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IG Iray Essentials - Genesis 3 Female & Victoria 7 won't install

CO3DR — Mon, 01 May 2017 05:46:27 +0000

IG Iray Essentials - Genesis 3 Female & Victoria 7 (by Inane Glory) gives an immediate error and won't install through DIM.

If I fix the ZIP with Content Packaging Assistant, it installs.

Is anyone else having this problem? It might be occuring only with a recent update to the product.

Export DAZ characters into Marvelous Designer Question

designsupport — Mon, 01 May 2017 04:05:13 +0000

Hello All Back again was not sure to make a new post or add to the old so if this is not the right way to go about this I am still learning

I had few issues before from the different post about K4 Hair and I seem to have sorted that out enough to get some hair on my Child thanks to all that posed suggestions its still bumby but I got it so I will just have to practice and get a better file system going..

My new question is the second step to my process exporting what I have done here into Marvelous Designer as and Obj file so I can work on my girl with clothing as my custom model

I followed the instructions once I got the little girl looking the way I wanted her ( see image) below taken as a screen shot from Daz it looked good to me so I followed the steps found in this post I found here http://www.versluis.com/2015/03/how-to-import-daz-characters-into-marvelous-designer/

and after I did it I opened it up in MD and got this

My girl has no eyes and her hair got tipped back what happened ???? I made sure all the setting are as listed in the info in the link listed step by step so I am thinking I didnt do something on The Daz side but what does anyone know what I missed Please advise if you can and if a better way to do the export and there is a link to review I would be very happy to look at that.

Thank you in advance for any help you could offer to fix my girl was happy it came out good then I got that but I am learning so that is what matters

Thanks

Tanya

Edges not moving with object

lexbaird — Mon, 01 May 2017 05:52:09 +0000

I'm rigging a model in DS 4.8, and have created face groups with the Geometry Editor, assigned faces, assigned bones to the faces, and used the weight map brush option to "fill by bone selection groups". This has worked on 95% of my model, but there are a few face selection groups that when adjusted with the assigned parameter dial, leave behind some edges. They don't move with the rest of the object group. (see picture). As you can see, the weight map is 100% red. What can I do to add these stationary edges to the transform movement, so the object doesn't distort?

Noir Lighting

tring01 — Sat, 29 Apr 2017 16:59:02 +0000

Hi Guys;

I'm getting into doing some film noir style images. I just purchased Film Noir Portrait Studio by Forbidden Whispers and Daz (super cheap right now)

https://www.daz3d.com/film-noir-portrait-studio

Would appreciate any other tips, pointers, or links to resources.

Changing Source Folder for DIM Install

3141592654 — Sun, 30 Apr 2017 10:36:17 +0000

I want to use an external hard drive for my content library. I have the zip files and want to use DIM for a clean new install. The problem is I do not see a way to have DIM use the zip files except to copy them all into the standard 'downloads' folder and then install them which would take a great amount of time. Is there a way to tell DIM to get the zip files from another folder? Thanks in advance.

Reinstalling Daz 3D Studio over possibly corrupted version

Limey — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 20:40:14 +0000

I have been using Daz 4.9 for a little while and consider myself a bit of a newbie although I usually manage to get just the results I am looking for. Alas, this morning I encountered a problem I have never experienced before. When I try to use vertical and horizontal "tiling" on the surfaces tab at some point during my adjustments the image I am trying to position suddenly goes randomly haywire and all I get is a jumble of pixels that no longer respond to any commands.Once it does this no amount of tinkering will get the image to return and I have to start the whole process again, mostly to no avail. I have used this function many times over without issues and never experienced such a complete out of control "muddle". I can only deduce that the program, and this function in particular, is somehow corrupted.

I am using a very simple model, nothing complicated with no backgrounds and mostly using black and white images. I have tried changing out the model but the problem remains no matter what model I try. Everything else works normally.

As I am in the middle of an urgent project and need a quick fix to this issue I decided that maybe I should download a new version of Daz to deal with it directly.

Before I proceed I have a few pertinent questions:-

1/ Is there anything I can do to correct this problem "before" I attempt to replace the program ?

2/ If I do download a new version do I need to uninstall the old version first ?

3/ With a new version installed, will I still be able to open any older files without problems of connectivity ? Will these files just open as they did previously ?

4/ Will all my old files and folders remain in their correct locations or will I have to spend time shuffling them all back to their rightful locations without ending up with dozens of duplications ?

If anyone can point me in the right direction to get me up and running again it would be very much appreciated.

I am using a Mac Pro running OS 10.7.5 I have used my Mac disc repair utility and everything seems to be OK.

Thanks

Peter

How do I stop a keyframe from affecting another with keymate.

Rodrij — Sun, 30 Apr 2017 04:51:11 +0000

For example say I had 3 frames with a keyframe each and the figure has a different position in each. Whenever I change the position in keyframe 2 for example, it changes part of the position in keyframe 3. How do I stop that from happening.

I just want a keyframe to hold a pose with no interpolation in between keyframes and changes in one keyframe do not affect other keyframes..

Problem with Heartbreaker Hair

mtswago — Sun, 30 Apr 2017 10:06:20 +0000

I just purchased Heartbreaker Hair. The only color I can load is black. Clicking on a color gives me an error. [View log.] 2017-04-30 05:52:56.939 WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
2017-04-30 05:53:22.113 Error reading file, see log for more details.

Please help

Which Model is this?

curtisdart_f5cb0c6947 — Sat, 29 Apr 2017 22:16:16 +0000

Hey folks need a bit of help..Id love to buy this model and the exact hair.. But im not sure which one it is..any help?

https://www.daz3d.com/various-poses-for-genesis-2-female-s

First photo where she is sitting on the couch. Thanks in advance.

RESOLVED: M4 Elite Ethnic Faces (where's the INJ morph?)

ArtsyDragon — Sat, 29 Apr 2017 21:45:18 +0000

Hello,

I am trying to use one of my older products with DAZ Studio. I know I have to load my M4 differently than everything else. Problem is, although I purchased the above product, I can't figure out where it is located in order to use the morphs. Any direction would be appreciated. Thank you in advance.

DA Pro Light Portrait Set - Iray?

Rain — Sat, 29 Apr 2017 21:07:43 +0000

I bought DA Pro Light Portrait Set thinking it was for 3Delight as I could find no information in the product info that said otherwise. Now I'm wondering, as I'm not getting good results from them. It could just be me, but I thought I'd check before I spent hours fiddling with a light set that doesn't work for me. I did notice after I bought it that the main promo picture says rendered in Iray. that could be a clue ;-)

"Bounding" shadows in IRay?

Ptrope — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 15:02:20 +0000

I'm seeing shadows on my floors in IRay that aren't of the objects themselves, but appear almost to be 'bounding box shadows' - but even then, moving the object seems to change the shape of the shadow. I'm seeing this on different materials and under different kinds of lights - environmental, spotlight, distant light, emissive lights.In these shots, the chair is on the floor in the first and second ones, -1 below it in the third, +1 above it in the fourth. allowing the render to continue doesn't eliminate it, and it's also present in the IRay prevue. This floor is a velvet material, but I've also seen it on plain surfaces and glossy, reflective surfaces. I'm finally starting to get the hang of Iray lighting - I hate to not be able to render anything because it has boxes on the ground below it.

Unknown icon with iray preview: what is it?

javier_4c3512252b — Sat, 29 Apr 2017 18:45:08 +0000

When I select Iray preview, a new icon appears at the left of the draw settings: it has a + and a - sign, and a small sun.

Transfer morphs to GeoGraft

Thoro — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 23:37:19 +0000

I've made some morphs on the genesis 3 figure in zbrush and the geografts and clothes followed as they should.

But when I reloaded the scene today the geograft and clothes didn't follow the morphs anymore for whatever reason. I couldn't find the morphs under hidden either.

Is there a way to transfer the morphs I made to the geografted parts and clothes?

I tried transfer utility. Didn't work. Any suggestions?

Aurora Bot

Scorpia — Fri, 17 Mar 2017 00:37:43 +0000

Being a huge lover of all things Cyborg and especially Sorayama, I've just purchased Aurora Bot but am finding a bit of strange thing that's causing Studio to crash.
If I apply the "Mech" setting and then the "Aurora Additive" or vice versa, Studio immediately crashes to desktop.
I can apply either the Mech or the Additive seperately with no issue. The Additive seems to create the character if you're starting with base G3 whilst the mech only adds the mechanical components at the joints/waist/neck etc.. I don't think there's a need to apply both presets to create the Aurora character but I haven't fiddled around with everything enough to find out if the crash also happens if you have one Aurora character and you only want to apply the partial mech to a seperate instance of G3 within the same scene.

Just wondering if anyone else has has the same issue?

downloading latest Daz 4.9

prinzeugen — Sat, 29 Apr 2017 02:25:19 +0000

So I have Daz 4.9.1.30 64 bit and just purchased from the store something that needs the latest Verison .. I go to the main page then to Daz 3d page then downloads... tried using my install manager clicking on the 64 bit download... It starts to download the 32 bit... tried to do a straight download without the install manager clicking the 64 bit icon and again it starts to download the 32 bit... What am I doing wrong.. I never had any trouble when I upgraded from 4.8

I need a little help from my friends

moseleycw — Sat, 29 Apr 2017 05:55:02 +0000

First, let me say that you have a wonderful product and I hope it is very profitable.

I bought Studio Paris and several interior settings. Some of these have paintings and easels with paintings.

How can I change the images in the pictures to my images?

I purchased the IDG 2 portrait studio. In the pictures in the ads, it shows presets, but I didn't get any of these.

Do I need the previous version? I have to make up a room and manually insert the light and props. I did purchase the addition props and stuff.

This is a fantastic product, and I just need to have the complete set, or someone needs to show me what to do.

Would moving my content library to a solid state drive make the thing in render run faster. How do I move things without messing up stuff.

I have migrated from Poser Pro 11 to Daz Studio for most all of my stuff. I figure out how to access the Daz Studio from in Poser. It a little slow but I got time. However, the characters do not look the same if Poser as they do in Daz. The have a shiny effect and that do not look anything like they do in DAZ.

Which can offer the faster render time DAZ or Carrara 8.5 Pro. I don't have a Nvidia Card on my Mac.

AMD Radeon R9 M395X:

Chipset Model: AMD Radeon R9 M395X

Type: GPU

Bus: PCIe

PCIe Lane Width: x16

VRAM (Total): 4096 MB

Vendor: ATI (0x1002)

Device ID: 0x6920

Revision ID: 0x0000

ROM Revision: 113-C905AA-799

EFI Driver Version: 01.00.799

Metal: Supported

Displays:

iMac:

Display Type: Built-In Retina LCD

Resolution: 5120 x 2880 Retina

Pixel Depth: 30-Bit Color (ARGB2101010)

Main Display: Yes

Mirror: Off

Online: Yes

Automatically Adjust Brightness: Yes

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 110.7px; text-indent: -110.7px; font: 11.0px 'Helvetica Neue'} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px} p.p3 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 204.2px; text-indent: -184.2px; font: 11.0px 'Helvetica Neue'} span.Apple-tab-span {white-space:pre}

Connection Type: DisplayPort

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Loading prop help

versora_vincent — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 22:09:58 +0000

Hello. I am at my wit's end on trying to get my Eastern Nights Tent to load. Everything is on my E drive. I made sure I pointed ALL content installs to that. But for some reason, it won't load that one thing I even tried manually selecting every item in the scene and manually apply the textures. And yes, everything is in its little folder where it should be when I installed DAZ. I just drag and drop my content files.

I am running Windows 10 64 bit if that helps as well.

Lilithai Strigoia and V4.2 - Trying to understand how to use this stuff, General V4.2 questions

tj_1ca9500b — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 19:50:45 +0000

Hey guys!

Not sure if this should be here or under the Commercial section, since it involves multiple products

Soooo, I now have this (and Volume 2 as well)

https://www.daz3d.com/the-lilithai-strigoia-bundle-volume-1

I'm new to Daz, so my experience is pretty much with using Genesis 2/3. Lilithai stuff is built for Victoria apparently, so I"ve loaded up Victoria 4.2, and so far have managed to get Lilithai's tattooed skin applied.

However, I have no idea how to get the clothing and everything else to work. I've tried doing so in the usual fashion (select figure, click product package and it gets applied), no dice. I've tried going the 'Surfaces Tab' route, selecting the surfaces and then applying it that way, no dice.

Usually, there's a 'green' Actor, Outfit, etc. that appears on top of the product thumnail so you can apply the product, but I'm not seeing any of that in my Content LIbrary thumbnails for this product.

I also tried applying the 'Barbarian' shape using a product thumbnail that appears in my Victoria 4.2/4.2Elite Content Library/Product subwindow, but that isn't doing anything either.

Since I"m 'post-Genesis', I don't know how things/accessories were applied in the 'old days'. How does this work, guys? What am I doing wrong?

Rearange groups in a exported OBJ file

GKDantas — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 22:51:20 +0000

Hi people, I need to copy a lot of layers from 3DCoat from a figure to another, and theres the replace geometry import option, BUT when I import the new OBJ file the Face and Torso groups ar einverted in the list, so all face textures goes to torso and vice versa, anybody knows a way to rearange groups so I can import the OBJ without problems?

Question: when using 'show hidden morphs' option under parameters tab, any way to change text color?

tj_1ca9500b — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 17:56:33 +0000

Hey guys!

So, I've been using the 'show hidden morphs' option under the parameters tab, mainly so I can do x, y, and z scaling separately instead of all 3 directions at once.

The morph slider titles for the previously hidden morphs are in a really dark text. Sometimes it highlights when you mouse over them or click on the morph slider, but this is kind of annoying. Is there some sort of preferences option that can change the 'hidden' morph slider text to a brighter/more easily read color?

How to remove freckles?

ricswika — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 14:47:54 +0000

How do you remove freckles? I am using "Extreme Closeup: Freckles for Genesis 3 Female(s)".

I have no problems adding layers of freckles. Now how do you remove them?

Thanks

Richard

May be a dumb question...but, what's an "architectural shader"?

tring01 — Mon, 24 Apr 2017 13:27:34 +0000

Starting to learn how to tweak shaders. Lots and lots of terms to learn. One I just can't find any decent definition of online is, "architectural shader". I see things labeled as regular vs. architectural. Sickleyield once warned me to avoice architectural shaders if I want to have faster renders... I'm just in a bit of a fog about what the heck an architectural shader is exactly. Any help?

Movement of Subfolders in Content Library

sayun — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 03:23:46 +0000

I apologize if this has been asked before, but an hour of googling didnt seem to turn up the answer this question...

I've gotten to a point where I have a LOT of content, and organizationally it's getting a bit out of hand. Sure, I can search for something, (if I can remember the name), but I would like to start moving things around to get some sort of order to it.

To start, my Genesis 3 Female "Characters" folder looks like this:

While I assume at some point P3Design decided to lump all their characters into a parent folder with their brand, an older "P3D Brita" seems to lie outside of it.

My question is, will I break anything by moving these folders around? That is, can I move all the characters in subfolders, "Charlotte", "Josina", etc. into the main "Characters" folder?

Similarly, can I move and rename folders that have clothing? Like this for example, doesn't make sense to me:

Why is the "Tamara Outfit" content in a folder called "3D Universe"? Why not in a folder called "Tamara Outfit"?

For that matter, why not organized like: Genesis 3 Female > Clothing > Everyday Outfits > "Tamara Outfit", along with "Autumn Chic"? Maybe all the different dresses in a folder called Genesis 3 Female > Clothing > Dresses, all the shoes in a folder called Genesis 3 Female > Clothing > Shoes?

So... can I do this?

Thanks much in advance. :)

IRAY preview stops rendering

Toonces — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 12:45:25 +0000

Ran into a strange issue this morning where my iray preview renders for a few seconds, and then stops...showing the 'smooth shaded' look in the viewport.

If I move the camera a bit or change the render settings, it starts rendering again for a few seconds and then stops again.

Super wierd.

Nothing unusual in log file, although sometimes I get this message when it happens: VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER): 1.0 IRAY rend progr: Transaction closed, stopping renderer.

Content Directories

samh_05ee7b2b5f — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 21:39:12 +0000

Howdy all!

Long, looooong time Poser now giving Daz3D a good, hard look because I like what I see coming from it, as well as content made for it. So, I installed the latest, 4.9.3.166.

Let me explain something about my system first. My C drive is a 120GB SSD. It's for loading Win7 and it's fast! My D: drive (2TB) and E: drive (2TB) are for my applications and data. Since C: is so small (120GB) I want to keep it as clean as possible and only for the OS. So I installed Daz on my D: drive along with Poser Pro 11 (and yes they coexist peacefully!) and pointed everything asked of me for installation purposes, like paths, etc., to the D drive. So far so good.

Then I started d/l'ing via Daz, available content like Gen3 figures and such. Wanting to see the directory makeup, I went looking for the content and hmmmm, I saw it taking up space on my C: drive. I specifically did not want this and thought I directed all pathway creation to the D: drive. I must have missed a step (not really, but for arguments sake, I'll claim I did.)

Now I know the Content Directory Manager will let me modify things, but I get warnings about relative path references being broken and existing content will fail when trying to load them, etc. if I press on.

I understand and heeded the warning, so my simple question: how do I now keep everything working but working (*everything*) off my D: drive?

Thanks!

Sam

About Dynamic Clothing Plug in

GreenBean — Sat, 22 Apr 2017 16:01:13 +0000

Hello,

the plug in works fine but it's a question, is there a way to re-size it and keep it the wanted size?

like if used the dynamic sheet, and wanna make it a towel or something, whenever i click on drape, the size gets zeroed back to 100%

help please!

Thank you :)

Lost image.

Cat_Dancing — Sun, 16 Apr 2017 16:43:44 +0000

Help desperately needed here please. I am working my wat through the user guide, I note co-incidentally, that the guide is for 4.6 and I am using 4.9. Anyhow, to the point. I have reached page 26 - 26, gaining confidence and clicking away like a maniac when suddenly I've lost the image I was working with. I tried clicking some more to try to reverse what I had done but without success. I tried 'File - New' and started a new practice run but the same problem exists. It seems that the image disappears when the program is in 'Actors, Wardrob and Props' I think I need to know how to re-set DAZ to it's original 'factory settings' is there way to re-set DAZ or will I have to delete the program and the re-download.

Thanks in advance for your help and assistance.

Robert.

Help with Real Eyebrows

GXT6000 — Sun, 09 Apr 2017 19:07:25 +0000

Anyone having Problems with Real Eyebrows not loading?

After updating Real Eyebrows via DIM i get two error messages when attemting to use them First error says "Duplicate id's found", and second one is "Failed to access eyebrow node".

I have uninstalled Real Eyebrows and reinstalled via DIM as well as manually updating my runtime with the files.

Any ideas?

SOLVED: Possible incompatibility with Daz, ZenMate, and networked resources?

warrenao — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 05:55:40 +0000

Howdy. I seem to have discovered a possible incompatibility between Daz 4.9 and ZenMate, when I'm using a networked drive to house my Daz resources.

I have the networked drive to keep all my resources in a central location. This lets me compose on a lower-power computer, and hand off rendering to another system while I keep creating new stuff. Most of the time it works without any difficulties.

However, I've noticed that occasionally when I load Daz I get that rather galling dialog box telling me Studio couldn't connect to the CMS, and that various resources won't be available. Stopping and restarting the CMS doesn't make any difference.

Well, this seems to happen more regularly when I have ZenMate actively working as a proxy server (in its system-ectension mode, not just in a browser window like with the Chrome plugin). When I switch the ZenMate proxy off, the CMS connection seems to work more reliably.

Has anyone else noticed this as well?