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Victoria 4 for Genesis 2 Female

Alfawulf — Fri, 08 Jan 2016 00:41:48 +0000

Hello!

Forgive me cause I'm enetirely new. Because of such I make it a point to clarify before buying anything. I'm looking at the Victoria 4 for Genesis 2 Female. As it stands I'm only working with the base Gen 2 (have Gen 3 but not particularly excited atm) in Daz 4.8. If I'm understanding correctly, I can purchase this & using the Gen2, meld her into a V4 as I wish to use V4 stuff.

Hope I'm thinking correctly. V4 seems to be the one most things fit without hassle...

Thanx!

Exponential increase in render time? (Animation)

AliPop — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 03:44:11 +0000

So, I am trying to learn how to do animations and stuff, using the basic frame-by-frame method (though I wish I knew the methods that look smoother) and doing quick little one second things and seeing how they look in proper motion. Well, I did a 36 frame animation, and starting out the renders were pretty solid at 5 minutes a frame, but now that I'm in the late 20s, it's getting to about 3 frames an hour. Having the program open on screen and nothing running in the background.

What I have is a GTX 1080 TI, 24gb of 2133ghz ram, and a 4.2ghz processor. Basically a meaty gaming rig. I'm basically rendering a 4:3 screen shape, so almost 1080p vertically but square shape when it comes horizontally. The only thing changing from frame 1 to frame 28 is the pose of the character, nothing additional is showing up on screen, or changing lights or anything. So, is this normal? And is there maybe a way to improve, or make more consistent, the render time for animations?

Medieval Scriptorium Preload Glaringly Bright? (Solved!)

Pipefox — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 23:09:35 +0000

I've been trying to make a scene with the Medieval Scriptorium by Faveral.

The preloaded Iray Scene renders so brightly it's practically white. I'd prefer it to have the same dim light and shadows that it does in the promo photos.

Am I missing something obvious here? Why does by preloaded scene look so overexposed?

Thank you for any help! :)

DM's FIT 'n SEXY outfit (top) not fitting right. Any Ideas?

blackRabbit — Mon, 26 Feb 2018 20:57:41 +0000

The DM's FIT 'n SEXY outfit top is not fitting correctly. It is hanging to far down on the bottom of each breast. I have moved the sliders to try and correct it with no luck. I am not sure what I am doing wrong or need to do so the shirt fits correctly. I have attached a screen shot of the shirt with all the sliders set to default. 'Collision Item' and 'Fit To' are both set to the character. Any help would be appreciated.

Link to item: http://www.daz3d.com/dm-s-fit-n-sexy-outfit

Reinstalled, can't use old content

petefaure — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 23:00:18 +0000

So, it's a little bit complicated, and as a result I need some serious help.

So, I used to have a DAZstudio 3.8 installed, with lots of content (characters, backgrounds etc).

Due to PC issues I had to reinstall windows (after backing up all the content I had)

Now, I downloaded the latest version of dazstudio, set the content to be saved on drive D through the installer (not the manager, jsut the regular installer) and copied all my files to the folder I had chosen for the content. However, Dazstudio, for now, doesn't see any content in there.

So, I guess my method didn't work (or maybe the folder were organized for the older version, not sure)

What can I do to make this reinstalled studio to use my old content? Any help would be greatly appreciated

fixing distortion in UV map

acharyapolina — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 17:19:23 +0000

hi, I am having difficulty in fixing distortion in my UV map. for a character outfit. everytime I stretch out her leg it distorts. I have been trying all kinds of UV mapping on my character outfit, exporting it and then rigging it to the character, but every time I get this distortion.

I was wondering if anyone could give me some tips or pointers on what to do or where to look to learn how to do it.

Any help would be greatly apriciated.

Thanks.

AcharyaPolina

Hide green line in iray preview?

callumlulz — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 03:29:52 +0000

How do you hide this green line that hangs down from lights in iray preview?

Charlotte skin map and female character context weirdness

angstyg — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 02:42:45 +0000

I'm not sure if these 2 things are related, but in case they are, I'll group them into one issue.

Whenever I choose a female character and click the "context" box in "Actors, Wardrobes, Props", it only shows me menus for "Animations", "Poses", and "Utilities". And even when I go into "Poses" it's just one lone prop pose from a dragon bundle. When I do it with a male figure, it works fine and I can see options for his wardrobe, poses, hair, etc. This only started happening recently, though I don't use female figures enough to really pinpoint when. It's kind of a huge pain :(

Now, I got this Charlotte 8 figure. Since my 'context' checkbox isn't working corectly, I had to filter out materials using the search box. This gave me her maps. I chose "Transparency Low" (Iray) and one of the makeup presets (Makeup 04). This is what happens:

Any idea what's going on?

Rigging Clothing Issue

snuttop — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 15:52:19 +0000

I made bodysuit and fitted it with Transfer Utility. (Top part of suit and Genesis's Pelvis are hidden for better view)

But I have a problem with rigging in the crotch area. The pictures shows the problem area after fixing weight maps. That's the best I could do.

Moreover, when I cleared all weight maps the problem is staying.

I don't know what else could affect suit geometry.

I'll be very appreciated for any help

I needed to install DAZ3D in a new computer and now G3F is missing

joaodcoliveira — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 17:41:21 +0000

Hey all!

My old computer is broke so I bought a new one and installed the new daz version.

However my G3F starter pack is missing for some reason even though it's says is installed. Any help?

Thank you so much!

How do I make a smile, frown or open mouth?

dpdiy — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 15:06:57 +0000

Not sure where the option are for opening mouth and stuff like that. Appreciate any help

V4 morph magnet

Amazon12 — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 20:27:21 +0000

A few days ago, I installed the Victorica 4 morph magnets, and EVERYTHING in my poser file was wiped!

Change the Content library

Experimenter — Sat, 23 Jan 2016 09:56:48 +0000

After I installed DAZ Studio 4.9 I tried the new Smart Content feature. For tests I download a few products throu the tab. When I viewed the folder where the content was installed it was a different folder as my normal content library is. I searched for a way to change the folder direction but did not find it.

Where can I change the folder for the content library that I can use the smart content with my library?

Having trouble with 3rd party files

i_derbyshire_78db228aaf — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 08:41:43 +0000

Hello,

I am having trouble installing third-party files, especially character and bundle files.

I have tried installing the files using DazContentInstaller, but to no avail. When I load a character/figure, it states an error stating missing files. More so textures for those characters. I have checked the file and they do contain the texures for the characters so unsure why they are not loading.

I understand there are quite a few forums like this on here but I thought I would post the problem specific to my issue. Also is there any way to make 3rd party files appear in Smart Content? I find it a pain to keep trying to find my files in Content Library.

Also need a suggestion on the best method to clean up and organise my directory?

Thanks in Advance!

TO MUCH TIME ON RENDERING !!! HELP

sirkentmail — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 10:13:31 +0000

Hello, for 1 frame it always take 30-40min to make it, i have choice hd 1280x720 ! but its too much time , i have see on youtube they make in 2-3 min !I have read to remove CPU or GPU, not to take all 2! or maybe i have do something in settings... please help ! :(:(:(:(

INFO PC

CPU- i7 8700k

GPU Geforce GTX 1080 Ti

32gb Ram !

DAZ3D 4.10 / Decimator Problem

vutraat — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 20:42:36 +0000

I can't input my SN and I am getting the error that I need a newer of version of DAZ. Thoughts?

Managing 3rd Party Morph Content

Reality1 — Fri, 16 Feb 2018 19:06:12 +0000

I'm rebuilding my content library and this time, I'm separating the non-Daz content as recommended by the Daz Install Manager.

I was wondering if there is a recommended way of managing 3rd party morphs for DAZ figures. Or a way of loading morphs in such a way that it keeps the morph .obj files in their original (separate) location, but allows Daz figures loaded into Daz Studio to recognize them.

Any thoughts? :-)

-John

Disable Quaternion for Genesis 2

blue-bot — Mon, 26 Feb 2018 15:45:08 +0000

Hello! I was looking into ways to export JCM to UE4 using Daz-Goz-Zbrush using custom JCM, I've had a little bit of success but the previsualization aspect is kind of messy and I end up guessing lots of vertices.

I've disabled Triax Weights and don't want to get into Maya or 3Ds max to load the morphs.

So basically I was wondering if anyone knows if is there any way to disable DQ from within Daz because I still see the model different in the Daz viewport from the UE4 viewport even though Triax is disabled.

Thanks in advance!

Splitting content into your own categories

Sylvan — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 19:45:05 +0000

I install with DIM into my own costum categories (M8 hair, M8 characters etc.). Some content, like hair, comes with two generations (like hair for M8 and M7) and since I am unable to split it in DIM, I want to split them in my content library. I used to be able to that at some point in the past, but I am unable to now. I don't want to move them manually because that would screw with updates and such plus it's a huge pain to move everything like that.

The categories that show up when I try to move content into a new parent category, are the default ones by DS, and not my own. I am pretty sure I was able to in the past. Has it changed or am I overlooking something?

Measure Metrics foot size

Hurdy3D — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 23:31:19 +0000

Hey, I want the foot size of a Gensis 3 chracter in cm.

I created a new measure for the left foot. I selected the left foot and created it via Create -> New Mesaure Metric.

Than I run the Figure Metrics script and attached my left foot test to left foot length morph.

Bascially it is working, I get a measure and if I change it, the size of the foot is changing too. But I don't get the size in cm. Currently its something like ~0.09.

How can I convert this to cm.

I think it would be a good idea to add the foot size in a future Measure Metrics update ;)

Bounding boxes just stopped working and won't re-enable

kaincypher84 — Mon, 26 Feb 2018 18:35:35 +0000

This is so strange. I've been using Daz for hours on end every day and I know that I can highlight multiple limbs and see bounding boxes around them, also in active pose it is useful to see things with bounding boxes. Today while trying to select multiple limbs there just simply was no bounding box. I loaded a scene (Classroom) with a bunch of objects such as chairs and desks and sure enough, no bounding boxes on those either. I went through my draw settings and set everything that was under "currently used" and reset them. When I do active pose instead of getting a normal bounding box I get nothing so I can't see which limbs I'm even targeting. It doesn't matter if I'm in iray, texture mode, wire frame mode. I simply can not see bounding boxes AND if I set it to "bounding box and surface only" where you normally get tons of yellow highlights when you mouse over, nope, nothing, it just stays as the solid object and doesn't show me what I am selecting.

I have spent no less than 2 or 3 hours trying to completely reset my Daz settings back to factory and no matter how much I delete folders with Daz in them and have NOTHING in my C: drive right now and have moved all of my daz content to another directory it keeps putting the old settings back (I know that it doesn't default to H:\Daz 3d Content" for "factory settings".

What am I missing here? I can post a screenshot of my settings but I know for a fact that as I select different items in the scene as early as a few hours ago it would put bounding boxes around them. Please help as I can't do any thing when I can't see what I am selecting now.

I just moved my daz folder and then uninstalled everything, reinstalled it to a new folder and then uninstalled it and cleared out every single folder with the word "daz" on my C: drive (where the program but not the content was). I've reinstalled the program and it is still giving me my OLD draw settings (I set a slider to 34% to keep it there).

I am so frustrated. I can't do anything with this broken profile / configuration that Daz is using right now. I just want it to be default as possible and no matter if deleting stuff from registry I can not get bounding boxes back to appear! I am so beyond confused what is going on with the settings.

Transfer Utility doesn't detect figures

Valamis — Mon, 26 Feb 2018 18:51:38 +0000

When I use Transfer Utility to transfer rigging from figure to an object it detects object as a target or source and I can select it but in the source there is no figure which I could select.

I tried with Michael 4 and Victoria 4 and they don't show up in the "scene item" tab. In previous versions of Daz3D it worked.

I tried to install 4.5 version again but it doesn't work in this version too. I reinstalled Daz3D 4.10 but it doesn't fix it. Help me please.

Daz Install Manager items not showing as installed.

bobmale — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 22:07:22 +0000

I had to install everything from DazStudio on a new computer. I started with Daz Install Manager. I installed everything that DIM had to offer me, but when I'm in the Contents Libary products in Studio I still find a lot of items not installed. How do I get the two seeing eye to eye again?

This isn't the Smart Content tab. I also tried reimporting the metadata and a couple of other things. I've been days at putting everything back together.

Also, because of this I cannot Auto-Fit warbrobe items between figures to the usual full extent. "What figure was the item originally designed for?" is a shorter list now. What is the name(s) of the product that does that? For instance I can't put G2 items on Genesis.

Skin Builder 3 for Genesis 3 Female - any aspect workable with G3M

Show not Tell — Wed, 10 May 2017 23:00:06 +0000

Since there is no skin builder for male g3 the question is can you tweak overlays for the male ? Will it simply not work or can it be tweaked. Interest in adding freckles and tan lines mostly to the male genesis 3. Obvious question is there plans towards skin builder for males ? Thank you.

linking accounts?

catalenaangie — Mon, 26 Feb 2018 06:42:30 +0000

A little back story, Daz wasnt working and it took me about five days to figure out how to fix it, the only thing that worked was opening a second daz acount with a different user name and NOT having it as an admin Acct on my computer. Richard said that shouldnt be an issue unless i deliberately ran as admin but it worked so i was happy. Then the sale this weekend hit. Omg awesome. I spent two whole days perusing the entire store to get the best and most deals that I could. Whoo Hoo!!!! download, install, log out of my main one where I have all my paid content go into my secondary non admi which is linked to my second daz acct (it wouldnt let me set it up with my original I dont know why) open it up and......nothing. The content isnt available. I have no idea how to move things arounf and frankly im afraid to try, I just know ill screw it up, it is ALOT of content. I tried Edit-preferences-and add directory, no dice with that either. it wont allow it. I vaguely remember in my technical searching for answers last week seeing something about linking your daz accounts if you have multiple so that you can have access to your libraries. Is that a thing? Is that a thing we can do? And if so How? I'm so tired nothing is making sense to me.

Please help....a very tired person who would really like to play with her new work toys.

Skin error in 3Delight across multiple G3 & G8 characters

RenderingN00bie — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 06:31:26 +0000

In my renders, I've encountered a problem recurring across multiple characters: Ivan 7, The Guy 7, Ophelia 7, and Michael 8. All renders are done in 3Delight; this doesn't happen in Iray. It's a different portion of the skin on each character - Ivan's chest, Ophelia's arm, The Guy's face, etc. I've attached an image of Ivan with the error (and no, he is not wearing a sweater vest).

Any thoughts on how to fix this?

Difficulty with V4 Creature Creator

gconrad4_4d3aa258e4 — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 23:31:34 +0000

I hope this is the right forum. Is anyone familiar with V4 Creature Creator? This is not a complaint against DAZ or anything, I just have trouble with the morph package for some reason. I used the DAZ installer, I inject the morphs from the power loader in My DAZ 3D library in Poser 9. I get all the odd faces, but no body morphs, and no hand morphs. Also, in faces with big eyes, the eyes don't get big. They stay regular size, which isn't good.
I will see a dial that says "3 fingers" or "emaciated" morph, I will move it to 1 and nothing happens.
The add-ons (horns and strange legs) work fine.
That's the big problem. Also are there supposed to be any color Mat files for creatures? The "previews" show bodies that are purple, red, or green.
Do I need to buy something else for that?
I have V4 Creature Creator Morphs and Add-Ons.
This has been driving me nuts since I bought the items last summer, and I have gotten nowhere.

Gotozbrush plugin does not load

Cryogenes_9c2cbc40c2 — Sat, 24 Feb 2018 18:45:03 +0000

I have Daz Studio 4.10 and ZBrush 4R8.

In Daz Studio, the "Go To ZBrush" item in the file menu is missing.

In the "About Installed Plugins" Dialog I see a red icon for dzgoz and the message is

"Version: 0.0.0.0"

"Reason: Plug-In was made for a newer version of DAZ Studio"

Can somebody tell me how to get this to work?

Anyway to keep a metal ring round?

aaráribel caađo — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 16:06:39 +0000

I have a ring as part of an outfit that sits at the top middle of the back, where I'd expect it not to distort much. I gave it a 100% rigid map setting to prevent distortion. Yet is still distorts. Is there anything I can do to correct this?

Studio Crashing

Serene Night — Sat, 24 Feb 2018 15:12:23 +0000

My daz studio still crashes during renders. Not all the tiime, but randomly.

DAZStudio.exe caused ACCESS_VIOLATION in module "D:\DAZ 3D\DAZ 3D\DAZStudio4\MY LIBRARY\DAZ 3D\DAZStudio4\libs\iray\libneuray.dll" at 0033:0000000095E6C0CE, mi_neuray_factory()+4039486 byte(s)

Is the error I Get. Any ideas?