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Daz Studio 4.9
Win 10

My mouse keeps dissapearing while using an intuos pro medium.
Graphics device HD Graphics 4600 onboard.

Says the drivers are up to date. Cant seem to find a solution to this problem on these forums. The dissapearing pointer happens when I click on the interface view cube.

Cheerio

Other than nuking my current installation and restarting from scratch, how do I safely get rid of items that got installed twice---using DIM and the built-in installer inside DAZ? I've accidentally re-installed several items within the application. So, which one is the recommended way of installing items since using method #1 doesn't allow method #2 see it as installed and vice versa (something abut the Smart Content pane)? Is it possible to set DIM and DAZ to have the same directory?

Thanks.

I downloaded and installed 4.9.4.117 Pro (64 bit for Windows) so I could play with Vicki 8. It installed just fine. But when I closed it, Avast freaked out and said it was Malware. I ignored Avast. When I tried to reopen Studio, it wouldn't. In fact, the icon was dead. It no longer pointed toward an active executable.

So, I reinstalled it. Three times. Every time, I get this error message:

I've downloaded the Studio installer twice, thinking it may have botched on the download. I still get the same error. I tried clean installs, by uninstalling Studio first. Same thing.

There is no executable file to open Studio. Everything else is there in the folder, except that critical piece.

Avast hasn't shown any interest since that first time, but I suppose it could be fighting in the background. It never has before.

What should I do?

I tried bending the elbow joint back an forth, up and down, and didn't really see any change. When bending the arm back the triceps seems to bulge a bit, but the biceps is completly passive then bendin the other way.

Am I totally misunderstanding what this system is supposed to do? Does something have to be activated for the flexing to work?

I'm refering to this feature of the new G8 figure(s):

ARTICULATION AND FLEXING

No matter how life-like a figure is, it requires the ability to move in a realistic way. More organic bends and articulation have been integrated across the figure including in the abdomen, shoulder and collar. To make those movements even more realistic, Genesis 8 includes built in flexing of major muscle groups as the figure bends and poses.

I am exporting V8 as an .obj and importing it into Octane 3.06.2 for rendering.  I used this workflow for years with no issues on any other DAZ character.  I find there is a weird shadowing or something going on with the eye.  It looks like there is an internal eye structure or something with the eyes that is creating this problem.  If not for the eyes, I would have to give V8 a 10 out of 10...I really love this model.  If I can't get her eyes to render correctly I can't use her.

Thanks,

As a test, a took a scene file on an old version running 4.9.2.70, and what I wanted, which is a PNG with a dark gray background (see image below). If I take that same scene file and load it on a separate Mac running 4.9.4.117, I get the results you see below.

The settings, as far as I can tell are the same, but one difference I've noticed that on the old version the render button is green, while the new version the render button is blue.

Any help would be appreciated.

Sorry is this is already answered in another discussion, but i can't find the info.

I have a 17.3" asus i7 with a 4gb gtx980m. I can overclock the gpu to somerhing like 1226MHz.

To the question, has anyone compared a gtx980m with the mobile gtx1070? 

Is it much faster regarding render speed? 

BR // Daniel

Are any of you able to use pumps with V7/G3?

The toes poke through no matter which ones I use. These as an example are Dangle Pumps, but the problem happens with all of them.

DIM shows it installed, but when I click on the shortcut I get the standard intro screen with a message on the bottom that says "Connecting to CMS". Then nothing happens, no matter how long I wait.

I don't know of a way to bypass Content Management Services, and I assume there isn't one. I would even be willing to try a Windows uninstall/reinstall if DS showed up on the Control Panel list. DIM shows up, but not DS, and I'm reluctant to uninstall DIM in the hope of a cure (worried I'll scrambe its tiny brain even further).

Suggestions/solutions would be deeply, profoundly appreciated...especially if they work.  I've been tearing my hair out all morning over this.

I use the DAZ Install Manager.  Currently have DAZ Version 4.9.2.70 and wanted to update to new release.

I don't see anything in the DIM about an update - and don't see update option in DAZ Studio menus.

What is the recommended way to update?

Thanks

Without naming PAs or their products, I've noticed that some content creators are much more generous or considerate than others, e.g. separating a set so that various components can be used in other sets. Maybe I should have read the description more carefully (supposing the description was complete and I understood precisely what was meant), but a recent acquisition surprised and disappointed me. It's a kitchen/dining area that looks fabulous and comes with a few separate props, but...the oven door doesn't open, the fridge, dishwasher & cupboard doors don't open, and so on. Except for a few minor components—dining room chairs and the like—the thing is basically a great-looking brick. The big wall clock is static too--with hands that can't be moved--but at least it's a separate item and can be replaced if I want to indicate that time has marched on.

If I could pry e.g. the fridge and stove free from the set, I could replace them with appliances that allowed me to depict ordinary kitchen-type activities when I want to. As it is, they're...well, bricks that can't be posed, moved, or even replaced. The stove burners don't light up, either. 

Is there a way to separate what's obviously meant to be a unit into at least some of its smaller components? Any pointers (short of learning Blender) would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

note: a support ticket was sended.

A lot of the more recent things I've installed, when I try to load them just by left-clicking on them in the Content Library or Smart Control, I get the infamous File Does Not Exist Error. Now I have gotten away with just rick-clicking and choosing Merge, but this is still tiresome. Any suggestions?

Are other people seeing this?

Uisng UE2 in a HDRI set results in some strange skin artifacts with most figures (in the example, Stock  GF, G2F and G3F), in both DS 4.8 and 4.9.
First pic is with stock UE2. I remembered somethign about shading rate, so 2nd pic is UW2, with a shading rate of 0.1. Better, but still a tad wonky.

What I really want to know is what cuses this and how to correct it.. OR given that it seems to be a UE2/skin shader issue, is there a way to alter the skin setting to correct, or a better tool then UE2 for IBL/HDR work.. Given that the skin shaders and the UE2 light preset are both standard in DS, one would expect them to work together?

Thanks!