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Surface Selection Tool Stopped Working

Melissa Conway — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 16:01:00 +0000

I don't know what I did, but in one particular scene of mine the surface selection tool has stopped working. It was working fine before, and it works fine in other scenes. Yes, I can go into my scene tab and select items there if I want to make surface changes, but I should be able to highlight them with the tool - but I can't anymore. Thanks for any/all suggestions on what's gone wrong.

Uninstall

thesurvivordiaries — Tue, 21 Nov 2017 18:39:27 +0000

I can't uninstall this from my computer. I keep getting an error message that says: “DAZ3DIM_1.1.0.72_Mac32” can’t be opened because the identity of the developer cannot be confirmed. Your security preferences allow installation of only apps from the App Store and identified developers.

help with DA Dagger/Knife Pose Set

Drogo Nazhur — Wed, 22 Nov 2017 00:43:52 +0000

I recently purchased "DA Dagger/Knife Pose Set" [ https://www.daz3d.com/da-dagger-knife-pose-set ]. It downloaded and installed without error but I can't find the poses. All my other purchases that I bought went through without a problem. Can someone give me a hint where I might be able to find these poses? Thanks in advance for your replies.

Need help with LAMH installation

FantastArt — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 20:11:16 +0000

Hello,

I just bought Look at my Hair and installed it, but I can't get it to work. I deinstalled the free LAMH player first like it is said in the manual, but it doesn't seem to work correctly.

I only get this window from the pane...

How on earth do you make an HDRI do this?

Blind Owl — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 17:45:04 +0000

The attachment is a promo pic from Mec4D's https://www.daz3d.com/mec4d-hdri-norman-castle-megapack. I don't own the pack (yet), but I do own a number of other HDRIs and none of them allow me to hide a figure behind an integral scene element. There's a similar pic in Mec4D's Central Park collection--of a woman sitting on a bench--but that one's easy to figure out: the bench is simply a prop and not integral to the HDRI.

However this one was done, I'd sure like to know the trick of it! No wonder the guy is grinning.

Iray not rendering well

arcticfoxes_be — Tue, 21 Nov 2017 16:39:20 +0000

Iray rendering : frontal view face : right side does not render well. What's wrong ?

Thanks

Does DirectX 11 work on a Mac?

JOdel — Tue, 21 Nov 2017 03:17:04 +0000

This is a Maya question rather than a Studio question, but I suspect that someone here will know.

Class assignment requires applying the dx11 shader to the model, and to get to that point one has to switch from OpenGL to DirectX11. Only on my copy of Maya, DirectX11 is simply not available. I'm running the student version of Maya on an iMac. The classroom computers are running the student version of Maya on Windows (don't know what version).

I checked the Plugin manager, but there was no obvious box to check to enable DirectX11. If this is something that I need to download and install, I'd appreciate knowing where to find it.

Thanks, anyone.

Hoplite without material

trasgu — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 17:40:47 +0000

HI everyone:

I bought Mec4D Hoplite Soldier for Genesis 2 Male, but I can't see golden materials. Any metal parts are brown and mate, without their bright. No brights and golden color with Iray and 3Dlight. Anyone with the same problem? Thanks

Lights and Shadow Casting Property

ballard_jbco — Tue, 21 Nov 2017 07:05:32 +0000

Hopefully this is too dumb of a question, but I am having some shadow issues in a scene i'm working on. Problem being that I need the light, but don't want it to cast a shadow. I know I've seen a property before to tell the light whether or not to cast a shadow, and it's referenced in the user guide online, but I can't find it anywhere now. I guess along a similar line, I can't find the fallof start/end for the linear point light either. Do these properties still exist, if so where, or have there been changes to light properties with the 4.10 upgrade?

Weird Surprise

nonesuch00 — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 09:06:46 +0000

Well I spent about 4 hours setting up a fascimile of the famous Norman Rockwell painting 'The Runaway'. To my surprise when I go to render it in DAZ Studio 4.10.1.118 it takes extremely long time to render even the 1st iteration. We are talking well over an hour & not 1 iteration & I ended up canceling. It seemed DAZ Studio or the computer was spinning their wheels in some sort of idele loop. It was so slow and my computer so throttled I thought my computer CPU had developed problems.

So instead I am testing another scene that is less complex in DAZ and it rendered in the normal speed. Any clues? I guess I could try composite rendering under I find the model that is causing this behaviour.

Do I need to do something to get DAZ Studio to recognize my graphics cards?

RLSprouse — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 19:19:31 +0000

I have an iMac system with an internal NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX 2 GB graphics card, and I have a BizonBOX attached with an NVIDIA TITAN X card. These were working before I updated to the High Sierra OS. Then the system stopped recognizing the TITAN card. I've been working with a BizonBOX tech, and now the system recognizes the TITAN card, but niether the internal nor external cards show up in Studio's Render Settings - just the CPU.

What do I need to do to get Studio to see the GPUs?

Keys not appearing in graphMate

covertd — Sun, 19 Nov 2017 21:39:08 +0000

Hi All,

I have graphMate and keyMate installed on my Win7-64 bit PC.

I can see the keyframes for my animation on the DAZ timeline and the keyMate timeline, but no keys appear in graphMate.

Also, I can't add any keys to graphMate, but I can add keys on the DAZ timeline and the keyMate timeline.

I'm working with the latest DAZ Studio 4.10.0.107.

Thanks for any help that anyone can provide.

Clarification to online tutorial

pwiecek — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 23:09:44 +0000

I'm watching the online tutorial "Daz 101:posing. In the part that talks about the hand pose controls, the narrator says "you can even download more options". Where are these options? are they included with various morph package?

Can't find Genesis 3

teaganvictoriamkd — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 17:15:44 +0000

I'm new to this, and I downloaded Daz Install Manager with everything except that Photoshop bridge thing. I have only been able to find genesis 3 for male as actor, but no female. I only have the basic female, fairy genesis and genesis. I can't even find genesis 2 for male or female.

Also, if I were to purchase an actor that has required products listed, like Kala for Aiko 6 ( random example ) would I have to purchase Aiko 6 in order to use it? Sometimes there are more than two required products. And if in that case, would I have to purchase both?

INJecting Inter-Morph Dependencies in DS

Gregorius — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 01:52:48 +0000

I have a custom face morph for G8M which requires that some third-party morphs from be enslaved to a master dial. I know how to do this via an INJection pose in Poser, but I want my freebie to be DS-compatible, so how do I do the same thing for DS?

How do I save a character with all values at zero?

Those Things — Sun, 19 Nov 2017 19:45:21 +0000

Hey everybody,

Hopefully I can describe this properly. So, I've created a character using morphs. I want to save this character so that the morphs I've made are the new zero baselines for the character, so that when I load it into a scene, I can apply additional morphs to it as if it was a completely new and unmorphed character. Does that make sense? In other words, lets say that when I created my character, I moved the "jaw in/out" slider to 25. I want to save that character so that that setting becomes the new default, and when I load it into a scene, the "jaw in/out" slider will read zero.

Can anyone tell me how to do this?

Thanks in advance to anyone who answers!

Payment Failure

dillic_2824368 — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 13:51:59 +0000

Cant pay from my credit card. Keep getting this message - Payment Failure: This transaction has been declined.

QUESTION ABOUT SAVING MULTIPLE MORPHS

MAC-X — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 05:09:02 +0000

I have created/sculpted about 35 singlular morph dials that I have imported into DAZ Studio. Is there a way that I can save all these single morph dilas at the same time into speparate morph assets. Or will I need to save them one at a time to make sure I can use them separately... I hope I made sense lol. Thank you again. Mickey

G8F base character (and at least some others) distorted (solved)

nomad-ads_8ecd56922e — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 00:49:08 +0000

Okay, I went to load one of the G8F characters, and she came out all distorted. I deleted the character from scene and loaded the Genesis 8 Female base character and got more or less the same distorted shape. What should I be looking for? I'm pretty sure she's not supposed to look like THIS. oO

Can I use Daz to make clothes look too big?

Blacky13 — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 01:08:52 +0000

Hi everyone! I have a scene where a sidekick (think Robin) is trying to put on the costume of his hero (think Batman). Since the sidekick is not as tall or as buff as the hero, is there any way I can make clothes look loose on the sidekick? Possibly scale up the clothing item somehow? I can go into ZBrush and do some morphing if necessary, but I would like to do as much in Daz as I can.

Thanks! Any and all help or thoughts is greatly appreciated!

Some kind of update script we were supposed to run after install DS 4.10?

Odaa — Sun, 19 Nov 2017 18:18:34 +0000

I remember reading about it (the dforce modifiers would not show as an option under edit/figure/geometry if this was not done) but now I can't find anything under scripts that might be it.

Genesis 8 and old content

fire.kat.70 — Mon, 13 Nov 2017 15:26:52 +0000

One of the selling points of Genesis 8 is backwards compatibility. So; I have Regenesis Catworld Lion and I'm wondering how do I plunk content from that onto a Genesis 8 model? Particularly the shapers.

Multiplane Ciclorama

Cherubit — Sun, 19 Nov 2017 08:08:12 +0000

Do these work for the multiplane ciclorama that comes with daz (the beach one)? or do I have to buy the product?

https://www.daz3d.com/enchanted-enclave
https://www.daz3d.com/hunter-s-moon
https://www.daz3d.com/haunted-depths
https://www.daz3d.com/on-a-certain-night

From the required products list I only have the Millenium Environment.

[edit] Oh another question, will it work if i don't have the Woodland Realm Playsets? Those are just trees?

Anatomical elements morph transfers

j_stnk — Sat, 18 Nov 2017 16:48:38 +0000

Hello all,

Is it possible to transfer G1 male's AE morphs to G2 male's. Has anyone tried and made a matching geometry prop? a script? a tut? Is the geometry too different?

thanks

Iray Render - Fingertips Glowing Red

Patroklos — Sun, 19 Nov 2017 11:27:11 +0000

Hi, I am doing a render of G8M (Michael 8), 3 figures side by side to test the appearance of 3 different mats.

One mat is the Michael 8 out of the box, another is Beautiful Skins No. 2 Mat on Michael 8, the third is my own working of the settings on Michael 8, incorporating advice from the forums.

In general I am very pleased with the work that I have produced, however with the render 75% complete the fingertips on the figure that I have worked on are glowing red. There is no other part of the body with this effect, and it does not appear on the other 2 figures who are posed identically and all face exactly the same direction (in other words the light is the same on each figure)

Can anyone tell me which setting I should look at to correct this problem?

thanks

Loading figure distorts other figures

2Fatbear — Mon, 15 May 2017 00:29:40 +0000

I need help! When I load a figure, a figure already on DAZ is distorted. I tested many times, with different figures, it happens all the times. For instance, I load Aiko 7, then Victoria 7. At this point the A7 gets distorted. I checked log file but there is nothing wrong there (besides the usual Could not find property for animation, formula, etc). If I then I load another A7, it is ok. If then I load another figure, the second A7 is also distorted. It doesnt matter what figures they are, some gets distorted. It happens also if I load the same figure twice, the first one gets distorted.

What can be going on? I fear I will have to reinstall everything. A scary thought...

Image removed for nudity. Please see this thread for info: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/3279/acceptable-ways-of-handling-nudity

What PC Would You Get if Money Wasn't an Issue?

mwokee — Sat, 18 Nov 2017 01:37:29 +0000

I'm sure this has come up before but the forum search is a bit rough to find answers so...

If money was no object, what would you get for a PC? Processor, video card, RAM, etc.

I won't have the money to get it all but it would be good to know what the options are. I saw one discussion a while back where someone said to use two video cards which tells me I need to get educated if I want super fast Daz renders.

Thanks

G8M No Glossy / Top Coat Maps Loading

Patroklos — Fri, 17 Nov 2017 14:49:23 +0000

The other maps are loading ok, but the glossy & top coat slots are empty. Is that right?

When I do load them and change the setting it appears to have no effect. What is happening here?

Daz3D closes on startup (after "building interface")

MayorHaggar — Fri, 17 Nov 2017 21:49:06 +0000

Hello all,

I've tried my best to troubleshoot this on my own by looking at similar threads with no luck, so I'm hoping someone will know what's up. Ever since the update to Daz3D 4.10 I haven't been able to start the program. It was working fine before this.

I've tried:

Uninstalling/Reinstalling through DIM
Uninstalling/Reinstalling through the Daz3D package on the site
Setting Daz3D to use my 1070 in the Nvidia Control Panel
Installing related runtime packages from Microsoft

I'm running Windows 7 64-bit with a 3570k, 16GB of RAM, with a 1070. My drivers are up to date.

I'm not sure this warning is relevant, but in my log.txt file when I try to start Daz3D, it says:

2017-11-17 16:31:00.831 WARNING: 3DConnexion Plug-in Error: Could not create Device, CoCreateInstance failed

Any assistance would be appreciated!

Can't Migrate User Categories from DAZ Studio 4.8.0.59 Pro to DAZ Studio 10

Paula Sanders — Sat, 04 Nov 2017 06:34:09 +0000

I created my own categories starting before DAZ Studio 4.8.0.59. Since I was not interested at the time in continuing with new figures (Genesis 8), I did not download any version of DAZ Studio 4.9. However, I decided I wanted to try Dforce so through DIMI downloaded and installed 4.10. None of my categories migrated over. I had backed up my data through "Export........and have three User files. My Library and all relevant files are in their default location. I do have some files on my drive G. These are all of my saved scene that I created. Those migrated over fine. Even after I imported my data back, it did not show up. Since I back up my C drive on my computer, I kept putting back my DAZ Studio 4.8. I tried to import having all items checked. When that didn't work, I put 4.8 on again and this time only checked user data as well as the override product metadata (or whatever it is called). I want to buy Genesis 8 files, but if I can't use my categories, it isn't worth it for me. Thanks