In the V4 to Genesis 2 pose converter I get an error saying it cannot find (data/daz 3d/genesis 2/female/uv sets/daz 3d/victoria 4/victoria 4.dsf) when I start it up. It doesnt seem to affect the conversion at all as far as I can tell but would like to fix it if I can.

I get an error saying it cannot find (data/daz 3d/genesis 2/female/uv sets/daz 3d/victoria 4/victoria 4.dsf) when I start it up. It doesnt seem to affect the conversion at all as far as I can tell.

From the Victoria 7 product promo pics - what is this background scene product?

Over the past 19 years, I've dragged millions of files around in order to setup my Poser and DAZ Studio files the way I wanted them. I'm convinced that all that file moving killed several of my hard drives.

I watched as the hard drives shuddered, "screamed," and often threatened to crash. The last of my desktop hard drives shows signs that it too is dying. I plan to start replacing my hard drive with 8TB desktop hard drives. It will take a few months.

I won't drag my files around any more. I'll rely on "DIM" to install the files!

This is the most common-sense approach, but dragging files around has zero to do with hard drive wear and tear.  And the same applies to SSDs too.

Over the past 19 years, I've dragged millions of files around in order to setup my Poser and DAZ Studio files the way I wanted them. I'm convinced that all that file moving killed several of my hard drives.

I watched as the hard drives shuddered, "screamed," and often threatened to crash. The last of my desktop hard drives shows signs that it too is dying. I plan to start replacing my hard drive with 8TB desktop hard drives. It will take a few months.

I won't drag my files around any more. I'll rely on "DIM" to install the files!

Moving files around on the same drive should be a relatively lightweight action, find the directory file it is in now delete the entry, find the new directory and add the entry for the new file.

Agreed.

Moving a file to a new drive is a much heavier operation as the data needs to be written to the other drive.

1.  "new drive" meaning a different physical drive or a different drive partition on the samne physical drive.

2.  But I disagree with the term "much heavier operation".  Come on.  I've got 8 and 10 TB backup hard drives that get 100% rewritten over the course or 3 or 4 backup cycles.  Ever since my first backups taken with Acronis True Image in the 1990s (later changed to Macrium:Reflect), I've never had a backup drive fail due to "overuse", so I completely disagree with the implication of the words "much heavier operation" in the context of wear and tear.  I've replaced my backup drives due to lack of capacity as my data content has grown over time, but never due to wear and tear.

Drives can last for years in normal use. And what is described in the op is normal use.  Things that tend to actually kill drives: running them hot, buying cheap ones, having too little RAM (swapping memory into the swapfile always involves a write operation so when you have maxed out your RAM and the activity light is going full blast that is very bad), having malware and/or viruses and failing to keep the drive defragmented (if the data contained in one file is all over the disk it will require a lot more spinning of the platters and a lot more moving the read head to get the data.).

I agree with the heat comment above.  Heat kills everything.

Have you considered raiding a whole bunch of El'Cheapo drives? I think the sweet spot for spindle drives is about 3TB now, you could get 3 of the cheapest you can find and use them in a raid 5 config. Gives you double the bandwidth and if any 1 drive fails you're still good.

RAIDing drives for what is mostly static data (such as your DAZ content library) is a wasteful and time-consuming use of RAID, and it's even less of a good idea to use cheap drives crammed into a small space that will undoubtedly generate significant heat.

RAID your database drives.  Raid your NAS.  I wouldn't bother setting up a RAID just for Victoria and all of her Gucci clothing.

I've had many different computers since I started with a home-built PC and Poser in 1999. (I switched to DAZ Studio a few years later.) I'm now on my 3rd Macintosh computer. I normally drag and drop files. I sometimes use Forklift, a Mac file manager. Sometimes I just open two windows and drag and drop between them. On average, my hard drives last somewhere between 3-5 years. In the past, each "data" drive had another hard drive, with a clone backup of the original drive. Over the recent year it's been hard to maintain that ratio since some original desktop hard drives died.

Now, I'm quickly running out of hard drive space in my 3TB hard drives. That's why I'll go to a new 8TB hard drive later this month.

8TB is a good choice.  But are you ALSO planning to buy a couple of 12TB backup drives?  Please do it right and budget for your backups ALONG WITH your new drive expansion plans.

3 to 5 years is not an unusually short lifespan for drives that see regular use. BackBlaze is a major cloud storage provider and publishes failure rates for the enterprise drives they deploy. Those drives fail at between 1.6% and 1.8% per year. That does not mean drives should be expected to last 50 years. The failure rate goes up as drives age. BackBlaze retires their drives at around 50 months of deployment. Now these are enterprise grade drives, which in theory have significantly better reliability, but they are spinning 24/7 so things should sort of average out in regards to consumer drives. I'd guess that a lifespan of around 4 years is what to expect from consumer drives HDD's in normal, 8 hours (roughly) up time per day, usage.

It also really doesn't matter how you do the moves. All that really matters is if you're moving the file from one drive to another or doing a copy rather than a move or if you're simply moving it to a new directory on the same drive. A move on the same drive is very low impact. The other operations are much higher impact but still shouldn't seriously impact lifespan.

This is very common-sense.  The OP should stop worrying about this.

I really doubt the way you handle files is leading to unusually short lifespans for your drives.

Also very common-sense.

My personal solution for production is to keep the current project on ssd, and everything else on external backup. This works fast and keeps your data safe.

Even this is too fussy for me.  That's why I have all big SSDs and even bigger HDDs for the backups.

The only thing I can suggest: External drives, and using a strict system system for deciding what files go on which drive.
It's a long-term wish, but I'd totally love to have an external drive sometime dedicated to DAZ assets, and absolutely nothing else, so effectively, the contents of that drive would rarely change, except for occasionally adding new stuff and updates to the installed assets. In theory, such a drive should last quite a while.

External drives can be very handy in certain situations, but they're not necessarily the Golden Ark of data strategies.  Drive enclosures require more cables, sometimes a power supply, and space on your desk.  They make noise, aren't always good at eliminating heat, and have to be kept track of, especially if you're on travel.  For these reasons, I prefer larger INTERNAL SSD drives, with external drives only for backups or for temporary expansion (you know, until I can afford to enlarge the internal drives).

It's MUCH simpler to travel if I can throw my laptop into my backpack and one single external drive into my checked luggage.  This allows me to have one or more recent backup cycles with me while on travel while also being able to keep taking backups over the course of a longer trip.

Good reminder for everyone to back up your files.. ideally in two locations too.  Also, actually check your back ups are working.. :)

There's little excuse these days not to, and it's a good habit to get into.  For me, when I'm done for the day, I run KLS Backup, it backs up all the work folders onto my NAS, then turns the machine off.. so literally its a couple of clicks and it's done.  Each work machine automatically images itself onto the NAS too once a week so I have a means to get a machine back up and running if something goes awry.

 

You could have been reading my signature! 

But he's right, folks!  3 backups on 2 mediums with at least 1 copy stored offsite from the computer.  This is called "321" backups.  My backups have saved me from my own foolishness several times.  And my foolishness has been the cause of data loss far more often than a hard drive failure.  Since my first PC in the Gateway 486 days, I think I've had only 2 hard drive failures.  One was new, the other was a couple years old.  Neither was likelly due to "overuse" or "wear and tear".

In BOTH cases, my backups got me back to business.

In several OTHER cases, I deleted a data or program folder.  In ALL of those cases, my backups got me back to business.

To use V4 textures on G8F you'll need this. (You'll need to resave the materials as .duf first)

Converting the morphs is a bit more tricky: You can use GenX2 and its G2 and G3 add-ons to go from V4 to G3F, but unfortunately the PA passed away before G8 was released so there's no G8 add-on. But there's now this product to convert G3F characters to G8F, and Zev0 has another one in the works.
There are also ways to do it manually with a bit of work.

this is just SOOOOO annoying. again, a clear and obnoxious preference towards female characters. same happened recently with victoria 8 (and other vics before) - only she was offered but no michael alternative, which would be the natural pendant to vic. why does this "gift" from today only contain a CHICK?

so, since i don't collect female charas, today i get NOTHING again. thx daz, very appreciated. is it so hard to offer both alternatives - male + female - and let the customer pick one of both as they like? it's segregation imho. :( *not happy*

I  saw your reference to "Female Charas" and it reminded me of a little Russian dive I used to visit in Germany.
Sounds like a descriptive term I'd hear there. Thanks for the memories.

eeeeh.. what's so special about the term "female charas (characters)"?? same as female figures more or less... maybe the 3d community uses figure more than character, but i don't quite get the point. anyways, happy i offered you a little time travel :D

Because "Female charas" sounds like a Russian derogatory slang term for some some bar patrons?
Using "charas" as a slang word in itself, not as a short form of "characters".

Never mind.

okay, might be - but in fanfic or manga fandoms and pretty much anywhere i hang around, i always saw chara used as a short (absolutely not derogatory) form of character. never crossed my mind it could be anything else, derogatory or not. also i must say that i hardly meet/met any Russians at all where i live.. let alone in a bar, lol.

this is just SOOOOO annoying. again, a clear and obnoxious preference towards female characters. same happened recently with victoria 8 (and other vics before) - only she was offered but no michael alternative, which would be the natural pendant to vic. why does this "gift" from today only contain a CHICK?

so, since i don't collect female charas, today i get NOTHING again. thx daz, very appreciated. is it so hard to offer both alternatives - male + female - and let the customer pick one of both as they like? it's segregation imho. :( *not happy*

I  saw your reference to "Female Charas" and it reminded me of a little Russian dive I used to visit in Germany.
Sounds like a descriptive term I'd hear there. Thanks for the memories.

eeeeh.. what's so special about the term "female charas (characters)"?? same as female figures more or less... maybe the 3d community uses figure more than character, but i don't quite get the point. anyways, happy i offered you a little time travel :D

Because "Female charas" sounds like a Russian derogatory slang term for some some bar patrons?
Using "charas" as a slang word in itself, not as a short form of "characters".

Never mind.

I gave the Face Transfer thing a whirl. I came out way tanner than I am, looking like I'm 12, my lips were super thin, I look confused, and the Daz tattoo is on my forehead rather than a tramp stamp.

I should DL the new version and try it out... I already have a DAZ logo on my forehead though... more of a scar... I got it battling one of those stupid DAZ Victoria 28 terminator robots from the near future... Which was very disappointing since they aren’t as naked as you’d expect when they time travel... that stupid purple “bikini” texture is so fake too... better than the angry Roombas though.

Have an online friend who has just bought a roomba, a very angry and fierce roomba,  or at least that is what one of his dogs thinks.  Took him 2 days to stop telling everyone that there was a fierce angry monster around.  Now he is just hiding in another room hoping the monster will stay away.

I gave the Face Transfer thing a whirl. I came out way tanner than I am, looking like I'm 12, my lips were super thin, I look confused, and the Daz tattoo is on my forehead rather than a tramp stamp.

I should DL the new version and try it out... I already have a DAZ logo on my forehead though... more of a scar... I got it battling one of those stupid DAZ Victoria 28 terminator robots from the near future... Which was very disappointing since they aren’t as naked as you’d expect when they time travel... that stupid purple “bikini” texture is so fake too... better than the angry Roombas though.

I justed wanted to show my appreciation for the G8F Freebie. Mind you, it's not what I wish to get all the time if you guys put together a team to find what character/thing can be a freebie for a day or so. I prefer to get more male freebies than females, as its so rare to find a guy on sale or as a freebie. Please keep that in mind. (Still waiting for the Michael Freebie for my Victoria's, that would be more than enough for one male freebie for the year :])

this is just SOOOOO annoying. again, a clear and obnoxious preference towards female characters. same happened recently with victoria 8 (and other vics before) - only she was offered but no michael alternative, which would be the natural pendant to vic. why does this "gift" from today only contain a CHICK?

so, since i don't collect female charas, today i get NOTHING again. thx daz, very appreciated. is it so hard to offer both alternatives - male + female - and let the customer pick one of both as they like? it's segregation imho. :( *not happy*

I  saw your reference to "Female Charas" and it reminded me of a little Russian dive I used to visit in Germany.
Sounds like a descriptive term I'd hear there. Thanks for the memories.

eeeeh.. what's so special about the term "female charas (characters)"?? same as female figures more or less... maybe the 3d community uses figure more than character, but i don't quite get the point. anyways, happy i offered you a little time travel :D

Wow, Daz gives away a 100 percent free character, and people complain! LOL! 

thanks Daz and Spows for the gift

yes, i do complain, since i have no use whatsoever for that character hence i wont download it hence i get no gift, just because as always, there's a chick overload in everything everywhere here including the majority of freebies. it would be so easy - since there's no way they'd switch to offer single male figures instead for a while for a change - to offer both alternatives.
afaik, i'm allowed an opinion as a valued customer, it's all i have left since this super kind banner is absolutely pointless to me.

 

I know, if not that it would be the weather eh.

Thanks to Daz and the artists for the 2 free characters :-)

fyi, i have only visited those funny random complaint threads a few times just for a laugh. i don't really need to vent about the weather in a 3d store's forum. however, i consider that complaining in the thread directly on the subject about the lack of insight of a shop offering freebies and other stuff centered on one gender and the fact that i find it very annoying is not just random complaining but exercising my right as a customer and as a person.

this is just SOOOOO annoying. again, a clear and obnoxious preference towards female characters. same happened recently with victoria 8 (and other vics before) - only she was offered but no michael alternative, which would be the natural pendant to vic. why does this "gift" from today only contain a CHICK?

so, since i don't collect female charas, today i get NOTHING again. thx daz, very appreciated. is it so hard to offer both alternatives - male + female - and let the customer pick one of both as they like? it's segregation imho. :( *not happy*

I  saw your reference to "Female Charas" and it reminded me of a little Russian dive I used to visit in Germany.
Sounds like a descriptive term I'd hear there. Thanks for the memories.

Since the start of the Genesis line Victoria and Michael are no longe the base figures, they are morphs of their true respective bases which are Genesis Female and Genesis Male for first generation Genesis, Genesis (generation #) Female and Genesis (generation #) Male for latter generations.

That should read Micheal 8 and Victoria 8   I fixed my boo boo, now before I commit to purchase Hound Dog days, will it work with Michael and Victoria Version 8?

 

Thanks!

this is just SOOOOO annoying. again, a clear and obnoxious preference towards female characters. same happened recently with victoria 8 (and other vics before) - only she was offered but no michael alternative, which would be the natural pendant to vic. why does this "gift" from today only contain a CHICK?

so, since i don't collect female charas, today i get NOTHING again. thx daz, very appreciated. is it so hard to offer both alternatives - male + female - and let the customer pick one of both as they like? it's segregation imho. :( *not happy*

It would seem that I didn't properly install my third party content; rather than merging folders with the same title I now have several duplicates and content (like clothing and/or genitalia) that won't propely work (appear on the Michael or Victoria character) because it can't find missing files...

Live and learn right?  I guess I should manually delete all thrid party content  (Renderosity, Renderotica and the like) and then reinstall, making sure that the folders; or is there a better way?

Before I forget, would the Hound Dog days clothing bundle fit Michael 3 and Victoria 3?

 

Thanks in advance everybody!

Today I decided to spend a little time playing around with the new La Femme figure to see if she could be fitted into my current workflow. I still need to run some more tests to see how well she adapts to Victoria 4 poses. To be honest, I should have worked on her expression a little more, but overall I like some of the new features the figure has to offer. The fabric draping was simulated in the Cloth Room.

As usual, this was created with Poser Pro 11 and Clip Studio Paint.

great job with the cloth room drape - I always find the cyan interesting - as compared to t he dark darks

, unfortunately La Femme won;t import into Carrara without the joints breaking 

 

Turning A New Leaf requires a new Haircut. 

*dForce French Twist Hair for Genesis 8   https://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/dforce-french-twist-hair-for-genesis-8-female-s-/81937

*EA Sidecut hair for Genesis 8    https://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/ea-sidecut-hair-for-genesis-3-amp-8-female-s-/82972

*Retro Heroine 8 Outfit   https://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/retro-heroine-8-outfit/77959

*Retro Heroine Outfit Expansion Nr 4 part 1   https://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/retro-heroine-outfit-expansion-nr-4-part-1-of-2-/76906

*Retro Heroine Outfit Expansion Nr 4 part 2   https://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/retro-heroine-outfit-expansion-nr-4-part-2-of-2-/76907

*Simple Bathroom by Jura11  https://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/simple-bathroom-wip-freebie/77689

*scissors  https://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/scissors/61987

*Freckles for Genesis 8   https://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/freckles-for-genesis-8-female/82719&ca

*Mirror for Daz 4.9 https://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/mirror-for-daz-4-9/76698

Victoria 7

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Victoria 4.2 Base

Azraella

My edition of Poser is Poser Pro 2014.  I still use Poser 7 figures from time to time because they work in Carrara and I have some cool historical and occupational content for them.  Confusingly, the Poser 7 Sydney and Simon figures were called G2 figures.  This is confusing for me because I also use Daz3D's Michael 6 and Victoria 6 characters, which are also called G2 figures.  

 

I experimented with some Poser figures with the newer weightmapping (Poser 9 and above).  The figures were called Miki and Tyler.  I used Fenric's injection plugin with limited success.  Problems with the feet persisted (what is it about feet?). I think Fenric said it had something to do with the hierarchy of the figures being messed up.  Don't remember clearly.  There is probably a related thread here in the Carrara forums because I remember asking about it.