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Oh well, I was referring to the article to which you provided a link. In the steps to follow in that article, one has to go into the security settings and then turn off the default security in favor of reduced security. Do you have to do that with carbon copy cloner? If not, maybe I wouldn't have to do it with superduper.
I think it's the same with CCC, but you'd have to check to be sure. Even if you turn off security while you're working offline, I would think you could turn it all back on once you're done. Totte or one of the others here would be more help to you in that arena than I.
Well, the article says that you have to go into reduced security mode to even start to make a back up boot drive. Next, you have to download a copy of the system OS. Then you have to apply the system OS to the drive that you're going to make a back up drive. Do you have to do that with carbon copy cloner? I'm wondering about just how accurate the article is. Perhaps you do have to do that if you don't have carbon copy cloner, Or if you don't have superduper. I'm hoping that's the case. I'm hoping that apps such as carbon copy cloner or superduper will take care of that for you.
For these external drives, are the LaCie drives better than the Other world computing drives? Is either companies drive a fine drive?
I mean, SSD drives, not spinning HD drives.
I have been reading about difficulties that may arise in creating a startup disc for a sequoia McIntosh. Can anyone please comment on this?
Is the recovery section of the internal hard drive good enough? A couple of times I would have had to go back to a genius bar and turn my computer in if I Hadn't had a bootable start up disc, using other OS's such as Monterey.
Sometimes the recovery partition worked, and sometimes booting over the Internet to reinstall the OS worked, but not always. So I was always glad that I could make a fully bootable external startup disc.
Some people on various sites are posting AI art. I've made contact with a few and asked about the possibilities of viruses. Those people feel confident that there is no problem. Does anyone agree or disagree with this?
@Totte: could you please comment on the macOS sequoia situation that I'm asking about above? Is it difficult to create a bootable backup drive?
Also, what about external SSD drives? I've seen LaCie criticizing the Other world computing drives. Is one company make better than the other?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBlO8mNzGjg
There is a video and discussion guide here about how to install Mac OS Sequoia on an external SSD without CCC or SuperDuper.
I've never used the DAZ originals hair that came with Genesis 9. When I apply any of the materials, including the Omni Ones, it looks really odd in the viewport. It looks almost like a cartoon. Is it supposed to look that way? Does it render out better than the other kinds of hair?
You can see comparisons between Omni hair and the previous shader used for SBH hair on a couple of promo renders for this product:
https://www.daz3d.com/revolution--omni-shader-presets-for-strand-based-hairs
There is also a discussion that was opened when Omni hair was introduced:
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/675841/omni-shader-hair-thread/p1
Just moved from an ageing Window Pro Workstation with 3090 GPU to Mac Studio M2 Ultra, and had expected Daz3D rendering to have improved. But each frame now takes 8 to 10 minutes to render in iRay mode. It was taking 5 minutes on the Windows machine.
Now I read that there's a possibility of Apple dropping Rosetta.
So what are the options, given that I no longer have the Windows machine?
Where did you read that Apple may drop Rosetta? They probably will, only because this is actually Rosetta 2. There was a Rosetta before this, I think it was when Apple switched from the so-called power PC CPU To the Intel chip. Each time Apple does even a slight update to the OS, it has to also update Rosetta.
I think Apple is giving various companies, such as DAZ, A chance to update its apps so that they will run on the new Apple Silicon chips. So A relevant question is when will DAZ Release a version of DS That will run on the new chips?
I really hope that's very soon, and I really hope We will get some word from Daz about when a new version of DS Will be ready.
As for rendering Speed, I hope that Apple's Metal will somehow be available in the new version. Perhaps someone will develop a plug-in that will help to convert iRay Shaders to Metal Shaders. There was such an app for converting the RenderMan shaders into iRay Shaders, though I don't know how well it worked.
I really hope we hear from DAZ Soon.
done with speech to text on the iPhone. That accounts for the crazy capitalization, but I think this is readable.
Edited to add: "3Delight To iRay Converter," That's what the plug-in was that would convert the Render Man shaders into iRay shaders. I don't see why that couldn't also be done with iRay shaders Converted into Apple's Metal Shaders.
Finally got my Max studio. Have to download Rosetta in order to run Daz Studio. Come on native version!
what version of DAZ Studio is best to use with Sequoia 15.4? I'd rather not use a beta, so other than a beta which version should I download?
I brought over 4.21.0.5 From my Mac Pro, late 2013 edition. Is there a better version for Sequoia 15.4 on the Mac studio?
DAZ Studio Wanted permission to control portions of the computer by being placed in accessibility settings, in Sequoia 15.4. Is that OK?
Congrats on the new Max studio.
I honestly don't know if it's necessary; I have Accessibility for DAZ Studio turned off and it seems to run fine. You can try running DAZ Studio with it turned off for now and wait for someone more knowedgeble to respond with more information.
@westerdan: thanks so much for responding.
Why is no one using this forum? I even wondered if all of the Mac users have abandoned DAZ Because so little has been done with the development of DAZ Studio.
Hope it wasn't anything I said. I also wondered, "Are People just avoiding me?" I really enjoy this forum. I hope it gets going again.
I actually almost always use the beta and keep the general release for specific narrow purposes. The beta tends to have all the fixes as the general release and isn't less reliable; they tend to be more reliable and ultimately become the general release. fortunately, there is no penalty for having them both.
The current beta is stable: it has plenty of improvments over Daz 4.21.0.5 like Persona settings, blazingly fast restore pose functions, support for the new strand base hair shader, support for all plugins (there is a non-solved bug it the current general release) and likely other things I now take for granted.
Best of both world would be to keep the 4.21.0.5 version you're familiar with and install the latest public beta to see how it goes.
But isn't there a problem with running a public beta? I thought content files could become confused. I wouldn't know how to solve a mess like that.
But I'm really glad people are responding again in this forum.
there's also a later version after 4.21.0.5. Would that be better?
I'm trying download the mac version but the website only download the windows version
You can download Daz Studio from your Product Library on Daz3D.com:
https://www.daz3d.com/downloader/customer/files#prod_13176
I don't remember if I could download DIM for Windows from my Mac or if I had to log on a Windows machine.
Not really: the current general release (Daz Studio 4.23.0.1 AFAIR) has a bug preventing using some plugins. So if you want to use Daz Studio 4.23 on Mac and if you have plugins, it's best to use the current public beta.
Both the beta and the release version use the same library, there shouldn't be any confusion. Pretty much every beta user also has a release version installed as well and I'm unaware of anyone having any issues with file confusion.
Default Ressources are specific to each branch (the 4.21 branch has it's own Default Ressources, 4.23 too), so it could theorically cause some conflict but it should not be too hard to solve by storing default ressources in their own library folder (one folder per version).
While Default Resources gets additions and changes, so it will have a minimum version for some files (some may require featuresa added later and others may be broken in older versions due to a change to a feature they use) it isn't like plug-ins when, for the Daz own-brand ones at least, they are tied to a speific application version.
see, I don't even understand what you're saying here. So most of you, probably all of you, know a whole lot more about computers than do I. That's why I tried to stick to simpler things that I will understand.
I could say the same thing for what Richard said to your remarks: I don't really understand what he's talking about.
But thank you all for trying to help me.
Well, it certainly is much faster. I redid a render that I had done on the 2013 Mac Pro, which took basically an hour, and the render was finished on the Mac studio in 10 minutes and two seconds.
That's impressive! So glad you got a Mac Studio, @inquire. :)
What are the specs on the Mac Studio? I'm still considering one and might get something after Apple's WWDC in June. We'll see if there are any other product announcements then, though I think the current Mac line up of Macs is impressive. Perhaps DS 2025 will be announced/available by then with the features Apple Silicon Mac owners have been waiting for.
Very excited to learn more about your new Mac Studio when you have the time to share your thoughts with everyone! :)
Lee
I got the M3 ultra, 32 core CPU, 80 core GPU, 32 core neural engine, 512 GB unified memory, an 8TB drive.
Sweeeeet! Very nice.
Yes, basically, I maxed out the M3 ultra version of the Mac studio, except for the hard drive. I got an 8 TB hard drive instead of the maximum 16 TB version. I also got the studio display with the nano texture glass because it doesn't reflect and is easier to look at.
I don't buy a computer very often, as you can tell from the last computer I bought, which is the late 2013 edition of a Macintosh pro. So I thought I should get a really nice and powerful version of the Mac studio. Of course Apple might come out with something really nice in a year or so, and I might be sorry that I didn't wait or that I got something cheaper at this point.