crosswind said:

You need to import the full OBJ file...The data of normals can either be saved within the geometry library of its DSF file in data folder...or saved in a DUF scene file without saving Figure / Prop assets.

I figured out the solution, though it was case specific.  It was never a normals problem. Turns out this clothing item was composed of two "shells" floating extremely close to each other (>1mm, the inside of the clothing is a different color than the outside and the inside can be seen because it's baggy and has some openings) and when the creator fit the clothing to the character they didn't realize some of the internal shell got hit by the weight differrently so it broke through the external shell.
I had to manually tweak those broken through polys back in C4D and then just load it as a corrective morph like usual.  

crosswind said:

You need to import the full OBJ file...The data of normals can either be saved within the geometry library of its DSF file in data folder...or saved in a DUF scene file without saving Figure / Prop assets.

That's what I was afraid of.  That means I'd have to redo all the custom bone weighting  which would take 100x longer than just hand selecting the polys to flip in daz lol

mmdestiny said:

crosswind said:

There's no such an option of flipping normal when importing assets in DS... AFAIK. You either manually do it with Geometry Editor in DS or with external applications, like Blender, C4D...

Not necessiily looking for a literal option in the import itself.  More like I'm wondering if, say I fix everything in C4D, then export as an obj.  If I were to use "Load UV Set" to load that obj, would DAZ pick up that the normals have changed?  I'm not sure where in the asset the normal information is stored.  Or perhaps load the fixed obj in morph loader pro, and even though there's nothing new IN the morph (no changed deltas), maybe it would pick up the change to the normals.

You need to import the full OBJ file...The data of normals can either be saved within the geometry library of its DSF file in data folder...or saved in a DUF scene file without saving Figure / Prop assets.

crosswind said:

There's no such an option of flipping normal when importing assets in DS... AFAIK. You either manually do it with Geometry Editor in DS or with external applications, like Blender, C4D...

Not necessiily looking for a literal option in the import itself.  More like I'm wondering if, say I fix everything in C4D, then export as an obj.  If I were to use "Load UV Set" to load that obj, would DAZ pick up that the normals have changed?  I'm not sure where in the asset the normal information is stored.  Or perhaps load the fixed obj in morph loader pro, and even though there's nothing new IN the morph (no changed deltas), maybe it would pick up the change to the normals.

Well, I'm not 100% sure what you really want.... but if you created a controling property on G9 to control multiple sub-component properties on a geo-graft on G9... did you save the sub-component properties on the geo-graft as well ?

If you did, it would work ~~ because in such case of Genesis figure + conformed wearables / attachment e.g. geo-grafts, garments..., all the formulae that push value to the modifiers are all saved in the sub-component properties rather than their controller(s).  Only saving the controling property is not enough ~~

So in the example you mentioned, you should've also saved Default Pose on G9 AE.

Edit: But if you were creating morphs (delta) on G9 and/or the geo-grafts, you should import the morphs by using Facet Order option in Morph Loader Pro plus turning on AutoFit on the controlling property.

Does anyone know a way to save / export currecntly used parameters as a list of parameters names.
Or better a script to save / export the locked parameters as an export morph list so I can import it?
Chatbot was very helpful <3
script
 

var node = Scene.getPrimarySelection();

if (node) {

    var obj = node.getObject();

    if (obj !== null) {

        var numModifiers = obj.getNumModifiers();

        for (var i = 0; i < numModifiers; i++) {

            var modifier = obj.getModifier(i);

            print("Morph Name (Internal): " + modifier.name + ", Label: " + modifier.label);

        }

    }

}

New version to create the content of a morph export from locked parameters, paste the result into a morph_character.csv and it's ready to be imported
 

var node=Scene.getPrimarySelection();if(node){var obj=node.getObject();if(obj!==null){for(var i=0;i<obj.getNumModifiers();i++){var m=obj.getModifier(i);if(m.getValueControl!=undefined){var c=m.getValueControl();if(c){var isLocked=c.isLocked();var isHidden=(c.isHidden!=undefined)?c.isHidden():false;if(isLocked==true&&isHidden!=true){print('"'+m.name+'","Export"');}}}}}}print('"Anything","Bake"');

Hi folks,

I got an asset (3rd party) that is absolutely beatiful in Filatoon, but the creator left the normals a mess.  In case you didn't know, flipped normals case the Toon Outline to project internally instead of externally.

Can one of the the import functions (morph loader, UV Set, etc) be used to update JUST the normals of the asset so I don't have to flip them manually in Daz?  C4D has a some very powerful normal tools that would make a lot of hand work instant.

Freebie Repo!

Hello there chums Both myself and my captors run the monthly freebie competition right here on these very boards, and it would be nice to have a lovely list of freebie resources that is (mostly) up to date. I will add my own entries, or any other resources that should be safe for the freebie competition. If you have a wicked resource for freebies (that isn't dodgy), please shoot me a PM, and i'll add it here.

Thanks Pals!

Websites: 

Polyhaven - Using any individual models, textures, or HDRIs from these sites will count as a freebie, and they do stack. If the competition requires 3 freebies, and you use 3 models, you're golden.

Renderhub - Not sure if these are rotational. It's probably fine.

Daz3D Freebies - Yes, Daz freebies.

Renderosity - Rendo, up to date, decent stuff.

3Dassets.one - Lots of textures, models and HDRIs. Not daz ready, but takes minimal effort to import.

Wilmap - Sight for older genesis clothing, but still a great repo.

sdeBStore - Lots of good quality modern G8/9 clothing.

3dShards - @FrankTheTank submitted this, looks good.

Cgbytes - The family friendly area.

Destroy! - A pack of props and crowd generator tools submitted by @FrankTheTank

Carrara:

Carrara Freebie Index - Submitted by @Stezza

KA Freebies:

Camper Van

News Room

Laptop

A Curious Christmas Gift

Polyhaven Bundle:

Polyhaven Vol 1 (These models are from the good folks at polyhaven. I have simply repacked them for daz, with data/runtime paths.)

...Again, please reach out to me if you have more current freebie resources.

KA

System used:

MacBook Pro, Apple M4 Pro; 48 GB RAM; macOS: 15.3 (24D60)

Daz Studio 2025 ALPHA - version 6.25.2025.27507 (Updated October 2, 2025)

Computer was rebooted, then DAZ Studio loaded fresh.

Created a file with three Genesis 9 figures (with hair and clothing) on a Vanishingpoint starship bridge.

Scene set up to render a Filatoon animation.

Applied multiple lip sync poses between the three characters ending up with 842 frames (@ 24 fps).

Unable to import an audio file, same as last version of DAZ Studio.

Rendered to movie.

At the end of the render, warning box came up saying it couldn't save the file:

All 842 individual frames were saved in the temp folder, so I could salvage the animation but on looking at the frames I can see that my old friend, "removed the skin from my victims" has returned.

Frame r081 everything's fine.

Frame r082 the characters' skins have disappeared. Only the characters' skins, never their clothing, their hair nor any add-ons like eyebrows, mouths, etc.. Nothing else ever vanishes.

At this point, memory usage shows DAZStudio using 192.97 GB.

I checked the log and there's no warnings or errors when those frames are rendered:

2025-10-03 13:49:46.771 [INFO] :: Saved image: /Users/waltsterdan/Library/Application Support/DAZ 3D/Studio6 Public Build/temp/render/r080.png
2025-10-03 13:49:51.060 [INFO] :: Saved image: /Users/waltsterdan/Library/Application Support/DAZ 3D/Studio6 Public Build/temp/render/r081.png
2025-10-03 13:49:55.354 [INFO] :: Saved image: /Users/waltsterdan/Library/Application Support/DAZ 3D/Studio6 Public Build/temp/render/r082.png
2025-10-03 13:49:59.654 [INFO] :: Saved image: /Users/waltsterdan/Library/Application Support/DAZ 3D/Studio6 Public Build/temp/render/r083.png

I used the "New…" menu to close the scene and opened a new one. After 10 minutes on no activity, the memory has not been cleared.

I quit DAZ Studio and restared DAZ Studio and the memory was cleared.

Between creating the file, applying all of the lip syncs, adding a little secondary character animation and rendering the file out I worked with DAZ Studio for a little over two hours; I had no crashes or "working" issues other than not being able to save a movie file. I am able to use the temporary frames generated (or could, if they'd kept their skin on) and I'm able to render individual images and save them without issue.

I quit and uninstalled DAZ, re-installing version 6.25.2025.21707 (August 5, 2025) as I found it works best for me; I opened the saved file with the lip syncs still applied, added an audio file and rendered the movie again. At the end of the render the .mov file saves without issue and no one loses their skin. 

During the final render, the memory usage spiked up to 112.21 GB; it should be noted that the "Memory Pressure" window at the bottom of the Activity Monitor stayed a sold green in both cases (green indicating efficient use, yellow suggesting potential need for more RAM, and red showing that your Mac needs more RAM).
 

The scene, when not rendering, had DAZ Studio using under 14 GB of memory. Memory usage in the older versions of DAZ Studio drops back to this amount once the rendering has been done and saved.

Okay, I took a shot and "updated" my DAZ  Studio. They still haven't fixed the audio import, at least on the Mac side. I'm not sure what they were improving where the impact was removing the Mac ability to import audio but hopefully they'll return the capabiltiy sooner rather then later. I'll work with the new version to see if there's anything else that broke, then go back to the August 14 version, the last one that let me both import Audio *and* where the keyframes worked in the previously normal manner.

I never saw it, Twinmotion now has FBX import

back then an AVI alpha on a plane was the way I used to do it

pity their video no longer available

crosswind said:

Just in case, I recorded the full process as a video tutorial, in here: https://mega.nz/file/XexUzYAL#LAM74H8iQ_qWK_dLo1Q35QrRYRTxAm8TYn5xxQYG0mE

It's depend on what you have installed on your machine, but on mine, when I want to easily get back to Genesis 3, 8 or 9 to set them as Compatibilities in the metadata editor, I type 'Starter': in my case, the first product is the Genesis 9 Starter Essentials, which is two products below all the Genesis compatibility base roots.

greywolf said:

WendyLuvsCatz said:

oh by the way, one thing to bear in mind, while DAZ studio is faster when everything fits on your GPU

Carrara is considerably faster than D|S if it does not

which for me is often the case with those big Howie Farkes scenes

coupla questions:

* Can one import a ds scene into Carrara?
* Is Carrara slated for discontinuation (thus its currently very low price)?

no longer in development but yes it loads duf files with some caveates

Genesis 3, 8 & 8.5 crash it due to a mismatched typo in the several bone/node namings

Genesis 9 needs conversion to blended weight and resaving as a new character preset as does all the clothing

Strandbased hair won't import as mesh only useless lines

but Carrara has dynamic hair of its own

dforce doesn't import you can use dforce2morph though to create and save matching cloth poses

many props need to have the U on the UV map tiling unchecked

however Sparrowhawk made a plugin to do this

those are some main ones

the CPU based render engine is not bad, it's better than 3Delight but not as good as iray but if you don't have a Nvidia card it is much faster than iray CPU

you can always just use it to render backgrounds 

WendyLuvsCatz said:

oh by the way, one thing to bear in mind, while DAZ studio is faster when everything fits on your GPU

Carrara is considerably faster than D|S if it does not

which for me is often the case with those big Howie Farkes scenes

coupla questions:

* Can one import a ds scene into Carrara?
* Is Carrara slated for discontinuation (thus its currently very low price)?

itinerant said:

wsterdan said:

itinerant said:

There is a serious problem with the Oct 2 update on a mac.  After a few 3-4 minutes, the memory usage grows so large that the application memory of the computer is filled and the program has to be shut down (over 100GB).  This happened a handful of times, each time with only one or two G9 characters in the scene -- no clothing and no environments.  All I was doing was changing hair and skin textures to find the one I liked best.

What type of Mac are you running? If you can let me know if you are able to import an audio, I'll update and check with my system to see if I get the same problem you're seeing (m4 Pro). If audio still can't be imported, I'll hold off until the next update.

I am on a 2020 Mac Mini (M1).  I don't know how to mess with audio, but this issue is far greater than the audio issue.  I would recommend skipping this update if you are on a Mac.  You can't work more than 5 minutes at a time without Force Quitting the application.  The last time I was testing it, I spent more time waiting for the scene to save than I did working in the scene (I was saving after every change that I wanted to keep).

Understood, thanks. I'm still willing to give it a shot, just to give DAZ extra feedback with a different processor and system but only if I can import audio. I don't mind fighting with it for a few hours to see what I can do or not do and then regressing, but without an audio import it's a no-go. 

wsterdan said:

itinerant said:

There is a serious problem with the Oct 2 update on a mac.  After a few 3-4 minutes, the memory usage grows so large that the application memory of the computer is filled and the program has to be shut down (over 100GB).  This happened a handful of times, each time with only one or two G9 characters in the scene -- no clothing and no environments.  All I was doing was changing hair and skin textures to find the one I liked best.

What type of Mac are you running? If you can let me know if you are able to import an audio, I'll update and check with my system to see if I get the same problem you're seeing (m4 Pro). If audio still can't be imported, I'll hold off until the next update.

I am on a 2020 Mac Mini (M1).  I don't know how to mess with audio, but this issue is far greater than the audio issue.  I would recommend skipping this update if you are on a Mac.  You can't work more than 5 minutes at a time without Force Quitting the application.  The last time I was testing it, I spent more time waiting for the scene to save than I did working in the scene (I was saving after every change that I wanted to keep).

itinerant said:

There is a serious problem with the Oct 2 update on a mac.  After a few 3-4 minutes, the memory usage grows so large that the application memory of the computer is filled and the program has to be shut down (over 100GB).  This happened a handful of times, each time with only one or two G9 characters in the scene -- no clothing and no environments.  All I was doing was changing hair and skin textures to find the one I liked best.

What type of Mac are you running? If you can let me know if you are able to import an audio, I'll update and check with my system to see if I get the same problem you're seeing (m4 Pro). If audio still can't be imported, I'll hold off until the next update.

DoctorJellybean said:

wsterdan said:

I'd mentioned that the latest version won't let me insert an audio file, something I've been doing a lot of since the Alpha was first released. Could at least one other Windows and Mac user take 20-30 seconds and see if they're able to insert an audio file using the Edit/Audio menu option so I'll know if it's an acutal bug or just something happening to me that I can try and sort out?

As mentioned, for me all of the files are greyed out.

It does appear to be the case, but could you please post a screenshot of what you get\see. Thanks. 

I don't see anything about fixing the audio import in the change logs specifically; if you've installed the October 1st update could you take a minute to test it and let me know if it's been fixed? It's crucial to what I'm working on right now and if it's not fixed, I'd rather not update, then revert a minute later for nothing.

Thanks. 

Right-click on the product icon that shows the Update icon and select Uninstall, that will leave you working solely with the DIM files.

 

Thank you very much. This particular hint solved the issue for me.

In more detail - re-installing in DIM was not sufficient, but when it "uninstalled" in Studio and went to DIM, it still showed G9 Starter Essentials as installed, so I "re-imported Metadata" in DIM. After that, the "update" button in Studio was gone, problem solved.