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Moved from Poser to Daz,, bad move

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  • FossilFossil Posts: 166
    Shemei said:

    DAZ Studio has no real manual and reading something is my perferred learning style.  I know there is the wiki but it seems very basic and doesn't explain things well.  The other issue I have is finding content.  I never have a problem in Poser I think because you install manually and put stuff where it makes sense to you.  Since I was starting over with DAZ from scratch, I decided to reinstall all my content through connect as DAZ recommends .  I think that was a big mistake because half the time I could not find things that I wanted to use and I knew damn well I had just installed. 
     

    Amen on both points!

  • TooncesToonces Posts: 919

    I use daz internal search(s) only as a first-pass content finder. However it's limited. I'm not sure if it's a 'starts with' or 'contains' search. For example, when I search for eraser or erase, it brings back a couple of eraser props. However it doesn't find any props when searching by eras.

    So, I usually employ Agent Ransack (which is free). Just right click My Daz 3d Library and select to run agent ransack in windows. OR your cloud connect library, whichever you use for your stuff. I searched for eraser and even found a cool 3rd eraser in a classroom prop set (another limitation of daz internal search - it doesn't seem to dig through the sets, only individually saved props). Agent ransack does a contains search by default and is fastest when searching filename (often the files have a name that makes sense). It can even search within the files, tho it may take a little longer.

  • nicsttnicstt Posts: 11,715

    They are tools.

    Use whatever suits you best. There is some good advice in the thread to try and sort out what is causing you issues.

  • nicsttnicstt Posts: 11,715
    Shemei said:

    I haven't seen any real difference in the viewport performance of the software between PP11 and Studio 4.9 and my computer only has 16MB RAM.  I do think Iray renders slightly faster than Superfly but I have a lot of trouble with getting decent lighting in DAZ.

    I started fooling with 3D art in 2011 and fully intended to use Studio but never could figure it out on my own with just video tutorials.  So I used Poser from 2011 until October 2016. Last year I decided to try DAZ again because I like G3 and importing it into Poser Pro just doesn't work well. Since then I have given Studio a decent amount of time but I still can't make a render I am satisfied with.  I think one reason is that DAZ Studio has no real manual and reading something is my perferred learning style.  I know there is the wiki but it seems very basic and doesn't explain things well.  The other issue I have is finding content.  I never have a problem in Poser I think because you install manually and put stuff where it makes sense to you.  Since I was starting over with DAZ from scratch, I decided to reinstall all my content through connect as DAZ recommends .  I think that was a big mistake because half the time I could not find things that I wanted to use and I knew damn well I had just installed.  Since I haven't made a render I am satisfied with in DAZ in 5 months I am considering just going back to PP 11, in spite of all the G3 and DAZ 4.9 only content I have purchased recently.  I am not trying to make a software versus software post so sorry if it comes accross that way, but I just can't figure out how to make DAZ work for me. If anyone has suggestions I would love to hear them.

    I'm biassed against Connect, but imo it seriously sucks.

    I like tools to do what I want, not the other way around; and Connect was someone saying - do it this way. That just irritates me.

  • nelsonsmithnelsonsmith Posts: 1,337
    BeeMKay said:

    Welll, you could start out with all the usual checklist stuff - is your Iray driver up to date? Are you using Iray preview while trying to set up a scene? That gives a 100% crash. Do you leave rendered images open? That also can build up to a crash.

     

    Thanks for that one.  Wasn't aware about the rendering images panel being left open.

  • AllenArtAllenArt Posts: 7,175

    When an unfinished render is left open, it's still holding on to the gfx ram it needs in order to render. If you have even a decent gfx card, that means that your next render may default to cpu if the ram taken by the render from the gfx card is large enough that not enough is left over to render the second open render window. I hope that made sense ;)

    Laurie

  • ValandarValandar Posts: 1,417

    That's because every render has a panel hidden that you can adjust bits on it.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,872
    nicstt said:
    Shemei said:

    I haven't seen any real difference in the viewport performance of the software between PP11 and Studio 4.9 and my computer only has 16MB RAM.  I do think Iray renders slightly faster than Superfly but I have a lot of trouble with getting decent lighting in DAZ.

    I started fooling with 3D art in 2011 and fully intended to use Studio but never could figure it out on my own with just video tutorials.  So I used Poser from 2011 until October 2016. Last year I decided to try DAZ again because I like G3 and importing it into Poser Pro just doesn't work well. Since then I have given Studio a decent amount of time but I still can't make a render I am satisfied with.  I think one reason is that DAZ Studio has no real manual and reading something is my perferred learning style.  I know there is the wiki but it seems very basic and doesn't explain things well.  The other issue I have is finding content.  I never have a problem in Poser I think because you install manually and put stuff where it makes sense to you.  Since I was starting over with DAZ from scratch, I decided to reinstall all my content through connect as DAZ recommends .  I think that was a big mistake because half the time I could not find things that I wanted to use and I knew damn well I had just installed.  Since I haven't made a render I am satisfied with in DAZ in 5 months I am considering just going back to PP 11, in spite of all the G3 and DAZ 4.9 only content I have purchased recently.  I am not trying to make a software versus software post so sorry if it comes accross that way, but I just can't figure out how to make DAZ work for me. If anyone has suggestions I would love to hear them.

    I'm biassed against Connect, but imo it seriously sucks.

    I like tools to do what I want, not the other way around; and Connect was someone saying - do it this way. That just irritates me.

    ...same here, but mainly because I am not into having my content proprietary to just one programme. Granted that cannot be helped with G3 (doesn't work in Carrara either), but to have props clothing and hair only usable in Daz is too restricting.  I alreay am somewhat miffed that new content is being released with Iray shaders only (though there finally is a free script to help with converting to 3DL).  Nothing yet exists for Poser Fierfly/Superfly or Carrara though.

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