everytime i import a preposed (with clothes hair etc) character into cinema 4d it is still in default pose AND warped! How do i fix this????? I DO NOT want to pose add clothing add har add etc etc etc AFTER importing into cinema 4d just to let you know.

I would like to have a low-poly face model - .HXN or .OBJ that I could import into Hexagon and/or Daz Studio. Not too much detail is required at the outset. For further work in Studio I suppose I have "Mesh Grabber".

Here's my first try at a nose and one "eye". Am I on the right track... it seems to look good with a bit of smoothing?

I started with only a flat grid which I proceeded to tessellate. Do you usually start with a cylinder or an "egg" shape, to get a bit of camber going?

Use a combination of Diffeo for materials and Sagan for pixel-perfect meshes. There's an option in Sagan to utilize Diffeo's materials.

Import using Diffeo first, and then delete it. It will leave the materials. Then import the Alembic created with Sagan. Then run the "fix normal maps" script or something liket that, that Sagan also creates. Done.

Richard Haseltine said:

qgj26703 said:

Leana said:

The settings for general release and beta are separate, so them not sharing content would be normal if you didn't set the preferences so that they use the same directories and cms.

For the record, it's 4.20 (as in "minor version 20 of major version 4") not 4.2. Version numbers are not decimals

Regarding render, have you tried updating your graphic card drivers?

How would you change the directories that either build uses? 

Edit>Preferences, Daz Studio>Preferences for a mac, go to the Content tab, and click the Content Directory Manager button.

Thanks, that solves one problem. Currently Daz 4.20 will let me Iray Preview, but not render. The Beta can't even Iray Preview. Here's my log file

2022-06-30 03:25:01.310 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Updating geometry.

2022-06-30 03:25:01.312 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Updating motion transforms.

2022-06-30 03:25:01.312 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Importing scene graph.

2022-06-30 03:25:01.313 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Importing geometry for motion time 0

2022-06-30 03:25:40.513 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Geometry import (1 triangle object with 186 M triangles, 0 fiber objects with 0 fibers (0 segments), 1 triangle instance yielding 186 M triangles, 0 fiber instances yielding 0 segments) took 39.194 s

2022-06-30 03:25:40.515 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Updating section objects.

2022-06-30 03:25:40.526 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Updating materials.

2022-06-30 03:25:43.796 Iray [INFO] - MATCNV:RENDER ::   1.0   MATCNV rend info : Material instance 'DS_CB Sabah EyeBrows__Brows_1837_753' uses MDL JIT compilation.

2022-06-30 03:25:43.800 Iray [INFO] - MATCNV:RENDER ::   1.0   MATCNV rend info : Material instance 'DS_Ayaan Hair__Hair_1a81_1232' uses MDL JIT compilation.

2022-06-30 03:25:43.801 Iray [INFO] - MATCNV:RENDER ::   1.0   MATCNV rend info : Material instance 'DS_Ayaan Hair__Hair2_1ac9_1326' uses MDL JIT compilation.

2022-06-30 03:25:43.875 Iray [INFO] - MATCNV:RENDER ::   1.0   MATCNV rend info : found 680 textures, 15 lambdas (12 unique)

2022-06-30 03:25:43.898 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Computing 5 flux compensation factors took 0.001 s

2022-06-30 03:25:43.898 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Emitter geometry import (18 light sources with 5518 triangles, 1 instance) took 0.002 s

2022-06-30 03:25:43.902 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Updating volumes.

2022-06-30 03:25:43.902 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Updating environment.

2022-06-30 03:25:43.902 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Updating lens.

2022-06-30 03:25:43.903 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Updating lights.

2022-06-30 03:25:43.903 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Updating object flags.

2022-06-30 03:25:43.904 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Updating backplate.

2022-06-30 03:25:43.924 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Updating caustic portals.

2022-06-30 03:25:43.924 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Updating decals.

2022-06-30 03:25:43.952 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Using iray core convergence estimate.

2022-06-30 03:25:43.956 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Allocating 1-layer frame buffer

2022-06-30 03:25:43.981 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Using batch scheduling, caustic sampler disabled

2022-06-30 03:25:43.982 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Initializing local rendering.

2022-06-30 03:25:44.008 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Using OptiX version 7.3.0

2022-06-30 03:25:44.047 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Initializing OptiX for CUDA device 0

2022-06-30 03:25:44.943 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Rendering with 1 device(s):

2022-06-30 03:25:44.943 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : CUDA device 0 (NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti)

2022-06-30 03:25:44.943 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Rendering...

2022-06-30 03:25:44.946 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.12  IRAY   rend progr: CUDA device 0 (NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti): Processing scene...

2022-06-30 03:25:47.643 [WARNING] :: ..\..\..\..\..\src\pluginsource\DzIrayRender\dzneuraymgr.cpp(367): Iray [ERROR] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.13  IRAY   rend error: Unable to allocate 9.710 GiB from 3.091 GiB of available device memory

2022-06-30 03:25:47.660 [WARNING] :: ..\..\..\..\..\src\pluginsource\DzIrayRender\dzneuraymgr.cpp(367): Iray [ERROR] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.12  IRAY   rend error: CUDA device 0 (NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti): Scene setup failed

2022-06-30 03:25:47.672 [WARNING] :: ..\..\..\..\..\src\pluginsource\DzIrayRender\dzneuraymgr.cpp(367): Iray [ERROR] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.12  IRAY   rend error: CUDA device 0 (NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti): Device failed while rendering

2022-06-30 03:25:47.807 [WARNING] :: ..\..\..\..\..\src\pluginsource\DzIrayRender\dzneuraymgr.cpp(367): Iray [WARNING] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.12  IRAY   rend warn : CUDA device 0 (NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti) ran out of memory and is temporarily unavailable for rendering.

2022-06-30 03:25:47.870 [WARNING] :: ..\..\..\..\..\src\pluginsource\DzIrayRender\dzneuraymgr.cpp(367): Iray [WARNING] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.12  IRAY   rend warn : All available GPUs failed.

2022-06-30 03:25:47.870 [WARNING] :: ..\..\..\..\..\src\pluginsource\DzIrayRender\dzneuraymgr.cpp(367): Iray [ERROR] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.12  IRAY   rend error: Fallback to CPU not allowed.

2022-06-30 03:25:47.871 [WARNING] :: ..\..\..\..\..\src\pluginsource\DzIrayRender\dzneuraymgr.cpp(367): Iray [ERROR] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.12  IRAY   rend error: All workers failed: aborting render

2022-06-30 03:25:47.883 [ERROR] Iray :: Internal rendering error.

2022-06-30 03:25:48.501 [INFO] :: Saved image: C:\Users\trevc\AppData\Roaming\DAZ 3D\Studio4\temp\render\r.png

2022-06-30 03:25:48.539 [INFO] :: Finished Rendering

2022-06-30 03:25:49.402 [INFO] :: Total Rendering Time: 2 minutes 37.12 seconds

2022-06-30 03:27:37.307 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Device statistics:

2022-06-30 03:27:37.307 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : CUDA device 0 (NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti): 0 iterations, 3.666s init, 0.207s render

 Is this a memory issue? I have 64 GB RAM and I believe 8-12 GB of VRAM

When importing a genesis 8 model inside unreal, the skeleton will have a 90 on the X Roll axis. Why you did this? Can you fix the code to not apply this rotation on import that breaks pretty much a lot of other stuff we could do in unreal if there will be no rotation?

Anyone else having trouble with the system not finding the FBX to import for blender?

Richard Haseltine said:

There isn't a quick route, one option is to use a moddeling or sculpting applciation (I think Blender will do), import the figure mesh - at base resolution - and your head scan, position the head scan to line up with the figure head, and then use the sculpting or shrink-wrapping tools with the scan as cosntraint to reshape the figure mesh, which you can then export and use as a morph.

perfect thanks let me try it out if after a few I can't I'll ask you if you know of a tutorial hahaha haven't used blender that much :P

Catherine3678ab said:

WendyLuvsCatz said:

imports Dicom files? 

I have the Ultrasound medical variety of my knee

I guess 3D prints of fetuses are more popular

"Import and view DICOM files (not for medical use). You can change and save the models in .stl and .wrl formats."

I could be very wrong but somehow I don't think there would be a large market for such 3D prints either ;-) Know I certainly have no intentions to be printing out any fetus models. 

 

 

some parents actually frame their ultrasound images, it takes all sorts, they didn't give me a link for my gallstone ultrasound so I cannot print that 

Googling skulls and teeth seem popular 

WendyLuvsCatz said:

imports Dicom files? 

I have the Ultrasound medical variety of my knee

I guess 3D prints of fetuses are more popular

"Import and view DICOM files (not for medical use). You can change and save the models in .stl and .wrl formats."

I could be very wrong but somehow I don't think there would be a large market for such 3D prints either ;-) Know I certainly have no intentions to be printing out any fetus models. 

Basically when I go to render, it renders a blank screen and I have to pull up the log to see the error messages.

The error log makes it seem like my video card is dead but I can run games with it so my take is that the card is still ok'ish?

gpu - gtx 1080 ti

ram - 32

cpu - AMD Ryzen 7 3700X

I even get this issue when i start a new scene with just a basic cube primitive.

I saw an earlier forum about the same issue but it was never resolved.

Anyone know how I can fix?

Thanks!

******* FULL LOG *******

2022-06-28 17:54:23.266 WARNING: QColor::setRgb: RGB parameters out of range

2022-06-28 17:54:23.311 Rendering image

2022-06-28 17:54:23.329 Iray [INFO] - IMAGE:IO ::   1.0   IMAGE  io   info : Loading image "D:\DAZ3D content\Official Daz\Applications\64-bit\DAZ 3D\DAZStudio4\shaders\iray\resources\DTHDR-RuinsB-500.hdr", pixel type "Rgb_fp", 512x256x1 pixels, 1 miplevel.

2022-06-28 17:54:23.354 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Updating geometry.

2022-06-28 17:54:23.354 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Updating motion transforms.

2022-06-28 17:54:23.355 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Importing scene graph.

2022-06-28 17:54:23.355 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Importing geometry for motion time 0

2022-06-28 17:54:23.355 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Geometry import (1 triangle object with 14 triangles, 0 fiber objects with 0 fibers (0 segments), 1 triangle instance yielding 14 triangles, 0 fiber instances yielding 0 segments) took 0.000s

2022-06-28 17:54:23.355 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Updating materials.

2022-06-28 17:54:23.356 Iray [INFO] - MATCNV:RENDER ::   1.0   MATCNV rend info : found 0 textures, 0 lambdas (0 unique)

2022-06-28 17:54:23.356 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Emitter geometry import (1 light source with 2 triangles, 1 instance) took 0.000s

2022-06-28 17:54:23.356 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Updating environment.

2022-06-28 17:54:23.365 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Updating backplate.

2022-06-28 17:54:23.366 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Updating lens.

2022-06-28 17:54:23.367 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Updating lights.

2022-06-28 17:54:23.367 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Updating object flags.

2022-06-28 17:54:23.367 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Updating caustic portals.

2022-06-28 17:54:23.367 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Updating decals.

2022-06-28 17:54:23.373 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Using iray core convergence estimate.

2022-06-28 17:54:23.373 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Allocating 1-layer frame buffer

2022-06-28 17:54:23.379 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Using batch scheduling, caustic sampler disabled

2022-06-28 17:54:23.379 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Initializing local rendering.

2022-06-28 17:54:23.379 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Available GPU memory has increased since out-of-memory failure. Re-enabling CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1080 Ti)

2022-06-28 17:54:23.384 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Initializing OptiX Prime for CUDA device 0

2022-06-28 17:54:23.389 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Rendering with 1 device(s):

2022-06-28 17:54:23.389 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1080 Ti)

2022-06-28 17:54:23.389 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Rendering...

2022-06-28 17:54:23.389 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.12  IRAY   rend progr: CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1080 Ti): Processing scene...

2022-06-28 17:54:23.402 Iray [VERBOSE] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.3   IRAY   rend stat : Geometry memory consumption: 1.469 KiB (device 0), 0.000 B (host)

2022-06-28 17:54:23.402 WARNING: ..\..\..\..\..\src\pluginsource\DzIrayRender\dzneuraymgr.cpp(359): Iray [ERROR] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.3   IRAY   rend error: OptiX Prime error (Device rtpModelUpdate BL): Memory allocation failed (Function "_rtpModelUpdate" caught exception: Encountered a CUDA error: launchAPMInit() returned (2): out of memory)

2022-06-28 17:54:23.403 WARNING: ..\..\..\..\..\src\pluginsource\DzIrayRender\dzneuraymgr.cpp(359): Iray [ERROR] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.12  IRAY   rend error: CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1080 Ti): Scene setup failed

2022-06-28 17:54:23.403 WARNING: ..\..\..\..\..\src\pluginsource\DzIrayRender\dzneuraymgr.cpp(359): Iray [ERROR] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.12  IRAY   rend error: CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1080 Ti): Device failed while rendering

2022-06-28 17:54:23.403 WARNING: ..\..\..\..\..\src\pluginsource\DzIrayRender\dzneuraymgr.cpp(359): Iray [WARNING] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.12  IRAY   rend warn : CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1080 Ti) ran out of memory and is temporarily unavailable for rendering.

2022-06-28 17:54:23.403 WARNING: ..\..\..\..\..\src\pluginsource\DzIrayRender\dzneuraymgr.cpp(359): Iray [WARNING] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.12  IRAY   rend warn : All available GPUs failed.

2022-06-28 17:54:23.403 WARNING: ..\..\..\..\..\src\pluginsource\DzIrayRender\dzneuraymgr.cpp(359): Iray [ERROR] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.12  IRAY   rend error: Fallback to CPU not allowed.

2022-06-28 17:54:23.403 WARNING: ..\..\..\..\..\src\pluginsource\DzIrayRender\dzneuraymgr.cpp(359): Iray [ERROR] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.12  IRAY   rend error: All workers failed: aborting render

2022-06-28 17:54:23.403 Iray Render error: Internal rendering error.

2022-06-28 17:54:23.536 Saved image: D:\DAZ3D content\Official Daz\Applications\Data\DAZ 3D\\DAZStudio4 Temp\render\r.png

2022-06-28 17:54:23.542 Finished Rendering

2022-06-28 17:54:23.570 Total Rendering Time: 0.30 seconds

2022-06-28 17:54:25.325 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Device statistics:

2022-06-28 17:54:25.325 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1080 Ti): 0 iterations, 0.019s init, 0.000s render

Odds are 9 to 10 ;-) Is the .mtl a multiword name?

If so, rename it to be ONE word, can use "-" OR "_" but skip any fancy symbols. So_now_youHave-one_word. Open the .obj file with a text editor [i.e. NoteTab Light] and near the top is the call for the .mtl file, name it to be exactly the same as the freshly named .mtl file. Have the .mtl file and .obj file in the SAME folder. Now import it into D/S and you will have whatever information there was stored for the object loading as well.

There isn't a quick route, one option is to use a moddeling or sculpting applciation (I think Blender will do), import the figure mesh - at base resolution - and your head scan, position the head scan to line up with the figure head, and then use the sculpting or shrink-wrapping tools with the scan as cosntraint to reshape the figure mesh, which you can then export and use as a morph.

is there data in the obj ? is this something you downloaded or something you created in another program?
If the file size is suspiciously small there may be nothing to import

here are the images, sorry, they didn't attached yestarday correctly :)

I've tried this with blender 3.1 and 3.2. same thing.

clicking the rigify button creates a correct rig in blender but you lose the posibility to import poses.

Hey, I get some problems when exporting to an older game project that is still in UE 4.27.2 with the newest version of  DazToUnreal. In UE4.27 I get the error message: "Failed to find any bone hierarchy. Try disabling the 'Import As Skeletal' option to import as a rigid mesh". But I'm trying to import a Genesis 8M figure. Any ideas whats wrong?

Below it's what I get with the soft curls. It's a straight import and looks much better than yours. Perhaps you used sparsity to reduce the strands ?

Also the hair cap looks exactly as daz studio.

I used cycles with the bsdf option for materials that's required to mimic iray. The principled option is for eevee and it's expected that you may need to fix something, because eevee and the principled shader can't reproduce all the iray features.

blender 3.2.0, diffeo 1.6.2.1041

edit. note. Added a report for Thomas about multiple materials for dforce hair. Also the resize option seems to take a very long time here so I go without resize.

https://bitbucket.org/Diffeomorphic/import_daz/issues/1050/multiple-materials-for-dforce-hair

I've managed to install everithing correctly and import a default genesis figure in unreal. The Hands IK work fine but the legs do not work correctly.

Please attached image.

Enabling a leg Ik will add the cube on the leg but on a wrong position. will also move the leg slightly back. If one want to use the cube to bend the leg, the bend is wrong. Both IK legs do this. What could be?

Thanks for the help.

evilcho_ said:

Richard Haseltine said:

evilcho_ said:

Richard Haseltine said:

Click the Import... button and then select Actions and then the layout you want - probably Default - Advanced.

This worked for me, but care to tell me why this happened in the first place? I've been using Daz Studio since 2017 nearly every day and I've never, ever encountered this bug and one night it randomly happened. 

Perhaps DS crashed on exit, or was force-quit, while writing the file. Perhaps a system tool of some kind (e.g. security software) caused an issue. perhaps there was simply a disc error. It isn't possible to know, probably even if you have the log files from when or immediately after it happened.

I see. I do force quit it very often, so that is probably why. Interesting that it never happened before though. 

It would depend on exactly what was happening - hit just the wrong moment and this can happen, or the database can become corrupt. It's much safer not to force quit.

Richard Haseltine said:

evilcho_ said:

Richard Haseltine said:

Click the Import... button and then select Actions and then the layout you want - probably Default - Advanced.

This worked for me, but care to tell me why this happened in the first place? I've been using Daz Studio since 2017 nearly every day and I've never, ever encountered this bug and one night it randomly happened. 

Perhaps DS crashed on exit, or was force-quit, while writing the file. Perhaps a system tool of some kind (e.g. security software) caused an issue. perhaps there was simply a disc error. It isn't possible to know, probably even if you have the log files from when or immediately after it happened.

I see. I do force quit it very often, so that is probably why. Interesting that it never happened before though. 

evilcho_ said:

Richard Haseltine said:

Click the Import... button and then select Actions and then the layout you want - probably Default - Advanced.

This worked for me, but care to tell me why this happened in the first place? I've been using Daz Studio since 2017 nearly every day and I've never, ever encountered this bug and one night it randomly happened. 

Perhaps DS crashed on exit, or was force-quit, while writing the file. Perhaps a system tool of some kind (e.g. security software) caused an issue. perhaps there was simply a disc error. It isn't possible to know, probably even if you have the log files from when or immediately after it happened.