@Zilvergrafix that is great advice. Keep the central subject close to origin and just move or scale everything else; thank you!

I'm glad to help!, I do that way because when you add more props they appears on the center of all, moving your MAIN character far from scene center and all your assets will be forced to move too, thus, sometimes  buying Pose packs moves all your character to center.

This one looks better, even thought the horizon is still a little too high.  However at this time of day a photograph including a person would have a much larger aperture and much less DOF.  The scale of the tower looks fine to my eyes in both.

This one is the "correct" scale one. 

I personally prefer this one. The last 3 months I've learned more about camera work than in the last 40+ years... More advice is welcome!

@Zilvergrafix that is great advice. Keep the central subject close to origin and just move or scale everything else; thank you!

Applications are normally not installed to the root of the C: drive ( C:\Daz 3D\... ). For a 64 bit application I would expect it to be in C:\Program Files\DAZ 3D\...

Daz Central does that to keep everything together, and so that the end user can specify the drive to use without having to worry about specific paths. Advanced users who are willing to set up the various paths should continue to sue Install Manager.

Oh!  That is so nice, I wish I had known - I would have spent more time playing with Daz Central, as it is I just rebuilt my entire installation a couple of weeks ago to clean out cruft (I'd decided to put the output of the wardrobe/etc converters into a separate installation tree - not my tree and not "My DAZ 3D Library".)

In my case everything which is regularly written that I could move via the configuration files has been moved but I left the programs in C:\ because that's an NVMe RAID file system (the two NVMe slots on an ASUS motherboard) and so program paging is fast.

Applications are normally not installed to the root of the C: drive ( C:\Daz 3D\... ). For a 64 bit application I would expect it to be in C:\Program Files\DAZ 3D\...

Daz Central does that to keep everything together, and so that the end user can specify the drive to use without having to worry about specific paths. Advanced users who are willing to set up the various paths should continue to sue Install Manager.

That usually happens when there is an update that executes when Studio is running. Re-install Studio from DIM or the standalone installer and check your library locations. Make sure your DIM setup (if you use it) is still intact, Central is known for messing with it, especially if you use non-standard locations.

Caveat: From the splash screen it looks like the OP is using DS 4.12. Unless they have a saved installer for it, reinstalling now with either DIM or manual download will install the upgraded version (DS 4.14).

Right. I always have that backup, so I assume everyone else does, too. Haven't installed the new version, so I didn't think of it. If the OP didn't have a backup, it's too late for that, anyway.

@Drekkan

Changing Studio versions won't disrput previous saved scenes unless your contents paths are different with the Studio update. The Studio update shouldn't change  content paths either.

Could be that Central mucked it up, from what I've read. (Note: @fastbike just put plain text after the @ for the auto-notification. Forum software will generate the code)

That usually happens when there is an update that executes when Studio is running. Re-install Studio from DIM or the standalone installer and check your library locations. Make sure your DIM setup (if you use it) is still intact, Central is known for messing with it, especially if you use non-standard locations.

Caveat: From the splash screen it looks like the OP is using DS 4.12. Unless they have a saved installer for it, reinstalling now with either DIM or manual download will install the upgraded version (DS 4.14).

yeah now my previously saved Daz scenes won't load up *cries*

That usually happens when there is an update that executes when Studio is running. Re-install Studio from DIM or the standalone installer and check your library locations. Make sure your DIM setup (if you use it) is still intact, Central is known for messing with it, especially if you use non-standard locations.

Caveat: From the splash screen it looks like the OP is using DS 4.12. Unless they have a saved installer for it, reinstalling now with either DIM or manual download will install the upgraded version (DS 4.14).

That usually happens when there is an update that executes when Studio is running. Re-install Studio from DIM or the standalone installer and check your library locations. Make sure your DIM setup (if you use it) is still intact, Central is known for messing with it, especially if you use non-standard locations.

Gotit too! NEVER USE AGAIN THE BUGZ CENTRAL!!!

It's just TERRIBLE!

Thanks!

For the valid PostgreSQL message - try going into the edit preferences in Daz Studio and make sure that D/S has the correct path for where it has installed itself.

As I recall, for the sign-in issues, you need to have added the account(s) to DIM. Then select the account you want opened, then at that popup you can put in the email address and corresponding password for the account.

I have uninstalled DIM so can't give you screenshots.Sorry, but give us an example of this path because before 4.1.4 I usually set my DIM path on my external drive where all my stuff is. Now with all this DAZ Central fanfare, when you configure DIM and then open DAZ Central, then you get another kind of unintelligible configuration.

Sorry, but give us an example of this path because, before 4.1.4, I usually setup my DIM path to my external drive, where all my stuff is. Now with all this DAZ Central fanfare, when you configure DIM and next open DAZ Central, then you get another kind of unintelligible configuration, everything change, then you open the DAZ 4.1.4 and appears a window showing you this message "PostgreSQL CMS error".

I uninstall from DAZ Central this DAZ Studio 4.1.4 and try to install the PB version from DIM but, after putting my username & password, just nothing happen.

I'm installing in a iMac 21.5 late 2013, 2.9GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5, 8GB-RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GT 750 1GB, Mac OS CATALINA.

Thanks!

Does it reset any settings or adds new ones I need to change? Like the Display Optimization before, where you had to set it to best to increase overall speed. Like if I change a slider, it lags for a moment.

 

God, why the fuck did I do this update? Everytime I hit render, it instantly goes to "close" instead of cancel render and don't have a picture rendered.

What would be the best way to revert back without breaking everything?

 

Edit: It now renders, updated my graphic card drivers, but still runs like crap in the viewport so not sure if there are more settings I need to change. Would probably prefer to revert back still.

? Daz Central doesn't render anything. If you don't like Daz Central uninstall it.

Daz Studio does renders. If you don't like the update you need to have saved the installation folders for the previous edition. Uninstall 4.14 and reinstall 4.12 [or whichever].

Hello everyone.
Im new here. I wanted to try 3d rendering.
And here is my problem. I cannot login in DAZ Studio. And i cannot see assets. I have no problem loging into DIM or DAZ Central. I've found a lot of threads about 'PostgreSQL CMS' Error. And i've done it all.
I've unistalled Antivirus software , Switched off firewall. Reinstalled Daz Studio , Reinstalled PostgreSQL , changed port in CMS settings.
Please Help and sorry for my bad English.

out of nowhere, I can't sign into daz central. I change my password, I uninstall (5 times now), restart my computer, and nothing works. I don't know what to do

where is your installation of daz [studio]? and are you using DAZ central to install them?
if the answer to your second question is yes, and the answer to the first is C drive.
daz central wil install content to your daz [Studio] installation.
i have a 512GB for my system and other programs. Daz is a dedicated 1TB m.2 drive and its got 300GB of space left.

so tell us more.

Daz Central is a download and install manager.
You now need to "buy"  Daz Studio ( https://www.daz3d.com/daz-studio-4-pro )  and then download and install that and all the Genesis 8 Starter Essentials  using Daz Central

i can't seem to find the genesis 8 figures and  i was wondering if you could help me because i had already downloaded daz central

That usually happens when there is an update that executes when Studio is running. Re-install Studio from DIM or the standalone installer and check your library locations. Make sure your DIM setup (if you use it) is still intact, Central is known for messing with it, especially if you use non-standard locations.

https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-frida-viking-outfit-for-genesis-8-female

She's coming through Connect, DIM, Central and Direct Download for me now :)

Can I just get a consensus, my issue is to do with Frida the Viking Outfit for which I have no way to download.  I put this in as technical support rather than sales, would you agree that's the correct route?

https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-frida-viking-outfit-for-genesis-8-female

Would I be wrong to now just put a sales support in and ask for a refund?  They say it may take a few for Technical Support to respond, see message below, below.

The items will not show in DIM, Central or Connect and the product page only has Daz Connect options and the offline package file results in an error

{
  "code": "not_found",
  "message": "File with such name does not exist.",
  "status": 404
}

 

Emma H, Nov 13, 2020, 14:23 MST:

Our response times are considerably longer than usual. It may take a few weeks to receive a response from our Technical Support Team. We thank you for your patience.
Daz 3D Customer Support

The right person happened to be online on this weekend afternoon, so this should be fixed very soon.

Great!  Because I have a ticket open for that product because there were no ZIPs to download.  Just checked and there's a ZIP to download now so it's just a matter of repeating attempts until it succeeds.  Thanks!

Also noticed that the "sku" is still the "name" lowercased instead of the actual SKU.  And the "ordered_at" and "order_id" fields are wrong/null.

{"product_customer_id":"","customer_id":"XXXXXX","product_id":"74493","order_item_id":null,"parent_id":"","ordered_at":"1971-05-25 5:00:00 PM","order_id":null,"name":"Dforce Frida Viking Outfit For Genesis 8 Female","entity_id":"74493","entity_type_id":"","attribute_set_id":"","type_id":"","sku":"dforce frida viking outfit for genesis 8 female","has_options":"","required_options":"","created_at":null,"updated_at":"","increment_id":null,"dim_ready":""},

- Eric

hang on a sec while we log you out 

Okay, thank you.

feeling sorry for myself again,  hear the pity violins.  tried to play with particles but the settings just look like a smudge of ink on the screen

i cant peel a potato safely but put a twinkie in my hand i can get the wrapper off

But the real question is, can you chuck wood like a woodchuck would chuck?  You know, if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

It's dark outside. Is that normal at 3 a.m.?

No, never.  Except when it is.

Then I guess a better question would be, "Where am I?"

Also, is your clock in the same time zone?

It's not enough to ask just about the time zone.  There's the Daylight Savings Time (DST) vs. Standard Time (ST) question.  So 08:00 for me in Florida is not always the "same time" for Puerto Rico or parts of Southern Indiana, because neither of those places is in my time zone.  I'm in Eastern, while PR is in Atlantic, and the "toe" of Indiana is in Central).  And to make things even more brain-tourquingly difficult, only Eastern observes DST.  That "twang" you just heard was your brain's mainspring popping out.  Better go find it! 

And then when you throw in the fact that some people STILL think "Midnight" belongs to the prior day (the old "Zulu Time" on Wednesday, for example, would be considered Wednesday NIGHT at 24:00, instead of Thursday Morning at 00:00 as it would be today). 

It's a wonder that any human ever figured out how to measure time, let alone tell what time it is.  And feeding and clothing ours ourselves, and going potty without needing help.  It's amazing.  But then who would help us, monkeys?  They still haven't figured out pants and they're the ones throwing that stuff around at each other!

Complaint:  There should not be such a thing as Hurricane Iota.

Not one iota?

No, but maybe two.

today is a transformers movie marathon caturday.  air popped salt free popcorn

Sounds like fun!  I'm about to head outside and do something noisy.  Maybe mow the lawn or cut down a tree.  Anybody want to help?

Can I just get a consensus, my issue is to do with Frida the Viking Outfit for which I have no way to download.  I put this in as technical support rather than sales, would you agree that's the correct route?

https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-frida-viking-outfit-for-genesis-8-female

Would I be wrong to now just put a sales support in and ask for a refund?  They say it may take a few for Technical Support to respond, see message below, below.

The items will not show in DIM, Central or Connect and the product page only has Daz Connect options and the offline package file results in an error

{
  "code": "not_found",
  "message": "File with such name does not exist.",
  "status": 404
}

 

Emma H, Nov 13, 2020, 14:23 MST:

Our response times are considerably longer than usual. It may take a few weeks to receive a response from our Technical Support Team. We thank you for your patience.
Daz 3D Customer Support

The right person happened to be online on this weekend afternoon, so this should be fixed very soon.