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Frustrated with Render in Window

Faeryl Womyn — Mon, 26 Mar 2018 05:27:15 +0000

Don't know if anyone else is having this problem, didn't want to do a ticket if this is considered normal for the current version.

I am using 4.10 and when I do a render, I head into settings for size and such and always have it set up to render in a new window, so I could see the full size and therefore any problems my scene might have. For some reason Daz will not render in a new window, it will only do so in the current scene and that image is too small for me to see if there's no poke thru and such.

Any idea's about this?

Never saw this G3M distortion before

john_antkowiak — Sat, 31 Mar 2018 16:19:37 +0000

Hi, everyone. I never saw this before, but also never looked. What the heck happened here? All I did was load a character and bend a few upper body joints. AfterI saw this, I loaded a couple of G3F characters and tried it on them. No problem. Then I loaded a second G3M and the problem showed up on him too. Both males loaded with Duplicate file error messages, but that's not unusual and I never saw this before. Neither female loaded with this error this time. Can this be a result of that error and I just never noticed? Thanks --

Pose Preset issue

Sylva1n — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 09:37:56 +0000

Hello,

I would like to save a pose preset in DAZ Studio 4.5.

Only the expressions pose (cf. screenshot). So I've checked only the Head Pose Controls checkbox.

But when I apply the pose preset to my figure, nothing happens.

If I save the pose checking all the checkboxes (Hip, General, Pose controls), then it works but... I don't want to save all this stuff!

What can I do?

best regards,

Sylvain

Transfer Genesis 8 Characters to Genesis 3

OrionPax09 — Sat, 31 Mar 2018 08:08:57 +0000

Okay. This might seem like a strange thing to talk about, but here goes. I get that Genesis 8 is the next big thing. And there is a lot to be said about it. However, there's also a lot to be said about the Genesis 3 models. They're still very good in my opinion. And I also have a greater number of resources for Genesis 3 than I do for Genesis 8. There are things such as Centaur 7, as well as Anneka Demon. Not to mention all of the morphs that I've been able to transfer to Genesis 3 via Genesis Generations. Also...some of the bends for Genesis 8 just don't seem quite right to me.

So while I have seen some tutorials about transferring Genesis 3 morphs to Genesis 8, what if I wanted to do the reverse? Any suggestions?

Rendering extremely slow

Camthaleon — Sat, 31 Mar 2018 13:33:35 +0000

I have a scene with two characters, male and female. I'm using Daz 4.9

Male has simple short hair not moving, an old greek-like cloth instead of pants, no shirt, has wings.

Female also has a similar cloth just different color, hair, no shirt.

Animation is 450 frames. I simulated the wind for her hair and cloth. Pretty basic stuff, nothing extreme.

Render time for 1 frame is about 2 hours. Why?

Render Settings, I'm using default iRay, the only thing I changed is render quality which is set to 1.87 I think. It's rendering in 1920x1080. I know pretty big... In Advanced settings I have both CPU and GPU checked, if I do just GPU I get an instant black frame. I read that it's a memory issue. My card is Nvidia Gtx 1070 ftw hybrid gaming 8gb. I just got another one to put in SLI and share the workload.

Other renders: OpenGL gives a frame instantly 3Delight is quite slow but not as slow as iRay. Just doesn't look as good... or photorealistic as it's called.

Is there anything I'm setting up wrong? Anyone else has uber slow render times?

Lip Syncing for my animations.

Formulaone — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 06:49:42 +0000

I want to give my characters the ability to speak. I want something like the Lip Sync capabilities of the Daz 4.10 32 bit version. I have the 64 bit version and it doesn't have that plug-in. Is there another app that I can use that does the same thing. Lip Sync in invaluable. Can I download and run the 32 bit version of Daz on my 64 bit system?

Thanks

RuntimeDNA orders :)

scentedtameka_ca2046fb3b — Sat, 31 Mar 2018 03:25:39 +0000

I have a question as we all know that RuntimeDNA was closing and merging with daz email said we don’t really need to do anything except emails to match ok yada yada I cant find my RuntimeDNA orders they’re not listed

GPU only renders first frame, then memory problem (Iray)

the_iron_eddie — Fri, 30 Mar 2018 19:39:56 +0000

Hi!

I have a 980 Ti and I'm trying to render an image series.

Following advice on a different thread, I made sure that my fans were running at 100% and that my gpu temp wasn't too high (45 C during render). First image of the series rendered in 5 minutes with my gpu only. Then this error message:

IRAY rend error: Unable to allocate 134217728 bytes from 351354880 bytes of available device memory.

The thing is 134 217 728 is less than 351 354 880, so it should be possible to allocate, shouldn't it? And should I not have way more than this available, since my 6 GB of ram on the card should give me more than 15 times this amount of available memory? Is it that my GPU tries to allocate the seccond frame without dumping the first?

Every time I render an image series, it's the same: first image renders fast with GPU; the others fail tu use it and fall back on CPU...

Thanks for any help!

Gaila Hair

Gyland — Sat, 31 Mar 2018 10:53:03 +0000

HI Which genesis 8 female have this hair style?

rendering quality?

barnabet14_6e3228f4c2 — Sat, 31 Mar 2018 08:07:57 +0000

I noticed that some dark renders stayed grainy at 100% convergence, so I raised rendering quality. My question is, what does rendering quality affect? Does it change the iterations themselves, or does it just increase the iterations number necessary for convergence?

Tutorials on IK and target helpers

johranshadi — Sat, 31 Mar 2018 11:16:55 +0000

I have been struggling with genesis 8 animation. I am doing the triceps dips (hands behind the body on a chair and moving body up and down). I can't get the hands to lock onto the chair so in the animation they keep moving along the body. I don't think it is possible to parent the hand to the chair either so I started looking around for more options. There is a lot of mention of "IK" and "target helpers" in the forum as the only solution to this problem. I tried to figure that out but it was too complicated. I couldn't even find where to insert target objects from. Nor did I get any luck on YouTube. So I was wondering if anyone can link me to a video tutorial where the use of those two features is properly demonstrated. Thanks!

Physics TAB where is it?

father1776 — Sat, 31 Mar 2018 04:10:59 +0000

I am a noob with animation, stills are my area.

BUT, I now see a need to add wind effects and the manuals all say that it is set

in the PHYSICS TAB. I see no physics tab...nothing close.

SO...where is it hiding?

thxs

BVH import to Gen3 issues

maxi.richert — Thu, 29 Mar 2018 13:23:04 +0000

I have just gotten into animating with DAZ and come across a really annoying issue, from what I hear in the forums it's pretty common though:

I'm downloading an animation file from the internet (tried various ones, let's take the ones from https://truebones.com/ for example) and try importing it on my genesis 3 figure. Limits set to off. The resulting animation is totally weird and doesn't resemle the desired animation at all.

Any general rules I seem to overlook here? Or is it simply not possible to download / import animations that easily?

Thanks and best,

Max

Interactive Lessons disappeared!

eric_2703d626e1 — Fri, 30 Mar 2018 07:58:55 +0000

A few days ago I downloaded DAZ and have been using the Interactive Lessons ( very impressive by the way ).

But just now, after 5 hours of computer time, they disapeared. I've resarted the computer several times and even deleated DAZ and reinstalled and nothing! Can they be turned off somehow or made invisible? When I open up the HOME window it says that it will now show me where the interactive lessons can be chosen from with an arrow but no arrow is present.

I'm at a total loss and I don't see anyone else having this problem except those who hadn't made the jump years ago when they were first introduced.

I'm working on a Mac running High Sierra ( 10.13.3 ) and Daz ( 4.10.0.123 ).

What do I do?

Zbrush to Daz is not accurate (mixed up)

riler — Fri, 30 Mar 2018 03:38:38 +0000

Hello,

I used GoZ for simple morph and that's working great, but when I want to use it for Complex object (an object that has been edited with other morphs) It doesn't work, how? it miss up the lips (open them) , stretch the eyes, and so on (anyting that I edited in zbrush but so extreme).

I used it in new genises too and It still the same problem. I want to create a single morph to convert genisis to person I want,. Could you guys help?

Thank you

Daz 4.10 and Zbrush 4R8P2

Sometimes I can't remove an expression without zeroing a character..

Serene Night — Fri, 30 Mar 2018 03:34:55 +0000

Hi:

I love expressions, but some sets seem to not reset when I use included reset expressions presets. Is there a way to reset the pose of the head to get rid of whatever funkiness is going on with the expression?

Daz Freezing Up

kwannie — Fri, 30 Mar 2018 07:11:59 +0000

I need Help !!! Please could someone tell me what would cause DS to lock up when I try to delete a Genesis based charater G1, G2, G3 or G8. victoria 4 STAR Cookie none of the legacy figures cause DS to lock up. I also cannot perform a "Select All" or do a " Fit To" operation on any Genesis base characters. I have tried to reinstall DS 10 and have tried to reinstall the genesis characters and it still freezes. Anybody.......Please! Thanks!!!

Kwan

View tools glitchy after Window 10 update

sarge74 — Sat, 11 Nov 2017 23:14:30 +0000

So this is driving me nuts. I've always used a Wacom Bamboo MTE-450 instead of a mouse (art guy, I like a stylus on a tablet instead of a mouse). I'm running Daz 4.9 Pro on a Windows 10 PC. After last nights update, the view tools on Daz are all glitchy. When I click on the rotate tool, pan tool or zoom tool, they will often immediately set to a much different orientation than where I was at. The rotate (orbit camera) tool is the one that really drives me nuts. I will click and drag to rotate my view around a model and it will snap the view to underneath the floor. Sometimes three four times in a row until finally it lets me rotate to where I want my view.

I've downloaded the latest drivers from Wacom, but its not helping. Can't wait to find out what else is going to suprise me from Window's latest shit sandwich.

Any suggestions would be most helpful. Thanks

running out of space "C" drive

julienicholls72 — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 12:33:03 +0000

Hello!

Is it possible to move all the products that I've bought onto another drive for DAZ to work still? i have lots of room on another drive, but I daren't move them for fear I'll mess up DAZ.

Thank you

wow DS crash disconnected my Graphics Card

ibr_remote aka infinity10 — Thu, 29 Mar 2018 06:09:25 +0000

Am running DS 4.10.0.123 on a 64-bit Windows Home machine.

Had a big crash during which my graphics driver was disconnected, the OS reverted to native screen resolution. When I rebooted the PC the next morning, no cure. I had to uninstall the graphics Driver, then let OS re-install on next boot.

Here's a snippet of my log file from DS:

2018-03-28 22:58:33.552 Loaded file: a01.dsf

2018-03-29 14:02:45.460 +++++++++++++++ DAZ Studio 4.10.0.123 starting +++++++++++++++++

2018-03-29 14:02:45.460 Platform bits: 64

2018-03-29 14:02:45.460 Qt Version: 4.8.7

2018-03-29 14:02:45.460 OpenSubdiv Version: 3.0.0

2018-03-29 14:02:45.460 Running on Windows 10, Build 9200, No Service Pack Installed

2018-03-29 14:02:45.460 CPU Information:

2018-03-29 14:02:45.460 CPU String: GenuineIntel

2018-03-29 14:02:45.460 CPU Brand String: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790 CPU @ 3.60GHz

2018-03-29 14:02:45.460 Cache Line Size = 64

2018-03-29 14:02:45.464 L2 Associativity = 6

2018-03-29 14:02:45.464 Cache Size = 256

2018-03-29 14:02:45.464 Stepping ID = 3

2018-03-29 14:02:45.464 Model = 12

2018-03-29 14:02:45.464 Family = 6

2018-03-29 14:02:45.464 Extended model = 3

2018-03-29 14:02:45.464 CLFLUSH cache line size = 64

2018-03-29 14:02:45.464 APIC Physical ID = 2

(I was trying to convert Genesis 3 Male pants to genesis 8 Male fit.)

GPU changes to CPU, while rendering in Iray

Baudraufauf — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 18:35:47 +0000

Hello,

There were some threads with the same problem, but I haven't found any solution to it. Maybe there is some new information or I missed something.

My problem:

After ~7 minutes of rendering in Iray, Daz uses the CPU instead of the GPU for rendering. With the GPU (GTX 780ti, 3GB VRam) I can render in 4-8 minutes, but the CPU makes everything a lot slower.

I can finish one picture that takes 5 minutes. If I render a second one without closing Daz, it changes ~ at 2-3 minutes.

2018-03-21 15:54:31.660 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.0 IRAY rend info : Received update to 00176 iterations after 162.344s.

2018-03-21 15:54:47.182 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.0 IRAY rend info : Received update to 00193 iterations after 177.867s.

2018-03-21 15:54:55.782 WARNING: dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray ERROR - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.6 IRAY rend error: CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 780 Ti): Kernel [18] failed after 0.039s

2018-03-21 15:54:55.783 WARNING: dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray ERROR - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.6 IRAY rend error: CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 780 Ti): an illegal memory access was encountered (while launching CUDA renderer in core_renderer_wf.cpp:807)

2018-03-21 15:54:55.783 WARNING: dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray ERROR - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.6 IRAY rend error: CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 780 Ti): Failed to launch renderer

2018-03-21 15:54:55.783 WARNING: dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray ERROR - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.2 IRAY rend error: CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 780 Ti): Device failed while rendering

2018-03-21 15:54:55.783 WARNING: dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray WARNING - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.2 IRAY rend warn : All available GPUs failed.

2018-03-21 15:54:55.784 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.2 IRAY rend info : Falling back to CPU rendering.

2018-03-21 15:54:55.784 WARNING: dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray ERROR - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.2 IRAY rend error: CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 780 Ti): an illegal memory access was encountered (while initializing memory buffer)

2018-03-21 15:54:55.784 WARNING: dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray ERROR - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.2 IRAY rend error: All workers failed: aborting render

2018-03-21 15:54:55.784 WARNING: dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray ERROR - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.2 IRAY rend error: CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 780 Ti): an illegal memory access was encountered (while de-allocating memory)

2018-03-21 15:54:55.784 WARNING: dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray ERROR - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.2 IRAY rend error: CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 780 Ti): an illegal memory access was encountered (while de-allocating memory)

2018-03-21 15:54:55.784 WARNING: dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray ERROR - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.2 IRAY rend error: CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 780 Ti): an illegal memory access was encountered (while de-allocating memory)

2018-03-21 15:54:55.784 WARNING: dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray ERROR - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.2 IRAY rend error: CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 780 Ti): an illegal memory access was encountered (while de-allocating memory)

2018-03-21 15:54:55.784 WARNING: dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray ERROR - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.2 IRAY rend error: CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 780 Ti): an illegal memory access was encountered (while de-allocating memory)

2018-03-21 15:54:55.784 WARNING: dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray ERROR - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.2 IRAY rend error: CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 780 Ti): an illegal memory access was encountered (while de-allocating memory)

2018-03-21 15:54:55.784 WARNING: dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray ERROR - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.2 IRAY rend error: CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 780 Ti): an illegal memory access was encountered (while de-allocating memory)

2018-03-21 15:54:55.784 WARNING: dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray ERROR - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.2 IRAY rend error: CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 780 Ti): an illegal memory access was encountered (while de-allocating memory)

2018-03-21 15:54:55.784 WARNING: dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray ERROR - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.2 IRAY rend error: CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 780 Ti): an illegal memory access was encountered (while de-allocating memory)

2018-03-21 15:54:55.784 WARNING: dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray ERROR - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.0 IRAY rend error: CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 780 Ti): an illegal memory access was encountered (while de-allocating memory)

2018-03-21 15:54:55.784 WARNING: dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray ERROR - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.0 IRAY rend error: CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 780 Ti): an illegal memory access was encountered (while de-allocating memory)

2018-03-21 15:54:55.785 WARNING: dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray ERROR - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.0 IRAY rend error: CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 780 Ti): an illegal memory access was encountered (while de-allocating memory)

2018-03-21 15:54:55.789 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.0 IRAY rend info : CPU: using 8 cores for rendering

2018-03-21 15:54:55.789 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.0 IRAY rend info : Rendering with 1 device(s):

2018-03-21 15:54:55.789 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.0 IRAY rend info : CPU

2018-03-21 15:54:55.789 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.0 IRAY rend info : Rendering...

2018-03-21 15:54:55.789 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.2 IRAY rend info : CPU: Scene processed in 0.000s

2018-03-21 15:54:55.789 Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.2 IRAY rend progr: CPU: Processing scene...

2018-03-21 15:54:55.791 Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.4 IRAY rend stat : Native CPU code generated in 9.06e-007s

So if I close Daz3d after rendering one picture, it seems to be ok - until 7-8 minutes of rendering. So I can't render pictures that takes +10 minutes...

Is there any solutions to it? People said in other threads, that the Vram is getting full. Should this really be normal?

I already set the "Render Target" to "Direct to file", so there is only the extra window with the progress while rendering. I changed the power options to "high performance".

Tried with OptiX Prime Acceleration on/off, no difference. The graphic temps are ok.

I hope someone can help me out with this.

Empty "preset" tab? Why?

n.drju_6d88cb4c15 — Sun, 25 Mar 2018 07:45:12 +0000

Hey there fellow artists,

I have just upgraded the software to 4.10 version and stumbled upon something...

For some reason, the "presets" section in the surfacing/rendering tab does not display any items. Back in DS 4.8 I had very useful stuff down there. For instance, optimized settings for human iRay or optimized settings for iRay eyes. Now it just won't turn up in the presets. From where I usually applied it.

I went through my files and there are various iRay presets in the library as they should. However, I can access them only through the content library tab which was never the case before and it is quite surprising something like that would happen!

While I can find my way around for various surfaces without the "preset" section, it still does not change the fact that the skin iRay items are gone. I don't understand why. Some of them I think, are included in the default download package, along with DS itself so why won't they show up?

DAZ Studio Layered Image Editor

ArtsyDragon — Thu, 29 Mar 2018 13:02:14 +0000

Hello,

Dumb question time. I keep hearing about this but have not found any documentation on how to use this. Is it already in DAZ Studio or do I need to purchase it?

Thanks!

Missing render tabs and options

ameliasd1 — Thu, 29 Mar 2018 04:38:35 +0000

while playing around with rendering i somehow lost my rendering tabs and render settings. I am also missing Gen 8 figures, both male and female. Can anyone point me in the right direction on how to fix this? Is there anyway to re download Daz to fix the issue? I deleted, uninstalled Daz once but when i downloaded it again the same issue, no render tab, render settings options or gen 8 figures. It seems the settings are also set to cartoon instead of photoreal, making the figures i do use very blockie when loaded. Any help is appreciated.

Shaders try to load like scenes. Can't be found.

Bryan Valencia — Mon, 26 Mar 2018 05:44:54 +0000

On my surfaces tab, with an object selected, I select a texture, and hit Presets. I browse to Shaders - Iray - Fabric (though all shaders have this problem)

I double click the Fabric-silk-blue icon and I get Would you like to save changes to the current file before closing it?

I click YES and get Could not open file /Shader Presets/Iray/DAZ Uber/Fabric - Silk - Blue.duf. File does not exist.

I right click the icon again, and pick Browse to file location. (C:\Users\Public\Documents\My DAZ 3D Library\Shader Presets\Iray\DAZ Uber)

There are 3 files for every shader, a .duf, and 2 .png's

Now recently I moved the location of all my Scene and output folders to organize myself a bit, but I did nothing to these folders.

Is Daz just hoplessely broken?

Install Failed!

danielbest — Thu, 29 Mar 2018 11:30:54 +0000

A bunch of Genesis Start Essentials package updates appeared in DIM, I've downloaded them successfully but I noticed they weren't installing. When I hit the install button they start installing, get to a certain point then the install bar displays the message 'Install Fails!'. I've not had anything like this happen before, any idea what might be causing it?

Toon render option?

darkguyver1994_a1285f4265 — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 21:03:39 +0000

When I first started using DAZ Studio there was a toon render option. I'm not seeing it anymore. So what do I use to make my DAZ renders cartoonish?

setting up desktop as render farm?

maxi.richert — Thu, 29 Mar 2018 11:15:01 +0000

Hey guys,

I have a Desktop PC at home with a powerful GPU configuration (1x 1080ti 1x 780ti), while at the office I'm on a single 1070. Is it (with the server render option) possible to use my desktop at home for the rendering while working on my office laptop? If so, could anyone point me to a tutorial or instructions on how to set it up?

Appreciate the help.

Best wishes,

Max

Iray Uber Shader Has Been Moved in Smart Content

xyer0 — Thu, 29 Mar 2018 05:42:42 +0000

I normally access the Iray Uber converter shader through the Smart Content tab by clicking on the Daz Studio 4.x icon. But that icon is no longer showing up in my Smart Content. How, then, do I access the Iray Uber shader?

Help having problems with Loading and installing Iteams

fernfairy73_bb8ec3d37c — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 06:24:13 +0000

Need help i have been having alot of problems with installing new iteams and i have been trying to solve it for over a week now and am about to pull my hair out what am i doing wrong i brout some new products from renderosity which are 3rd party iteams do you think i can find them on my daz NOOOOO dang it its drving me crazy, "50s Hollywood Hair", is it because its to old of a iteam or is it just me , "DMs High Heels" really need help plaese

Links to offsite commercial are not allowed. Providing the name should be enough for someone to search if they wanted to look. I couldn't get one of the links to work ~Mod