I imported it to Daz Studio.

The mesh has noticeable imperfections. What should be a single continuous face got broken up into many triangle faces that aren’t really co-planar, and show up in imaging.

How can this be fixed?

Here’s what I tried so far:

1. Add a level of sub-surface resolution to the model. I googled how to add a sub-surface to a model, and attempted to do it. But that option was grayed out for my model. Apparently, TinkerCAD models cannot get a sub-surface attribute in DAZ.

2. Clean up the mesh in Blender. Blender has mesh clean-up tools, but I don’t know which to use. And, more importantly, I don’t know which settings to use in Blender to both import and export my model so the results can be used in DAZ. There are so many check-boxes and so on in Blender’s import/export dialog windows, and I’m a nubie who doesn’t know what all those settings mean.

Perhaps also, Blender might be able to modify the model to give it whatever properties it needs to allow DAZ Studio to give it a sub-surface. But again, I don’t know how to do that.

Can anyone point me to a nice step-by-step tutorial on this issue?

But some models, then render looks nothing like the store image.

Take Vicoria 7 as an example, here is a basic render (attached)

her skin is tanned, but in the store image it is pinkish white.

An even better example is Paloma

http://www.daz3d.com/fwsa-paloma-hd-for-victoria-7

In my render she is dark skinned, almost black

but in the store image she is tanned.

Is there some magic render setting I am missing?

Any clues welcome?

The rest of the Daz site seems fine

Then I realized the problem is resolved when I increase the collision iterations and it works great! My only question is, does render time increase when you increase the collision iterations? I think my renders have been taking MUCH longer after changing that value and I can't seem to find an answer anywhere on the web about this.

Answers greatly appreciated! :D

I had made a creature which I had bent all over the place to create. In doing so, it's posture requires X ROTATE to be 26.56

Is there a way to make this set as a default X ROTATE = 0?

Thanks in advance!

How do I change that? :)

Thanks

I first bought "The Enchanted Forest Returns". It's advertised as 'standalone'. If I don't add a spotlight, it renders automatically. If I add a spotlight to the scene, the scene goes dark to black in the viewport, and renders black. Frustrated with this, I noted 2 add on products, "Iray Presets to the Enchanted Forest", and "Rays of Dreams for the Enchanted Forest". Neither of these helped illuminated the "Return", so I bit the bullet, and bought the original, "The Enchanted Forest". Well, the addons see to work somewhat, not very strongly,  in that first product, but not in the "Return".  I liked the scene choice with water in the "Return" which is why I bought that, having carefully noted it is "standalone". So I tried the first Enchanted Forest, and turned lights on and off, and it is still likely to be dim where my figure is.

I have used Iray view, shaded template view-which is necessary for placing figure, I have left all the default settings except for choosing the render engine.

So can anyone tell me why does the scene go black/render black when I add a spotlight to illuminate my placed character -in this case the recently purchased HW3D Leopard in Iray or 3Delight mats. And how to set a spotlight in these scenes?

I can't help but wishing though there was a way to apply everything in the morph EXCEPT how it changes the noses and ears, on occassion.

Might it be possible to do this somehow, either with a product or in some other way? I'm a shitty programmer but I AM a programmer so if somebody could give me a couple of hints, I'm hoping it might be within the scope of my abilites.

Some settings are saved with render settings and some are not.

I hit RESTORE RENDER SETTINGS DEFAULTS, but  Render Presets don't affect every page and setting.

How do I get everything to go back to Daz SUPER, ALL_EVERY TICK BOX- EVERY_DARN_THING! default?

The Progressive Render Sceen.
Default Alpha setting

Organization

Filtering
Spectral Rendering
TONE MAPPING

and lastly Environment.

Or am I being paranoid and think the render gremlins have made my Daz look worse since my earlier renders?

Or are many, many new purchases of old products lack iray materials and I am now seeing funky looking renders because of that?

I have inadvertently removed the tools from the top  in DS. I can't find the menu to reload them across the top. Does anyone know how I can load the tools back? 

I'm facing an odd problem with g3f's teeth. As you can see in the attachment, the tooth set for V4 has the front two at an equal height with the rest while g3f's has them higher than the others. I can think of two ways to make g3f's teeth like v4's:

1) export v4's teeth to g3f (how??)
2) use a separate morph product for g3f (which???)

Deactivating 'mouth realism' on g3f didn't help.

Any ideas how to achieve this?

How do I get rid of ANY sort of interface icons...If I switch the TOOL to node select, it gets rid of the universal tool's big scope.

What else can I do?

Around this item, that + sign never goes away. It doesn't render, but I want anything like that gone from the stage while I'm working. Help lol

Any ideas ?

I do not recall it working that way before, now I have to save a file and re-enter its name every time?

Thanks for any help on this.

I'm using Daz 4.9 (for future readers).  When I set the renderer to Basic or Intermediate GL from either IRAY or 3Delight the rendering popup says I'm still using the IRAY or 3Delight renderer even though the Render Settings show the mode I want to be in.  

Things I've Tried

Hit refresh just for the heck of it.  I looked for a progress bar to see if I'm spot rendering before the new setting can kick in (there is none).  Restarted the program with same gen 2  actor.  Same result.  Restarted with generic gen 2 model.  Same result.  Tried gen 3 model.  Same result.  Removed my render preset (while saying 'wow, I have a render preset.') .  Same result.  Tried regular rendering.  IRAY and 3Delight work.  Open gl caused DAZ to crash.  Including error log thing. Checked nvidia drivers.  They're old.  Really really really really don't want to update drivers.  Every time I do God kills a puppy.

Oh and this could be nothing but my render settings always seem to change the resolution of my render jpg back to an old value when I start up scenes.  I'm guessing its a config issue and I've got a save that works so I don't care about that unless its related to this.

Also, IRAY hasn't worked since the new logo a few days back.  It just makes an empty image.  Other video quarks that make me think it may be my 2014 drivers.  But again, I don't want to change my video card drivers unless I absolutely have to.  If anyone can offer any other solution it would be great.  

Save the puppies.  Give me another solution!!!!!!

I'm introuble and I'm begging for help: a couple of months ago, i had to format my pc and once i reinstalled daz with its content, almost none of my saved files work. It says that some files are missing and gives me back the adress of every single missing file. I went to check if files were misplaced but it turned out that they're just where they should. Why can't daz see them? What am I missing? Thanks in advance

I've almost finished a city park set that I'll submit to DAZ for sale. Willow Park itself is a roughly 60x30m trapezoid, with willow trees, grassy areas, sidewalks, benches, street lamps, trash cans, and a central statue. It's bordered by three streets and a river -- with one street extending over the river via a stone bridge -- and surrounded by seven building facades. Each building facade has both default low-res texture maps and optional high-res maps for shots where that building is in-frame, in-focus, and close enough to see texture details.

The total ground plane is about 120x80m. I tried to place the buildings and trees to block distant sightlines, but many camera angles still show an edge of the ground plane, and the sky goes all the way down to the horizon. So I'd like to find (or create) a skydome with buildings in the middle-distance (beyond the ground plane) out to the horizon, so it looks as if the park is in a larger city. If DAZ has such a product, I can use that for my promo renders and cite it in the promo text. If DAZ doesn't, I'll need to make my own.

Any ideas?

Thanks for your help,

CrissieB

Looking at the product description page for the above edition of Wear Them All, it clearly states it will load Michael 3 clothes,

Am I missing something here?  Oo

edit: Loaded plain old G3M from Smart Content > Figures > People and tried loading one of those garments from in Content Library.  Same (lack of) results.