Thanks!

Then I did something 'stupid' and re-loaded the oriognal saved scene and just rendered that.  And things went back to how they were.  I hid the weapon and rendered and it all wnet very 'wrong' again.  The weapon in question is the Haze Tool from the Adventurer's Toy Box.  Apart from being quite a nice little weapon/tool, the item also adds some lighting by Emissive shaders.  And this is what confuses the living heck out of me.  If I have the weapon visible I get one result, hide it (or delete it from scene) and th elighting gets brighter.  Remove light source(s) and lighting gets brighter.  See below - both renders are done withion half an dhour or sop, with DS nbeing left open an the only chnage being to hide the weapon.  Top half is the version without the weapon visible, bototm half is with.

Does anyone have any explantion?

I'm not sure where to begin.  (sigh)  Explaining everything step by step would be very long.

So... Does anyone have any suggestions for:

1.) DS smart content 'thinks' I need to install content that's already installed. 

2.) The DIM wants me to download "Default Resources for Daz Studio 4.9" and will crash-- presumably because the default resources have already been installed.'

Screenshots if they help.  That, or my first ticket with tech spt.  Stumped, but am very tired.

Thanks for reading

--Bruce

Smart content might be easily repaired via CDM?  This isn't something I want to just "guess & hope" with though.  The rest of DS works which is part of the reason can't figure out this one.

Example that came up first.  200 face morphs showing as needing install, but obviously not, since I'm looking right at them.

Path error?  The DIM 'thinks' I need to download a resource that appears to have already been installed.  That might explain why DIM will crash and leads to a technical error that's beyond my expertise.

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Edit: weeding out old imgur files.  PM broken links.

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Theres a very easy to find tab containing all the Dynamic Clothing options. This tab doesnt exist in my DAZ setup, so how do i use it?

So i have made a hallway in blender with materials and lighting. NOW i can either import/append a DAZ model into the blender scene or export the hallway and import into DAZ as i understand it BUT which will be the easiest to do ? which method will bring the materials along?

Ive read up on it and frankly it seems difficult. I have managed to bring a model into the blender scene but the materials changed and i tried bringing in the hallway into DAZ but the materials did not stay linked to their original structures.

I've installed the most recent drivers--from Nvidia, not Windows Update--so I doubt if that's the problem...unless I need to roll them back (?). My system is also fairly robust--i7 CPU, 32gb system RAM, a 1080 TI and a 1080 GTX--so I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

I get most figures for their texures rather than their morphs, though I got her for both. But I really want to be able to use the texture on other figures. I have yet to try to load the figure itself, so I can't say whether or not the entire thing is broken, but if I had to bet...

The rendering with 3d delight is like expected, but as soon if I render the same image with iray there seems to be an offset of the camera perspektive:
https://imgur.com/a/8lyFO

Any ideas?  Because this is getitng very old very fast.

I installed the product using the Install Manager. I even removed it and re-installed it with the Install Manager, to no avail.

The base mesh is all quads, and all have four quad cornrs except for the five-quad corners with the verts highlighted. 

I am a director looking to create an animated short using Daz3D character, prop, and environment models, some other ready-made and library prop models, and freelance animators. My target is a more "realistic" style (like Final Fantasy, only much, much lower budget and using stock assets).

I have no 3D package experience myself (except for having done a basic tutorial on Blender and watched some Daz3D videos on YouTube).

A number of freelancers I've approached (who are using packages ranging from Maya to Cinema4D to Blender) have suggested that I have characters created from scratch instead of working with Daz3D characters. Their reasons are varied and range from:

- "These characters' mesh flow isn't quite right for rigging and animation"

- "The facial characterization is not good enough for production. We won't be able to emote them well."

- "It'll take as long or maybe even longer to customize Daz3D characters as create our own from scratch."

I'm having a hard time believing these comments because from what I can see:

- The character models are quite high poly, and if IK rigging is done right I don't see why it should be a problem animating with them.

- The faces seem good enough for an animated short - more than enough polys to use something like Blender's pitchipoy facial rig or even just exporting blendshapes and using those (with the tons and tons of face "poses" available as morphs in the Daz shop).

- I don't see how creating complex humanoid characters from scratch would be easier than having a solid base character from Daz and then doing the required scars, skin tone, etc. using customized materials, textures, skin shaders, sub-surf scattering, etc.

Again, like I said, I don't really have much 3D modelling/animating experience, so if anyone can shed light on the freelancer comments above and explain to me where they're coming from, I'd be very grateful.

Thank you in advance for any light you can shed on the above and any helpful advice you can provide.

I'm trying to use the new dForce Master presets, but for some reason the appropriate menu options to set everything up are not appearing for me. I get the Simulation Settings pane, but don't have Simulation Settings > Options > dForce (to add a dForce modifier) and similarly I'm not getting the appropriate options in Edit > Object > Geometry. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the dForce Starter Essentials but beyond that I'm lost; I had these options on the old machine and I thought I had everything back up and running.

I'd greatly appreciate any advice as I'd really like to play around with this feature on my new PC.

Regards,

-A

The orbit part works but the zoom is zooming further from the left hand not close into the left hand.

The G8's (x, y, z) is (0, 0, -1250) so I'm guessing ctl-f is zooming to (0, 0, 0) with an offset close to where the left hand should be.

How to make this work correctly for characters where they stand not from (0, 0, 0)?

Thanks

So then i try to render a totally different scene in Iray and it seems fine. just a single male figure in daz. There are no issues. I cant figure out what the issue here is.

I was wondering whether it was feasible to produce a full-fledged feature film of 90-100 minutes (indie production) using only bought in models and props from Daz3D and other such sites.

If so, what workflow would be best? I was thinking something along the lines of Daz3D export to Blender, rig with the pitchipoy body and face rig, animate using a mix of mocap (from perception neuron/iClone) and keyframing in Blender, then render using Cycles. Does this pipeline make sense?

If the idea is not feasible, then it'd be great if someone could outline why not, i.e. what are the barriers to and/or issues with doing so? Also, are there "cost-effective" workarounds that fit within an indie budget?

Note: I'm a cinematographer and director and have very little experience with 3D packages (save for a Blender basics tutorial and some Daz3D youtube videos).

Thanks for any help you can provide with regards to the above questions.

Should I check or uncheck? It says:

Auto-Magnetize to figures with D-Forms

Thanks

I've tried relaoding all my content from backup, i've deleted and reinstalled daz. It just doesn't give me an option to make the eyes visible again. I'm hoping someone can help.

Cheers.

I spent a few hours of intalling content into the created folders. I can see the content in studio but is says it is not installed. 

Did I miss a step? 

I've been rearranging my folders a little bit lately. Apparently, something must have failed.
I noticed today that expressions and facial parameters are suddenly missing in existing projects.

Simple example, close eyes open.

There seems to be only the parameters I've changed before. See picture. I'm using Genesis 3 and Genesis 8, both of which are the same mistakes.

Do you have any ideas what I can do?

Thanks