What could cause that?

Thanks.

However, when I switch to Iray, the skin looks fine (at least). Nonetheless, could anyone share a way to fix this so the viewport looks... well, normal?

The only thing I did between yesterday and today is buy and install these new products (not sure if it relates in anyway to my problem).

https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/search/page=1/sortby=relevance/query=publisher:5437

Can such scenes be converted and imported in an efficient fashion into Daz Studio 4.9? I know there is a FBX import option

but that's about it.

I was creating a piece of cloth using this tutorial here:  when I suddenly the female anatomical element didn't show correctly - it showed both versions the Genesis 3 sex-less figure and the genitalia overlay at the same time. In my opinion it was just a side effect because of using a geoshell for my figure and discarded the genitalia overlay.

When I lately worked on a different figure I noticed that the same effect happened to it, but I never used any geoshell on this other one, in fact I didn't use any geoshells in the whole scene, but the bug appeared in the same way as on the model before. Then I've discarded everything also restarted Daz Studio and even my Computer and created a completely new model from scratch but no matter what, when I apply the genitalia it does no longer replace the sex-less part but just adds it to it.

I have no idea how or why. I haven't added any new products or changed any settings, all I did was using a geoshell on one of my models. Any help or ideas would be welcome, because I have no idea what could have been changed on Daz Studio that is now the cause for this bug.

Thanks

I recently bought Hinky Punk's rather cool-looking 'Prototype XT-4' Gynoid.

My question:

What magical powers are needed to get the DARN thing to RENDER properly?!

I'm MISSING something, but I don't know WHAT.

I've TRIED clicking 'Step 1'...G3F comes in (with white eyes) as a featureless gray silhouette...(think 50% gray surface with 100% Ambient...)

Creepy...but not what I was expecting.

I select G3F, and then double-click #2...Armor shell.

It loads, and I do a render. Now Ms. Featureless Ambient Grey is wearing BLACK armor. I go and select Armor, then go and pick an armor color...

You can see the color (barely)...but it has NO highlights...and is almost black. (If I pick White armor, it renders as white, but almost blown out, as if the Ambient channel is high.)

I've tried doing the above for the inner materials and, again...nothing.

I still see Ms. Featureless Ambient Gray wearing near-black, slightly colored armor with no shine or REAL highlights.

If I start with a NORMAL G3F, and apply the armor, I wind up with the same look armor on a human form.

Even If I try the PRESETS...The Pre-Made color schemes...THAT leads me to the same place...

(I'm using the 3D Delight render engine, BTW.)

I'm COMPLETELY BAFFLED, people...what do I do? What am I MISSING? Is there a tutorial on how to use this product?!

Help!!!

Thanks!

Greg

A common practice in photography is to set a light source behind the head to create a rim effect on the hair.

You can achieve the same effect with fibermesh hair and Iray by setting the "Base Color Effect" to "Scatter & Transmit" when a light is oriented properly to shine on the head from the back.

You may need to readjust the color of the hair when switching from "Scatter only" to "Scatter & Transmit".

The effect you can achieve also depends on the thickness of the fibermesh hair.

- hair strands consisting of points (connected vertices in a hair curve) have no thickness -> no refraction, no subsurface scattering, just backlighting effects.

- a thin cylinder volume in the form of a hair strand features an increased point count that allows for thickness -> refraction, subsurface scattering is possible

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The hair in the screenshot is from the "George Hair Set" and was autofitted to Genesis 3 Female.

https://www.daz3d.com/george-hair-set

The shader was set to Scatter & Transmit.

Some other hair shaders may have set the "Base Color Effect"  to "Scatter only" by default.

-> make sure to check the surface settings of the hair shader if you are interested in a rim effect on fiber mesh hair.

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It says it's for the G2F one and not the G3F one, but I only have the G3F version... Would like to know if it's the same UV :)

For some reason, when I try to double click on the node on a Power Pose tab it does not toggle pins on/off. It used to work but stopped for some reason. I don't remember changing any preferences. Please help!

Building a new machine just to use for creation not rendering.  I have a 2GB Nvidia card I already use and will transfer to the new machine which will have twice as much system RAM (32GB).

Does VRAM have any impact on the process of actually building scenes? 

Is a GPU even be necessary or helpful for this purpose?

Thanks

I don't get it. I've had the lights be bright and otherwise. Changed eyes to be glossy, messed with the cornea eye bulge...but occasionally, eyes are simply dead.

Any thoughts on how to get consistent, realistic eye reflection?

Which is fine until you take the shoes off.  I didn't realize they did that until later when I started trying to get back to base figure.

I have a character that I put that shoes on I want his feet back.  I've tried reapplying the base skin, the base shape, I've gone into the figure and played with visibility.  I've tried placing an entirely new actor over the existing one.

Everything I try results in the feet still being gone.  Whatever DM did in this case was not a simple "invis" marker.  It did something that I can't figure out how to reverse, and I don't want to recreate this character from scratch.

How do I fix this short of having to start all over and thereby waste hours of work?

after about the first 15 to 20 iterations, even on scenes with only one figure... the whole render switches over to the cpu.  CPU fans start up and the render slows to a crawl. 

It's like the cards just say ... OK we're done here and give up.  I've got them set to maximize 3d performance and have tried with them both with sli and without.  Anyone know of any other Nvidia settings that I could be missing?

Or ... is a video card just going out?

I am working with a friend to make his props (mainly architecture and some vehicles) available in DAZ Studio. There are going to be two versions of each prop,1 with 3Delight materials and the other with Iray materials. After having watched or read some tutorials on saving props I have found that each has their own method. I have a couple of questions which I hope someone can answer for me.

1. I have seen a few different suggestions as to where to save props which will eventually be sold - some suggest to My Library, others directly to the main My DAZ3D Library under the vendor's name and others suggest setting up a separate directory. Any thoughts or preferences?

2. Is there a particular set up (folder structure) used when doing the 2 different versions (Iray and 3Delight)? 

Any help would make my life easier so thanking you in advance for your replies.

The surfaces tab editor used to show only the same item as is highlighted in my scene tab. And the edits I made only applied to that same item I had highlighted in my scene tab.

But now the surfaces tab editor shows just about every item in my scene, no mater what single item I have selected in my scene. And if I select the item I want to change within my surfaces tab editor and change a surface property for that item, it will change that property for many other items in my scene as well, much against my will. I have not yet determined exactly how many other items in my scene that get changed as well. But on first glance it looks like every single one of them.

How do I make my surfaces tab editor behave the way it used to behave?

Also, I understand I can re-rig things from character to character. I'm using a lot of V4's still and was wondering if there's a good guide on how to learn how to rig costumes to a V4.

Please see attached image file.

Thank you in advance for helping me.

i can't seem to transfer soto's vincent head morphs thru genx2 for any target figure. could i do it with mlp? if so, how will the geometry match for genesis? morphs can be used for either m4 or f4 base? i've tried both in genx2.

thanks

I would appreciate any help :-)

https://www.daz3d.com/genesis-3-female-xprssnmagic

since i couldn't find a similar thread in the forums, i'm creating this new thread but, should this problem be known and solved already,

i'd appreciate any links.

so, i've had Daz3d on my old pc and it worked fine. after receiving a new computer, i stuffed my HDD into the new

one and installed a new and fresh win 7 pro version on a SSD (so daz3d and the new windows are not on the same drive).

after uninstalling and reinstalling daz3d though, it didn't want to start.

the splash screen pops up and after initialization, the program just freezes. i've included a screenshot of what i can see before i

have to close the application.

as i said, i'm using Windows 7 Professional, got a Geforce GTX 1070 from Gigabyte and am using 64 GB DDR4 of RAM with an

Intel i7 6800k 3,4 Ghz Prozessor; so i think my hardware should be able to handle Daz ^^'

Though i'm using an older graphics driver (373.06) since the newest one had compatibility problems with many

programs i use, such as several games and poser 11 pro.

any ideas ?

i'd appreciate any kind of help, thanks.

The image on the left was rendered in 3Delight. While the image on the right is a mirrored version of the same image rendered in IRAY. Is there anything that can be done in IRAY to show more of the veins and definition so that it looks closer to the 3Delight version?

I was told that changing the surface settings would help accomplish the desired results but I'm not sure of which ones and I tried trial & error but there is just too many of them to find the correct combination.

Any help that can be offered will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

I would like to make the head of a G2F model much smaller.

I'm using the scale tool, and it works great.

However, the eye balls and the teeth won't scale along with it, I have to do it separately for these 2, and of course unfortunately they lose their relative position to the head.

Is there any easy way to have the "underlying" objects scale along with the head and preserve their relative positions?

Thank you.