I used DIM for most of them.  Then I went through products and installed anything that I needed connect for.  But there's still about a dozen that I can't install.  They're all greyed out and have an icon of a notebook with a U on it.  DIM say's they're installed, so I tried uninstalling and reinstalling them, but still no good.  What's going on?

So I have two 1080sc 8.2gb video cards.

Commonly I'd make a scene to render, and it would be like anywhere from 3-5gbs on the canvas. Which was fine. It worked great, rendered quickly, so on- so forth.

Recently I've been making much larger scenes, that were animated. But started running into an issue.

It would render the first frame flawlessly. However, the moment it switched to the second frame, thats when s*** hit the fan (excuse me). Instead of continuing the render on my GPU's that weren't fully being used, it would switch to the CPU to continue the rest of the frames... This issue has litterally drove me up the wall several times, and almost caused me to scrap a project because of it. I spent hours trying to find a fix. At one point I had determined that the issue was Geometry related, and that is was stockpiling it, but that ended up being just a specific tree asset I had that was causing that issue. I Messaged support, they weren't sure what was going on. Many places said stuff like, lowering texture compression value, or lowering the resolution, enabling Optix Prime Acceleration (which I already had on), lowering Bump Map, reducing gloss and or specular maps, changing gloss method, adding more light... You get the picture...

Anyway, it turns out... for me and my GTX 1080's, the issue was OptiX Prime Acceleration.

Honestly the moment I disabled that (supposed Highly reccommended feature, for those with more recent nvidia cards) My render times cut in half, it started using all of my available VRAM, and stopped erroring out in some scenes.

Conclusion: If you have GTX1080/'s and you want faster render times, or you want daz3d to actually use all of your VRAM without crashing, or switching to CPU,            uncheck OptiX Prime Acceleration. Solved all my issues.

I'm uncertain of the case with other video cards in 10xx Series. But it appears to definately be the case with the 1080.

Hope this helps people with similar issues. Also, please comment if this ended up fixing the issue for those of you with different video cards.

(PS: Sorry for writting that speel before the fix, I had to vent a bit cuz this was an infuriating issue for me, hehe.)

But every time I try fitting the shoes to Genesis 2. Then end up fitting between the feet instead of going directly on them. 

Is there any way I can get them to fit properly?

I purchased several items I wanted to use, but they didn't appear where expected in the Content Library.

I finally found them, but they are in the general folder with subfolders under them, but all folders are empty.

Examples:

Morris\Genesis 8 Female Texture Merchant Resource- Light Skin shows up as Genesis 8 Female-Resource1 but is empty.

Mimic Configs - Empty folder

Posermocap - Many empty folders

At least with Posermocap I can find them in the Gen 3 poses section.  But I wanted to use Light Skin.  And when I look in the actual folder (using Windows Explorer) it is only .tif files.

So can someone help this newbie figure out how to use the skin one, and why this folder even exists if everything in it is empty?

Thanks for any guidance you can offer.

How do I add the textures (and color) to the hair? 

     Relatively new to DAZ (5 or 6 months) but enjoying it and slowly learning.  I've come up against a problem, though, and maybe after everyonegets done laughing because I missed an obvious solution I can move through this!  I've used a number of great models I purchased and downloaded that included windows, and all of them easily showed outside from inside and vice versus.  Recently I purchased Ultra Mod Beach House and Mountain Villa because they had such great potential for wonderful views, but no matter what I do, the windows are opauge!  You can't see outside from inside, or inside from outside.  The window panes are simply a silvery thing!  Is there some secret to making this work that I am missing, or were all those grreat views in the promo shots edited in with Photoshop or something?

Thanks so much,

Brian

In the documentation http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/artzone/pub/software/dazstudio/reference/fm_exportobj the topic "Collapse UV Tiles" isn't mentioned.

Can anybody tell me what this option actually does?

Thank you very much.

I then tried to use it with the Aiko7 maps, but it slid down the face onto the upper cheek.  It ends up the Aiko7 maps use an Aiko7 UV Set, which is shifted from the default G3F UV set.  

Is there a way to apply a mask/texture based on the default G3F UV's that would work on all derived UV's?

I tried to apply the A7 maps, and then change the UV Set back, but then the whole A7 texture slides up the face...

The character was made inside Daz using different morphs.

Is there any kind of return policy? because it was pretty expensive...

how can I fix?

Thks!

Case in point - if I’m doing an animation and can’t get Daz’s IK to play nice (eye roll) it would really help if I had access to the global coords so that I could fix up feet to keep them from sliding, etc.

I just noticed that some of the clothes I have bought have extra bones for example the skirt rig has

-Skirt Front

-Skirt Back

These two bones don't exist in the main Genesis3 rig and they won't be animated properly when I move the character, so I am wondering is there a way to actually remove these bones and instead use some of the Genesis3 bones that already exist.

Also my Daz3d knowledge is very limited so if anyone can actually do that I am willing to pay since I cannot contact the asset publisher.

I also attempted to open it in Hexigon, hoping to transfer it to DazStudio.

But Hexigon doesn't seem to open anything; at least, nothing seems to appear.

Even if I could open the file without textures, it would be helpful. (although textures would be nice.)

Thank you

I can render an 8-figure indoor scene with emissive lighting in 30 minutes, 2000 iterations.
Toon Forest by itself with two emissives took 30 minutes for one iteration, if it didn't lock Studio.
Can't test it anymore, as I've deleted it.

Thanks

The program asked me for my username, and its registration key. I went to my account and copied the registration key from the list. I typed in my user name. I pasted the registration key into the proper field.  The program then told me the user name and registration key were invalid and refused to run.

I have tried several combinations, but the program still refuses to run.

The product page says the following:

• Registration:
  • You will be provided with a license key by DAZ in one of the forms below:
  • Name: UserName Key: 1111-111-1111-111
  • Serial Key: UserName 1111-111-1111-111
• To Register:
  • Click the Register button on the application reminder window.
  • Enter UserName in the Name field (No spaces).
  • Enter 1111-111-1111-111 in the Key field (use copy and paste—don’t try to type it).
  • *Numbers here are only provided for illustration purposes
  • Press OK.

Combinations based on these instructions also fail to work.

I am locked out of the program I paid for.

Has anyone got any idea how to get this program running?

NewPC is Windows 10, Ryzen7, GTX 1080Ti
SubPC is Windows 8.1, Core i7, GTX 980
Both DazStudio versions are 4.9.4.122

Please let me know if anyone knows how to solve it

The crashes sometimes happen while simply working in DS and making adjustments to my scene. Most often it happens after doing a few test renders.

Can anyone direct me to recommendations for the NVIDIA Settings?

I DO have it set to let the application decide on the things I can set that to.

I am wondering how I can delete parts of the model for example I have boots model and I want to get rid of the stitches, I tried expanding the boots hierarchy, but I only see boots_30498 and nothing else, keep in mind that I want to delete that part of the mesh and get rid of all of its polygons as well. I am sure it's a separate part, because I can see it while decimating the whole model.

Though I can load an existing scene where V4 already exists. But the error still insults me.

Tryed reinstalling and reimporting database. No effect. No advices in the internets. What should I do?