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Translucency vs Refraction

Oso3D — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 17:39:47 +0000

If I want to wrangle with Refraction, is there any point to using Translucency?

My impression is to use Translucency if I'm doing thin walled stuff or don't want the extra hit of good refraction, but otherwise skip translucency and go for refraction. Is that at all correct?

RDNA purchased items not listed in product library.

AnotherUserName — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 07:03:11 +0000

Mortem Vetus store was just added to Daz (Excellent). However, I had purchased Nibbler from the rdna some time ago and it is not in my product library even though it is currently being sold as part of March Madness. Yes, my account email addresses are the same for rdna and daz. I will assume that this is just another timing issue as the store just updated, but I really need to know that my rdna items are going to show up in my product library as soon as possible.

JUST RELEASED: EmmaAndJordi's EJ Graciana For Genesis 3 Female(s) [Commercial]

EmmaAndJordi — Fri, 18 Mar 2016 16:42:48 +0000

Our new product is released: EJ Graciana for Genesis 3 Female(s). She is a stunning beauty with an alter ego: a crazy antiheroine that is capable of everything. She has a very fashionable finger tattoo (shhh...) ;) , and also body tattoos and special harlequin face makeups based in the poker cards, stiletto nails and pointed teeth custom morphs, and also many casual options.

She also looks great with our Symnphony Hair as you see in the promos :)

Get her here: http://www.daz3d.com/ej-graciana-for-genesis-3-female-s

Here you are some images, and if you want to post some image here, please do it, we will love to watch your renders! :)

March Madness - Platinum Club

algovincian — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 14:07:45 +0000

Any March Madness deals on a PC membership (either annual or quarterly) currently going on? My membership ran out and I'm thinking of re-subbing. Thanks in advance!

- Greg

Computer Recommendations

maatauset — Fri, 18 Mar 2016 14:50:09 +0000

Hi All,

I'm in the market for a new computer with the required specs to handle Daz Studio and Poser. Any recommendations?

Thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide.

Enjoy your weekend.

Cheryl

What is encrypted daz content (Solved)

AJ2112 — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 01:12:43 +0000

I've been away from Daz for awhile, what is encrypted daz content ? I tried to download the freebie bed, read through the instructions and was completely lost. Why not just create a zip file ? Instructions state: Navigate to content directory that is mapped as Daz connect data or daz studio formats. I don't have those folders, I searched everywhere.

Confused about render times

Pook — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 07:33:59 +0000

I'm hoping someone can help me speed things up - render times are getting frustrating for me!

Whilst I've been ok rendering single figures on without a background (I did a lot of just messing around), I'm now trying to render something with skydome/landscape and so on. I'll admit, I've not got the best computer any more, but I'm getting render times which are a little on the... long side.

The image I'm rendering now has the following in it:

Around the campfire

Night sky

Karyanna (and some clothing and skinning and stuff)

Persephone Hair

And then a small extra light for the fire itself. Nothing majorly complex in amongst this lot, so I thought it would render pretty quickly. I've not amended any shaders or materials (I'll attempt that later once I've got my head around it.)

First attempt using Iray gave me a plain black screen. I suspect parts of the render are not set up for Iray, so I'm fine with that. So I switch to 3delight, and hit render... and wait... and wait.... and wait.... Here I am, the next morening, 12hrs 46 mins into the render, and it's only 9% complete.

Admittedly my PC is not the greatest (i7 2600k @ 3.4Ghz, 20GB PC1600 DDR3, R9 380) and yet it shouldn't be this slow. Can anyone suggest what I should be looking at to try and speed things up please?

Ash Tree Hall [Commercial]

Merlin Studios — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 09:48:21 +0000

Ash Tree Hall is a medieval hall house for Lords and Ladies who like to party in style! It's a complete interior and exterior set for both Poser and Daz Studio (Iray & 3Delight) and comes with a ready made scene with lights and 8 camera presets.

Ash Tree Hall: http://www.daz3d.com/ash-tree-hall

My Store: http://www.daz3d.com/merlin-studios

Question about "The Armoury by Merlin"

thistledownsname — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 20:06:26 +0000

How usable are the props in it? Are they only useful as static props to have around a room, or does the armor conform to figures? (If so, which?) Do the various weapons work well for being wielded?

http://www.daz3d.com/the-armoury-by-merlin

Vyk Marnie Anybody know the hair.

ermullens — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 19:39:11 +0000

I like the pale skin on this character and the hair in the main promo and the last promo what looks to be a short ponytail, but having trouble identifying them, does anybody know the name of them, looked through both daz and rendo

http://www.daz3d.com/vyk-marnie

iRay Shader for Lylia Outfit/Flower Faerie Lily Fae

Rod Wise Driggo — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 08:34:43 +0000

Somebody posted some examples for good shaders to optimize the mentioned outfits for iRay. Unfortunately I cannot find that specific post. Anybody any ideas?

Lost my Wishlist

Kerya — Sun, 20 Mar 2016 07:55:23 +0000

My wishlist is gone ... just things I added yesterday are there ... everything else was deleted ... Aaaaaaaaaaargh!

Kick the store software!

Shade 3D System Requirements

Rogerbee — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 07:03:00 +0000

After noting that Shade 3D was available in the Daz Store, I really wanted to see what the system requirements were. As they're not listed in the store, I thought I'd put a link to them up:

http://shade3d.jp/en/products/shade15/system-requirements.html

Hope this is ok

CHEERS!

Templar - Wrong Discount (FIXED)

Charlie Judge — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 01:33:16 +0000

Templar ( http://www.daz3d.com/templar ) has been added to the 'Related Mad' items but it is not showing the proper MM discounts. It only shows 40% off when in the cart. tt doesn't show 50% off when 2 MM items are in the cart and doesn't show the extra 10% off when the DMB is in the cart. Can this be fixed, please?

MDL and Normals

Oso3D — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 15:30:10 +0000

I'd like to update my freebies at some point to have procedurally generated Normals. Is there some way, in shader mixer, to convert a bump map into a Normal map? Or somehow bypass the Normals?

Smart content /content streamline

Allegra — Fri, 18 Mar 2016 02:39:10 +0000

I'm really enjoying Daz but finding it's taking me forever to find things .. is there a way or a product to streamline the process.
I seem to be forever flipping from smart to content to tabs, searching and going back and forth!

City Limits is the workspace I use in Daz 4.8 and as much as I like smart content it's really not smart for my needs. I've tried all the other workspaces too.
The nearest to what I need is Bridge but as a left hander I'd love to be able to pull all the tabs over to the other side...but there doesn't seem to be a way.

So what have you found to be the best workspace and content organiser to save time and has a vendor created a product to streamline and make smart content/ content easier to find and use?

Thanks for Marnie!

colinmac2 — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 18:20:31 +0000

Finally, a G3 female who looks different than all the others!

Are there any Iray Wood Shaders?

Kharma — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 19:02:47 +0000

Has anyone seen any iray based wood shaders in the store? I have looked and am not coming up with any. I have an older product that I want to redo with Iray shaders and I tried to just appply the Daz Iray Base to it but It doesn't make much difference, there doesn't seem to be much texture to the wood. In particular I am looking for an older weathered type wood

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!

nightwolf1982 — Sat, 19 Mar 2016 09:16:30 +0000

OK, I get it, it's a big job transferring products from one website to another. I'll even accept that there are bound to be mistakes or slip ups along the way. BUT...but, when I pay for a product, I expect to be able to use that product. When I pay for digital content, such as the products sold here at DAZ, I expect to be able to access and download those products.

I just purchased Space Star, and there is no option to download the product - doesn't show in Connect, DIM, or even my Product Library. I've submitted a help ticket, so hopefully it will get resolved quickly, but it still p!sses me off that this happened. I have never encountered, anywhere, in all the years I've been buying digital content, a situation like this, where a purchase is UNAVAILABLE for download.

Most realistic looking hair in the store for iRay?

PA_ThePhilosopher — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 16:04:06 +0000

Hey guys,

I was curious to know what you thought was the most realistic hair you have come across from the Daz store (for iRay). I am not so much interested in style, as in realism...something that could best pass as a real photograph of actual hair.

Looking forward to your input,

-P

my Calla gown neckline or is that naveline fix

WendyLuvsCatz — Sat, 19 Mar 2016 06:52:50 +0000

loved the gown loathed the impossible neckline/naveline

so grabbed one of Moyra's dark design textures in Layered image editor and overlayed and adjusted it to the torso

and applied to hips too saved the temp file for reuse with that skin

think it works OK

this is G2F for G3F one could buy the new LIE second skin bodysuits

I loved the look of those but use G2F

Error in FWSA - Mina

nicstt — Sun, 20 Mar 2016 11:50:04 +0000

Was tweaking the skin settings, and while at default values all is good, the error in the image showed up once I started. Above is after adjusting.

(I was looking through for a character I've not used yet - seem to have a few of those.not.)

Scattering Measurement Distance: was set at 0.75 for the arms, but 0.12 for other settings (Torso, Legs etc). Changing them all to 0.12 seems to resolve the issue without apparent problems.

Too restrictive for the gift card

nicstt — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 17:18:11 +0000

I loaded up my cart with 4 march madness items to see and what I saved on a $200 gift card; what it cost me to buy items I wasn't sure about is what I saved. I might get one or two, eventually.

Instead I saved over $200 by not buying.

So no thanks.

Oh, and I tend to buy 200 or 300 card, more likely 300.

Mesh questions...

Pook — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 13:09:44 +0000

Afternoon all,

This is probably me being silly, but I honestly can't figure out the answer to this question, and I knew someone on here would be able to help me out a bit...

I'm in the process of sorting through my library to work out what I've purchased over the years, and I noticed that I had quite a few sets of texture packs that I didn't have the corresponding mesh for - most of these would have been Platinum Club freebies which I've picked up, and some which I've picked up in error (it happens - sometimes I go "oooo... pretty...." without stopping to think. One advantage is I now have a wishlist full of stuff, which when I pick up will allow me to use the textures I already have... but I'm digressing here.

I primarily use Daz Studio 4.9, and Gen 5/6/7 figures. I've got a few Gen 3 and 4 figures and items in my collection as well, and I know that you can use the Gen 3-4 stuff with Gen 5+. But this is where my trouble starts...

Take for example the texture "Sepentine" which is for the Malvada V4 outfit. If I want to use this with a Gen 5 figure, would I need just the Malvada V4 mesh, just the Malvada V4 unimesh fits, both of these, or all of the above and something else as well?

Can anyone out there help a confused renderer with a simple explanation of what I need to do please?

RRRR - The Sequel - Entries only thread

Totte — Thu, 11 Feb 2016 23:11:50 +0000

This is the entries only thread for the contest RRRR - The Sequel

How do you post?

You post your tag, image number, title, up to seven lines of text and the image.

Example:

Tag: JackT #01

The PC Anniversary sellout II

The year after barbult pictured the PC, we are having an even worse year.

MM sale not adding up

Ivy — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 14:19:06 +0000

I went to buy some gensis 2 products today they are my weakeness and I notice the discounts don't add up.

do I get a 50% discount for 2 items if so its not showing in my cart so I want ask about this before i decide to buy them.

please check out the screen captures. the promo says buy 2 items get 50% off but in the cart its only show 40% off . is that right?

the promo says buy 2 get 50% of

edit opps forgot thte screen capture

Wishlist cleared

cecilia.robinson — Mon, 08 Dec 2014 09:04:24 +0000

When I visited my wishlist today, there were just three items, random ones. I lost hundreds of wishlist shortcuts. Logging out and in again did not fix anything. Has anyone had the same problems lately? What to do?

OT: Explorer crashes all the time now

RAMWolff — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 16:30:25 +0000

Hi,

I'm on Windows 10. I love Windows 10 so no, I'm not going to downgrade so don't go there! lol

What is happening is that when I open a folder allot of the time Explorer freezes up and then the window will shut once Explorer restarts itself.

I've looked into what I can. Cleaned up the hard drive and all the rest but still getting that constant crash. There was a notice when I was rebooting the computer stating that memory could not be written from Explorer so there is a bottle neck going on I think but can't quite figure it out. I wish I could have gotten a screen grab of that popup before the reboot, I wish MS would have a screengrab button that was right on the popup so when I rebooted I'd have it on my desktop to study. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

IF there is any suggestions or info on what I can look into please post.

Thanks so much
Richard

Questions about "Wind" and dynamic clothing control.

AnotherUserName — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 01:38:42 +0000

Im starting to realize just how sculptural a process dynamic clothing can be. Ive been playing with the wind tool some but Im not completely understanding how it works. Here are a few questions I have about wind and the OptiTex dynamic clothing control.

1. When you place the wind tool (the little fan), is the tool itself the source of the wind or does it simply indicate the winds direction?

2. Does the wind have a spread pattern? Does it fan out in a cone or is it more like a beam of wind?

3. If I scale the wind tool, does that result in a smaller or larger area of wind against the clothing surface or is the scale of the tool irrelevant?

Aslan Court 3 broken after Connect update?

SnowSultan — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 01:02:33 +0000

I recently updated Aslan Court 3 through DAZ Connect and now it doesn't load properly (the main walls are bounding boxes, meaning the geometry is missing or referenced incorrectly if I'm not mistaken). Could someone else confirm this? Thanks in advance.