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Daz Studio 4.10 "My Library" is empty

reality123 — Mon, 26 Mar 2018 02:44:44 +0000

I just made the switch from the older Daz Studio 3 to Daz Studio 4.10, and the "My Library" folder that i'm supposedly supposed to use for manually installing content files, is completely empty. There isn't a texture folder, runtime folder, anything. Completely empty. Is this normal or a problem? If it is a problem does anyone know how to fix it?

Navel shows through clothes

Myds — Sun, 25 Mar 2018 22:22:06 +0000

The figure in question is a G2F, and the clothes are the G-suit-2. everything is working great, except that teh navel shows a lot of detail. Looking for an answer to the problem, I found a contest entry where someone suggests "turning off the navel morph," but all I can find on G2F for this is a bunch of sliders, all set to zero already. I tried putting one to -1, but that didn't seem to help either. Any idea in either the clothes or the figures to make the navel not show through?

iRadiance Pro Series 16k HDRIs - Big Outdoors - Files are missing!

wintoons — Sun, 04 Mar 2018 10:49:29 +0000

Hi Guys and to DimensionTheory

I purchased the 'iRadiance Pro Series 16k HDRIs - Big Outdoors' but some of the HDRI files are missing.

Has anyone else had the same issue? If so, what do I do?

Winton

uninstall.log ... what is it, how to use

Anymatter — Mon, 26 Mar 2018 03:20:33 +0000

so is it possible to use these uninstall.log files( usually located in common files/daz folders) to remove a particular product which has no uninstaller? if so, how? command prompt? apps etc?

Removing/hiding eyelashes in blender

kadaj777 — Mon, 26 Mar 2018 03:06:24 +0000

Hello, I have been using blender to sculpt head morphs for Genesis 3 female, which is pretty fun and easy to do but, I want to sculp the eyelid area. Is there a way to hide the eyelash without messing up the model?Thanks!

I categorized items that weren't insalled - How can I fix this??

AncientWire — Mon, 26 Mar 2018 02:08:23 +0000

Somehow I managed to untick the box in the install manager that says Install After Download and didn't notice.
Today I decided to catch up on categorizing my purchases, and noticed that some were alphabatizing to the bottom - strange - but I pressed on.
Once I was done, I went back to actually use some of them.
The name of the pack was categoried, with no tiems in it. It was then that poked around and found that they weren't installed.
I installed them all, and they didn't show up in the packs in their new categories.
I exited DAZ and rebooted my computer, keeping my fingers crossed, and they didn't show up.

Is there any way to make the items show up in their new categories? or do I have to do it all over again?

Thanks!

ZBrush to DAZ textures

LD1 — Sun, 25 Mar 2018 21:28:31 +0000

Can someone please tell me the trick of getting the textures from ZBrush to align correctly with DAZ? I have tried flipping and rotating the texture before exporting, but nothing aligns with the object in DAZ.

dForce products with simulation or invisible plane

sjg_b28299fd86 — Sun, 25 Mar 2018 21:23:59 +0000

I recently purchased the dForce Sunday Afternoon Outfit and the dForce Mary Jane Outfit. The first has an invisible simulation plane and the second has a Mary Jane simulation plane. Both look like ground planes to me. When and how do I use these product features? I can run simulations on the products without them so not sure why they are part of the product. Thanks.

Can I export an .obj in the shape morphed by a .cr2?

Dryukadov — Sun, 25 Mar 2018 21:33:30 +0000

There's a particular piece of clothing I want to export to an .obj, but I want it in a specific shape. It's a suitcoat, and it's open as loaded but can be morphed to be closed with its cr2 file. Is it possible for me to change it into the shape I want, then export that shape to be used as an .obj? I know nothing about these things so I apologize if this is a very stupid question.

Issue: IDG Iray Essentials - Daz Horse 2 and Centaur 7

ArtsyDragon — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 21:05:20 +0000

Hello,

I purchased this item a while back. I own the Horse 2 and have successfully rendered it without issue. I own and have installed the 'Centaur 7 Male Hides and Breeds' and the 'Centaur 7 Female Hides and Breeds'. When I try to use the IDG Iray Essentials, I get the message that there are missing files.

I do admit the Iray Essentials package indicates it requires the Horse 2 bundle. I do not own the whole bundle. I have the horse figure. Why would I need props that are unrelated to the Horse hide textures for the product to work properly?

The folder structure it is looking for is 'runtime/textures/daz/animals/horse 2/filenamehere.jpg' This does not exist on my computer. My content directories do not contain that folder structure either. So I did some searching. I found that the product (Iray Essentials) installed into my DAZ Connect Library. Problem is, all the image files are PNG. None of them are JPG.

How do I fix the JPG references to PNGs?

I did enter a ticket for this but .. have been having over a month response time there. :)

It's 2018. What do we do about those products that will not update?

Griffin Avid — Sun, 18 Mar 2018 01:35:54 +0000

Read a few threads about this and none of these issues ever seem to resolve.

I have a list now of gems.

They work fine without the update, but what gives?

Mostly it stalls at "Obtaining data from Daz connect."

How do I light this up so I can see what is there?

ItsCeo — Sun, 25 Mar 2018 14:41:10 +0000

So I recently got the Foxy Lounge. I am excited to use it, but how do I? There are "Preload" and a "Ready to Render"open options. I tried both and results are the same. The place is so dark I can't see anything (see attachment). I tried putting in my model, but could not see her or hair or clothes or anything. If I hit 'Render', then the lighting is fine and I can see everything, but I can't move around my model or anything without computer crash. I know this is probably easy but I don't know what to do to illuminate the place when I am in 'Actor/Wardrobe/Prop' mode?

Thanks for your help!

How to configure another gpu for display only?

pincorrect — Sat, 24 Mar 2018 16:07:41 +0000

Well, after a 3 month wait, I finally won the Nvidia lottery. That is, I kept adding my email to the "Notify Me" list when their Founder's edition 1080ti's were in stock. They seem to be getting shipments every few weeks, and usually by the time I got the email, they were gone in seconds. This time they sent an email the day before saying they would be in stock, and I used a browser add-in to refresh my browser every 15 seconds, and I snagged two. Even then, it wasn't easy. Their site was slammed when they put them up. Damn bitcoin miners!

So, I'll have two in a couple weeks, and I wondered about the best way to set them up. In particular, I understand Microsoft grabs a ton of memory if one is used for display, and it might be better to add a more pedestrian gpu to drive the display. I have a few technical questions:

Is there a way to tell Daz Studio, or the Iray rendering engine, that this 3rd graphic card is not to be used for rendering? This seems important because I understand you are limited to the memory size of the smallest card in the pool. Or is it necessary to choose a non-Nvidia card like a Radeon so Iray does not even consider using it in the rendering pool?

Second, for a pc running Daz Studio, with the 1080ti's dedicated to rendering, what is a sufficient card to handle just the display work? Is a 1050 or 1060 good enough? (Presuming I can configure it so Iray does not try to render on it.) Or what's a comparable Radeon card that is sufficient?

Third, like all high-end graphic cards, the 1080ti's can use 16 pci express lanes each, but unless I get a Threadripper or the highest-end Intel CPU, there won't be enough lanes on the motherboard to give 16 to each. Will it be a big bottleneck to run one of them with 4 or 8 lanes?

Finally, I think I saw that there is no advantage to use the SLI bridge connector between the 2 1080ti's in this setup. Is this right?

Thanks for your advice.

Problem installing V4 Elite textures (Carrara?)

pincorrect — Sat, 24 Mar 2018 03:09:40 +0000

I purchased a big V4 bundle in the March Madness sale. When I installed it, 3 of the components, V4 Elite textures (Amy, Lana, and Maya) wouldn't install. The error message each time was

Could not find install application for: Carrara 8.5;8;7.2;7

Do I need to buy Carrara to use or install these? The only one I could find was 8.5 pro at about $50 for the pro bundle, on sale.

Daz Crashed 10+ Times

Neonic — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 10:24:20 +0000

My Daz is keep crashing every time I use dForce I try to simulate some objects to make them fall fluid and real but it keeps turning my cursor to the hour glass then boom. Daz force closes.

On the narket place I just swiped the upgrade to the free beta program (4.10) either way and once I clicked it on my Daz it’s been crashing non—stop. I been fighting with it the past 8 hours trying work on my render but it’s just keep crashing... ????????????

What are the "Hidden" properties for G8?

Those Things — Sun, 25 Mar 2018 12:28:51 +0000

So, I made a nice facial expression for me ol' G8 figure, and went to save it just like I do with G3, and encountered a new properties tree called "Hidden" (See attached image). What are these properties used for, and should I leave them checked when I'm saving my pose?

Are Victoria 8 anatomical features compatible with HD skins/overlays?

DawnStar — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 14:33:10 +0000

Under normal circumstances it all works fine. They appear as a large greyed-out patch but that disappears when viewed in the nvidia setting or in the final render. But when combining with an HD figure, such as Miriam or Sahel, it doesn’t.....not even in the final render. Am I doing something wrong or are they actually incompatible?

Use Gen3 Clothing on Gen8 character

quikz_bz — Sat, 24 Mar 2018 14:50:35 +0000

Can you use Gen3 Clothing on Gen8 character? I want to purchase Super Bodysuit for Genesis 3 Female but not sure if it will work. Plus I don't see any superhero suits for Genesis 8 Female. I need a plain morphable body suit. Any suggestions?

PD howler will not download via DIM

Xyetzt — Sun, 25 Mar 2018 01:05:49 +0000

PD Howler will not download via DIM. I cannot download it even though it is listed in DIM>

DIM and installing old V4/M4 bundles

y3kman — Sat, 24 Mar 2018 08:43:07 +0000

Hi. I finally decided to install stuff I bought from the recent V4 sale and the M4-V4 massive one from a few weeks ago. If DIM lists the bundle and has separate listing for the individual items, would I be fine if I just install the bundle? Or do I need the individual products to avoid getting errors? Some examples are:

The Malaik Bundle, The Malaik Wings, The Malaik Outfit, The Malaik Characters

Dragonbraid Bundle, Dragonbraid for Victoria 4, Dragonbraid addon - Tails

Bandage Bundle for Victoria 4 and 10 individual V4 bandages

etc.

Recent Genesis 3 and Genesis 8 products do not have this problem since DIM doesn't list the big bundle and just lists the indiviual items.

Maybe need new Memory Card

Spacewarper7 — Sat, 24 Mar 2018 16:01:13 +0000

What's the best (a reasonable balance of cost and efficiency) memory card to get for an aging (6 yo) ASUS computer? Even with 16 gb of RAM, when using DAZ Studio rendering more complex scenes can lag so badly i want to scream. If I understand this right, i am currently using an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M.

Can you increase how far back you can go through Undo/ctr-z?

holden_attradies — Sat, 24 Mar 2018 17:59:38 +0000

Can you increase how far back you can go through Undo/ctr-z? I know in other programs there are settings you cna alter to let the program remeber further back. Is there a way to do that in daz?

Can't install or uninstall daz studio thru the DIM on a mac

Chakradude — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 22:00:15 +0000

this is seporate from my pc laptop issue (arrrrg)

I am on an imac I tried to upgrade my daz studio and DIM said it wanted to upgrade then errored out and said it could not upgrade. then it opened fine without upgrading so I tried to download and install daz studio 4.10 but it just hangs for a while on download at 0 percent downloaded and then after 10 minutes or so changes to "download failed!"

I will note here: I have always run as an administator, I think. I have never had another user listed on my computer and I have admin next to my name. I do not know if that is an issue on a mac as Richard H was saying it is not good on a PC on a similar post.

Anyhow I would like to use Daz studio again, how can I do that?

as always any and all help is mucho appreciated.

Michael 4 Shapes++ don't appear in parameters tab after loading.

dr_evil111_132f7a4ff6 — Sat, 17 Mar 2018 14:35:15 +0000

Hello, I recently purchased the morphs for the M4 model and am having trouble getting them to show up in DAZ studio. Normally, when I add morphs to V4, I add her base model to the scene, then select her figure and double click on her morphs++ and it loads the morph dials into the paramters tab. However, with M4 I do the same thing, and while it looks like DS is loading the morph files like normal, when it's finished, the dials are nowhere to be found. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling M4 and his morphs, and I've tried using the powerloader when I first load M4 into the scene, but it's still causing the same problem. Has anyone encountered something similar to this? I'm using a windows computer with DS 4.9.

"Extreme Closeup: Freckles" How do I remove, edit the freckles afterwards? They're "layered" assets.

Lynx — Sat, 24 Mar 2018 17:48:12 +0000

"Extreme Closeup: Freckles" How do I remove, edit the freckles afterwards? They're "layered" assets.

Without undoing the application right away. I'm talking about this product by ForbiddenWhispers but this might just be a topic for all layered assets.

Creating a symmetrical morph

mlominy — Sat, 24 Mar 2018 17:53:25 +0000

Hi There!

I want to deform the thumbs of my character in a particular way. They should be symmetrical at the end.

I'm using D-Formers to err... deform the tumbs.I'm also using Map brush to define the exact area where the D_Former shall be influent.

My problem: I already know how to define with two symetrical brushed areas, but they are linked to the same D_Former field. This is not good because when I move this D_Former, it deforms both thumbs while I'm shaping, the left or right thumb. So I want to brush the R and L thums in that same exact way, but on two different D_Formers, so when I move one it doesn't spoil the other...

Genesis Generation X2 User Manual/Instructions (Solved!)

Pipefox — Sat, 24 Mar 2018 15:44:00 +0000

During today's sale I purchased the Dimension3D's Genesis Generation X2 and its add-ons for Genesis 2 and Genesis 3.

After installing I'm having a really hard time even finding the product.

Can anyone tell me where to search for this within my library and connect me with a user manual or instructions to help me use it?

Thank you very much for any help!

Dforce - no valid OpenCL 1.2 device - but OpenCL device query passes

adekii_7c5e2f82c7 — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 22:09:13 +0000

So, I tried following the steps laid out in a couple of other threads on this topic, but I'm unfortunately still having the issue. In the simulation tab, it says "A Valid OpenCL 1.2 device could not be found. Simulation using the dForce engine is not available." However, after installing a couple of different drivers, the CUDA development kit and updates to the CUDA development kit, installing an Nvidia gaming ready driver from January that I saw listed in another thread here, it still says the same thing in DAZ, "valid OpenCL 1.2 device could not be found".

I even downloaded and ran two different test scripts, one to test openCL communication bandwidth, and another is simply an OpenCL device query - and when I run the OpenCL device query, it passes. So according to the test, OpenCL is running on my machine.

Why is DAZ not recognizing it? I'm puzzled!

My machine:

Windows 10 Home, 64-bit
Version 1709
OS Build 16299.309

Processor AMD Athlon II X3 450, 3.20 GHz
RAM 8.00GB

Video card: GeForce GT 430

Weird bunching when parenting to objects to each other in Daz Studio..

Ghosty12 — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 04:44:53 +0000

Sort of hard to describe the title, but recently I have been getting an issue where parenting cameras, props, figures and so on is moving them when I don't want them to.. Case in point I used to be able to parent a camera to a figure such as Genesis 2 or 3 and the camera would stay where I had positioned it and could just move the figure keeping the camera with it..

But recently doing this has caused the camera to be moved when I don't want it to.. Another was if I had a lot of items in a scene and to make the list shorter I could select a few and put them under one item, they would all stay in place but the scene list would be more managable. But like the camera issue when I do this all the objects are being bunched together and not staying in place.. I have no idea why this is happening and it is annoying that it has started doing this and not sure how to fix it short of reinstalling Daz Studio..

Any help please would be greatly appreciated, thank you..

Phantom phantoms

donaldrwalkerpers_610b52d84d — Sat, 24 Mar 2018 14:50:35 +0000

Anyone know how to make the Phantoms work? I can even get all the parts to come up in my Content librariies.