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Strange missing file error when loading G8 (solved)

rono64 — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 16:30:21 +0000

I keep getting a missing file error when loading G8 figures, it says the Genesis 3 Female.DSF is missing but everything is fine.

This started after the essentials update?

Is anyone else having this problem?

Smart Content File Could Not Open - Does Not Exist

mickc52 — Mon, 30 Oct 2017 23:44:57 +0000

Downloaded DAZStudio 4.10 using DIM to my MacBook Pro. When trying to bring Figures into the scene from the "Smart Content" tab a pop-up says: "Could not open file: /People/Genesis 2 Female/Genesis 2 Base Female.duf File does not exist." However, when I go to that directory the file does exisit. Anyone know of a fix??

Thanks

Mick

Nevermind, menu item changed name. frustrating! SOLVED. Dforce menu item missing?

jenniferhughey — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 14:08:28 +0000

Trying to use Dforce and running into an issue with a missing menu option. I don't have "add Dforce modifier and simulation settings" so when I try to start the simulation I get an error. Anyone else have this problem?

Standard EULA

dillic_2824368 — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 09:36:15 +0000

Is 2d animated sequense in game dev still covered by Standard EULA or has it become Interactive?

GamePrint - I can't find the tab im Panes

Davewriter — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 03:36:10 +0000

My apologies!

I seem to find everything Except this when it comes to Gameprint.

I'd love to waste... er, invest great amounts of $

If only I could find..

Thanks!

Fiber eyebrows not following brow morphs

cdpro_2831bbd990 — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 22:50:29 +0000

Been puzzling this one. I used Teen Princess Leila for G3F eyebrows on G8F. No problem getting brows to autofit and parent. But for some reason, the brows won't follow the pose of the figure brow.

I've checked about everything. I can only think that I must be missing an autofollow parameter somewhere.

Any ideas?

Lights Showing as Physical Objects

maraich — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 06:35:51 +0000

It used to be when I placed a point light in a scene it emitted light, but the little sphere representing the light didn't actually render. Now it does, so if I place a point light on a candle flame, my flame ends up looking like a light bulb due to the sphere showing. What do I need to do to make it invisible again without eliminating the lighting effect? This has been going on for at least a year, I'm just now getting around to mentioning it since it's really messing up my current image. In case it's important, I'm using DS 4.9 on a Windows 10 box.

Lighting issues

kksmith6515 — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 03:08:22 +0000

How come this scene is so dark? In the product promo images it appeared much brighter and more balenced. What can be done to improve it?

Thanks!

Dissappearing hair when view changed

barrettjmb — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 15:33:12 +0000

So I have the same scene. From one side, camera 1 you can see the hair.

As soon as I cross from the right side of his face to the left I get this:

I've removed the hair and added it again. It is set to visible in render and scene. When I render he appears bald. Any idea?

Saving Hair DForms as new morph dials? [SOLVED]

cdpro_2831bbd990 — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 23:16:29 +0000

I've read through the thread about saving morphs done in Zbrush. But, my specific question is, "Is it possible to export and obj from a Dformed hair in Daz and re-import it through Morph Loader Pro, and then save it as a morph asset for that hair?"

Many really nice hair models just don't come with enough shaping morphs to suit me. So, after doing all the work to Dform the hair into the shape I like, I'd like to be able to save it as a morph dial for future use.

Thanks for any help!

What, exactly, is “welding?”

rames44 — Sun, 29 Oct 2017 21:40:44 +0000

I’ve seen discussions of clothing not working with dForce because “seams aren’t welded.” I understand, conceptually, the issue - if a pocket, say, is to be simulated as part of a garment, it must actually be connected to the garment. If it isn’t, of course it’s going to fall off. As Robin Williams said in one of his routines, “Oh, ****, gravity works!”

But is “welding” a specific operation? Can one take a garment that has such an issue and “weld” the parts together? And if so, how? Or is this just modeling nomenclature for “these two surfaces share the same vertices?”

DAZ 4.10, something wrong with Iray viewport?

OZ-84 — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 22:42:39 +0000

Hi there :-)

Somehow i get the feeling there is something wrong with the way Daz 4.1 handles the iray viewport.

Back in the older versions i could hit the render button and pause render ... the usual way ... start after this a fast loading iray preview in the viewport.

However ... since i updated to 4.10 i have the feeling that the iray viewport render adds to gfx memory consumption.

Lets say i have a 7gb scene (11gb memory avaiable) it starts like it always did the iray render ... but when i try to switch the viewport to iray it switches to cpu back ...

Did somebody observe this too?

Thanks :-D

PowerPose became undockable in last week

mdlark1966 — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 19:06:14 +0000

Hello all -

I just ran into a strange problem - my PowerPose pane has become permanently undockable. I need to drag the tab into another dockable tab group, but I can't drag from the tab at all - only from the title bar. And even then, I can't dock the pane anywhere. I made sure I'm using the right version for my version of DS (4.9.4.117 Pro 64-Bit). It had been fine up until about a week ago, and it is still working fine in the version on my laptop. I didn't change anything that I know of. so I'm not sure what could have happened.

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

Michael

Genesis 2 Alive aniblocks not working

BrianG61 — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 18:16:34 +0000

I’ve applied the breathing aniblocks to my G2 figure (Michael 6), but they don’t seem to be working. Also, I can’t seem to even preview the action when I scrub through the various options. I’ve even applied several options and did a test render. There was no apparent effect. When I apply any of the eye blinking blocks, however, I can definitely see their actions, and they definitely render.

To start, my character, has an overall aniblock applied from Bonus Wizard Combat Bones. I’m trying to add breathing and blinking to the action. The blinking works well. The breathing, not so much. I’ve tried simply adding the block on a sub track, and I’ve tried overriding the abdomen area with the breathing block, but still nothing works. This is my first time ever working with aniblocks, so I wouldn’t be surprised if it is simply user error, but any guidance would be hugely appreciated.

Thanks!

Brian

Daz Studio always asking for save file name.. [Solved]

Ghosty12 — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 15:18:12 +0000

Not sure what I have done and how to fix it, but every time I just want to just overwrite a saved scene after I made some changes it keeps asking me for a file name.. Before this issue came up I was just able to just click save and it would overwrite that file automatically..

It is somewhat annoying as to why it is doing it now and how I got to where I am now with this issue how to go about fixing it, any help please would be greatly appreciated thank you..

Bake colission & smoothing iterations

cendeman — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 16:00:22 +0000

Hi, I'm exporting my Genesis 8 female to FBX C4D but everytime I export it it seems it's not taking into the collision iterations into account. Because the skin is poking through the shirt multiple times. How can I bake it all and then export it?

No Accept Button

serapine68 — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 02:14:03 +0000

Hello,

i have a message in my DIM when i will load it for online working that i must agree the Licensing another one. When i will do it i don´t get an accept button but i am be log in, in the store.

Can anyone tell me what´s going on.

Sorry for my bad English. I am from Germany.

Greatings Serapine

How to use G2F wet skin on G3F?

RobertDy — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 16:44:11 +0000

Hi,

I bought Legacy UVs for G3: V6 and also Wet skin for G2F. I render in 3Delight. What I want to do is apply this Wet Skin on a skin texture made for G3F (and not a skin texture for G2F).

Can anyone tell me how to do this? All the forum topics I see here are about users trying to get a wet skin applied on V4/G2F texture transferred to G3F - which is pretty straightforward, first load V4/G2F, load the V4/G2F skin, apply the Wet Skin for V4/G2F, save as material preset, then apply the preset through the Legacy UVs product. However I'm trying to apply the Wet Skin for G2F product on a G3F skin texture, like say a skin texture that came with a character set for G3F. Any possible way to do this?

Thanks!

Problem with Real Short Hair (G2M) [Solved]

bshugs1525871 — Sat, 21 Nov 2015 07:17:23 +0000

I'm using the new Daz Beta 4.9 and sometime in the last update or two I've started having a problem with the Real Short Hair product. The cap doesn't follow the head like the hair does. I've tried to just move the cap after the pose, but it ends up affecting the hair instead of the cap. Has anyone else expereinced this? Any ideas?

how do I create an outside?

kksmith6515 — Mon, 30 Oct 2017 02:59:14 +0000

Here is problem I really haven't faced yet. What do I do to create something outside of the windows in this render? I don't know if this calls for a background image or skydome or something else. If someone could please suggest a method and how to do it I would really appreciate it.

Thanks!

(CLOSED) Socks suddenly not fitting properly

RobertDy — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 02:13:09 +0000

Hi,

I'm using a G3F model that seems to err all of a sudden. First I fit a pair of socks and everything's working fine, then after a while (edit: after I close and reopen the scene) the socks suddenly goes out of place like the attachment shows. I made no adjustments whatsoever, it just goes out of place. I look at the adjustment morphs - both hidden and seen on the socks but nothing I do corrects the shape. And this isn't the socks' problem, when I load another distinct pair of socks it assumes the weird look in the attachment here.

What's going on?

Edit, it's caused by a custom morph application. I'm corresponding with the creator to get it resolved.

DAZ freezes when I try to login

danielbest — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 04:18:16 +0000

Like the title says. I launch DAZ, I'm told I need to log in because the system configuration or something has changed (this happens EVERY SINGLE TIME), I hit the login button and DAZ locks up and I have to use task manager to shut it down.

Can't get rid of bright lighting!

Tallulahdahling — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 04:34:19 +0000

Yesterday I downloaded D/S 4.10 and tried some renders. Oddly, no matter what lights I set up or whether I toggled the little lightbulb in the lighting tab on or off, the lighting was bright, when what I was going for was a moody Halloween render with dim lighting from pumpkins with emissive insides and a dim spotlight. I used to be able to do things like that, but no matter what I tried the render came out bright as day.

I also tried two totally different scenes without emissive lights but with subtle lighting. Both came out as if the sun were stuck at noon on a cloudless day.

I tried a single spotlight and also a couple of purchased sets with dim lighting, and I dimmed the lights to almost nothing.

It's not as if I'm a newbie who has never done darkened scenes with dramatic lighting before, but now that I've installed 4.10 I don't know what I'm doing anymore.

What am I doing wrong, please?

Fall Creators Update: DAZ Studio requires at least OpenGL version 1.3

CO3DR — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 23:11:55 +0000

I'm running on Windows 10.0.16291.0

Yesterday, Windows updated my NVIDIA driver to 23.21.13.8778 (9/18/2017) and now I'm getting this error message when I attempt to start DAZ Studio.

I'm going to attempt to roll back the driver...

weird tubes floating around

jackwolf747 — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 19:24:06 +0000

why are there these tubes floating around my cloth i tried to do everything but i couldnt get rid of them

any help please and thanks in advnace

Active Pose Tool cannot rotate with pins. What am I missing?

D W Johnson — Mon, 30 Oct 2017 00:43:14 +0000

I've been through a lot of forum material. There are ubiquitious basic quesitons that saturate this subject.

I'm attempting a bellydance animation for a genesis 2 female. I'm using genesis 2 because genesis 3 and 8 (which I've spent the most money on) wiggle through the red pins. Genesis and genesis 2 are the only figures that pin correctly.

Goal: Basic Shimmy and figure 8.

https://www.google.com/search?q=bellydance+basics&rlz=1C1CHZL_enUS759US759&oq=bellydance+basics&aqs=chrome..69i57.5067j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#kpvalbx=1

My sister is a bellydance instructor and I wanted to make her a short animation. (the girl in the video is not my sister. please don't ask for her phone number. ;)

I can fake my way through the chest islolation parts with the purlpe pins because the whole upper body is in motion but, PURPLE PINS are not BONE pins and they do not lock the feet properly. Feet on the floor dont move, not even a little.

My quesiton: Using the ACTIVE POSE TOOL, can you bring up a rotation tool for direct manipulation like the shift button gives you control of the up down right left tool? I can't leave the active pose tool to grab the normal rotation tool or any other tool, Daz deselects the active pose data. I'm sure there's a good reason for this as code can be a cruel mistress. Also the rotation tool in the upper left of the screen ignores the pins completely even if you're on the active pose menu.

Ultimately I'd love for Daz3D to be a one stop shop. Not to reshape and texture like zbrush and blender. I just want to use the Daz3D for animating since it IS part of Daz studio already. I'd even like to purchase graphMate and keyMate but not if I can't navigate past this hurtle first. Ooooorr... Can I fix this problem with either of those addons? Is there something I missed completely? I'd love to be wrong here.

https://www.daz3d.com/graphmate

https://www.daz3d.com/keymate

Why are these icons still showing?

TOPcat831 — Mon, 30 Oct 2017 02:12:26 +0000

I'm using Studio 4.9.

I installed some cool characters from renderosity.com but I used to forget how to locate them. So I began saving them as character presets. But then I decided to change the angle of the characters icon, but the old one remained. So thru my windows explorer I renamed the PNG file because I thought the duf.png was MY error when I thought to rename them the first time.

That's when the triangles appeared. I deleted the the Icons from C:\Users\....\Documents\DAZ 3D\Studio\My Library\Presets\Characters resaved the characters and the triangles still remain.

Is there a way to remove them?

Looking for the easiest (fewest steps) fix for the Duplicate Files Found Error

stmercy2020_9aea6b9c04 — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 19:57:22 +0000

I have been getting the Duplicate Files Found error everytime I attempt to load a saved G3F model for a little over a week, now. I was not getting this error before that, and I did not update to 4.10 until after I started getting the error. I have uninstalled and deleted all the basic G3 files that I have- I think- not including poses and clothes, but that did not help. Checking the log file, this is a sample of the error I get:

2017-10-27 11:51:47.725 WARNING: fileinput\dzassetdaz.cpp(5970): Duplicate formula found linking yOrigin & XID_Genesis3Male in L:/My DAZ 3D Library/data/DAZ 3D/Genesis 3/Female/Morphs/My_User_Name/Product/alias_Genesis3Female_XID_Genesis3Male.dsf.

There are, I kid you not, literally hundreds of lines like that, all nearly identical.

I have read the file regarding when Genesis was seeing this error, but I'm not certain how to effect the solution suggested there; for one thing, I simply lack the technical know-how. At this point, I'm trying to find the easiest solution short of dropkicking my computer through a window.

Problem with Iray - transition between solid and transparent object

orjaniv — Mon, 30 Oct 2017 17:21:02 +0000

Hi,

I've tried to make a scene with a character (G8F) trapped inside a block of a semi-transparent substance, but when I render it seems Iray cannot make a decent transistion between the solid body and the transparent block. The render always shows up with a line of invisible dots along the transitions. I've tried to make the block a variety of substances (water, ice, wax, rubber, etc) but with the same result each time.

The attached image is a cutout of the whole render (it's kinda explicit :O) but you can see the white line of transparent dots.

Does anyone know how to fix this or why it's happening? It does not occur if the block is solid.

Is .DUFF conversion possible?

dash2128 — Sat, 21 Oct 2017 21:05:18 +0000

Can a Character created in DazStudio be converted to an OBJ file that would open in Kotobee-Author software? (which has an option to load 3d OBJ files in interactive ebooks)

I haven't located any information that suggests that a .duf file can be converted to OBJ, so I'm trying to establish if one can or not.

It would be nice to be able to use some of my DazStudio content in Kotobee Author's 3d panel.

I'm guessing...that isn't possible?

...but checking into it.