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Back again with another GPU question.

xmarine — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 19:48:20 +0000

I have been searching the web for information on the use of multiple GPU’s in a single system. Specifically two NVIDIA GTX 1060 (6GB) cards in a computer equipped with Intel i7 CPU. So far I have not found a definitive answer on the subject. There seems to be conflicting points of view everywhere I looked. I have received some great information on this forum in the past few months so here I go with another question. I may have the option of installing two NVIDIA GTX 1060 cards in a new (Dell Alienware) system. My question is and so far I have not been able to find any specific information. Is there an advantage to running two cards in one system. In terms of performance utilizing more cores. And more importantly does DAZ Studio/IRAY render engine utilize multiple GPU installations to full advantage. The cards and question will be the 6 gigabyte version of the 1060. No SLI support on this particular NVIDIA GPU. Thanks for any and all information.

Cheers...

Updated Avast now gets an error trying to save a scene

jedijudd — Tue, 08 Aug 2017 04:07:05 +0000

I recently updated Avast and now when ever I try to save a scene I get a error saying - Error saving the file "name and location of file .duf.png" the render could not be saved try again or choose new file name- the n there is three options to choose try again choose new file or cancel but I can not choose any of them because the cursor wheel keeps spinning only way to exit the error is to x it out. I think it still saves the scene ok but there is no png file like my older scenes that I have saved and the error is really anoying. I have the latest version of Daz and windows 10

Importing old runtimes

Aabhnormal — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 21:14:58 +0000

So... I have a problem with progressively old runtimes. I have some really neat old stuff that is well organized and dates back to the days of Poser 4... but in the world of Install Manager, Daz is really wanting me to go to a world where everything is cloud based (Which I can't really blame them! :) )... however, everytime I lose a hard drive (As I did this past week) And I have to reinstall everything, it's getting weirder and weirder to get my old runtimes organized.

Now I've imported the runtimes into Daz... but they don't show anything... they show the top level folder, but there is "nothing" in them (In Daz... naturally there are all kinds of things in them if you look in Windows Explorer).

What am I doing wrong in the import process that is making me not see my old runtime items?

Thanks!

using primitives as iray lights

Nathuado — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 11:50:22 +0000

I've been trying to make my own lights in Iray by creating primitve planes and applying light shaders to them, from "Iray Real Lights". I was hoping to render the picture without the physical objects appearing by selecting 'off' for the "Visible in render" option and 'on' for the "simulation" option in the display parameters for each object, but that doesn't seem to work and I end up with a black silhouette. Is it possible to render the scene and keep the light emitting from an object without showing the actual object?

Resource Error "File does not exist"

Dareshiranu — Fri, 20 Jan 2017 04:28:13 +0000

Except it clearly does. It is plainly installed in my Smart Content window - I can see it there. I can see all the sub items. I install via DIM and when I see the symbols I also do installs from Smart Content via Connect. Anyway I verified the file location in my file manager and looked up the file in the exact location it said the file wasn't with exactly the same name. I've sussed out some of the rest of my issues, I've come to realize that the latest update has somehow reduced the capacity of my Titan X to render complex scenes, but at least I can still render. But now I've got this bizarre problem. Anyone have any ideas?

How Do You Set Subdivision?

mwokee — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 00:52:22 +0000

I'm using Peeled Orange on Gen3 and it has a note saying to set render subdision to 4 or 5 to reduce jagged edges.

My problem is I can't find anything called subdivision. What setting or we really referring to?

Thanks

Pose converters

leo04 — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 01:10:52 +0000

I am looking for a pose converter that will go from Genesis 2 to Genesis, Genesis 3 to Genesis basically I want to get lots of poses to Genesis(1) (V5)

Also, I am having lots of trouble searching the forums. If I knew better how I might not have posted this.

Does anyone have any insight on how to search the forums? Is there a help file on this somewhere?

Thanks.

disabling auto follow on ears so hair won't conform? SOLVED

cdpro_2831bbd990 — Sun, 06 Aug 2017 21:30:38 +0000

lost the thread somewhere...couldn't find it with search. But, I'm sure this has been explained.

I'm trying to use elf ears with the Seema hair. But, the hair transforms and conforms to the ears instead of allowing the ear to poke through.

Which value do I turn off and where would it be located. I've been looking through all the parameters, trying to find it.

Thanks

Ancient Offerings- SKU 10339

montygm — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 00:14:49 +0000

"A figure must load in PZ2s to work ". Dont quite understand this on the whats included section of this item. I use Daz Iray for scenes and dont use any characters at all. Will this products if purchased load correctly in Daz?

Measure Metric

Patroklos — Sat, 05 Aug 2017 08:46:16 +0000

Loaded a Genesis 3 Male Character.

Loaded Measeure Genesis 3 Male which adopts the pose and the nodes appear.

After that nothing works. Measure metrics wont load.

Please give me a step by step in case I'm doing it wrong

Thanks

Can't get Install Manager to install!

CSchaffer86 — Sat, 05 Aug 2017 16:17:07 +0000

Hello, all. I'm having difficulty getting the Install Manager to install on my computer. I've tried to disable my firewall to see if that would help, but it didn't work. Whenever I download it, it'll show the popup asking if I want to give Install Manager permission to make changes, and I click 'yes,' but that's as far as it goes! Nothing else happens.

I have Windows 10 64-bit.

I've searched through the forum to find similar issues, but can't seem to find a solution. If anyone can point me in the right direction, I would be very appreciative!

Help

bartolicristiano_52bc7e73bb — Sat, 05 Aug 2017 16:36:32 +0000

Hi guys....i have one question. How can i download any product from renderosity site ? I have mac system...which is the process? Thank you

Installation Questions

tom.santomartino_8315241f65 — Sat, 05 Aug 2017 18:42:17 +0000

I've not used Daz Studio for a long time and I've gotten a new computer. I have a few questions. On the software page it says Windows 7 or 8 but not Windows 10--are there issues with Windows 10 and Daz Stuido? Do I need both the 32 and 64 Bit versions of the application? What is the downside of only installing the 64 Bit version? Does the content folder have to live in the common files folder or can I keep them on another hard drive? I've had problems with setting up studio in the past and any insights you can give me would be appreciated.

Poke-thru question

Drogo Nazhur — Sat, 05 Aug 2017 16:39:34 +0000

Referring to th attached image, the guy on the left is clearly bigger than the guy on the right but his clothes fit fine while the guy on the right is poking thru his clothes. Why? And how do I fix that?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Repopulating Smart Content after data transfer

galatt — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 14:28:55 +0000

So I was dumb and fried my mother board and damaged my hard drive (clean out the dust regularly folks) but I was lucky enough to be able to get all data from the drive. I finally upgraded to 4.9 and transferred my data back to the same pathway as it was before. However, it won't repopulate the Smart Content directory. I've tried reimporting the metadata database but it didn't work. I've been able to open old projects but it can't find some objects and textures. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks.

iClone 7 Anyone?

tring01 — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 13:07:41 +0000

Considering buying iClone 7. Couple questions for any of you out there that might know....

1. Can iClone 7 import a clothed G3 figures via their 3d Exchange utility WITHOUT tons of fiddling with textures and poke through like in iClone 6? I watched an hour long tutorial of what that process took in iClone 6.5. Total nightmare. Did they improve it in iClone 7? I tried at their website but they only have an old video up of importing G2 into iClone 6.

2. If you can import a figure with clothes and hair, do the clothes and hair work properly in an iClone 7 animation?

3. If Daz clothes and hair don't work, can I import G3 and use iClone 7 clothes and hair? Does that work?

4. Can you import static props and scenery from Daz3d into iClone 7 without lots of manual editing of textures and such?

Dynamic Clothing Crash

whfield — Sun, 08 May 2016 20:15:45 +0000

I just picked up some of the dynamic cloth items out of the store and decided to put the dynamic cloth plugin (DAZ Studio 4.9.1.30) on my Macbook Pro (10.11.4). Regardless of what Optitex cloth I tend to use, the cloth crashes while loading. Any suggestions?

g8f eyelashes lost zbrush morph

vex3d — Sat, 05 Aug 2017 14:31:12 +0000

So I started a new project with g8f yesterday, saved my file, and started a render last night before bed.

Woke up and dazstudio was closed, along with everything else ( who even knows why at this point? windows isnt supposed to auto update & restart but i guess it did? )

After cussing for a minute, I open the file up again, everything looks ok EXCEPT her eyelashes no longer follow my custom Zbrush morph.... What can I do to fix the eyelashes?

video driver crashes at 10 minutes (but DS keeps rendering)

nomad-ads_8ecd56922e — Sat, 05 Aug 2017 07:51:50 +0000

Okay, I have a wierd and annoyiong issue. On SOME Daz Studiuo Pro renders, right at about 10 minutes after starting the render... suddenly both monitors go totally black, and then over the next 5 or 10 seconds the display comes back up, with all the different windows showing blank white contents, which then get one by one repopulated with whatever was displayed in them. Say, the web browser resumes displaying what it had in it. Daz Studio's window mostly restores, but the viewport remains blank white, and some other parts that usually are blank grey (i.e. the unused space under the listed asset icons in the Content Library pane) are now blank white. The render display window continues updating, and the render status text scrolly status thingy continues updating the details. On the other hand, after the above has happened, when the entire render finishes, and DS would normally hand things off to the render window, where I'd then type in the name of the render to save it out... before it can get there, Windows pops up a dialog box telling me "Daz Studio Application has stopped working. A problem caused the program to stop working corrently. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available." I can manually go into ...\Roaming\DAZ 3D\Studio4\temp\render and grab the rendered image from there (provided I haven't launched DS again since it crashed), so it's more of an annoying inconvenience than a disaster.

This might or might not be related, but I have also experienced instances where, RIGHT AT the 2 hour mark in the render, DS crashes with the same error. This is with the very low end, cheap video card EVGA GeForce GT520, one Win10 Pro 64bit. I WAS going to buy a 1060 card, but of course those have gone WAY up due to those danged cryptocurrency miners. oO

Any idea what's up with this? I installed the newest drivers from NVIDIA for this card, thinking maybe that might fix it, but.... nope.

This happens with only SOME scenes I go to render, but not others, so I'm guessing it has to be something on the "studio set" I've placed out, or something one of the characters is wearing, or with the way the light is interacting with one or the other enclosed spaces in the scene, or.... something. Or maybe I'm just exceeding the memory or registers of the video card.

aniMate2, DAZ 4.9.4.117 it does not work with "iREAL Animated Butterflies"

allroundpeter — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 10:16:20 +0000

Hi all,

We have an absolutely clean and new installation of Daz3D. It is a Windows7 x64 system.
Xeon CPU with 96 GB Ram and NVIDIA Quadro FX4800.
The installed DAZ3D version is 4.9.4.117 Pro Edition (64-bit) and registered full version of aniMate2.
We installed now only the content product "iREAL Animated Butterflies".
Step 1: we load from "Figures" in the SmartContent tab the "iABW butterflies multi" into the scene
Step 2: we select the objekt in the "Scene" tab
Step 3: we go to "aniMate2" tab and make a new track for the selected objekt
Step 4: we load the aniBlock "iREAL Animated Butterflies an Wisps" and drag and drop to the AniMate2 track
Step 5: we press the play button in the "aniMate2" tab
but NO ANIMATION!

We have tried this several times without a positiv result ... ;o(
We bought aniMate2 exclusively for this content!

So we try to animate another object.
We use therefore "Genesis 3 Female" and "Sultry Walk" and it works perfect!
We contact the author of the content but hi has no idea to solve this problem ...
So what we do wrong?

Here the last lines from the log file to the content:
2017-08-04 11:48:05.143 *** Scene Cleared ***
2017-08-04 11:48:05.486 File loaded in 0 min 0.3 sec.
2017-08-04 11:48:05.486 Loaded file: iabw butterflies multi.duf
2017-08-04 11:48:05.626 Loaded image iABW-Butterfly-BL.jpg
2017-08-04 11:48:05.642 Loaded image iABW-ButterflyOP.jpg
2017-08-04 11:48:05.657 Loaded image iABW-Butterfly-ORNG.jpg
2017-08-04 11:48:28.484 WARNING: cloud\dzcloudtasknotifier.cpp(178): peer performed orderly shutdown errno=0
2017-08-04 11:48:34.617 WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
2017-08-04 11:50:55.731 WARNING: cloud\dzcloudtasknotifier.cpp(178): recv failed errno=10054
2017-08-04 11:53:46.584 WARNING: QFont::setPixelSize: Pixel size <= 0 (0)
2017-08-04 11:53:53.636 WARNING: cloud\dzcloudtasknotifier.cpp(178): recv failed errno=10054
2017-08-04 11:57:07.926 WARNING: cloud\dzcloudtasknotifier.cpp(178): peer performed orderly shutdown errno=0
2017-08-04 12:00:48.739 WARNING: cloud\dzcloudtasknotifier.cpp(178): peer performed orderly shutdown errno=0
2017-08-04 12:04:47.002 WARNING: cloud\dzcloudtasknotifier.cpp(178): peer performed orderly shutdown errno=0
2017-08-04 12:09:05.792 WARNING: cloud\dzcloudtasknotifier.cpp(178): peer performed orderly shutdown errno=0

Thanks in advance for any support!
Best regards from Germany
Peter

Does Stonemason's Utopia Deck C have just an "OBJ" option?

mike_f587c5eb66 — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 19:04:56 +0000

Folks,

I love Stonemason's stuff, bought a lot, and so far I've been able to get the OBJs I need from the Poser option of the download. I want to get Utopia Deck C but it appears to only have an "install" file for Poser -- and I don't have Poser.

Anyone know if I buy this can I "install" it and get the OBJs even if I don't own Poser? I use these files in iClone and don't want to mess with trying to get Poser just to get the OBJs from this.

Render with Perspective View vs Render with Camera

nonesuch00 — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 20:47:18 +0000

Render with Perspective View vs Render with Camera -

so I set the rendering to Sun-Sky 1:00 York, England indoors with windows as part of one of the modern contemporary freebie sets and I set the EV in the tone mapping settings to 7.

I then render with camera and for a long time it renders (over 14 minutes) unti it finally writes but it is black except for a pixel or two of light (probably the emmisive candle flame at 250 watts) so then I cancel & instead render with Perspecitive View & hide the Camera. No I get a render iteration written in about 5 minutes with a glowing light around the candle flame like I expect.

How do I set up my iRay Rendering settings so that the camera acts like Perspective View Rendering mostly? I've already set the Exposure Value from 13 to 7. Do I need to change the gamme from 2.2 to 1.0? I am CPU rendering.

Thanks.

Peaches & Pickles Clothing

kfd69 — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 16:14:10 +0000

What clothing is available for Peaches & Pickles (Fuzzies)? Are Gen clothing compatable?

Still struggling

sambucus — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 14:25:36 +0000

I still have no content in my content library. Pressing any button that sounded like it might do some goood didn't work. One of mthe buttons was "find files from known directories. I found something called scan results at the bottom of the smart content pane and it filled up the Smart content with all my Poser stuff. Not got much hair left so if anyone can tell me,

1 Why nothing in content library.

2 Why no extra stuff like mats, props etc. that I've bought for genesis 3 etc don't show up. (Bought from sites other than daz and manually installed.) (or not)

Broken products

mork — Wed, 26 Jul 2017 19:33:51 +0000

I hope this is a good place to mention these? I get a lot of broken products lately... :(

G8 Lyoness Kumiko HD
SKU 45799
Material of arms is different than the rest of the materials. At least Top Coat Weight is wrong.

Angels Secrets
SKU 45361
Angels Secrets Braissiere - stays black, no matter which material I apply.
Same for "Angels Secrets Pantie"
That's for the G8 version, did not check the G3 version

G3 IST Cassiopeia
SKU 44957
Very visible seams on the arm textures, even in viewport.

School Sports Outfit
SKU 45577
Same as for Angels Secrets, one of the socks won't change color, no matter which material you apply.

Thank you for caring.

-mork

New Morph Group? (like:Generel, Actor, Display, Hidden, Morph...)

kayto93_073094d40c — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 02:51:55 +0000

Hi guys,

i createt some morphs and want to change the path. I dont like the Morph Loader path. I want a new group under "Morphs". But how can i do it. I now how to change the path from morph loader to actor or other groups, but i want a new group. Hope someone can help me there

Great

K4YT0

How to crush hair so it doesn't poke through hats and other headgear

Blind Owl — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 20:33:38 +0000

I can usually deal with poke-through in clothing, but I haven't figured out a way to eliminate hair poking through hats. Even fairly close-to-the-head hairs are likely to poke through what appears to be a fairly roomy hat. Bulky hairs are pretty much "Forget it."

I'm hoping there's a relatively simple way (i.e. short of learning Blender or something similar) to tuck hair under headgear. If so, I would really appreciate knowing what the trick is.

Installing content via D|S 4.9?

Vhardamis — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 10:19:02 +0000

Did they remove, move the connect install directly into DS or has my copy lost its mind? I no longer have the buttons at the bottom for available pending updated etc? It's only showing me already installed items.

Moving restricted items

wintoons — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 09:14:18 +0000

Hi there,

I have a question, can you move items out of the restricted range?

I'll explain, I bought this 3d models

https://www.daz3d.com/modern-treasures-for-genesis-3-female-s

but the x,y,z Translates is restricted and on only the Genesis models. Can you somehow break out of the restriction its in?

Thanks :)

G8F eyelashes won't follow custom Face Morph

Dagwood237 — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 06:21:49 +0000

I'm trying to transfer my custom face morph from G3F to G8F. I've successfully done that part using a third party transfer utility, but I'm having issues with the separate eyelashes. It doesn't follow the morph, it just stays at its default position.

Any tips on how to make the eyelashes follow the morph?

EDIT: Nevermind. Figured out that I had to include the separate eyelashes to the morph target.