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Iray Enviroment Dome

cwtenney_d88cb369f9 — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 19:45:47 +0000

Hello, I am unable to see the applied hdri image on the iray dome. The lighting part works, but the image part is white. Tried changing the settings, changing the images, even back to stock image, no matter what I choose it remains white. This in the iray viewport, I have not tried rendering an image. Is there a setting I am missing?

Renders and my new baldspot

atacit_23cd333971 — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 08:17:07 +0000

When I do a render it basically shuts me down even though I have my photoreal and interactive devices set to my video card ( a GTX 660), my system is older but not ancient. This worked really well for 2 renders as it barely loaded my cpu. Now it is pushing my cpu to 90-100 percent even though I have changed nothing? Is the card too old, am I missing something a chipmunk would know?

I increased my ram to 16 gig but the software is still clunky and I don't move very fast as I spend much of my time rubbing my head. Any advice would be appreciated at this point.

How do I batch save materials into Surface shader presets?

Chakradude — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 21:22:40 +0000

How do I batch save materials into Surface shader presets? does someone know of a script to do this? For example I have many pen and ink textures I have created. I would love to map them onto daz objects. Does someone have a good work flow for this? I am proficiant in photoshop and can make seamless textures but I slow down when it comes to bringing it into Daz. I did some in Bryce but I cant even run that on my main computers anymore...

Thanks in advance....

Victoria 8 make-up?

bevdog896_d08d9c913a — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 10:47:38 +0000

Hi there! I have recently started creating a Victoria 8 character. I’m not a fan of the make up that comes with Victoria 8 so I thought I’d use the same product that I’ve been using for all my genesis 3 characters, specifically this one: https://www.daz3d.com/extreme-closeup-makeup-for-genesis-3-female-s

When I load this make up on to my v8 character it shows up in the viewport and everything looks great! However when I go to render, it doesn’t appear on her face. Does anyone know of a way around this or are there any good make up products that are compatible specifically with v8?

I have seen this one on the daz store: https://www.daz3d.com/ultimate-make-up-for-genesis-8-female-s

I’m slightly hesitant to buy this straight away as I’m worried the same thing might happen. It does say it’s compatible with all gen 8 characters though. But it also says this in the description, “Note that as this set uses overlays, you may need to use the fibremesh eyebrows with characters based on Victoria 8 and Olympia 8, and it is for Iray only.” I’m not entirely sure what it means in the first bit.

Anyway, sorry for the essay. Any help would be much appreciated.

thanks :)

Figure Selection Question

Mag_bfaa50c8df — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 01:14:38 +0000

When you left click on the arm of a figure, say M7, it will initially select the figure if not previously selected and an additional click will select the arm. Is there a way or a key combination where, when you don’t have M7 selected, you can select the arm directly without essentially having to double click it? I’m refering to the view port window where you view the figure and not the scene window.

What to do?

NyiriHawkwing — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 19:54:03 +0000

I've had a catastrophic computer failure and have lost all of my downloaded products. Some stuff I don't know how I will replace, as I had purchased it through the old RuntimeDNA site or it is stuff that is no longer available anywhere, such as AS's (in whatever incarnation) old creations that I purchased before they were taken off the market. Any ideas on how I can get those again? I might actually have a decently current list of what I had in spreadsheet form, but we're talking about some 5000+ items I had accumulated over the years... I know some of my data I just won't be able to replace, but... /sigh

Immediate problem upon start, I have no idea what's going on

guynodens — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 09:52:02 +0000

Hello,

I recently downloaded Daz, and as soon as I opened it to use it, adjusting any figure causes "ripples" of more images and copies. It's weird, I don't know what to call this, can someone please help.

Thanks much

(Image removed for nudity. Please review the guidelines on how to handle nudity in the forums. https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/3279/acceptable-ways-of-handling-nudity#latest )

DIM sees installed content as "ready to Download."

Myds — Sat, 17 Mar 2018 20:25:41 +0000

I did a few searches with various terms to see if that would solve my problem. A few promising titles typically ended up to be someone who can't see their content in DAZ. Muy content and categories are allt here, fine, in DAZ. Why complain at all then? I really wish my DIM, which used to tell me how manythings I had installed, still does that. After moving my library to a different drive, (and yes, I updated the lcoations both in Studio and in DIm, and triple-checked to make sure they are the same), I can see the content in Studio jsut fine, but only the things I've downloaded in DIM since the move show up as installed. I can also find those new downloads in Studio adn they are going to the right place on the disk. The other 2k files that are installed are listed as "ready to download" instead of installed. Is thre any way to fix this other than downloading for a day or three?

Thank you. I didn't mean to sound offputting, but I wanted to show that I checked all the boxes that would be a logical first course of action before asking for help. Thanks to anyone who helps or tries in advance!

Undoing a Light Preset...

sayun — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 06:24:57 +0000

I recently got this product:

https://www.daz3d.com/iradiance-pro-series-16k-hdris-photo-studio-for-iray

And while it's a beautiful backdrop for doing "photo studio" looking renders, I've found that even if I start a new scene, or close DAZ3D and reopen it, the light preset I used last is still there, not the plain empty background that one normally gets with a fresh launch of DAZ3D. How do I reset this back so that I dont have a "photo studio" backdrop on every render?

Going INSANE wit daz studio

pan.master_2cedf49808 — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 04:29:09 +0000

I wanted To update animateLitle to animate Pro,

,I have no idea which daz studio animatePro product is actual upgrade! so i got aniMate2 for 59$

after instalation of rady to instal stuff from daz menager daz studio is looking strane and unusable

daz why are you people making stuff so uncomtroable to work with, i spent thousend of $ on your stuff and Iam starting to haveing enought of Daz Studio

,Iam starting to regret using Daz studio :(

Transparent reflective surface in IRay

hesperasmith — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 14:07:15 +0000

Does anyone know how I can create a surface which is otherwise transparent but reflects objects in front of it, to work in IRay?
I often place my rendered characters into real world scenes in Photoshop and I'd like to be able to have them, for example, leaning on a window or glass door so that their reflection can be seen in it, but still maintain transparency of the surface that's doing the reflection so that it doesn't interfere with the background image.

CPU bears most of the work in rendering despite selecting GPU.

The Brig — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 22:27:42 +0000

I'm using Studio on Windows 10 with an Nvidia 750ti card. I went to the render options tab and set my render device to the GPU only and unchecked the CPU option. However, when I look at Windows' task manager, the CPU is showing anywhere from 90-99% of a load with the system memory being 60-80% occupied. Task manager shows that the GPU is hardly ever active, with infrequent use and small spikes up to 12-15%. Most of the time, Cortana or something like "Windows Shell Experience Host" is using the GPU more than Studio. (Which is vexing, because I've done what I can to disable Cortana and have no other user-facing programs open besides Studio.)

Is this normal? I've never paid attention to it before, but I'm encountering issues with Studio crashing due to memory shortages so I'm troubleshooting as best I can.

.PZ2 not showing in DS library and yet...

Second Technician Rimmer — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 16:45:20 +0000

[.PZ2 not showing in DS library and yet...] ... if I drag a pz2 file onto the figure it's meant to pose, it works. Is there a way to make DS display them? I know of Draagonstorm's script to convert PZ2 into DUF

but it simply doesn't work for G3F or third party things. Headache coming up x__x

New install, lots of issues...help!

Griffin Avid — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 21:05:31 +0000

New install of Daz.

Interface looks horrible.

1) Texture shading looks terrible. No color. Some setting must be set..wrong....

2) The backgrounds (that were empty) used to look like photoshops transparency checkerboard. Now, I only see choices for colored backdrops, I'd like there to be NO background and everything transparent.

Any ideas?

Or info on what settings should have changed away from the Defaults.

Everything is iray.

Lips and fingers disappearing in Iray Progressive Rendering!!

PhilosopherKes_90fc1dea12 — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 05:46:26 +0000

Hello,

I use Daz nearly every day and have my same workflow, nothing's changed. However today when I went to use Iray for progressive rendering in the viewport like normal I notice the lips and fingers slowly begin to disappear and become completely gray. I've never had this happen before. Even when I load old scenes that rendered fine are having this problem. Is anyone else experiencing this? I literally used daz 2 days ago and this didn't happen. Drivers are up to date on my gpu. Even tried setting iray render settings back to defaults still had same problem. Does anyone know what is going on, how to fix it, or had similiar problem before? Thank you!

Link to screenshot of problem: https://gyazo.com/1880105f81ab070cf402a8d063d05bf6

Look At My Hair

Malus — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 02:18:24 +0000

I am unsure but models with LAMH hair renders naked even though the hair is in the viewport... Anything I am missing from this equation?

Problem with Texture Atlas

hapciupalit — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 13:43:06 +0000

So I've been trying to import a character into Unity.

For some reasons I had to create only one texture image and to do that I used Texture Atlas. Everything was great till I imported the character in the scene and I realised that my UV got messed up.

This is what I got

Do you guys know what might cause this?

And no... I don't have the interactive licence. I am going to buy it only if I'm sure that I'll manage to make the game work.

DAZ Control Issues

knightedfeline — Sat, 17 Mar 2018 08:51:15 +0000

I have a lenovo idea-PC laptop. Six gig RAM and 2.5 gHz processor on Windows 10.

I am having trouble with the controls for the program. They were working fine, but are no longer. I have about a two to six second drag before I can get the control to respond. I did a complete unistall, wiped and reinstall in which it worked fine, but It's having issues again

I have tried contacting DAZ about this problem, but none of their suggestions work.

I was told to update CUDA, update OpenGL, update drivers, and none of these worked until the clean wipe. I think after the clean wipe my computer started using the integrated video card, but I also think that the latest windows update may have changed this and caused the problem.

Can anyone please help?

Has this been solved over the past 6 years?

acecombs_b317c01b8d — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 01:44:17 +0000

I've found posts discussing the disappearing cursor problem in Studio dating back to 2012--it probably predates that but I didn't go further back. The most common solution and one that worked for me for awhile was to toggle the view from "Perspective" and then back again. That no longer works. I have tried fast-clicking the right mouse button, checked the open GL prefs, etc., followed half a dozen "solutions" from this and other forums. The only thing that seems to work is to restart Studio--this is badly affecting my output. My scenes are pretty complex and take a while to load. This problem is 6 years old--I've never seen a post from a technician or product manager suggesting that they are working on the problem. If I knew that Daz was at least aware of this--which given the number of posts on the subject they should be--I might be more hopeful that I could continue to use Daz. These are the kind of little software glitches that, left unfixed, eat away at the user base.

How to save clothing item with corrected rigidity settings

andya_b341b7c5f5 — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 21:18:04 +0000

I am trying to get this G2F outfit https://www.daz3d.com/downloader/customer/files/prod/16621/ working on G3F. The jacket autofits to G3F satisfactorily, but when applying G3F morphs (e.g. Weight) the buttons distort and fold horribly. I have identified that there is no working rigidity set up for the buttons and belt buckle, and have fixed this so the buttons retain their shape as far as seems possible. So far so good.

Two questions now arise.

1. How to save the jacket with the updated rigidity settings (I defined the missing references and painted the weight map), so I can load it on to G3F characters in future and have the buttons retain their shape. I'd rather not have to fix the rigidity each time I load it. I have tried saving as a Figure/Prop asset and Studio crashes hard every time (DS 4.9 Beta). Is there another way to achieve this?

2. When morphs push the front of the jacket outward, the buttons now disappear under the jacket. They are discrete meshes not connected to the jacket in any way, for some reason. How can I prevent this and have the buttons stay attached to the cloth like real buttons do as the morph is applied?

Any suggestions appreciated.

dForce not simulating properly from Memorized Pose

nevarran — Sun, 12 Nov 2017 12:17:35 +0000

Hi, guys.
I'm experiencing an issue with the dForce cloth simulations when the Start Bones From Memorized Pose is turned ON.
I'm loading a character, adding the Bardot Outfit, choosing a pose and hitting Simulate. The character goes to the default pose (along with the dress) and starts moving towards my pose, but the outfit is not following. At the end of the simulation the character is back to the custom pose, but the outfit is simulated as if it was on an A pose figure.
Any idea where this issue comes from?

Problems with Victoria 4 for Genesis 2 Female

Faeryl Womyn — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 23:59:53 +0000

I don't know if this is a new thing or not, couldn't find any help in a search, not even a google search.

I can not get any V4 textures on Genesis 2 no matter what I do. Either nothing happens or G2 turns grey and then nothing will work on her. I recently upgraded to 4.10, was using 4.8 previously, and have no idea what is going on. It worked in 4.8.

Does anyone know if this item is working in 4.10 or not or could it be something else. Oh and I also redownloaded it on the off chance I had a corrupted file.

Ground Plane: how to replace it?

Second Technician Rimmer — Sat, 17 Mar 2018 11:11:58 +0000

I have some elements to set on a terrain that is not flat and even. Is it possible for me to use this terrain mesh as a ground

plane instead of the automatically available one in DS? I use 4.10 btw.

Star Angel won't install

galatt — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 13:27:45 +0000

I bought the new Star Angel and a few other things https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-star-angel-outfit-for-genesis-8-females I downloaded and installed them all via DIM. However, Star Angel downloaded but only goes as far as 71% installed then fails. Everything else worked fine except for that one. I am using 4.10.

Slow Down load

magen boo — Sat, 17 Mar 2018 01:08:38 +0000

Anyone else having very slow downloads with Download Manager, anyway to fix the problem . I let it through on my firewall and still slow tried an Ethernet connection and a Wi-Fi connection and they are both the same. I did a speed test and it no where near what I'm getting from Daz 23KB/s like a snail

Weird Update Vertex behavior

mtl1 — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 04:09:33 +0000

It's been a while since I've posted here, but I found something *quite* by accident. There seems to be weird behavior with Update Vertex, but I can't figure out what's wrong. Certain parts of the geometry -- especially teeth -- get deformed when I update, even if it's the same geometry!

The test:

- Load G3F, set to base resolution. Hide everything but teeth and take screenshot.

- Export base G3F to OBJ, then update the vertices of the already loaded figure with the exported base G3F. Teeth get deformed.

I've also included a comparison of the two geometries. The red is from the original figure at base resolution, whereas the white is the deformed one after the updated geometry.

I've checked the exported OBJ and it has *identical* geometries to the base mesh. Same with updating the full geometry. I've even attempted to load the OBJ as a morph to the teeth-deformed figure, but DS says that it's an identical mesh..?! Switching to high resolution doesn't help either...

I'm kind of stumped so does anyone have any insight into this problem?

An Unexpected Oddity

ArtsyDragon — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 01:30:34 +0000

Hello,

I got a new expansion hard drive for my computer. So, I uninstalled DAZ from it's previous location on the E drive and went to install it fresh on the F drive thinking I would have a clean install. I did not. Somehow it remembered what products were installed even though I didn't install them.

Any ideas/suggestions?

I don't want these ghost things sitting in my smart content when they're not installed.

Move older version of Daz onto new computer?

wkoestner2_fe4b13ce0b — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 21:45:11 +0000

Hello,

I have an old computer running XP that I disconnected from the internet when support for XP stopped. On it I have Daz 3.0.1, which I am still using. I got a new computer with windows 8, downloaded the current version of DAZ which at that time was 4.9, bought a whole bunch of characters, lights, props, etc. to use with it. I spent several hours trying the new Daz and pulling my hair out and decided to keep using 3.0.1 on the old computer. I am dreading the day my old computer gives out and I will lose my beloved 3.0.1. I am not a computer guy, but is it possible to create a new partition or volume on the new computer and move the contents of the old hard drive, including 3.0.1 onto the new computer?

UV View question

tomlongmacon — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 09:18:41 +0000

I want to export the picture shown in UV View to use as a template for painting a texture (see attached). Is this do-able? If so, will someone school me?

Gold is yellow and not shiny

julienicholls72 — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 22:44:18 +0000

Hello, I have purchased "Godspeed" and "Serpent Princess" which are both high gold outfits but when i render them, they're just yellow. No sparkle, no lustre, nothing. Could anyone point me in the right direction of what I need to change to fix this please? thank you kindly.