I downloaded one model wherein one parent has lots of children, but all the children are only one level deep. I want to parent some of the children to other children, to make two levels deep, or even more levels deep.

When I select and right-click the child I want to parent to another child, the menu pops us showing the name for the parent, not the child. And indeed, the parent is what actually got selected. See the attached screen shot. I selected “rMDoor1”, wanting to parent it to “rMDoor1Riser” just above it on the list. But right clicking "rMDoor1" produces the menu options for the parent, “SeaStrike”. It’s not just a mislabeling in the menu, as proceeding as if it was a mislabeling does not produce the desired parenting.

Did some property of the model get set to prevent parenting the children to other children? And if so, can I overturn this setting?

Unfortunately it seems that it can only be used for scaling, rotation and translation.

I would like to dial in morphs that way. This way I could perfectly apply morphs only partially.

Is this possible, or what would be an alternative solution?

Thank you!

Is there a specific configuration file I can copy from main pc to the others to do that or can I "export" all these settings and import on other copies?

Thanks

I figured I had to uninstall the older versions first, but that I had a difficult time uninstalling Daz 4.9 and the previous version of DIM on Windows 10. 
I had to remove all the files through the registry and download secondary uninstallers to achieve this. 

But I still can't install DAZ or DIM. When I click the I file DAZStudio_4.10.0.123_Win64 (or 32bit, I tried both) It asks if I would like to let this program make changes to my blah blah  blah and I click ok.

Then nothing happens, I tried running as administrator too but still nothing. And now I have no DAZ or DIM.

I can install other programs just fine. But not DAZ or DIM.

Someone please help!

This had something to see with SFD Easy Control for M7 Genitals.

Their product has been updated and the Thickness slide if functional now.

Thank you all!

I'm trying to get detail onto a G8 figure that only occurs when a joint is bent.  In this case, I'm trying to get a decent spine to show when the abdomen is bent forward to 25 degrees.  The first image is the finished shape I want in Mudbox.  The 2nd is the same morph reduced to the G8F base mesh.  As you can see.. all the detail is lost and will never make the trip back to Daz.  So this means using normals or bump maps.  OK .. no problem.  But I'd like for those maps to automatically be applied only when the same joint (Abdomen) is bent forward 25 degrees.  Is there a way to have joint controlled maps?

Attached is an image of what my Daz Studio Pro window looks like, with that skin applied.  I've actually long since forgotten how one changes that stuff, because I changed it early on, somehat liked the less cluttered appearance, and never looked back.  If the Simulations Tab is something I can manually add, how do I do that?

Ive tried running as admin too. Same issue with the GoZ plugin. Some help needed...

My question concerns reducing the amount of memory consumption allocated to Textures while rendering.

I completed my first IRay animation render with 2 characters moving.  The 5.5 second .avi took almost four hours to render.

I am running Win10 on a machine I build myself [Ryzen 7, single GTX 1080].

For Render Settings, my environment is set to Infinite Sphere. All other environment settings are default. I did enable Spectral Rendering and selected Natural. General settings Full HD. Optimization Settings have Quality turned off and Max Samples at 144.  Max seconds at 600. I am rendering with Nvidia Iray selected and under advanced I have GPU selected in both panes.  Optix is not enabled.  priority is Speed.  In the viewport I do have Iray selected.  I have one distant light, no background, HDRI or other lighting.

I rendered a still image with a single V7 character and found that Textures were consuming 1.6 Gb.  I added another character and the Textures increased to 1.8 Gb.  I loaded my full scene, 1 building, 2 sidewalks, 2 vehicles, 2 characters.  Texture Memory consumption jumped to 4.67 Gb.  (I have 8Gb on my graphics). All other memory consumption adds up to Mbs. [Attached is an image of my scene.]

My question is will shrinking textures either manually or with a product like Scene Optimizer significantly (as in by half or even one third) reduce the amount of Texture Memory consumption during rendering?  If so, will this speed up my renders?

Any advice or observations are appreciated.

RA

I added dForce modifier then tried using a clothing preset and the clothing just flaps down as if there simply is no bones or skin modeling there. LIke a sweater that just collapses. I also tried fresh with new figs, etc, and no dForce preset but now everything Gen 7 is dissapearing under the clothing. When I delete the clothing, most of the skin returns! 

This doesn't happen with G2, havent tried with G8, just G7 so far. If anyone knows a solution to get the skin back, please let me know. I can't do any animations when the clothing just falls down as if there is no longer skin beneath. 

Thanks.

https://www.daz3d.com/sy-universal-breast-helpers-genesis-genesis-2-and-genesis-3-female-s

-Which work for Genesis 8? I have problems with clothes sort of suctioning around curves which it shouldn't, like that item is made to solve. I don't care if the answer is "easy" or whatever. If there is a way to manually grab a certain spot and adjust it myself, I'll gladly do that. The clothes in question so far have built in adjustment sliders which are good for clipping and stuff, but not quite what I need. 

Here is a simple example from something I was doing. Evil vampire girl gonna rob somebody, whatever. But I noticed if I look from an angle where the cleavage is visible, the top edge of the shirt actually goes upward towards the center. I enlarged the breasts a bit to make it more obvious. In real life it would either be perfectly straight across due to elasticity, or hang downward due to gravity. There's nothing that would cause that point of the top to point upward like that, and that is what I want to fix. On a slightly related note, it slightly bothers me how her ears come out of her hair in the way they do, like they just phase through it. The hair has no built in stuff to adjust anything, but is there any possible way to create a part in the hair for the ears to poke out of properly? Again even if it's tedius, I'll do it.

Without making an hour of speechless I ask, why I got this eyes (look at "my shaders" pic) while the Victoria 8 shaders are more clear? (look at "Victoria 8 shaders")

Some shader setting to set?

P.S. V8 has a glossiness over the eyes also.

Thank you

My Current machine is a Lenovo mini, Core I3 6th generation with integrated graphics. It's a mini, so there is not an option for upgrading the graphics.  I am currently looking at the following machine, and would like the opinion of a few users. I will also say that I am an IT Systems admin, and have worked in IT for over 20 years.  With that being said, I have no desire to build my own machine.  I've done it plenty of times and don't have the love of building anymore.  I've never bought a PC for home, and am not a PC Gamer.  So, on with the specs.

Intel® Core™ i5 8400 (6-Core, 9MB Cache, up to 4GHz with Intel® Turbo Boost Technology)

Alienware™ 460 Watt Multi-GPU Approved Power Supply

NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1070 with 8GB GDDR5

16GB, 2666MHz, DDR4 up to 64GB

1TB (64MB Cache) 7200 RPM SATA 6Gb/s

$1,199.99

https://www.daz3d.com/night-lounge

Has anyone else encountered this issue?  How did you fix it?

before there were many lines, I believe to mark meters, and they marked a huge area... Now I don't see these anymore...

Did this happen in a recent update?

How does your axis show in Texture Shaded mode?

Is there a way to go back the way it was?

Installing product : Genesis 3 Female Starter Essentials
Could not extract file : D:/My DAZ 3D Library/data/DAZ 3D/Genesis 3/Female/Genesis3Female.dsf
Product installation failed : Genesis 3 Female Starter Essentials

I have downloaded it multiple times. Deleting it between attempts. Also, I have manually installed, but it fails to install a lot of things.

There is no apparent "Genesis 3" content, at all, in my "smart content". There is only broken icons and no Gen 3 stuff. Essentially, everything past Genesis-2 is broken, because there is no "core" or "base" files.

Somehow, I think this was updated and the update failed, by Daz. What is there now, fails to load, or work with Daz 4.10 and the new installer. In addition to the apparent missing core and base files. This is a fresh install, on windows 10, without first having installed Daz3D V4.9+.

I have pose builder and some of mcasuals scripts, but unless I'm missing something, I can't find any way to do this with any of the scripts I currently have. Although I may have missed it. All the mirror options seem to change the whole body, that is, it will flip the right and left sides, rather than making the poses the same on both sides.

If I can figure this out I will save so much time.

EDIT: nevermind, I figured it out. You just select the nodes that you want to mirror, then go to Edit > Figure > Symmetry... take the defaults, click accept, and it mirrors the selected nodes to the opposite side. I can't believe that option was there all the time.

My question is if Daz development has any plans or is the code too old? We are talking almost 20 years.

The one thing that I am not seeing, which is what I want to know is:

    If I have a GEFORCE GTX 1070 Ti already, will adding a second TI 1700 roughly halve the Rendering time?

E.g., is there a way to apply a morph just to the left or right side of the head or the body, or apply it in slightly different amounts to the two sides?

Thanks!

Update - The pixels appear to be transparent since they show up black in some apps and white in others. I tried some things that I found refarding Fireflys. I reduced the lighting from my light source. I made sure that the Firefly setting was ON in Rendering. I checked the Reflectivity settings for her skin and they are all under the 70% threshold.

It also appears that if I Render the image as a Single Image, it seems to look fine. I would need to do some more thorough testing to verify this.

I have been thinking about upgrading my GPU and would like  you guys and girls opinion,

Here is my current rig:

- AMD Fx-8350 BE

- Gygabyte GS-990FXA - UD5

- 16Gb ddr3 1600

- EVGA GTX 750 2Gb

And here is the one I got my eye on https://www.evga.com/products/product.aspx?pn=06G-P4-6163-KR

What you guys think? Is it a good improvement on what I got? on terms of render times on Iray? Will 3DL benefit from it?

BTW Im from Brasil and right now thats as expensive as I can go :)

Thanks in advance!

Whenever I try to use an older clothing option (such as in this picture "The Classic Outfit" for the Gen 3 Male), when the autofit box appears...there's no option to select Gen 3 Male or any Male model, only to leave it "unsupported" like this.

which in turn, if I just go ahead with the autofit without selecting anything, leads to this outcome:

I DO NOT have this problem with the Gen 8 Female model. Whenever I fit older items onto it, the autofit lets me select every Daz model up to this current mode and all of the different fitting options, so I am at a loss as to why I have no choices for fitting with the Gen 8 Male. My Daz is currently up to date according to the Install Manager, so I have no idea what the problem is.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Now I look for the dials under parameter or shape and the features are missing. Where can I find them?

By the way, I loaded Gen 2 and Gen 3 characters. Both seem to be missing the parameter or shape features I'm talking about.

Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks!