Then I closed the store tab.

Honestly, these convoluted sales are building a bigger wall between Daz and my wallet.

I've gotten pretty tired of waiting for dynamics to hit DS and frankly I don't think they every will, for whatever reason. I've used blender for fluids a couple times and it works great. Here's an example render I did of blender fluids (the wine) being able to work perfectly with shaders. This was accomplished by exporting the cup to blender, extruding the outside to prevent the mesh leaking, rendering a fluid interaction and then exporting the fluid object back into DS.

I've recently started looking into doing dynamic hair and doing the same thing as I did with fluids. Anyone else do this? Hair is much harder than fluids, but look at some of the examples of hair out there. This is one that struck me:

If anyone does this, I would love to start a discussion about it!

Is there a way of making a texture semi-transparant by default, without using the opacity slider in the surfaces tab (keeping that at 100%)?

Using the opacity slider messes up the render when using toon or cel shading because it also affects the outline, hence the question.

eg, can it be tweaked in photoshop and brought back into Daz Studio? If so, how is it done?

Thanks a lot,

Me

And no, I'm NOT having a heart attack and do not have circulation issues. I first mentioned this to my doctor about it 25 years ago, and he diagnosed me with tendonitis. My current GP concurs. Apparently, while I'm working, I lean on my left arm and after a week or so, it causes pain. I treat it by slathering it in Aspercreme and take an anti-inflammatory to decrease the swelling (usually takes 3 days for solid results), and I force myself to sit up straighter and let my arm hang by my side.

Anyway, I was just wondering if anyone else ever had this happen to them?

Mike

If you had to get a 22 page multi-panel comic done in a week could you render 50+ renders done with IRAY comp[ared with 3Delight?

Thanks ahead of time for folks feedback. I am learning 3Delight and still suck at it... so not sure if I should invest time in learning IRAY instead. Thanks!!

I would like each character to be a different level of transparent.

Can this be done in Daz? (Doing it in photoshop would be simplesque).

(using 3DL).

http://www.daz3d.com/toll-booth

And it's sporadic- did two images fine, then ground to a halt three hours ago. 

How can I get new products through Daz Connect?

At the bottom of the Smart Content pane you will see a page titled “Store.”  This will show you the most popular products related to what is selected in your library and scene.  For example, if you are looking at hair in your library to choose one for your scene, the Store page will show you some of the most popular hair items that you do not own yet and may want to consider.

There's one little catch. There's no store page. If I'm on the 'products' tab I can see a few filters that allow me to view purchased but uninstalled items, but no means of viewing items I don't already own. Am I missing something, or did I break it when I updated? Enquiring minds need help!

http://www.daz3d.com/catalog/product/view/id/23822

 

Why is it only listed for DS 4.9?

Does it mean it will not work in DS 4.8?

Thanks.

Thanks.

http://www.daz3d.com/woody-for-genesis-3-male

He has cut his strings and is on the road to become a real man.
Carved from an enchanted tree, this Marionette comes to life with two different textures, one plain wood, and another with old worn paint.
The set comes complete with custom crafted High Definition Morphs, and a highly detailed texture set, suitable for Iray and 3DL

Product Includes:

• One Woody Character Preset

• One Woody Morph Preset

• Two Woody Full Material Presets

• Two Eye Material Presets

• One Genital Material Preset

• One Nail Prop

• One Nail Material Preset

• Also includes IRAY and 3DL MAT files

Rawn

Am I missing something or do I need to create my own Dformer?

Thanks,

Martin

I want to share my experience with some minor problems i had with Reality 4.1 render engine and maybe this will help and other people.

Recently i bought this excellent (in my opinion) product but when i first tried to make some test renders i faced some problems ..i tried first of my own to see what is happening but i couldn't do much..

My problem was only with eye surfaces at any figure. i had a black view.

So i tried to find any info about this problem and i started searching at the product forum pages.

Finally after some infos and the excellent support from Pret a 3D the problem solved

The problem was mainly with the materials in Reality interface settings...

I had to convert the transmission texture to type color and then to change color to pure white.In Reality 4.1 there are 14 different types of textures.

The image map in the transmission channel is only one of the 14 types.Asolid color is a type of texture.

So to fix this problem with black soulness eyes i had to choose Cornea in materials tab and then in transmissin texture click the gear to open the right side panel (texture editor) and on the drop down meny to select color type and to the color swatch to select pure white color

There also you can choose from the pallete any other color but not in this case

After that the render at eyes was a little better but still not good

So i had to change the pupil at materials tab and make it visible (default hidden) and set it to matte and completely black

Again big improvement but something was missing....

So again in the Cornea material i had to modify the texture in the bump map channel.so i clicked the gear meny to it and i select unlink or detach to remove the bump map.

But then i noticed that the iris in the eye was not good..i was getting pixels instead of real iris look!

So the fix for that was to change the bump map on the Iris....The values were too high so i set it to positive 0.0001 and negative to 0.0001

So after these changes finnally i got the results i was expecting...

Reality is great and is worth of it's money (in my opinion) and it have ecxellent support! I bought this product because i wanted to have a different view in renders than 3d delight and Daz studio Iray. All of them are great and amazing.

i attaching some photos from my renders till the final render i made with a default character from Daz Studio

and sorry if i made any mistakes in my writing :) i'm not used to post at forums :)

Multiply that over tens of buyers and the result is probably some substantial lost sales for DAZ and the PAs.  This isn't new, messed up sales have been a big problem for a long time. Threads open up about it, eventually some fix might get applied or people ttry to check out a bunch of times and one of them takes, whatever. It's a mess and it just keeps happening.  Why?

I found the fingernail length slider, but it's already at it's lowest setting and I want the nails shorter (I used a combination of hand morphs to get the hands to look a specific way, but some of those lengthened the nails as well (which I don't want). Am I missing a control slider somewhere? I typed "nails" and "fingernails" in the search box and got apparently all the available sliders but nothing that would let me shorten the nails, only make them longer.

Short of sending the figure into ZBrush for a nail clipping, is there a simpler way in Studio?

Have anyone had a problem similar to this and if so how did you sort it out? I've had problems like this before but generally uninstall and re install generaly works!

The tickbox filters on store pages for "Hide Items" (and sometimes, I think, for "Only Show PC+" as well) keep becoming unticked. The setting is supposed to be persistent, but when I move from one page to another, the tick state changes. This is ticking me off.*

Anyone else seeing this, before I put in a bug report?

* Sorry, I couldn't resist...