I select the hair, apply the texture that I want and ...... nothing. Is there more to it than that? Am I missing a step or two? Any advise would be greater appreciate it. Thanks in advance.

I render completely with Iray and my scenes never go over my GPU's memory limit. I also have renders set to use my GPUs only, so in the case that they do go over memory limit DS will actually crash, which has happened on rare occasion, but I'm Ok with that because I never want to go to CPU for rendering as its just too slow.

So I was wondering why do certain renders actually slow down my PC and actually heavily utilize my CPU as well as my GPUs for some part of the rendering process whereas most renders will not?

For example, rendering a scene with the Streaming Hair will completely slow down my computer, wheareas I can understand the render may take longer since there are individual strands of hair, I would assume it would still utilize only my GPUs, but thats not that case. It heavily uses my CPU as well.  And again, I can confirm that these scenes are only around 4GB and well under the 6GB limit of my GPUs.

So what's going on, why does certain type of geometry hit my CPU and not do all the rendering exclusively with the GPUs?

Adding ANOTHER light set from a different environment/product will REPLACE the previous set and not add- yet another LAYER of lightning for that scene....

Yes?

Is there a way to combine light sets (no sky domes, just the suns and lights....) into a  scene or even double the light without editing fstop, exposure, gamma etc....?

Also it seems that in glsl rendering the deep shadow map doesn't respond to color and intensity. It always does a black 100% shadow. Is it a bug ?

Thank you.

I've used DAZ3D's transfer utility to rig and weight map everything. And for the most part, it worked out perfectly. Except for one serious glitch.

There's a problem in the crotch area that shows up whenever I most the thighs. I'm including imagery of the affected area; an image of how it looks in the default pose, an image of the transfer utility settings I'm using, and one of the distortion that I'm getting. So if anybody can offer any suggestions on what I can do about this mess, I'd really appreciate it.

(Also, I hope me showing images focusing on the crotch area doesn't qualify as obscene content. This is just where I'm having the problem and nothing I do seems to help.) :(

So I import the FBX and get this warning :

Moderator edit    Image removed due to nudity

I've had this warning before, and I ignored it with fine results. I've googled it and I can't find anything about it at all... I've also tried exporting the FBX with different UP axis and different versions of FBX (2011, 2012, 2013 Ascii)

So I ignore the warning and try to transfer the clothes to the body :

Clothes don't fit correctly, but more concering is WHY WON'T IT RIG THE ARMS AND LEGS?!?!?!?!

This is like my 50th iteration of this character and outfit, I've never had this problem before. I don't know why, or what is causing it, or even what to google to solve it.

I wish Daz Staff would tell us exactly what causes this error, instead of letting the forums just guess and barely get by.

Anyone know whats up with this? I've tried it with an FBX and an OBJ and get the same results.

Is there a way to 'feather' a vertices selection or otherwise soften the transition between 'affected by a morph' and 'not affected by a morph'?

I'm guessing no, not without pulling stuff into a model editor.

Now I have made the item but I don't know how to make it attach to the model like the gens do to the human models, IE how they auto hide the part they are resting on to remove clipping

THanks

i am working on 5 to 10 different bodies with different body measurements but i need to have the same feet measurement, size and shape from the ankle till the toe across all bodies, could you help us with solution that would help to fix it. 

It happened right after I transfered all the morphs from Genesis 3F/M and Genesis 2F/M shapes via GenX Morph Transfer.

What I did was I transfered all morphs via Selected Morphs (with properties) and selected morphs (with defaults)

Is there an easy hotfix or should I remove all imported morphs via GenX or reinstall Genesis?

I want to use an old Poser file (a big ugly bug) that is not seperated in to runtimes, i.e, no folders for materials, objects, etc.  It's a merely folder that has the object listed as Poser Scene in the form of the ubiquitous Poser icon (which no doubt is the object itself)along with two map jpegs.  If you click on the Poser Scene icon, it will open in Poser with maps automatically applied.  Pretty amazing in itself, but not what I want to do.  I want to open it in Daz Studio, but the folder is not separated into file folders.  I can put the maps in Materials/Textures but the Poser Scene file won't work if I put it in Geometries because it remains a Poser Scene.  Daz can't see it because it's inside the Poser Scene; it's like a Poser Zip file that only Poser can open, unlike Studio which has a whole bunch of file folder with the object geometry separated into a runtime library.

I tried looking for the file in Poser thinking it migh have opened in the Poser library as an object/character/geometries folder but I can't find it.  Poser is very confusing to a Studio user.  It has content files which is what it comes with (I have 9 to 11) but everything else is in My Library, wherin I cannot find the bug anywhere, mainly because Daz Studio can't see it if it's not formatted for it to see.

I hope this is making sense to someone.  My big question is - is it possible to open/convert the Poser Scene file into a Daz file, object, character, geometry whatever?  Right now you can't see anything because it only appears as a Poser Scene file.  Obviously, the geometry/object/character is in there.  How do I get it out to put into Daz Studio, if it's even possible at all?

Thank you to anyone who can decipher what I've just tried to explain.  I don't know if I understand what I've written my self.  LOL!

Is there a better, faster way to compare two surfaces other than scrolling down the Surfaces Editor and scribbling down the state of each setting and selected map?

It comes with lights, and I thought this would be a good way for me to light a scene quickly, assumed it was more of plug and play. However, I had to adjust the f stop and iso to be able to see the character, and its still dark. And the dome itself is showing gray. Is there a good 4.9 tutorial for these skydomes and what settings you need to change? I am a noob, and this really confuses me..

Any suggestions?  Thanks.

I like the Genesis 3 figure, but I am very disapointed with the hands. 

- Whenever I apply a specific Genesis 3 Hand Posing product the hands never pose like the product picture suggests. And I've tried with 2 different products.

- The fingers seem to have a really absurd bending up limit, like if the figure has athrosis, and I have to uncheck the limits for each phalange to try to have a pose I want (and still be anatomicaly possible) but as I do that the fingers turn to the left like in the picture. 

What might be wrong with my Genesis 3 figure?

Thank you

none of the 3 are displayed in the "About Plugins" on the help Tab and cant be opened as new Pane

I have a problem and i don't find the way to solve it by myself.

If i apply youth morph on a G3F model and i save it, after reopen the face changes. I went through every slider on the properties tab to see what properties are changed, but there is everything seems the same as on the original but the face chages anyway. I have duplicate formula error on dr smile dr laugh and dr exited morphs but if i delete them the face still changes. I tried to reinstall the youth morphs but it did't helped. If someone have som ideas what went wrong, please share them with me. Thank you!