away from the effect I'm trying to achieve.

Here is the problem:

Could anyone point me in the right direction to solving such an issue (if even possible while keeping the same lighting effects)?

Thanks in advance.

How do I use ZTL files?

brckbrd — Sat, 07 Apr 2018 09:17:18 +0000

How exactly are ZTL files used? Can they be loaded or applied to objects?

All of my figures are now appearing as white brackets

razorTsax_5269831006 — Sat, 07 Apr 2018 04:59:14 +0000

I was animating a scene with genesis 3 when all of a sudden, everything became white brackets. (See attached photo). Now every time I open up a recent file, everything is still appearing as white brackets (It doesn't matter which figure I use). I have no idea how to fix it. Help would be greatly appreciated!.

Daz Cat 2 and AM's Lion

greatguy351 — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 03:36:38 +0000

Really disappointed that the Daz big cat 2 lion doesn't seem to open it's mouth and AM's lion loads 99% of the way and then does nothing.

no fit, but same shape

abiflash — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 17:45:16 +0000

An object I have loaded in the scene and is fit and parented to G3F. If I duplicate the object, unparented it and fit it to none, it loses its shape.
How can I keep its shape without fit to G3F?

Daz Studio 4.X Pro will not install. Stuck on Installing Management Service

Knight22179 — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 03:57:41 +0000

As the title says. The installation will not go past the "Installing Management Service" point no matter how long I wait. Then when I click cancel and try and re-install, I get an error message. I tried re-downloading DS.x Pro again and I get the same result. Worse, I get the same exact result if I try to go back and install a previous version of DS. Which means, I can't use the program at all because it won't install! >.<

I tried using Daz Install Manager too and it installs the program, but it's not showing up in my Start>Program Files, just the Daz Install Manager and no desktop icon. Then I tried re-installing DS again (which got rid of the error message), but as always it gets stuck on installing Management Service!

Can someone please help me?

Texturing with Substance Painter: which Normal format to use

aaráribel caađo — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 19:11:49 +0000

In Substance Painter, when setting up a project, there's a choice between Direct X and OpenGL normal mat formats. Is one of them the correct one for using with Daz and Iray?

GenX Not showing up in Plugins

Angel — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 11:51:01 +0000

I dont know why but GenX isnt showing up in my plugins. I installed it. I go to put in my Seriel number, but when I do, its no where to be found in my list of plugins.

In fact, I dont even recall uninstalling it in the first place...

Cannot select body parts on Genesis figures

Philippi_Child — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 14:04:13 +0000

Yesterday I had problems selecting body parts on the Genesis figures to pose them. So today I thought maybe the PC needed to be shut down and restarted that it would clear up the problem. Well it didn't as a matter of fact every Genesis figure I would bring into the scene didn't even show up in the list to be posed it was as if there was no figure in the scene. The figure was there but no way to pose it. What I mean by this is if I selected the head there was no dials to move the head this was the case of all the body parts on all figures you know how you's see "Genesis 3 female" it's not even listed. Does DS need to be unistalled then reinstalled via the IM? All my drivers, DS (4.10) are up to date and my OS is windows 10 which all updates are up to speed. I'm just confused everything was working so well ad few hours before this happened yesterday afternoon.

Thanks!

HELP! Textures not loading on object.

artofsuiter — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 04:15:52 +0000

I need help with DAZ Studio 4.10 . I am trying to put textures on Ptropes sci-fi bridge set , just the carpet for now, but no textures show up (available at sharecg for free) . All that happens is the color changes and its a flat color. I have tried non Iray using Diffuse, tiling, as well as converting to Iray , applying the Iray Base and then shaders, all types, and its the same thing. Just a flat base color of whatver texture or shader I use. I have asked others elsewhere, and they have had ZERO problems loading textures. I even tried it in Poser Pro 11 and I got the same result. I also reloaded the model and still had the same results. None of the walls or flooring take a texture/shader for me. Like I said, others have been able to apply textures/shaders to the same model so I know it can be done. I have applied shaders to other things and never had any issues. Just this model.

saved pose doesn't look the same for others

Cyprine — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 15:29:25 +0000

hi !

i've saved poses for g3f and when sharing them, other users report seeing different results - on the 30 poses, only this one (and its sibling) is causing trouble

attached is a pic comparing the 2

image removed

what did go wrong ?

Login problems, again

EightiesIsEnough — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 09:56:52 +0000

I was able to log on to these forums from another computer outside my residence, but less than a half hour ago, on my home computer, I was unable to log on to these forums and unable to log on to DAZ Studio.

I am making the folks at DAZ Studio aware of this matter, and hopefully this issue will be fixed soon.

D-Force question

Cricket — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 01:17:45 +0000

I'm am plannig on buying this product by SickleYield http://www.daz3d.com/sy-genesis-8-clones-for-genesis-3. Does anyone who has this product know if G8 clothing made for D-Force will lose the "D-Forcability" if converted? I know there is some issues with hair when autofitted losing morphs, so I wasn't sure if the same would apply here.

Mac - Completely Uninstall & Start from Scratch

djrenderuser — Sun, 18 Mar 2018 21:03:05 +0000

I would like to completely uninstall Daz Studio and then reinstall like it has never been on my Mac. How to?

Product: Amphibian Pond

Cherubit — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 23:20:25 +0000

https://www.daz3d.com/amphibian-pond

It's a beautiful product that has been on my wishlist for a long time and I want to buy it now.

I'm wondering if it inclues the skies? It only says it has the render presets for Daylight, Sunset and Night. It could be just the environment lights or somethihg. It's not clear if the skies are included.

Does anybody know?

Scroll bar on pane isn't visible

2busy4render — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 16:22:10 +0000

Hi, this has been driving me nuts: With DS 4.10, I run into this problem where the scroll bar on the right uppermost pane goes off screen when I have panes open on the left. I'm using the default configuration so the pane that is giving me trouble has the Scene view, so to select an item in the scene I have to use the down arrow to get to it. Or if I hide the pane on the left, the scroll bar in the right pane is accessible. So I end up hiding the left pane, selecting the item in my scene from the right pane, and then hiding the right pane again.

I'm running a GTX 1050 ti GPU, and I've tried resizing the display...but DS seems to want to take up just a bit more space on the right side of the display no matter what, so it puts the scroll bar just out of reach.

Not sure I'm describing this well but it's...well, a huge pain. Thanks in advance for any suggestions

Has DIM gone AWOL?

SimonJM — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 20:10:53 +0000

I can't seem to be able to login to DIM now (not linked, I don't think!) to my earlier thread! - is it just me?

Has anyone else ever had a laptop charger burn out while rendering?

DawnStar — Sun, 01 Apr 2018 19:15:31 +0000

I know that 4-5 hour renders make the machine work very hard, and that chargers can get quite hot during that time, but I was alarmed to come back at one point to find my charger had completely burn’t out, fusing the house lights in the process. I’m sure this can’t be normal. Has anyone else experienced this issue?

Need help organizing content and make sliders appear again

mrthernlund — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 14:04:52 +0000

Hi there!

I am a beginner of 3D art and started using DAZ a month or two ago maybe. However, after getting started and making lots of scenes, experimenting with render settings and buying a couple of content as well as grabbing some of the free ones, I kind of dropped the ball. You see, I am not very experienced in using Windows 10 and one day I was goofing around with oneDrive and it asked me to copy some stuff I didn't really want to upload to the it so I declined, or so I thought. All of a sudden the entire public folder with subfolders were transferred to my oneDrive while simultaneously removing them from my local drive. I panicked and hit cancel so there I was with all my local public content removed. I thought I got off easy without wrecking too much, since I never manually put stuff there. DAZ Studio on the other hand does.

I recognized I had a problem when I opened a scene.duf I had been working on and the poses were off. I tried to use the sliders to correct them, but the figure didn't respond to the slider. Naturally, I started googling for an answer to my problems, and reinstalled all my content with the DAZ Install Manager. This didn't resolve it, so I tried setting the installation path to c: users/public/public documents/My DAZ 3D Library and updated my content folders in the Content Directory Manager to match this. Same problem but now random content had dissappeared (!).

I figured I had done goofed enough and tried to start over by uninstalling everything. Not as easy as running an uninstall it seems. I used DAZ Install Manager to uninstall everything, no manual installations, so that's fine at least. Then I went into all the folders on public, program files and program to manully remove the left overs before uninstalling the Manager as weel. Hoping to reset everything to defaults when all was working I installed the Manager, DAZ studio and all of my content again. The problems remained. Some content didn't show and sliders that handled posing and shaping were now removed altogether from my panes.

Not only had my problems remained, they had gotten worse as the DAZ Install Manager now wants to install most content everytime I start up and it still won't show in DAZ studio library. I found a guide on how to reset my database through the Content Database Maintenance and managed to get all files showing in the library again after processing the data. However, the Manager still doesn't realize contents have been installed and my sliders are nowhere to be found.

I really enjoy the software and have spent some money on it but now I am exhauasted and at a standstill ready to give up on it all. If someone could help med I would be really thankful.

Transfer "Point At" to timeline?

veggicidal_fe8f67964c — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 01:55:35 +0000

Hi all,

I really like the "Point At" feature for getting body parts to animate smoothly, but there are certain limitations that I'm sure everyone is aware of. For example, when an arm is fixed in "Point At" mode, then you cannot twist it or add any layers of motion on top of it. It's very frustrating when you want to tweak an AniBlock or add layers to them.

My question, is there a way to "burn in" the animation keys generated by a Point At control? That is to say, take the actual position of the figure and transfer it to the timeline? Then after you delete the null and deactivate the "Point At" command, you should still see the figure animate in the same positions it generated as if the Point At were activated. For example, point the arm at a null, then transfer all those positions to the timeline and into an AniBlock, then add a new layer of motion on top of that (e.g., arm twisting).

I hope I'm making sense. Does anyone know of a way to do this? I've tried several approaches, but Daz seems to just use Point At as a kind of override. When you try to transfer the animation to the timeline in the form of keyframes, it just reverts back to the old positions once the PointAt is deactivated. There doesn't seem to be a way to preserve the results of a PointAt command once it is removed.

Thanks!

Shouldn't there be a install warning about storage space?

atacit_23cd333971 — Sun, 01 Apr 2018 21:46:08 +0000

New to Daz , just getting my sea legs with this software really and my drive has redlined already. With it storing my sad attempts at art and my purchases of "that looks cool stuff" all on my C drive I can't bail fast enough, the DIM makes sure of that. It seems odd that the powers that be have not split some of the data storage up to fix this obvious problem.

I have read a few threads on moving my files about but a few contradict each other or have left me crosseyed. Since I am just beginning this quest, is it best to start over and reinstall it all and make the DIM point to another drive or could someone point me to the definitive where to put stuff if you don't have a 10 tb C drive?

Product Updates Not Installing

Comets — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 06:22:29 +0000

Hi, I have several products listing updates in the smart content tab. I select install from the right click context menu, it appears to download the update, but then nothing further happens; the product remains with a update notifcation as nothing changed.

I've had these for a month now. Any way to resolve this?

Is Facegen a Great Way To Create My Own Characters?

DesignbyNettis — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 07:58:36 +0000

Hello...

I Thought about buying a program To start to create my own characters.

I Have read about Facegen and it SEEMS to be an awesome way to create my own 3d characters. But BEFORE I buy this program (its kind of expensive) I wanna hear From YOU who have the talent and experiense Of creating Your Own Characters, is Facegen a GOOD way to create? Is it easy to create my own characters? Can I create textures for makeup and skin, as tattoes?

I have Blender and Zbrush aswell if there is any help?

I have downloaded the demo and played a bit with it... it seems real good BUT is it?

THANK YOU For all the help....

Love and blessings

Anette aka Nettis

OK I give up, there's NO instructions (SY Genesis 8 Clones for Genesis 3) SOLVED

billyben_0077a25354 — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 22:41:52 +0000

Okay, I give up. How do you use the SY Genesis 8 Clones for Genesis 3? I want to try to use some new dForce G8 clothing and G8 hair on G3/V7 and I am at a loss. The product page and Documentation center do not give instructions on how to use the product. It may be easy for old hands but for someone why has never used clones before, there is not enough infomration to get started. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Moving all my DAZ content

Okario — Tue, 16 May 2017 14:57:09 +0000

Hi everyone.

I know my question was already asked by the past, but I never was able to manage my problem

All my DAZ content are in the default folder : "C:\Users\Public\Documents\My DAZ 3D Library". But at this time, I don't have any more space on my HDD C ( It's a SSD and I have already move on another drive all the .zip files from Install Manager's file)

So, my question is very simple. Is there someone who can explain to me (as I was a dummy ...), step by step, how I can move on another drive all my DAZ content. And, if I open a previous scene, will DAZ be capable to find alone the assets ? Or, is there another manipulation for this ?

Something like :

1/ Step 1

2/ Step 2

3/ Step 3

(if you want to include screenshoots, you are welcome ;) )

I'm very sorry to asking this again, but I have now to many DAZ content and I'm now stuck even to download new content more than 2Go ...

Thank you for your help.

Best Shoe transfer method from V4 to G3 to G8

bwise1701 — Tue, 03 Apr 2018 15:23:26 +0000

Can someone reccommend the best transfer tutuorials for this?

Thanks