Having problems with the AM Squirrel
Wonderland
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I'm having several problems with the AM Squirrel
1. I can't find a dial to open its mouth
2. The fur doesn't render in Iray
3. It won't render at all in 3Delight and got this weird message, then it closed.
Also there doesn't seem to be an easy pose for the tail, you have to move each node individually. There is a plain right/left preset but no up/down/curl or dial sthat I can find...
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Well, I know the fur requires Look At My Hair, which works best in 3dl, and the only way to get it to work in Iray is to export the hair as an object or fiberhair. I'm not really sure how it works since I don't have it, but the LAMH thread is here.
As for your other issues you'd probably get a quicker/better answer if you ask in the commercial thread here.
Drill down to the head in the scene tab, and there is "jaw". In the parameters there is "bend" which opens the mouth.
I'm having problems with it too, it's trying to get into my cart...
Resistance is futile...
I bent down to pat my dog...and when I looked up, not only was it IN the cart, it had already checked out.
Make sure you have the LAMH Free Player installed: https://www.daz3d.com/look-at-my-hair-free-player
For Fiber Hair, you need the full Plugin: https://www.daz3d.com/look-at-my-hair
Having the Full PlugIn and the Free Player installed is not recommended. Uninstall the free player if you have both products installed.
For 3Delight, go to Knittingmommys Laboratory and follow this tutorial: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/1130381/#Comment_1130381
For Iray, if you have only the free player do the .obj-export:
bought but haven't had a chance to play yeah I had the mouth problem on some other animals too took awhile to work it out think I actually asked AM but I like his stuff so wasn't unhappy and his made some of my local wildlife which I love from Tasmania anyway he has a thread on Daz PA Commercial Products section https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/159521/rodents-by-am-polymorph-squirrels-of-eastern-hemisphere-props-and-poses-commercial#latest I have a few planned renders for this and there is a charcter wanted todo can now do AM also did a new video on converting Squiral to iray slightly different to previous way little hard to see on my main screen had to project on my big tv fair few steps to it
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you mean you you press that shopping cart buy button and not working yeah that has been happening to me too and really annoying only way it's working to actually get anything into your cart is clicking on the product then the creators name which takes you to their store and the shopping cart icon works there
LOL
I have the full version of LAMH and it looked like the hair was already attached as a separate object. I thought that since there was an Iray material for it, it would just be click and render and I wouldn't have to manually do anything... Seems too complicated for what it is. And I thought it would at least have an easy mouth open/close dial and an EZ pose tail. May be my first return.
You can also (this probably takes longer) go to the url and type 'https://'; in front of it. Clears it right up. For that page.
I also thought that since it said it had Iray presets that it would load and go. There in nothing on the product page (that I saw anyway) to indicate what a complicated and time consuming process it is to use it in Iray. If a customer doesn't use the forums and doesn't happen across AM's video tutorial, how on earth would they use this? It seems like the video tutorial should at least be linked on the product page.
There is no open mouth morph as such but the pucker and upper lip morphs will do much the same thing.
Cheers,
Alex.
I'm having some scaling issues with the squirrel. If I try to scale the animal up to 400% by entering the number numerically, the hair does not update in the view. If I scale the the animal using the slider, the hair does update in the view. Likewise, undo the scaling thast was just done via slider, and the hair does not update in the view. The workaround for this is to use the incremental +/- buttons to scale a little up, and then scale down the opposite amount after numerically scaling, or undoing. This triggers the hair to update in the view. Not a huge deal, but annoying.
Also, regardless of the updating view issue, when scaling the animal up, the position of each hair will update, but the length does not scale. The larger squirrel will have a relatively speaking shorter hair, if you catch my drift. Anybody know if this is the intended behavior? Thanks.
- Greg
we really shouldn't have to jump through hoops to get a new daz studio product to render in iray at this point. seriously? that's just disappointing. when you see 'iray material presets' on a product page, you expect surface settings that apply with one click. that's standard studio operating procedure these days.
that said, i'd be all in favor of a paid update to Look At My Hair, if that's what it'd take to make iray development of the product seem worthwhile to AM.
j
I tried that but it just puckers the lips. @Jakiblue 's suggestion to use the jaw node and use bend will probably work but not sure if I'll be keeping this... I will try it again in 3Delght and make my final decision... Just weird that it doesn't have basic morphs like mouth open/close and and an easier way to adjust the tail or even body parts without having to go into all the bones. I wish there were hind legs crouch and some other dials for movement as well. The product seems very basic especially for having to purchase two products just for it to work...
My understanding is that an update is in the works, and at least partially dependent on Iray supporting hair natively, so it's out of their control. Not sure whether the update will be paid or not.
- Greg
Regarding the problem with the fur length, yes, that is actually how LAMH behaves. The way to solve it is by going into the LAMH tab and using the slider for the hair length, which I don't believe is available on the free product. Annoying, and potentially unfeasible, but it is what it is. Also, the need to nudge values has been a known issue for quite some time, same thing happens sometimes when moving the figure around and suddenly seeing the green hair get left behind. On the other hand, if you decide on a pose and do the fiberhair export, it should work as a a parented hair prop regarding both positioning and scaling, though that is also not ideal for several reasons (memory issues, immutability).
Thanks for replying, Uthgard. I already own the full LAMH plugin, but was just looking for a way to avoid having to open up the editor. Thanks for confirming both behaviors.
- Greg
Except it vanishes once you close the file...
Yes, even if I save the file with the exported fiberhair, when I reopen the file, the fiberhair is not there. I have asked about this twice in the commercial thread and cannot get an answer to whether this is how it is intended to work or not. Very frustrating.
it took me all night in wireframe mode my RAM running flatout but I rigged the 7 LAMH obj exports to my Squirrel with the transfer utility using near vertices as low as it goes and saved each as support assets.
Opened a new scene and fit them all and I am rendering an animation in iray punishing my poor PC in the process, it is rendering though and the conforming fur is following the critter.
Awesome work. If the forum had a bow down emoji, I'd use it.
LAMH is kind of like Optitex Dynamics: you really, really, REALLY need to have the character's pose and positioning 100% decided and nailed down before you bring dynamic clothes or strand based hair into the picture, and neither of them are a one-click solution.
thanks! that's pretty good news.
:)
j
well this is the video
not that awesome there is polygon pulling and after rendering D|S showed me my desktop with this message
DAZStudio.exe caused ACCESS_VIOLATION in module "E:\programs\Daz\DAZ 3D\DAZStudio4 Public Build\DzCore.dll" at 0033:00000000D37CFF9C, DzScene::selectAllNodes()+124 byte(s)
It is still pretty impressive. I never would have noticed the polygon if you hadn't mentioned it, and I'm still not even sure if what I saw is what you meant. I love his last pose, too. I assume you can also use that rigged fur in still images to repose your squirrel without exporting to OBJ all over again.
Skunk gave me the same problems. Still haven't sussed it properly.
Thanks, I think you misread my my post though, it was just a joke...
Once a fiberhair it is up to DS. To make sure the FiberHair loads on next attempt, pull the FiberHair OUT of the LAMH group. Since the exported FiberHair is separate from LAMH it does not have to be in the LAMH Group and can manipulated like any other DS object.
Kendall