Next I want to put those claws inside the thick armguard and parent them to it so they would stick together. 

Next I want to move those claws so they stick outside.

Then I want to save those two poses and turn them into a single morph/slider that would make those claws sheathe in/out instead of manually pulling them out each time.

Is it possible to do something like this in Daz?

What I mean is, will this work for deforming seat cusions where characters sit, or deforming clothing, or cloth items,around body parts, like sheats over sleaping characters?

JD

I'm not entirely sure of the exact losses. It appears I lost all my stuff from subscription services that went out of business. (Poser Style) is one. I had some pretty good Western Outfits from them. Most of my losses might be Michael 2 stuff.

I also lost my older Poser/DAZ Studio installations. Most of the older characters I created might be lost. When I discovered the problem, I moved the surviving files over to a 3TB hard drive, and re-purposes a 3TB Western Digital Passport drive as a backup. I'm backing up the surviving files now.

This is a good excuse to abandon older stuff!

I'm also reinstalling all my stuff manually. I'm breaking things down according to the various generations of characters, etc. That's how I discovered the loss of old stuff!

https://www.daz3d.com/body-by-sublime-iii

https://www.daz3d.com/jared-for-michael-7

https://www.daz3d.com/clara-for-genesis-3-female-s

It wouldn't be so bad, but the height morph in the Female Body Morphs scale a bit weird - scaling a woman to a real-world height made her look like an Ooompa Loompa.  Taking height to 100% brought her to about 5' 5.5".  Going beyond 100% takes you inside Willy Wonka's chocolate factory.

I've logged out and in again but that made no difference.  I'm on FireFox and I don't know how to clear my cache.  I'm on Win 7.  Any suggestions on how to fix?

DAZ4.9 always updated with new versions.

I'm having some problem with some G3F characters deforming upon posing, so I was going to uninstall my G3F and all my G3F characters, and then reinstall them, but I wanted to make sure that uninstall would remove all traces of them from my comp so I can try and narrow down exactly why she is deforming so badly. 

I have the GenX2 tool but dont know how to use it in this case.

something to kitbash with victorian street and the carol shoppes

hot summer days to start working on holiday renders 

i think this is Gringots?

thanks

But I have to ask... I was clicking all the settings to test everything out and ...are those nipples settings intentional? It seems quite an interesting choice.

This is constent, too, meaning that it's not a matter of restarting or closing/reopening the program (although I have to do that sometimes to get the GPU to work again)

What I mean when I use the term "constant" is that for any situation in which 2 or 1 characters are unable to fit into VRAM, the situation is unaffected by restarting the PC or Daz3d.

In other words, even if I recreate the scene from SCRATCH, it'll be the casy that loading THAT model, with THAT skin, in THAT clothing, with Optix Prime enabled, will cause the VRAM issues to happen immediately.

Is this normal? Or is it just me. It's also very peculiar what causes it to happen. Sometimes I can fit up to 5 characters and lots of models into a scene with Optix enabled no problems.

Other times, even just a single prop like the bed from the Comfort Bedroom set all by itself won't fit into VRAM with Optix Prime Acceleration set to enabled.

(Also, resolution does not seem to affect this, either).

Oh, right, and I'm using the latest build of Daz3d (or I believe it's the latest. 4.9.2.xx)

http://www.daz3d.com/piercing-essentials-for-genesis-2-female-s

Does it work OK with Genesis 3? 

• http://www.daz3d.com/ocean-wide
• http://www.daz3d.com/ultrueviolet-light-and-glowing-shaders-for-daz-studio
• Fast Grab Store Page: http://www.daz3d.com/fast-grab-3d-models/

So, this winter I may be teaching an Intro to 3D Art class for my local park district and I was thinking about using Daz Studio as the application for this because of it's ease of use and it's definitely the app to introduce someone who is completely new to 3D art and working in 3D space.  What type of problems would I face or hurdles I need to overcome for this?  With it being a free software, are there any?

I will also talk to them about getting a free account with Daz and explaining the option of going PC if they wanted as well.

I guess I could use Blender or that low level version of Poser (Poser Debut, I believe) to do the same thing, but my first option was Daz Studio.

. Thanks for taking a look.

(btw DAZ, feel free to use these images for the Royal Guard if you want)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sten

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This is how it begins with Digitally Rights Managed {DRM} apps, First they give away the app free. hook you in and and poof you are in a subscriptions windows service. the same thing happened when Adobe went Digitally Rights Managed

I kind of hate to say I told you so. But I'm sure glad i never took the bate and upgraded, to windows 10 enterprise.   

apparently some transparent maps  are not designed for Lux rendering due to "large dead spaces that do not fall off to pure black quickly enough" and "while other rendering engines may be able to ignore miniscule amounts of color, LuxRender is highly sensitive and will translate material qualities on any thing above pure black"

I have no idea what that means but have been trying to figure out these directions in order to get better looking hair in Reality/Daz.

"To fix this issue, you have to adjust your transparency maps. I use Photoshop to fix this, but any graphic editor with the ability to darken and increase constrast can do the basic job. First you'll want to lower the value of dead spaces to that they are actually black. In Photoshop, an easy way to do this is to duplicate the original map layer and set the new duplicate layer to multiply. I prefer, however, to select the highlight range, create a layer mask, and then create a layer of pure black beneath it. This ensure that black is achieved and gives you options for adjusting the map later on."

I don't have Photoshop just GIMP ....I did duplicate a trans map for the Hampton hair and set it to "multiply" however I could see no difference in tests between this and the original trans map...I picked this hair as that was what the fellow who wrote the comment I've been quoting used as an example and according to him has a trans map that needs tweaking for Reality/Daz.

so does anyone know how to select the highlight range, create a layer mask, and then create a layer of pure black beneath it using GIMP?

thanx

Avery http://www.daz3d.com/avery-for-genesis-3-female-s

Finley http://www.daz3d.com/fwsa-finley-hd-for-victoria-7-and-her-jewelry

Jade http://www.daz3d.com/fwsa-jade-hd-for-teen-josie-7