My main desktop computer is having problems.  I'm trying to decide if I should get it fixed or buy a new one.  Theres one problem.  I'm worried I'll loose a lot of in progress work, and characters I re-use.  If I transfer the files to a new computer.  Daz has become rather finicky about file placement in recent years.  And I know my old computer has files that are slightly screwed up.

Ok that was the overview.  Now on to the question.  I have a laptop.  Thats newer than my desktop.  And I did a clean install of Daz and all the associated files using Daz3DIM.  So I decided to do a test.  I moved a Daz scene file over to the laptop.  And I get a warning that Daz can't find some files and a block figure appears.  See attached picture.  Now Daz will sometimes ask you to search and find files that it cant locate.  My question(s) are

1.  Is there a way to fix this?

2.  Why won't it always allow me to search for missing files?

3.  Is there a way to force Daz to look for missing files?

IF I get a new computer.  I've thought of ways that might get things working, Create a partition in the new computer, and transfer all the data intact from the old computer.  This might allow me to keep working with old files.  But I'm just guessing.  Its going to be trial and error, If I can't get daz to locate the files the way its supposed to.  It may lead to the loss of all older files, and anything I've worked on recently, but hadn't finished.

Thanks in advance for any ideas.

now the current daz studio beta workspace looks like this when it launches:

the directory navigation menu is unusable, as nearly as i could tell from clicking on the folders that did appear.

the current stable version of the app isn't affected, though.

j

I want to know what's the model for face, body, makeup and hair of this girl.

Thanks in advance :)

2016-11-11 16:21:45.257  Json Parser (824862,39): Syntax Error - expected ',' or '}'
2016-11-11 16:21:45.274 Error reading file, see log for more details.

I doubt that the crash corrupted this file so I think it must of been saved incorrectly but unfortunately I did not try to re-open the saved scene before I started rendering.

Hints to the fix? I will look now though with a text editor at the scene DUF file.

Is there anyway to fix this? Thanks.

One. Everything seemed to install fine in the initial install package aside from ONE thing that will not install is the 3d Bridge. I attempted from the install manager, and got the following message:

"Install Manager cannot find a required path. The package for "Photoshop 3D Bridge for DAZ Studio 4.9+ (Win 64-bit)" requires that the installed path for "Photoshop CC, CS6, CS5, CS4 (64-bit)" be defined. Make sure that a path for this application is present on the "Applications" page of the "Settings" dialog, then try again."
I scanned through the forums and found nothing that solved the issue, but tried to grab the install file manually from the download page. No dice. Message recieved:  (The installation path for DAZ Studio could not be found. "3D Bridge DS4 (64bit) cannot be installed. Setup will now quit.").

My version of DAZ is 4.9.3.166 (Pro Edition) 64 bit. I am running on Windows10, but seeing as the program works, I can load in both female starter models (I see no males, so maybe ther is more of an issue than I thought?) I dont think it matters, but the edition of Photoshop I run is CS6.
I can get the figure to load in, but none of the clothes. I know how to access the log, but I cant make heads or tails of it, but can paste the errors and give more info as needed.
Thank you in advance!

-Kayge

Now I want to apply a texture with a name on it, and silver for the base and top, but white for the can. How do I apply different textures to it? It just wraps the whole thing in whatever texture I select. Also I tryed to make it so the name on the can is proportionate to the size of the can, but it always stretches and pulls itself into blurry words. I tryed several different sizes of image, always the same though, any good advise on that as well?

Thanks everyone, Brian

How can I take my current frame (frame 60) and use that and reset the timeline so i can have it as frame 0? I se now real options for the timeline, and i tryed changing the frame start and end numbers but it doesn't seem to work. Only thing I founf is adjusting ti to have 121 frames then start at frame 60. But I am curious if they can be reset to have any certain frames in animations to be changed to a 0 point so I can make other animations starting from a single point in other set up animations.

Been using DS quite a bit and wondering why my renders were so slow ... I've always had both CPU and GPU selected in both photoreal and interactive ... 

So I downloaded GPU-Z today to have a closer look at what it going on under the hood and ... only my CPU is processing the render. My GPU load is 0%

So I changed my photoreal and interactive render devices to both be GPU only and ... it does not render anything at all. Even a trivial scene with only a vase and a background. No render activity whatsoever. 

I'm running an Alienware laptop (windows 10) with 8 GB Ram, an nvidia geforce GTX 965M (2GB) and a 1TB HD that is only 50% full.

In my nvidia control panel my nvidia GPU is selected as the default graphics processor. Under programs, I have DS specifically configured as nvidia GPU always. 

I have tried every possible config that I can think of and still it refuses to use the nvidia gpu to render. 

I have already search the web and forums to see if this has been solved by others already but I did not find a solution that worked for me. 

Any help to sort this out would be appreciated. Thank you

TJ

Anyways, not the problem.
Problem is I have to re-install DAZ.

My content files are intact, so only the programs have to be installed.
I only use DIM, I do not use Connect.

Is there a guid or a thread for this procedure somewhere.
I'm bleary eyed and off to bed.

But will seek it out in the morning with a fresh mind.
Thanks,

Ippotamus

I'd like to know whether or not there's a way to change textures when they seem to be hidden away in a .duf file or whatever (?). For example, in my Daz Studio content library I have several computer monitors and video screens, only one of which (the large curved TV from elsewhere) has a screen texture that I can easily get at & change. One monitor has a blank screen, and another has a default screen that doesn't suit the scene I have in mind. Searching on the textures in Windows Explorer brings up only the icons, so I'm wondering how I can open the relevant file or files, find the texture I want to change, and change it.

I can't see this being a violation of the licensing terms, although maybe it is. Any info on the subject, especially a how-to, would be much appreciated.

I've read about resolving various issues with the transfer utility when it comes to clothing created for morphs (i.e. not the base Genesis 2F model), but there seems to be something strange going on with a particular item of clothing i've made. The transfer utility applies all the morphsto the clothing, and I can zero them no problem, but this is the problem; it's as if the transfer utility has "baked" a morph into the clothing and not provided a dial to zero it, meaning I can't get the the default shape back.

Attached pic shows the issue i'm having -

1. Imported clothing .obj;
2. Transfer Utility used on clothing;
3. Dialled morphs on clothing to zero;   <--- This is the issue. As you can see, everything's dialled back to the default shape, but the shoulder section remains incorrectly morphed
4. Dialling back the problem morph on the figure solves the problem, as the clothing returns to default... but now the figure has the wrong shoulders.(Hidden figure to compare clothing shape to 1.)

As you can (hopefully!) see, the issue seems to be that the "Shoulders Scale" morph has been applied to the top, but since there's no slider for it I can't zero it with the rest of the morphs. Fortunately it's a pretty basic top so I could always remodel it to fit the base G2F figure, but I find it's a lot more accurate to model clothes based on the final morph...

Any ideas how to remove the morph for the clothing?
(Or some way to transfer with "use nearby vertices", though i've tried that several times and it doesn't seem to work as i'd expect in DAZ as opposed to Blender; it still applies the morphs and skews the clothing)

What does

- Convert Clothing to Static Geometry
- Allow Degraded Skinning
- Allow Degraded Scaling
- SubD information

exactly?

Any clues on how this tool works?