But, let's say you have a piece of conforming clothing with a lot of morphs.  Can you make this piece of clothing invisible and parent another piece of clothing to it to use some of the invisible clothing's morphs?  I realize the results might not match.  I just wondered if it were at all possible.

The first is that the downloads are incredibly slow recently. Generally 5 MB/s or less. Usually much less.

The second is that a lot of items are downloading, then failing on install when the file check fails.This is on mostly larger items, like the Iray Decal Set and the Bone and Fantasy Scale Shaders Set.

So I have a figure wearing this cloak....

Wild Hunt: Wildenlander for Michael 3

https://www.daz3d.com/wild-hunt-wildenlander-for-michael-3

What's crazy is, it's there live in the scene, but doesn't render.

And the character has a weird glowing outline around his head.

Checking the settings, I see that multiple parameters have question marks instead of values.

I turned a bunch of them to 100% and now I have the 'ghost cape'.

Which seems like the ultimate solution for making a ghost figure.

I tried to find the thread where the characters hair wasn't rendering, but can't find it...and also the thread about making a ghost.

At any rate, this is rather weird and has become the new thing to figure out.

DamNAitt-nabbit

- About to swap the whole cloak out....AND it's got a  weird ball above its head..

I also noticed that on another figure (ina different scene), there are three little grey balls at the base of their jacket.

It looked like some kind of indicators so I ignored them, but they showed up in the render. Weird artifacts.

how can I in Daz studio render an AO render-mode? see picture in the attach.

thanks for help, robby.

Thanks.

Bob

F:\!Daz Installed Content\DAZ 3D\Studio\My Daz Connect Library\data\cloud\1_21630\data\daz 3d\genesis 3\female\morphs\FaceGen

When I load up G3F in DS, I cannot find my face morph. I've been trying to search for a resolution but not having any luck.  If anyone can help me out, that would be awesome! Thank you! :)

I want ask if anyone else is having this same issue with the daz gallery and the type file your uploading. or maybe its Daz just blocked me from uploading pictures to its gallery?

this is the image I had tried for 2 days to upload, to daz gallery  please tell me what file types I am allowed if I am not allowed a .jpg

Heavens Gate    Gallery#.....            like I said it Is a Jpeg render &  No other websites galleries give me this error. .. it sucks because it forces me to upload my pictures else where, any sugestions  I really don't expect a reply back from support on this issue .

I have all the morphs I made in the correct place, but all I get is see image.

I still have the original prop, is there a way of getting it to recognise the morphs and material zones I changed?

Some others the same Problems?

Serapine

https://www.daz3d.com/lord-of-the-wolves

Well what I didn't know is that the Iray update seems to need something vastly more powerful than my GTS 450 potato. 4.8 worked fantastic though with it.

So whenever I try to render something I keep getting "verbose Iray" error lines in the log window and there's just absolutely nothing happening even after 30 minutes. It stays at 0%.  After reading a bit up here I find myself aware that this has to do with memory usage and I understand my rig simply lacks the power (propably).

Unless I am missing something this effectively disallows me to render anything at all thoug and I am not really sure what to do here as 4.8 seems no longer available to download for whatever reason. I'd really like to go back to 4.8.

I get  message as shown >     2017-31-05 20:31:22.969 +++++++++++++++ DAZ Studio 4.9.2.70 starting

If I scroll through the log it looks like every startup gets the same date.

any ideas ?    my system is windows 8.1 64 bit  and Daz studio says 4.9.3.70 pro edition 64 bit.

3D Art by ivy_fb079b1e in ....... on Apr 6, 2017 :     This name in red I mean.

Thanx for hints.

Good afternoon.

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If after reinstalling DAZ Studio, you run it and find the User Interface doesn't work right, try changing your Layout to something different, apply the changed Layout, then change it back.

Background:

I was having constant CMS startup problems on my laptop, so I tried uninstalling DAZ completely (without asking Install Manager to delete the packages); then I ran Piriform's CCleaner to kill off old registry entries; then I used Install Manager to install just the most basic components first; and finally I allowed Install Manager to install everything else.

Once installation was complete, I ran DAZ only to find that the UI seemed severely damaged: working with panes was difficult because the little button that looks like a list with an arrowhead, the one you use to reveal pane options, was missing from every place it should have been except inside the Viewport, and right-clicking did nothing anywhere. At first I actually wondered if my mouse had broken or its driver had failed. The toolbar at the top of the screen was missing, and only a few menus showed up at the top of the window. Fortunately, the ability to change my Layout was among the available menu options, so I switched my Layout from City Limits Lite to City Limits and applied the change. At that point the toolbars appeared and panes gained their option-menu icons. Then I switched back to City Limits Lite, and all the controls came back as expected and everything (so far) seems to work just as it should.

My explanation is that reinstalling can leave the Qt controls with conflicting settings that can render DS nearly unusable, but changing the Layout resets them.

To make things easier, I want to write a script that saves only the expression. So far I've got my script recursing through the skeleton's nodes to find the head. But now that my script knows where to start looking for stuff to save, what should get written out to form a working expression preset?

When I installed "daz install manager" I have a bunch of contet : http://puu.sh/uj2PL/93e64933b3.png 

WHat is reuired for daz to work properly ? do I just need ot install absolutely everything ?

Thank you and have a nice day.

Robert.

I have been looking at this as a replecement for the surface mask creator I use. Does this have a seting for changing the size of the mask to match the render? 

For instance if my my render is 6000x4000 pixcels can I make the mask render the same size as this?  I need this to happen really and the surface mask creator does that automatically when you set the render size.

I assume it does of course just checking it works the way I am used to doing things;)

cheers

When I right-click on an item with the Surface Selection tool and choose one of the "Select All..." options offered by the pop-up menu, the selection outline that appears encompasses my objects, but there are also some phantom outlines of the same objects, rotated by 90 degrees. You can see it as a pink outline in the attached screenshot. (I changed my accent color to a bright pink that stands out because it's unlikely to appear in any scene I might make.)

These objects were created in Blender, with units set to "feet," then UV mapped and unwrapped and exported with the following options: -Z Forward, Y Up, Apply Modifiers, Include Edges, Write Normals, Include UVs, Write Materials, Objects as OBJ Objects, Scale 1.0, and Path Mode Auto.

I imported them into DAZ Studio with the following options: Scale 3048%, no converted axes, Read UV Coordinates, Read Groups, Read Surfaces, and Read Materials Library. Then I applied the Iray Uber Base to all of them and chose my test-pattern image as the Base Color.

I'd like to do the instancing thing where it's eating less resources.

But I'd settle for an exact copy + its morphs/settings.

Every bit of googled knowledge on this is from 2012.

What's new in this arena since then?

Thanks in advance.

Is there a way to make it a plug-in?