Thanks in advance.

By deleting a whole catalog of products, the artists create orphan add-ons.

Maybe Daz3D Shop could warn the users (and the artists) when the required product is no longer available if it wasn't purchased.

For example Buckle Up 2 Fastened Textures 

When I apply his morphs to my characters the level of edge displacement seen in the promos does not seem to translate to my renders.

The textures I get seem smoothed over and less defined. I have posted some examples.

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here....

JD

If there is just ane error in the requirements, you are welcome to take this thread as a hint

Can someone who bought the character help me?

Thank you!

I would like suggestions of what you think good quality makeup products for G8F, with a lot of options (eyes, lips, nails...), so if you have some, well they are welcome :) 

It hit me as there has been quite a few products recently where I wanted only one or two pieces, not the whole kit. latest being Neo Future Outfit, where I'm interested in the helmet, while the dress and especially the shoes are of none interest whatsoever. Same goes for the summer set where I only really wanted the pants. 

Are those splits gone permanently now or might we see them again? And does anyone else miss them? Your thoughts?

I saw that placed on me FB today. Did we discuss this somewhere already and I'm late to the party or is the INCREDIBLE NEWS?

(If I'm late just merge me somewhere lol)

Anyhow, two big questions?

1) Added rendering times?

2) Is this an actual feature that we can turn on/off and have some control over OR a New Product(s) Feature and we will be waiting for vendors to make use of it (for us)?

Downside: Many of the other rendering engines and their associated products use this effect to great effect. Some things that I've used ONLY look good when the rendering engine is running and volumetrics is super-turned up.

Been looking for medieval fantasy hairs for girls, but pretty much everything I find is, understandably, suited to fierce warrioresses, evil witches, fancy princesses or whimsical elves. Thing is, I'm looking for hair that still looks medieval but is more suitable for a more average lady, like a villager. From the village's old crone to the innkeeper's fair daughter, or even a petty-noble girl who cares about her looks but cannot afford a princess' haircare... all's good for me. Historical accuracy is not really important, which means that as long as it looks/feels medieval it's fine, even it's not actually medieval.

Figure is not really important either. G8F is preferable, but G8.1F, G3F and pretty much anything else will also do.

Would you guys have some suggestions?

https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-wet-style-curly-hair-for-genesis-8-and-9

As I work more with Daz and try to expand my skills, I'm discovering an area where I really struggle. I have the worst time getting camera framing and even remotely good looking renders in tight spaces. When I say tight spaces I mean, for example, the cab of a vehicle or the corner of a room. I've been using the Ranger SUV and trying to set up shots inside that thing is a nightmare. I'm also really struggling with lighting in those same enclosed spaces.

I know this is vague, so I'm not really expecting "answers" but if you all know any tips or tricks for shooting in enclosed spaces - or any good tutorials for this topic - I'd appreciate the help.

https://www.daz3d.com/snow-beast-with-dforce-hair-for-genesis-8-male

These mythical spirits of nature are lovers of wine, music, dancing, and women. Dancing and singing throughout the woodlands or mountains, their revelry is unsurpassed, seduction and debauchery await.

The set comes complete with custom crafted High Definition Morphs, dForce Fur and Highly detailed Textures for the utmost realism.

• Product Includes
  • One Snow Beast Male Character Preset
  • One Snow Beast Male Shaping Preset
  • One with dForce Hair Fur Preset
  • Three Full Body Texture Material Presets with anatomical elements
  • Five Eye Material Presets
  • Includes only Iray Material Presets (sorry 3DL users..I tried)

Personally I am not hopping onto the G9 bandwagon and I am still very content with G8/G8.1. The benefits of G9 are too little and the disatvantages too big imo. Too much stuff I need to buy to have the same freedom as I have with G8 (all the utilities etc) so I keep browsing the new releases to add products to my wishlist, but there are are hardly any new products to add anymore.

Don't give up on G8/8,1 dear creators! Or at least release products that have both G8 and G9 versions!

Again, anywhoo, I kept trying to download and install a relatively new product. Getting more upset by the moment, the Install button said "Retry". Never saw that before. Tried and tried, deleted product redownloaded, etc etc, getting madder and madder. I checked my external drive. Yes, it was properly plugged into port. Grrr! Never had a problem with DIM before. Began thinking in my mind, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Making new graphic, white color where's the blue button, and so on seems pointless and eats up more precious memory. Finally, an error message popped up. Basically said, the installation path doesn't exist. Wha? Panic? Yikes!

Until...I remembered last night I used the "Safely remove hardware and eject media" button. I didn't unplug the external drive, as I usually do, so I didn't realize that the connection had been closed by me myself. 

I've been ejecting external harddrive so I don't boot up when I restart my computer. I shut the computer down, because something or things run in 'background' which causes the computer to heat up even in this cold weather, and something runs the external drive. I don't know what it is, miners? snoops? Tons of anti virus apps but nothing shows. When I open Task Manager there are things that quickly revert to zero use. But, I am not looking for help with those issues. Just wanted to share that sometimes, the dingus is just not plugged in. 

I waited a few days with no response, so on December 20th I decided to start a new ticket. This time to sales support. They were quite quick with their initial response as well and they also told me there was another customer with a similar problem. I again gave them all the information they asked for. I was told it may take longer to resolve than normal because of the holiday season.

On January 2nd I asked if I could expect an update on the issue that week. Four days later I got a response that they had “reached out for an update” (to the daz devs I assume) and that they would let me know when they hear back. In the meantime I was also offered to get a few of my orders refreshed so I could access some of my lost items.

On January 12th that ticket was tagged as solved and I was told to use my previous ticket with tech support from now on. That ticket had still not gotten a response since December 9th. On January 16th I asked for an update again, and after another 8 days with no response I again asked for an update on January 24th, but this time on the sales support ticket. That was another 8 days ago today, and I’ve had no response there either.

So now I am posting here hoping someone will escalate this issue, because not having access to what seems to be hundreds of purchased items for this long is not acceptable. I started my Daz account in mid July last year. A couple of days ago I checked my orders for just that month, and I had lost access to around 50 items, with a purchase value of about $400. Those are just a small amount of my full library.

I have recently read in a couple of threads about significant updates that have come out for OOT hairs as well as Angela 9. I have been using DazCentral to install my purchases, and over the past couple of years, I have only noticed updates for a couple of items, and even then I only stumbled across that as I scrolled through my list of purchases in DazCentral. So since it seems like DazCentral doesn't do a good job of letting me know about product updates, can anyone suggest a good way to find out if any of my purchases have been updated?

Thanks in advance for any replies.

nabob21

1. If I load a DUF file, it will load the character, scenery, lights and everything perfectly. However it only loads the morphs used in that specific scene. Each figure will be missing every single slider and morph that was not used.

2. If I load the default Genesis figure (doesn't matter which one, 1, 2, 3, 8, male, female, etc) it'll have absolutely zero morphs and sliders aside from the default ones.

3. I changed the content directory manager to look up my files on the D drive, but that doesn't fix the morphs/sliders not loading properly.

4. When trying to load a preset character from the Director (like Elsa for Genesis 8) it'll load the character's skin/textures, but no shape or anything slider related.

5. There are no error messages or warnings of missing files.

Does anyone know what step I missed and what can be done to get the sliders/morphs to load properly again?

So I ask is there an easy way to tell if a texture is Iray or if its 3DL

1. Save your scene as often as you can or you have to start from zero again too often! - Means, after loading your character, think about a unique name and save your scene. After that you only need to click once on the "Save" Icon and your work is safe!

2. JP Sandor's dForce body hair parts load fully visible - to have a first impression of the look. Make sure Geneis 9 is selected before you apply the body hair Presets, with one exception, for the dForce Hair AEM (Anatomival Elements Male) the genitals have to be selected, NOT Genesis 9! Otherwise DS crashes! I also suggest to choose a hair color then from the subfolder of the dForce hair. Please remember, Shaders are Shaders, not Material Presets, you need to select the hair item in the scene Tab and ALSO the material zone in the surface Tab before you apply another hair color.

3. dForce body hair visibility is nice but also has a downside. You will see that after loading all the different dForce hair areas, you can't pose Genesis 9 anymore, it's because Studio has to calculate too much surface adjustments for the dForce hair for new limb positions. Don't panic, select all the dForce Hair objects in the Scene Tab Genesis 9 hierarchy and simply use the dForce Hair Visibility Preset I included and that is located in the same folder as the dForce hair. 
You will then only see hair guides, but no hair anymore. Don't forget the AEM hair, when you loaded it correctly, it is parented to the Genitals, not to Genesis 9. You can then pose Genesis 9 as you like again and with ease.
For rendering you need to turn ON the visibility of the hair again of course with the other properies visibility Preset.

4. Another DS crash can happen when you turn on the Iray preview Mode when the dForce hair is invisible. When you need to control the lighting for instance after all your scene and environment is set, turn off the visibility of the dForce hair with the EYE ICON in the scene Tab for all the dForce hair areas, then you can watch the scene with the Iray Preview mode and adjust lighting. I know it is tedious and needs time, but it is better than a crash! For the final rendering you need to turn the visibilty on again, with both, the EYE ICONS and the dForce hair visibility Property Preset.

5. JP Sandor's dForce body hair usually don't need to be simulated, it's not long enough for a simulation to have any visible impact. But you can of course play around in the surface settings and adjust so many parameters of the hair outcome like length, fuzzyness or thickness, simulate it with reduced stiffness and higher gravity settings to see what happens - with wet skin you maybe get more realistic renders out of the pool! :) 

6. Render Settings: I recommend to enable Tonemapping and to set the Exposure Value to 12. Also in the Filter Tab, set the Pixel Filter Radius to lower than 1.0, I recommend 0.75, it's important for rendering fine details like body hair! Make the Post Denoiser Available ON but don't turn it on, so you can switch it on at every time during the render in case you need it. I always render with "Guided Sampling" ON in the Optimization Tab, that I at least have a bit of caustic effects in my renders with water or glass, mostly it doesn't make a big difference though.
The Progressive Rendering Tab - well, I have a good machine and render mostly by visual check - so I set the Max Sample to 15K, Max Time to 0 and the Rendering Converged Ratio to 100%, but that is only good for a little bit better machines or when you render overnight. And don't forget, in General Tab, set the Auto Headlamp to NEVER, never ever render with Auto Headlamp - if your scene is black, use Strg + L! 

Let me know if you have any more questions.

Greetings, Jepe

Is it to simply keep a number of related files together in one package for transport? I noticed the size difference between these zip and uncompressed files is small. 

The same thing is done when downloading music files, they are always compressed and the uncompressed version is not really much bigger. I can understand zipping a picture, but I can't really see the use of doing this with music or a daz file.

Thanks.