I've tried to convert the DSON files for Centaur 7 for Genesis 3 Male to Poser, but not having any success. The shell loads into poser but one does not have an option to load materials (the shell is seemingly not selectable). I've done the following steps (DS 4.9):

selected shell and Genesis 3 Centaur Figure, edited rigging from General to TriAx Weight

saved figure as Scene Subset

Selected new scene subset in DSON library and created Poser Companion Files (figure cr2)

Here's the result in Poser (see attachment)

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Or if anyone know where I can get readymade Poser files for Centaur 7 for Genesis 3 Male, that would be preferable.

Best,

Monty

Would resetting the DB and Re-importing Meta fix this?

Thanks

What are the steps to make a new primitive emit light and cause the other primitive- the sphere- to glow?

(I was using Iray, can it be done in 3d-delight?)

I was able to add a shader to both, but could not get the pane to light the sphere. 

(Also, I am not sure how to darken the scene, so as to better see it.)

(I'm learning how to use Iray shaders, and need to be able to see the results before rendering.)

IHow do I bring the frame up in self-service?

What I did wrong? There are settings I have to change for a good export?

I've been using DS for a while now, and I'm kinda over my renders taking too long.  So I got a Auros GeForce 1070GTX Gaming Box.  My Macbook Pro is a 13" Late 2015 Retina with a 2.9 Ghz i5.

I went through a few steps to get the Nvidia Driver to work, and it does.  But Renders are still taking about 2 hours for a 1700 iteration image at 1920x1080..  I was hoping for something like 5000 iterations in an hour or so.  Shoot I'd be happy with 5000 in 2 hours.

I keep my Render Settings at Qaulity 1.00 and Rendering Conv Ratio at 95%.  

Also is DS supposed to see my Gaming Box in the Advance tab in Render Settings?  I see that CPU is checked.. but there's no eGPU box or anything else.

Does anyone have any tips for a speedier Render?  

Could it be that the Auros is not "Nvidia"?  

ANY HELP WHATSOEVER WOULD BE HUGE.

UPDATE:

Ok.  So NOW, it's not even readingt the card.. I'm at 185 iterations after 1 Hour.. SHOOT ME ALREADY!!

Thanks in advance

Obviously there is some strange and arcane trick to installing this product.  Please let me in on the secret.

 - Link removed

so i uninstalled daz and reinstalled it still nothing i've troubleshot everywhere and it seems like its an issue with ten. just wondering if anybody else is having this issue/suggestions

Thank you

Okay what the heck did I do?

Last time i used Daz3D it looked fine.

Today I logged in and the entire application is white.

Stuff looks missing, and I can't see the sliders to adjust yaxis or tweek anything.

How do I revert back to the way it looked before? Do I need to reinstall?

Ive got a scene with 6 characters, with a (very) simple background, three lights and Daz doesnt want to start rendering. I get there must be a lot to deal with as in the history pane I get the 'VERBOSE' lines when it starts.

'Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.3   IRAY   rend stat : Geometry memory consumption: 1.41303 GiB (device 0), 0 B (host)' etc

After about 30mins, I start getting messages about low memory from Windows. Im running;

i7 4790k, Titan X/12gb VRAM, 16gb RAM. Looking at task manager while this is going on and my system in nowhere near topping out.

Thought it might be a driver issue, but updated and no change. Also worth pointing out is that GPUz doesnt even show the GPU taking any load at all (1%) - yes I have GPU selected/CPU deselected in the render pane.

Any thoughts? Surely this shouldnt be an issue? (nothing else is running at the same time also).

Any help is appreciated.

Can someone please post a new link here to the documentation and would the author please re-bundle the product and include documentation this time?  If I can read how it works I might be interested in buying but not interested in an undocumented product.

Thank you.

Ref: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/10961/

It's been a while since I tried to install one of these,  and the last time I tried, I failed to correctly do it.

What are the correct steps for me to take?

(Terra-Tropolis says it also works in DazStudio, so I assumed it would install.  But most of them are Bryce products)

https://www.daz3d.com/advanced-distant-light

So I open joint tool, adjust the center/end points to 0,0,0, memorize riggging, export, and import, and they are on top and bottom again   

What step am I missing?

I noticed that FWSA Hayley from Comic Villain Bundle is missing thumbnail preview both in smart library and content library. I have tried to retrive thumbnail through install manager as well as re download her again but nothing have helped so far.

Any other solution that can work? 

Can someone explain why this is happening?

I'm trying to turn off shadow in Iray. As I read on the forum, if I use Interactive mode instead of Photoreal, I can turn off the shadow. I turned it off in Render Settings -> Shadow and Lightings, but in my render I still see the shadows.

I don't have any lights in the scene except for the "Default light", I think it is sun sky?. I'm sorry I'm new to daz studio.

Here's my setting, please help.

Thank you very much.

However I can't apply any texture to it, here is how it looks:

If I choose full bedroom set it's the same, everything has no textures

This is not a request for help about how to create morphs, or even what avenues one may take to create them. I need help in line with the equivalent of CR2 coding, and placement of MT's within Genesis file structure itself. I guess this would be the DSON file structure.

I am well versed in the world of CR2's, and all the coding manipulation all the way through to Gen4 figures, but the new DSON/Genesis format is kicking my azz in regards to how some things work.

O.k., here goes... Ultimately I need to know exactly how does Genesis digest, and link created morph targets. I am experiencing some unwanted anomalies which may not even be that, but just illegal linkage due to my lack of understanding of Genesis' core code.

First, no, I do not need help with where in DS's file structure to place morphs, so please don't add links to amateur tutorials on how to do this. No need...

I am going to use millighost's great Genesis morphing suite for Blender as a for example.

The code structure for the created .dsf file is a little different from others (DAZ, FaceGen, etc.), but has all necessary code to create a viable morph target. As an aside; From what I see, all vertex displacement data is within the DSF file, so I can't fathom there is any "invisible" code linking to any hidden asset files anywhere. It seems the DSF morph target files are self contained.

So, the issue I am having has to do with both changing the morph target location within the DS/Genesis Parameters node tree (Universal, Head, Actor, etc.), and MT linking with Genesis failing, creating unusable null and void parameter sliders.

Millighost's .dsf exporter defaults to setting a morph target in Universal. Even if it is a compound MT based off a previously created MT which already had a dedicated parameter location. So, I edit the DSF file to relocate the MT where I want it on the node tree. This works fine, and is not the inherit issue.

O.k., here is where the issue starts, and my confusion on just how the MT's link to Genesis. Let's say I want to keep the created MT in the default "Universal" location, but I also want to add it to "Actor/Head/Universal". If I edit the code to reflect the new location, AND even give it a modified name (changed throughout the DSF file as well) it will null and void the first MT (Universal location). Even more so, if I decide I don't like the Universal location being null and void, and delete (or remove) the newly edited MT/location, this does not reinstate the first MT (Universal).

There are no longer two of the exact same MT's (with different names) stored in the DS file stucture, but it seems only the newer saved one is "live", and if I put it back into the DS file stucture it appears back in the morphs list, and works again. However, the original first morph remains dead. Now, if I re-save the original MT from Blender overwriting the first it reinstates that morph again, and null and voids the second edited one with a different name/location.

So, my underlying question is, why is this?

How is Genesis assessing, and linking to the individual morphs?

Is there some hidden data protocol that is overwritten each time you save a newer version of the same set of vertex displacement data regardless if identifiers have been changed? You can't have the exact same morph, yet named different; Head1, Head2, Head3, etc.

It's just not possible to have duplicate locations for the exact same mesh data (even with different names)? If so, why?

How exactly is Genesis linking these DSF morph files? The only difference I see in any of the DSF files I have studied (besides how an author created the structure) is in the "parent id" reference. It seems it could be either "#Genesis", or "#geometry" without any difference (they both work).

Any help from the masters would be greatly appreciated, and I'm sure this would be a good learning example for a lot of other people as well. I can't believe I am the only one who has encountered this, or is interested in knowing this for future work.

Thank you in advanced for your time, and any help you can give.

*EDIT: Testing done in DS Pro 4.5.0.114 (but I assume this relates to all DS4/Genesis versions).

I want to render a lot of pictures like in the image below. Currently I do that by set the Cutout Opacity of the surface of the ceiling to 0. However, I notice that in some sets for example the Brooklyn Apartment, the ceiling surface is also the walls surface, so I would also set the wall opacity to 0 too. 

Is there a better way to do that?

Thank you very much.

So I'm watching Daz's short video on "how To Render Faster" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1UWpBcPRs0

At 2:56 min in it say's to change the 16x9 aspect ratio -1920 x 1280 by 50% larger so that after rendered you can scale it down by 50%. So, he say's 1920 becomes 2730. Huh?  How do you arrive at that? (map reading is where I excelled on the Iowa Test Scores)

Thank you