If anyone knows of a script or some basic setting suggestions. I'm not trying to get some super photo realism, just as close to the preview window as possible. but as her pants, like so many recent products, dont even render in the OpenGL I do have to stack layers in post that way.

The GAMA is set at 2.2 and As the Set I am using is a lil pin-up studio set I recently down loaded. She is setting right in the beam of a spot at 100%; not that you could tell by the image on the left at all. I cant remember the channel;  because I could not reproduce it; but it seemed to me her flesh tone was flat, and orange which turned out to be the tone of one of the underlying layers, like the engine was ignoring her surface skin completely. And just presenting this gross, flat, underpainting.

A script the mimics the Intermediate Open GL is I think what Im Ultimately aiming for here; that would produce an image I could port to MS5 for work.

So, Terradome messed up my transparent color in the background. I need help asap.

Ok, this was the problem, you better fix this because this is a SERIOUS problem.

If someone click on the HD sky without having the TD3 atmosphere marked the HD sky replaces Daz basic transparency background. (This will happen with 99% for people who wants to try things out)

When this happen, the whole scene is completely ruined, there is no way to fix it, you must go back and delete every content about HD sky.hdr that you used and then reinstall it. NOT fun!

But otherwise Terradome is great, just fix this problem and it's set. The HD sky should NOT activate if TD3 Atmosphere is not marked.

I placed them into the hierarchy as 2ndary sub_comp. Under the character I want the jcm to work under and then I saved the jcm as morph asset.  Sometimes the morph will work under a normal g8 character (working with g8 now) instead of just under the character I want it to work under.  

Could someone walk me through the process when creating a jcm and where to place it correctly so it will only work with the character instead of the whole.

Thanks in advance.

Geometry memory consumption: 87.3477 MiB

Texture memory consumption: 5.46434 GiB

Lights memory consumption: 199 KiB   (I used "Sun/sky only" for lighting)

Material measurement memory consumption: 0 KiB

Material memory consumption: 485.516 KiB

The render is 1365x1024 in size and optimization is set for speed, not memory use.

The scene in question contains two clothed Genesis 8 females with morphs, both with the same skin texture, with two V4-era props used as background.

My question is: Did memory consumption jump up THIS much in the step from G3F to G8F?   In my simple (Probably uneducated, too) mind, 5.4 GiB seems pretty steep for just the textures, i did a render on the same system when i just got the new video card, which had 4 G3F characters wearing more complicated clothing material-wise (Metals and stuff), mesh lights, in an enclosed space, same resolution and that rendered fine, if i add two more characters in textures to the 5.4 GiB for the G8F-render, my system will go to CPU-rendering...

I noticed that as expected, G8F renders a bit slower than G3F for similar scenes (Mostly one character, simple prop background, sun/sky lighting), but the apparent jump in memory use really startled me.

I use Windows 10, and have a 6 core processor, a Titan Z and a GTX 970.  I took my computer to the shop this week to have professionals update all of my Nvidia drivers.  But the program is still crashing. 

Can you please help with some troubleshooting?

Thanks

Pete

Has anyone had an issue with duplicate formulas suddenly appearing out of nowhere? I don't mean the typical thing, where you installed something new and that particular item immeditely tells you there are duplicate formulas the first time you use it. (Or the first time you use a Genesis figure with the affected morph.) I mean, something you've had installed for a while and used without any issue, that has not been updated or changed or anything that you know of, suddenly starts throwing duplicate formula errors, and you can't figure out why?

I've had M3D Clayton for G3M installed since it came out, back in February. Have never had an issue with it. Studio has never thrown out a message on it. As far as the readme can be trusted, it's never been updated -- at least, I don't remember downloading an update via DIM.

Today, for absolutely no apparent reason that I can understand, I start getting "duplicate formula found" messages when I use G3M. When I go into the log, this is the message:

2017-07-04 17:35:01.362 WARNING: fileinput\dzassetdaz.cpp(5942): Duplicate formula found linking Value & CTRLMD_N_XRotate_40 in /data/DAZ 3D/Genesis 3/Male/Morphs/Male_M3dia/M3D Clayton For Michael 7/pJCMClaytonBodyAbsUpperLowerBendDownHD3.dsf.

How is it even possible for something to spontaneously evolve a duplicate formula issue when it's never been touched?

I removed the file from the Morphs directory, and the alert vanished, so it was definitely that file.

Even weirder, when I put a new copy of the file back -- I have the original zip, in a directory that DIM can't touch -- the error returns.

How could the error have been there all the time and not thrown off a message until now?

For that matter, is that something I can fix, or is that purely something I'd have to file a ticket on? (The file isn't compressed, but since the innards are only slightly more comprensible than Ancient Greek, I'm guessing probably not.)

It's available in DAZ 4.9.4.117 Pro Edition (64-bit) but NOT in

DAZ 4.9.4.117 Pro Edition (64-bit) Public Build...

WHY??

With V8 selected, I click on a surface and its attributes are not showing in the window. 

What did I do and how to I fix it?

Menu Settings

• Black (RGB 0,0,0) is low. If your minimum displacement setting is left at the default of 0, then black = no displacement
• White (RGB 255,255,255) is high. It will be translated to whatever is the maximum displacement setting you select in the Surfaces tab
• Shades of gray map proportionally between the minimum and maximum displacement

I wanted to draw veins on a character's skin, so I filled a .jpg with black and used a soft white brush to draw the veins. The result looks great, except that when the displacement map is used, seams pop out between this section of skin and others that don't have displacement maps. Light reflects off the surface's edges as if there is a slightly raised area there.

The fact that it isn't seamless suggests I'm doing something wrong. Have I misunderstood how displacement maps are supposed to work?

So I have the damien figure and I want to make an animation of him walking forward. I got the bad boy outfit and asher hair style. When I try to animate him using the tools already provided his arms are stuck in the t pose and he walks like a stick figure. Any help on how to fix this?

Thanks!

I am working on a DazStudio piece for a client who needs the final artwork to be 250cm x 100cm at 120dpi

I have seen some posts online that discuss some alternate render sizing to get a decent quality image because I think 250cm wide at 120dpi will be a super huge render.

Any suggestions or alternatives?

PS, if this is in the wrong thread category, please move it to wherever it should go.

The third character from the stairs down has lines all over the body, especially on the legs, and the last character also has some lines on the legs, those I made disapear as most as I could lowering the shading rate... The third character is the one that I can't figure out!

Any information 'bout this will be highly appreciated... Wouldn't know what to do with out this forum... Thanx guys :)

• Intel Core i7-3630QM Processor
• 24 GB DDR3
• 2 x 1024 GB SSD
• 17.3-Inch Screen, NV GTX670MX w/ 3GB GDDR5

Rendering takes forever for Iray..  IS my setup good enough for that?

Thanks

1. Rig the prop first, (Dont add a subD; Set the target item (such as as Genesis figure to Base and turn subD to zero).

2. Select Geom on Target (Make sure target is selected.) - Geocraft should be fitted.

3. Right-click (on Target) and select Geometry Assignment>Set AutoHide faces for Attachment.

4. Select Geocraft Item in Dialogue.

5. Select Ring of polygons on base; it is the outmost ring of geometry visible around the Geocraft.

6. Right-click (on Target) and select Geometry Assignment>Set Graft Faces for Attachment.

7. Select Geocraft Item in Dialogue.

8. Fit to NONE and refit.

The two figures both have the geocraft fitted, yet the one on the right, you cant tell. I played around with subD and other settings, but they both have the same settings on the figures and on the craft. The geometry is not misalligned, so it should match up. Pretty sure I've forgotten a step as I managed it previously. I'm almost believing its something to do with G8, but it doesn't make sense.

EDIT:

For reference for others, the instructions above worked for me; I changed instruction 1 to match what worked.

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/62617/brickyard-error Is there a way I can force the Default Surface Shader on this toon?

That should get me more than useable results for my purposes. Ty in Advance. BB.

Anyways, the sets worked up until this last update and now pieces of the sets no longer work :(

It's like half the set works and the other half just loads grey boxes as if it can't find the geometry but it's all there and has all worked before.

Here's the log file from 1 of the pieces that stopped working

2017-07-03 18:56:10.932 WARNING: fileinput\dzassetdaz.cpp(11033): UV set: "/data/kaotkbliss/Seraphim_Armor/Seraph_Helmet/UV%20Sets/kaotkbliss/Base/default.dsf#default" has wrong vertex/facet count
2017-07-03 18:56:10.932 WARNING: fileinput\dzassetdaz.cpp(1910): Could not find UVs for geometry.
2017-07-03 18:56:10.932 WARNING: fileinput\dzassetdaz.cpp(1349): Failed to create uv set!
2017-07-03 18:56:10.932 WARNING: fileinput\dzassetdaz.cpp(4789): Could not find geometry for the material instance.m_uri.
2017-07-03 18:56:10.947 WARNING: fileinput\dzassetdaz.cpp(1368): Failed to create material!
2017-07-03 18:56:10.947 WARNING: fileinput\dzassetdaz.cpp(4789): Could not find geometry for the material instance.m_uri.
2017-07-03 18:56:10.947 WARNING: fileinput\dzassetdaz.cpp(1368): Failed to create material!
2017-07-03 18:56:10.947 File loaded in 0 min 0.1 sec.
2017-07-03 18:56:10.947 Loaded file: seraph_helmet.duf
2017-07-03 18:56:11.058 WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile

I can see the wrong vertex/facet count, would changing this number in the dsf file fix it? if so, how do I get the correct number?

For example the base bree skin tone.

 I get this message as pop up, after starting DAZ Studio: A valid PostgreSQL CMS connection could not be established. Several DAZ Studio features, that require a valid PostgreSQL CMS connection, such as context aware, content views and loading content, installed using the Daz Connect service, will not be available. Check your network, anti-virus, and firewall settings for conflicts.

I couldn't discover any PostgreSQL installation on my PC. I uninstalled DAZ 3D 4.9 (x64) with DIM, restarted the PC and installed it again with DIM, but same result.

I don't know what to do at that point. Can one please help me? 

Thank you, Tom

Rather than ask the question at Rendo, I thought I'd post it here, where the iRay aces hang out. 

Thank you.