When imported in c4d all looks fine. Only in c4d, when I zoom in the face, the eyes are not smooth, they have sharp edges.
In my Daz preview they looked smooth. In the attach you can see the difference between the preview of daz and c4d. 

My plan is to control the eyes in c4d, like in the tutorial explained.

Is there any way or trick to smoothen out the eyes?

There's a lot of stuff and i don't want to lose it. how do i back it up correctly. I use DAZ  4.9.2.70 Pro edition ( 64 bit).

I don't have Winzip(which you have to buy i believe)

I was running 4.9 and everything was working well, but I had been experimenting with settings.

Now, when switching from Texture mode in Viewport to Iray rendered mode, it is extremly slow to switch the viewport over. The progress bar cycles nearly 5 times. Orbiting the camera works fine.  But if I switch back to Texture mode, then back to Iray mode, it again takes 60-90 seconds to draw and the Progress bar cycles 5 times.

I'm using Photoreal mode.

Nvidia GTX 950 for my monitor only.

Nvidia GTX 1060 for renders.

I tried updating to version 4.10 but had the same issue.

I then trired to do a Clean Install (though I'm not sure I accomplished that), but still have the same issue.

Any suggestions appreciated.

Thank you

If you increase the flake-size, you can see where the issue is. It is clipping to a cube frame, instead of drawing the vectors across the overlap, like it use-to.

This results in an uncontrollable grid-like pattern on any surface with the metal flakes. (Horizontal and vertical lines).

It was my understanding that the flakes were designed to be 100% uniques per each of these "cells", however, now all cells seem to have lost that unique origin per grid, and just repeat the same pattern over and over, from 0,0 (Leading to the same corner drawn over and over again, instead of one contiguoius vector-pattern.)

Making them smaller helps a little, but defeats the purpose if you make them all so small that they just look like a solid surface when rendered. Anyone have any suggestions for a quick fix?

This is just the !Uber material... Not sure if it is just that material where this is happening... They may have messed with the shader settings and broke the metal flake... (Daz essentials) did just update. I am not sure if that is one thing they updated.

Attached images shows how LOW I have to go, just to make it unseen, with flakes so microscopic, they can't be seen, it just becomes a solid color, essentially.

The next few show the pattern exists on every size higher, which it shouldn't exist at all, it is not supposed to be a repeating pattern at all.

The last two show where the "error" in the pattern exists. You can clearly see the "cut line", where the vectors stop drawing and do not overlap, as they should. If I pulled-back a bit, you would also see the repeating pattern, per grid, which it should also not be doing.

I remember, when I was playing with this before, that there were TWO vector layers. One was large, like this, and the other was small, like the middle one. Each had a setting that could be adjusted, so you could not see any repeating patterns, even when it didn't have repeating patterns. (It was more like a microscopic noise, sub-surface setting.) I am just not seeing that second option anymore. Everything just modifies this single erronious pattern. The pattern doesn't even change. It may as well just be a static JPG or PNG.

Uninstalling and reinstalling wouldn't work, since I think it doesn't even have the data in the first place to install it completely. 

(Images removed by Mod for nudity. Review guidelines for handling nudity here https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/3279/acceptable-ways-of-handling-nudity#latest​  )

when i go to my downloads and select the file for SchoolSkirt it lists the following  _MACOSX flie folder and SchoolSkirt file folder.  Since i am not using a MAC i assume the Schoolskirt file folder is the one i need to move.

Do i move the entire file ?  

Opening that file gives me several other folders,  MyLibrary file folder, DS Store which is a Ds Store file, a read me text document file which isnt usefull or at least not to me and a file for JPEG image.

Do i move the MyLibrary file?

Opening the MyLibrary file lists the following files,  data, people, runtime and another Ds Store file.

Do i move one of these if i havent moved one of the previous files?

Now the next question is where do i move it to?

the one tutorial i found was incomplete and probably geared to someone with a little more computer smarts than i have but if i understood it correctily it said it goes somewhere in

Documents > DAZ 3D > Studio > My Library.   or do i need to open My Library and place the file in data or scenes or does it go somewhere else entirely?

I've been playing with Daz for a little while, learning many things along the way but I still have a long way to go.

Lately I tried loading items purchased from another place (by vendors who are on the Daz store).

After manually installing them in my library folder I thought I was good to go but the items appear as big grey blocks when I try to load them and I get a message about missing files.

One item is a car the others are clothes.

On the other hand, poses that I installed manually work fine so I don't understand what I'm doing wrong.

Any help would be appreciated.

...but I am moving almost 100% away from using the Poser Content lib, but I still want to run that PowerLoader to load V4, if possible?  Is it possible to run a Powerloader from the Daz format library?  I tried moving the CR2, DSB and other stuff in there, but it does not run.

   Anyways, I've heard this sort of thing happens sometimes... I just don't really want to redownload all 162GB, and was wondering if the DIM had a check to verify download, or at least a redownload all button? Anything so I don't have to manually download each item.

I'm tearing my hair out a little bit.

Earlier this evening I had my "Initialize Photoshop Bridge" in the main menu of DAZ like usual. Then when I reinstalled the plug-in so it would work in the new Photoshop 2018, it vanished.

Since then, I've reinstalled it about a dozen times. I even did a manual install with the full file without DIM. The Photoshop plug-in is now working, but DAZ has nothing under the main menu. 

When I check the folder, the script and DLL are there...

Any ideas? 

:-\

P.S. I also checked the menu to see if I needed to add the action manually. It's not listed there, either. 

Is there a simple way to fit G8 clothes to G3 characters?

I've seen it done but autofit doesn't seem to work this way.

I'm rendering with 3Delight...  The characters render just fine with no clothes on... but the minute I add clothes the character ghosts out but the clothes are rendering fine... ????  What's going on????

This will be my storage setup:

• Drive C: will be a 500Gb SSD, with the OS (Win 10 Pro) and applications, like Daz.
• Drive D: will be a 1000Gb SSD. I thought I would put the most used content there, in one or more Daz library folders, and my active projects.
• Drive E: will be 4Tb HDD. I can put infrequently used content there, and older projects. (And non-Daz-related stuff)
• Drive F: isn't a drive at all. It's a FreeNAS server I built last year. I can back up there. Maybe I can load Daz zip files directly there (as opposed to my local HDD) and install them from there.

Anyway, I have a clean slate here. Before I start filling it up, I'd like to make a good plan for keeping things organized. Thank you for your advice!

I'm having trouble getting keyframes made in the animate2 aniblocks. When I move the hair bones they aren't getting registered into the aniblocks.

Thanks

As you can see from the attached render one of the figures is transparent. I tried reloading the scene, restarting, rebooting, also reapplying the skin.

If I disable the motion blur the skin renders just fine. Both characters are Genesis 1 using the DS default shader, the one to the left using the skin "mode"

and the one with the problem used the metallic but I changed it to skin which made no difference. I also reapplied the default shader just to be sure but no cigar:(

There are no error messages whatsoever.

I fixed the render using the spotrender tool and disabling the motion blur so that is not the problem but I had some animation in mind and motion blur

is kind of crucial in this case,and I can't spotrender hundreds of frames.

Anybody? Is there a workaround or trick to get this done? Has anyone else had the same problem?

The lightning was Uberarea lights for ceiling spots, ds shader spotlights above the pooltable and UE2 ambient occlusion with soft shadows+ the RR3 reflective light by Marshian.

Rendered in progressive mode: raytrace depht 2, pixel samples 12x12.

I'm on an Imac using DS 4.9.70 IIRC, can't check now as I have a render in progress.

Any tips would be much appreciated, thanks!

Edited to add: DS 4.9.2.70 64bit

My solution:

Saved out the pose shape and skin, fitted all clothing and body hair  to none. deleted the character, loaded Genesis 1 and applied the pose, shape and mat, refitted clothing

and body hair and hit render. It works now. Before all this I copied the skin from the left side character and pasted onto the right side one, still transparent.

Then I moved the left side one in front of the window and thought it might have something to do with the window transparency but he rendered ok and the other guy was still transparent lol,

both with the same skin, go figure

I currently have an NVivdia GTX 980ti in my main rig. Its ok, but I would not mind doubling the power.

Do you guys have any solid recommendations for a two GPU setup that will give me about 6.000 Cuda Cores and not break the bank?

thanks

EDIT: Forgot the add, I can get by with 8GB of GPU RAM

I see a lot of conflicting information and I am totally confused at this point. Where do I start?

I don't know if anyone has had this problem with this product I bought,

https://www.daz3d.com/walks-animation-collection-victoria-8

But, when I insert a aniblock or animation, it doesn't display on the Animate2 timeline. 

The object is moving, but I have no reference or aniblocks below.

Has anyone else had this problem, or is this supposed to work like this?

Winton  

If I export a default G8F obj model, and load it by Morph Loader Pro without any modification, then there will still be some small changes. Why this happen? I guess it is caused by the digit precision of obj file? Is there any way to avoid this?

Also, some product (for example https://www.daz3d.com/slinky-suit-for-genesis-3-female-s) provide body morphs that do not affect the clothes fit to the figure, how are these kind of morphs implemented?

Thanks.

Thanks in advance.

Is it possible to contact Anna Benjamin Nikisatez

I am having issues with the lighting in DAZ. 

I use Arrah lighting but the figure is dark and the parasol way too light and looks odd.

Any ideas how I can get the lighting right on this figure and outfit.

I have tried applying the low res and using a spotlight. neither work.

Thanks for any help.

Regards

Carolann

One month ago, I bought a Gigabyte 1080ti Aorus Extreme edition. I put latest drivers 391.01 and started rendering. At first everything was working properly. But as the days were passing my card started to have problems during rendering. Most of the times it stopped working and I was getting a message like this: 'Your driver 391.01 stopped working and restored successfully'. It was getting worse every day and then I couldn't even do dforcing, especially with non-dforced clothing items. Now only about 3 out of 10 renders and dforcing attempts are successful. I upgraded the drivers to 391.24 but I still have the same problems.

I tried my card in some games as GTA V or even a little cryptocurrency mining and no problems there. It seems that it is only Daz's problem.

Do you have any suggestions about what to do?

Hope someone can help me out. Cheers Gray