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Grey Block Characters

IceDragonArtIceDragonArt Posts: 12,753
edited November 2016 in The Commons

So, all of a sudden all of my genesis characters load as grey blocks.  Every, single, one.  No, I haven't moved files, no I haven't changed anything, no I haven't removed anything, yes, I just used my genesis characters yesterday with no problem. No i haven't done any updates, not for my pc and not for Daz Studio.  Just uninstalled and re installed the genesis starter essentials etc.  Still grey blocks.  How does this even happen?  Stuff should not just randomly get lost.

Umm now I'm freaking out a little bit.  ALL of my characters from every generation are grey blocks!

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  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,686

    Check if Content Directory Manager is still showing the correct paths.  If your content is not on the C: drive, make sure the drive letter hasn't changed.

  • IceDragonArtIceDragonArt Posts: 12,753

    I only have a C drive...

  • IceDragonArtIceDragonArt Posts: 12,753
    edited November 2016

    And what am I looking for exactly?  It all looks exactly like it did before.  Its under public documents, my daz3dlibrary.  And where is the content directory manager?

     

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  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,686

    Make sure your Viewport is still set to texture shaded.

  • IceDragonArtIceDragonArt Posts: 12,753

    This?

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  • IceDragonArtIceDragonArt Posts: 12,753

    Oh my gosh that was it thank you!  Although I have no idea how it got changed since I haven't touched it in a week or so.  I didn't click on anything but my character when I opened studio tonight.  Thank you thank you seriously, I was totally freaking out lol. Never would have thought of that.  One more question if you don't mind.  What exactly would someone want to use that particular setting for?

  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,686

    If your viewport is sluggish, you might want to switch to bounding boxes while you position things.

  • IceDragonArtIceDragonArt Posts: 12,753

    Ah I had no idea thanks!  I will keep that in mind for my laptop since it has a tendency to bog down at times.  Again, thanks so much! I feel kind of silly but I honestly would never have figured that out on my own.

  • jerriecanjerriecan Posts: 470
    Fixmypcmike said:

    If your viewport is sluggish, you might want to switch to bounding boxes while you position things.

    You are my hero - this will save me tons of frustration. :)  Fighting with my viewport has long been a problem.  I'll be giving this a try ASAP.  :)

  • AllenArtAllenArt Posts: 7,175

    I usually have to go to bounding boxes when working with animals with LAMH presets for instance after I change them over to objs for Iray. Gets a lil slow ;)

    Laurie

  • IceDragonArtIceDragonArt Posts: 12,753

    Ya that was a great tip!

  • morlak17bgmorlak17bg Posts: 10

    I spent a lot of time on this issue.  The problem where on your hard drive the file os loaded.  I made a tutorial that shouls help.

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 40,068

    it actually renders those grey blocks in openGL, I made a video that got lots of likes doing it and all my characters were nekkid!!!

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 40,068

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