Technical Help (nuts n bolts) - Daz 3D Forums

Time and date setting change default.

paul_ae567ab9 — Thu, 01 Jun 2017 23:57:33 +0000

When using sun-sky environment the date and time is always reset to a default of March and 6PM. Where do I adjust that to a different default setting so I don't have to keep changing it? I would like to set to my coordinates and a preferred date and time. ( I can change later as needed)

Also how do I set Render Ground to always default to OFF instead of ON?

Thanks

Allow extreme rotation

johann.hesters_2e9dd0ece9 — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 16:20:30 +0000

Hello.

I would like to rotate the neck of my G2F model very much (to an unnatural extent).

I'm trying to create a zombie that has his head on his breast in order make it look like it's broken.

However, at a certain angle, the rotation wouldn't allow me to go any further.

The rotation circle becomes red.

Is there any way to realize my extreme rotation anyways?

Thank you for the help.

Grainy images

Drogo Nazhur — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 11:13:17 +0000

Whenever I've asked for advise how to make my renders less grainy, I was told to add more light to the scene. However, here is an example with with very little light but the image isn't grainy ...

https://www.daz3d.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/0/7/07-easy-environments-witchcraft-eclipse-daz3d.jpg

... from ...

https://www.daz3d.com/easy-environments-witchcraft-eclipse ... what do I need to do to achieve such results? Where I have a dark scene but without it being grainy?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Ashley & Fantasy Hair - they don't render properly

arne207 — Thu, 01 Jun 2017 15:16:13 +0000

Hi there, i have encountered a problem with two hair styles - namely Bluebird3ds Ashley Hair and 3D Universes Fantasy Hair. I got both in sales recently and now wanted to try them out, but they do not render properly with iRay and the "Dome and Scene" mode. The first iray iteration seems ok but then they become more and more white-ish and shapeless. Using "Sun-Sky only" they seem fine. The first picture shows Ashley Hair on V7 with SunSky and DaS, and the other one Fantasy Hair on Brenna with black (!) iRay materials applied.

Other hair styles do not cause this problem for me. I tried resetting the render options, re-installing both the Hair products and DAZ3D itself, to no avail.

Does anyone have an idea to what is the cause of this?

Thanks!

does daz3d utilise multi core cpus well? (i7 vs ryzen)

Sephnroth — Wed, 31 May 2017 10:06:03 +0000

I'm due a pc upgrade and just weighing the pros and cons of going all out full steam on an i7-7700k kabylake machine or instead building a Ryzen based machine. I know the i7 is the better choice for gaming (for which I do a lot of) but I also do a lot of work in daz and was wondering what it would prefer if the machine was built just for it? The i7 is 4 cores at a high clock speed, The ryzen would be 8 cores at a slightly lower clock speed. I'm thinking about a) general use in the IDE, navigating complex scenes, etc and b) affect on render times.

I use a gtx 1080 FTR and do most of my rendering in iRay :)

Facegen Pro

Alfawulf — Wed, 31 May 2017 15:35:45 +0000

I need some tutorial videos folks!!

Will take tips too!!

That main problem I'm having is the shape of the face. It never works like I hope it would and always seems to enlarged the face to sickly distorted proportions if you go to 100%!!

I've had marginal success by making multiple sliders form different photos and "Trying to find the middle".

Anyone??

Black Dots

ondanfifal — Thu, 01 Jun 2017 21:45:02 +0000

http://sta.sh/0qkix9ufi50

Just finished the above rendering and if you look at it, there is tones of black dots, like static almost.

I've fiddel around with setting trying to see if anything helps but can't see any noticable improvement.

Can anyone suggest or help me on how to fix this

Weird DAZ error

Tazirai — Wed, 31 May 2017 05:59:12 +0000

On some of my characters, I've created. I've noticed a weird error. When that character is loaded in a scene or even just into the environment. No matter where I select, even just empty space. It always pops up on her Right shin. Even If I'm selecting empty space. She then becomes buried underneath a sea of blue transparent triangles. Then it just says right shin.

Anybody heard of anything like that? It's driving me nuts not being able to select body parts without having to go to the Scene tab to select a part.

Any help would be appreciated.

Can I get Poser primitives for my DAZ Studio 4.9?

lukon100 — Wed, 31 May 2017 06:57:22 +0000

I like to get models from other places. But they sometimes are made from primitives that Poser has, like cylTex.obj and box.obj. Can I get those primitives for my DAZ Studio 4.9 so I can use those models built with those Poser primitives?

Baba Yaga House

vindazi — Thu, 01 Jun 2017 16:46:21 +0000

Does anyone here have experience with the Baba Yaga House. I don't seem to have all of the content but it may be because I don't know where to find it. The pose that I found was listed as "run house run". If I search for Baba Yaga, it does not show up. How can I find all of the content?

How do you get the propellers to look like they rotate on plane

kentphoto — Thu, 01 Jun 2017 16:13:53 +0000

I recently bought Wreckage 4:The Fortress. And for the life of me and

can't get the props to look like they rotate when the plane is in flight. Any tips or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Kent

DS Crash with Stone Walls and Grounds

designerwarren_2e7ff70f4d — Wed, 31 May 2017 18:46:17 +0000

This discussion was created from comments split from: Fatal error message- what happened?.

Install Mgr - Installed Content

alken — Thu, 01 Jun 2017 12:54:44 +0000

Hi, this has probably been covered in another post but I can't find it. How do I make Install Manager acknowledge the installed files on my external F drive instead of always defaulting to the Manifest files on the C drive. There is a Manifest file on my external drive but the Install Manager will not read the information from there. It always wants to create a new Manifest file in C even though I keep deleting it.

Daz Studio 4.9 causing Physical Memory Crash Dump

Man Behind the Curtain — Thu, 01 Jun 2017 16:11:05 +0000

Hello,

I have been using Daz 4.9 for months without any issues, but in the past week it has been causing a physical Memory Crash Dump. I've already run a complete system diagnostics as well as a memory diagnostics and the results were no issues with either the OS or the memory. Anyone have a similar issue? I am only running 6GB of memory and was planing to max my PC out to 16GB. Don't know if this would help. Thanks for any guideance you can give.

Not loading

dylan_borg_d673e29d8d — Thu, 01 Jun 2017 05:45:10 +0000

When I using Content Library, loading in figures, etc; somethings DAZ 4.9 stops reading new folders. Only fix I know of, is to save project and close/reopen DAZ.

Please help!

Smart Content panel empty & error message...

Timmoth — Thu, 01 Jun 2017 09:30:37 +0000

Haven't loaded Daz for about 8 months but today needed to get back into it, except on startup I find this complex error message (see pic attached)...

I close the message but find nothing in the Smart Content tab or the Install tab, although the Content Library tab is working and loading files, but still giving messages of parts missing.

I've updated Daz in the Install Manager but that hasn't fixed it.

Can anybody help please?

!irayuber shader not here in DAZ 4.9

R Golbraith — Tue, 30 May 2017 23:35:14 +0000

Hey, everyone. I need to use the !irayuber shader for some fun stuff but it's not here. I have 4.9 pro and it should be installed by default in Surfaces, editor, shaders. It's not in the shader presets either. Any ideas would be appreciated.

Joseph

Lighting Difficulties

darkgamenet — Tue, 30 May 2017 20:49:03 +0000

So i have several lights throughout the scene and in other renders the lights work fine, however in this one room the lights dont want to actually work,

Measure Metrics pane not appearing.

The Brig — Wed, 31 May 2017 23:50:20 +0000

Not totally true, it's rather a large pain. The documentation and YouTube videos show there's supposed to be a separate pane for Measure Metrics, but all I get when I click on the poses or wearables icons and apply them to my figures is a change of the figure's pose and a lot of the XYZ icons that indicate the followers. No pane indicating measurements appears, it isn't available under Windows>Panes or if I right-click to add a pane. I installed it through Install Manager first and got this result, then I updated the metadata through Daz Connect. Still this result. It shows as installed through DIM and through Connect, and I'm assuming all the files are present. This is on Windows 10 and DS 4.9. The docs provided are useless in troubleshooting, so I'm hoping someone else has found a solution for this.

If you need screenshots, tell me what you need to see and I'll post up.

Odd viewport behaviour with 4.9.2.0

ChrisStone — Wed, 25 May 2016 14:51:19 +0000

Just wondering if anyone else is experiencing the same issue that I am or if there's some setting I've overlooked...I updated to 4.9.2.0 Pro 64bit this morning and I'm having a new odd issue where if I have both the left and right panels of the workspace open, the large central viewport area doesn't resize itself correctly so the view controls, etc become hidden under the right-hand panel. If I collapse either of the side panels it's fine, but not if both are open. (File attached showing the issue)

That's a major change from the previous workspace (and makes it extremely tedious to navigate now) and seems to occur no matter what style I select (normally I use Darkside). Is there some setting that controls that behaviour that I've somehow overlooked?

Thick Eyelashes?

Seven193 — Wed, 31 May 2017 12:40:28 +0000

Is there a way to increase the thickness of the eyelashes for G3F?

Studio keyframes to aniMate2 aniBlock frame mismatch

Z3-3D — Wed, 31 May 2017 11:49:54 +0000

Hi there. I'm trying to create a looping aniBlock from a short 15-20 frame animation keyframed loop. When I create the aniBlock from Studio keyframes, the aniBlock always seems to extend to 1 second long, with a bunch of empty frames at the end. My frame range and frame count across all panes seem correct. Is there something I'm doing wrong here? Thanks for the help.

Studio:

aniMate2:

Need help Render problem (CPU win)

Okario — Wed, 31 May 2017 07:55:03 +0000

Hi.

I've got a bug issue since many weeks now.

For my render, I use GPU only, and I have 2 GTX 980 Ti 6 Go. Sometimes, when i try a render, it's the GPU or the CPU whose working ( I read all the post about this, and the fact than dependeing of the size of the scene, CPU replace the GPU). I don't know how to know the size of my scene, but recently, I had the probleme with small scene (only 2 character and a set. Sometime the render start with the GPU, and sometime with the CPU ... don't ask me why.

But this morning, I launch a render with only one character, clothing and an HDR, and.... the render was launch on the CPU....

Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.6 IRAY rend progr: CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti): Processing scene...

Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.11 IRAY rend progr: CUDA device 1 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti): Processing scene...

Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.7 IRAY rend stat : Geometry memory consumption: 110.023 MiB (device 1), 0 B (host)

Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.3 IRAY rend stat : Geometry memory consumption: 110.023 MiB (device 0), 0 B (host)

Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.11 IRAY rend progr: CPU: Processing scene...

Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.7 IRAY rend stat : Native CPU code generated in 1.17e-006s

Some one as a trick ? Is there something to do in the parameters of DAZ?

Thank you

What is the invisible wall thingy called?

dragotx — Mon, 29 May 2017 20:42:25 +0000

I know there is a way to set up a plane that will make everything behind it invisible so it doesn't get rendered, but I can not for the life of me fins what it's called or how to do it now that I fins myself in need of doing it. It's for removing portions of the environment for better camera access, or light access, or just to remove major portions of an environment that can't be otherwise removed (my primary use for it right now).

Zip file installation in a custom directory?

codec800_998b724087 — Tue, 30 May 2017 20:20:11 +0000

I apologize right off since this has been covered countless times, but I cant seem to find a surefire answer. I buy alot of content from Renderosity and the content comes in a .zip format. I want to unzip the folder and unload it in another location rather than Daz3d's default location on my C drive, I dont have much space left. I have a folder on an empty drive labled "My Daz3D Content". When I unzip the zipped folder I have a folder called "content" and tow other files labled "Manifest" and "Supplement".

Am I just placing the "content" folder into my "My Daz3D Content" folder for a manual install or do I need to take the multiple files inside of the "content" folder and put them somewhere else? And then what else after that? Direct Daz3d program to look for my custom new location?

Thankyou!

Can't download purchases or reload some previous ones

leo04 — Wed, 31 May 2017 01:36:18 +0000

Can't download purchases or reload some previous ones. Some purchased items do not load or appear after Database maintenance and a new bundle item will not show up in the Download manager or the intall tab inside of DAZ Studio.

Any ideas?

Green/Blue screen effect in Iray?

Silent Winter — Sun, 23 Apr 2017 01:35:01 +0000

Tried searching through Yahoo (google's blocked here) on the daz site but no dice.

In 3DL it was a simple case of cranking up the ambient channel to get a green-screen effect. E.g. I'd put a green plane (or any other shape with a transmap) against a wall - so I could easily cut it out in postwork and look through the wall to a scene behind. Even a cartoon effect of a man-shaped hole.

Is there a way to acheive the same in Iray? A regular green plane is affected by the lighting (so might be too dark to show up or too varied to cut out). Using an emissive plane will affect the things around it.

Come to think of it - how do they do it in real life for a darker scene? (since Iray lighting is more realistic).

Adjusting Stalker Girl hair/tail (sorted!)

Twisty — Tue, 30 May 2017 19:06:37 +0000

Hello all!

I purchased the old Stalker Girl hair (originally for Genesis) today, but upon fitting it found I couldn't locate any bones for adjustment.

I searched the forum, could only find one other person asking this question almost 5 years ago: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/18591/solved-stalker-girl-hair-how-to-pose-the-tail

None of those nodes/bones shown in that person's image appear on my character HOWEVER I am using the hair on a Gensis 3 character (does this make a difference?)

In any event I find myself totally unable to adjust the tail in any way or by any means. Can anyone help me with what I'm missing or doing wrong?

Thanks

Edit: It occured to me to try the free pose tool along with a deformer (I've only been using Daz a couple weeks, I'mma lil slow!!), though I found the pose tool won't move the hair, nor will it follow a deformer.

Missing Genesis 3 content after installation

almostdj — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 15:48:46 +0000

Hello,
After installation (I've downloaded and installed everything through the DIM) I Am trying to open female figure from "Genesis 3 Female", and got this error message: "Could not open file: People/Genesis 3 Female/Genesis 3 Female.duf File does not exists".
But, file actually exists, and it's on right location: "C:\Users\Public\Documents\My DAZ 3D Library\People\Genesis 3 Female/Genesis 3 Female.duf".
Actually, I can't open any other content from Genesis 3, error the same, but the file name different, for example:"People/Genesis 3 Male/Hair/Armani Hair/Armani Hair.duf File does not exists".
Please, help me, what should I do to restore this content?

Middle Mouse Fast Zoom

Toonces — Tue, 30 May 2017 14:19:31 +0000

I love using the middle mouse button to zoom in Daz viewport.

Is there a way to make it zoom faster?