Hello,

It's about a outfit sold elsewhere, an halter dress with a belt.

When I decided to create a FBM for each of these items, I did my usual process:

• Export  as .obj files with OBJ Companion.
• Open the .obj files in Blender.
• Use the various tools and brushes in Blender to first get the dress to properly fit over the character's body, then adjust the belt over the dress.
• Export each item from Blender as .obj.
• Ask OBJ Companion to create the various morphs.

Everything was fine with the dress, the morph applied as intended, but for some reasons, while OBJ Companion seemed to able to create a morph for the belt, it actually pushed the belt more inside the dress that it was already…

I didn't initially thought it could be a problem with unused vertices, so I re-did the whole process twice  before trying to import the belt morph using Morph Loader Pro: I was then greated by an error message telling me the geometry didn't match and I remember a message by @crosswind about the subject, but could not find it again.

What I did then is:

• I deleted the unused vertices using the geometry editor
• I imported the morph I created

And when I tried to save the morph, Daz told me I needed to save the asset before I could save a morph for it.

As far as I know, I have two solutions to save the belt with the unused vertices removed:

1. Replacing the original files with the modified version.
2. Saving it as a different belt.

I also suppose I could contact the vendor, and I'll likely do it, but in the meantime, if there is not adverse effect, I would prefer to use the first solution, because I have created metadata for that outfit.

What the best way to solve the problem and save the morph I created?

Sorry my fault I tested without jcms, it works fine with just weightmaps. Not sure how existing shapekeys are interpolated when we create new geometry, it may be a linear interpolation possibly causing the "flat effect". You could try a little smoothing on the affected jcms to see how it works.

p.s. In general though creating new geometry on a rigged figure is expected to cause issues, you should be careful with that. Just reshaping aka moving vertices is fine. If you want to sculpt HD preserving the jcms then one way is to import as HD and sculpt with multires.

It all happens all of sudden, it used to work great for a while, whenever I finish export the daz assets, a daz bridge pop up windows would appear in Unity to let me do addition tweaks, that's the singal that the export was a success, and all my mat and morph would appear correclty in Unity.

But now, the daz pop window no longer appear in unity whenver I finish an export.  the export part on Daz didn't get any error, I didn't change any settings, but the export just get nullified on unity's part, if I forced to import assets from the folder, I'd miss all my materials and textures on the character

already tried to reinstall daz to unity bridge and it doesn't fix it.  

What did I do wrong? how can I fix it? 

Complaint: Well my morning went to the screwed up side. I had Daz Studio open, looking like a screen background when I opened DIM with the idea to download more old content. And started downloading, installing. Three hours later I closed DIM and faced Daz Studio staring at me. I didn't waste time banging my head. Closed Studio. Reopened DIM, ate lunch, and it was open. Sorted by Install Date, Recent First and uninstalled. Thankfully I had saved the zips. After all moved over to Ready to Install, sorted by A - Z and carefully to install. And search out the texture sets at that point. Finally done with this part. Still have to open Daz Studio and check metadata, add my extra layers and make sure all have thumbnails. There are days when you wonder if this hobby is fun or work. On the other hand, I had another deep look at some of my Runtime. Thank you Jack Tomalin for Parkside.

FSMCDesigns said:

Xellosz said:

WendyLuvsCatz said:

I need to use an earlier version of Twinmotion to import the diffuse textures original file paths

probably not available to people "buying" it for free now

so that and chasing up all the other maps, consolidation of materials is likely the most off putting thing

a lot can be solved by simply exporting maps to a bespoke folder for your project, I jst prefer to avoid bloating all my drives needlessly 

Xivon textures are extra nested in many subfolders making using original paths extra excruciating 

Fugazi does this too

otherwise, it's easy to use and had lots of other awesome features 

terrain sculpting and painting, brushing animated foliage, full weather system with volumetric clouds and rain, snow, fog, particles to name a few

I am just wary now about discussing or suggesting TM to others because of a lot of pushback and moderation in the past

there is absolutely NOTHING in it for me

if anything I suspect they want people to stay in DAZ studio and buy extra products such as Ultrascenery to do what TM does for free

Thx for the info.

I think with the bridges (DAZ to Unity, Unreal, Blender, Maya, Cinema 4D), etc... crossing between programs is even more accepted than before, and there is now the "common enemy" the AI.

How is AI the enemy? I use AI on every project i have with DS.

As for the original topic, there are way to many assets, environments, clothing, etc that are not optimized for DS use on mid level PCs. I have a long list of PAs I will not buy from because their work is either way to detailed to use, or just bloated and unable to use once you add anything else into the scene.

AI is good with postwork in the case of DAZ. It's like PS but on automation steroids.

Why do some artists hate it? Most of the time, the problem is that AI's work is sold as a human's work. So the problem is not with the AI as it's just a tech, but how people use it.

AIs can do some basic things, and people fear their jobs because of that, and people live in fear.

If you make a 3d model with AI, it will probably be full of extra triangles, and errors + texture errors etc...; in some ways, it will be way worse than photogrammetry. Good for a base idea, but it needs lots of work to get a good model out of it.

Back to the topic:

Rule 1: If you see the picture of the mesh, the white and gray render, and it's heavy, you might have problems with it.

https://www.daz3d.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=200,height=200,fit=cover/https://gcdn.daz3d.com/p/112163/i/rusticcottage24daz3d.jpg

I love the rustic-cottage as it has good, fine details, but if you look at this picture, you see the difference in how the Cabinet was cleared up vs how the Sofa is probably from photogrammetry.
Name :  Cabinet
Label :  Cabinet
Class :  DzNode
Vertices : 390 / 390
Triangles :  49 / 49
Quads : 353 / 353
Total Faces : 402 / 402
Total Lines :  0 / 0

vs 
Name : RC Sofa
Label : RC Sofa
Class : DzNode
Vertices : 50 077 / 50 077
Triangles : 20 003 / 20 003
Quads : 0 / 0
Total Faces : 20 003 / 20 003
Total Lines : 0 / 0

100 vs 10000, so 100 times more data. Those two items will look the same detail level if you are not looking at them from inches.

Rule 2: Everything comes with 8k -16k  texture.   (Read the file list) You might have problems with it.

Why? Fine details, close-ups need good texture, okay. But not everything needs that detail, and a good material setting is easier. (It could be even heavier than the texture. So be careful with that too.)

+

Rule 3: It comes with a million textures.  (Read the file list) You might have problems with it.

Why? Do every tile on the ground have its own texture?  Is there a need for it? 

If you could use the same texture for multiple items in a scene, that's more GPU-friendly. 

Xellosz said:

WendyLuvsCatz said:

I need to use an earlier version of Twinmotion to import the diffuse textures original file paths

probably not available to people "buying" it for free now

so that and chasing up all the other maps, consolidation of materials is likely the most off putting thing

a lot can be solved by simply exporting maps to a bespoke folder for your project, I jst prefer to avoid bloating all my drives needlessly 

Xivon textures are extra nested in many subfolders making using original paths extra excruciating 

Fugazi does this too

otherwise, it's easy to use and had lots of other awesome features 

terrain sculpting and painting, brushing animated foliage, full weather system with volumetric clouds and rain, snow, fog, particles to name a few

I am just wary now about discussing or suggesting TM to others because of a lot of pushback and moderation in the past

there is absolutely NOTHING in it for me

if anything I suspect they want people to stay in DAZ studio and buy extra products such as Ultrascenery to do what TM does for free

Thx for the info.

I think with the bridges (DAZ to Unity, Unreal, Blender, Maya, Cinema 4D), etc... crossing between programs is even more accepted than before, and there is now the "common enemy" the AI.

How is AI the enemy? I use AI on every project i have with DS.

As for the original topic, there are way to many assets, environments, clothing, etc that are not optimized for DS use on mid level PCs. I have a long list of PAs I will not buy from because their work is either way to detailed to use, or just bloated and unable to use once you add anything else into the scene.

WendyLuvsCatz said:

I need to use an earlier version of Twinmotion to import the diffuse textures original file paths

probably not available to people "buying" it for free now

so that and chasing up all the other maps, consolidation of materials is likely the most off putting thing

a lot can be solved by simply exporting maps to a bespoke folder for your project, I jst prefer to avoid bloating all my drives needlessly 

Xivon textures are extra nested in many subfolders making using original paths extra excruciating 

Fugazi does this too

otherwise, it's easy to use and had lots of other awesome features 

terrain sculpting and painting, brushing animated foliage, full weather system with volumetric clouds and rain, snow, fog, particles to name a few

I am just wary now about discussing or suggesting TM to others because of a lot of pushback and moderation in the past

there is absolutely NOTHING in it for me

if anything I suspect they want people to stay in DAZ studio and buy extra products such as Ultrascenery to do what TM does for free

Thx for the info.

I think with the bridges (DAZ to Unity, Unreal, Blender, Maya, Cinema 4D), etc... crossing between programs is even more accepted than before, and there is now the "common enemy" the AI.

HDRI, billboards, viewport screens, etc... were the basic fast imports and exports. If I buy something, I want to get it to work, fit into my GPU. If it doesn't fit into my GPU or it's reported to be too hard (commercial-center) I don't buy it. So any idea to get it working is a good idea.

I need to use an earlier version of Twinmotion to import the diffuse textures original file paths

probably not available to people "buying" it for free now

so that and chasing up all the other maps, consolidation of materials is likely the most off putting thing

a lot can be solved by simply exporting maps to a bespoke folder for your project, I jst prefer to avoid bloating all my drives needlessly 

Xivon textures are extra nested in many subfolders making using original paths extra excruciating 

Fugazi does this too

otherwise, it's easy to use and had lots of other awesome features 

terrain sculpting and painting, brushing animated foliage, full weather system with volumetric clouds and rain, snow, fog, particles to name a few

I am just wary now about discussing or suggesting TM to others because of a lot of pushback and moderation in the past

there is absolutely NOTHING in it for me

if anything I suspect they want people to stay in DAZ studio and buy extra products such as Ultrascenery to do what TM does for free

brookwell.brian said:

I recently upgrade to the Sequoia 15.7.2 operating system.  Most of my purchased assets are now missing or unusable.  They appear in the Lost and Found and are inaccessible.  I tried a reinstall of the assets to no effect.  Anyone have any suggestions to help?

If they are in Lost and Found they aren't missing, but their metadata is not being found. You can check theya re accessible either by loading them or by looking in the Content Library under Daz Studio Formats (or Poser formats, depending on the type of content). If the files are present but not correctly categorised (Lost and Found is a catch-all category) then it may be related to one of the postgreSQL issues discussed previously in this thread.

There are two sides of this, you have the export and then you have the import into some other application, both can cause problems so you really need to give a little more ifnormation of what it is that is not working.

FBX is a very complex specification so it is difficult to make a generic export (or import) that work everywhere, so if you have a specific issue it may help tweaking one or more of the parameters in the export dialog.

Hi,

How could I open/import a dsi. file in DAZ?

Thank you!

I use Notron 360 for gamers when it comes to security software. And yes, I did try the part where I made Daz Studio show up on their allowed applications for both windows firewall and that.

no dice. and again, DIM allows my login just fine, but now Daz studio is refusing to let me login.

as for it working.... it just recently stopped working. it only started glitching out when I tried to update metadata and stuff because images were showing as broken in the smart content menu.... and then the postqreSQL thing stopped working. so that's when I tried to reinstall things to get things working again.

Word of warning. I'm sure you already know this but some products lose their Smart Content entries if you update/re-import their metadata.

Huge thank you to memcnell70 and felis!

Thanks to your guidance, I have successfully resolved the issue where thumbnails were not displaying in the Smart Content "Products" tab.
I want to note that I installed DAZ Studio using the default directory settings without any customization when I set up my new PC. Despite this, the problem still occurred.

memcnell70's suggestion regarding the "Cloud lines" was exactly the key. The root cause was that Windows 11 was automatically synchronizing my user folders with OneDrive, which created unstable paths in the content library that prevented the Smart Content database from functioning correctly.

Just in case, for any other users who might encounter this common issue, here are the specific steps I took to fix it:

[Solution: Removing OneDrive Paths and Rebuilding Metadata]
 

1. Remove the OneDrive Paths from DAZ Studio

-Open DAZ Studio Preferences: Go to the menu, Edit>Preferences...

-Select the Content tab from the list, and then click the Content Directory Manager button.

-Delete Cloud Paths: In the Content Directory Manager window, navigate through the "Content Sets" tree and check the lists for both Daz Studio Formats and Poser Formats.

-Select ALL paths that include "OneDrive" (e.g., C:/Users/USER NAME/OneDrive/...) and click the Remove button.

-Click Accept to save the settings and close the window.

2. Rebuild the Metadata

-Open Content DB Maintenance: Click the menu (usually a hamburger icon) on the top right of the Smart Content tab, and select Content DB Maintenance...

-Re-Import Metadata: Check the box next to "Re-Import Metadata..." and click Accept to run the process.

-Restart DAZ Studio.

Following these steps resulted in all thumbnails being displayed normally in the Smart Content "Products" tab.
This information may be helpful for other new PC users who have OneDrive enabled.

Thank you once again for your expertise and help!

I’m trying to learn Blender, but I’ve heard it’s difficult to import DAZ hair. Does anyone know a good solution or another marketplace where I can get hair for characters? I also need the hair to work with the physics system

thanks 

Finally decided to venture into Blender and here's my first project: a pair of flower earrings for G8/8.1F and G9. The earrings come with 2 material presets for the setting (silver and gold), and 8 for the gemstone colors. You can further change these colors by changing the base color value for the earring setting, and the glossy color value for the earring gemstone in DAZ Studio's Surfaces tab. The included readme file also has these details.

The accessories and material presets will be in:

People > Genesis 8 Female > Accessories > SapphireBlue > Flower Earrings
And People > Genesis 9 > Accessories > SapphireBlue > Flower Earrings

Download at Renderhub, or use the attached files here. I've included a zip file and an installer file here. The dsa installer file should add Smart Content metadata too if you choose to use it. (I should try it out one of these days by test installing it on another device maybe). Let me know if there are any issues or any suggestions. (First promo is with G8.1, second with G9.)

Silizium said:

Hello I'm new in Poser. Please can someone explain me how I get Genesis charaters into Poser? 

I have Poser 11 and Poser 14 installed alongside of Daz Studio on a Windows PC. Poser 11 is able to import Genesis 1 and Genesis 2. Later Genesis figures ( 3, 8, 8.1 and 9 ) can be imported as FBX figures exported from Daz Studio. When the Genesis 1 and 2 figures are imported I find they have all of their installed morphs. When later Genesis figures are imported I find that they don't have all of their morphs but it is possible that that may be because I simply haven't figured out how to get those morphs. I'm still trying to learn more about the import and export process and the formats. Trying to import a Genesis 3 figure usually goes a bit weird as a CR2 but is perfectly fine as an FBX. 

I see that the new specifications for Poser 14 include the ability to import and export GLTF/GLB formats.  

crosswind said:

Ryuu@AMcCF said:

crosswind said:

Ryuu@AMcCF said:

Well, I guess I can rule out Navicat. Their sign-up requires me to fill in a country/region of origin (apparently beneath the Last Name)--but there's NO entry spot to fill in! 

 

I really think there's something wrong with your Norton... because when I googled issues of Norton yesterday, I saw some guys reported that Norton prevents webpages from being fully loaded... for some reason.

Unfortunately, I'm unable to get any help from Norton on this. And with the trial period for Navicat counting down, I'm running out of options for pursuing this route. I did look around and saw there were other DB manipulators out there with trial periods, like DbGate, pgAdmin, DBeaver, as well as Navicat.

But I'm wondering if it's really worth the effort to chase down whatever such obscure problem that's slowing DIM down, or shouldn't it just be easier to rip all of the cms and downloaded files in DS out by the roots and try starting over and reload from scratch?

You don't have to go for this route though it should've been pretty straigh-forward and faster. Since this way doens't work for you, another option is that you can Reset cms database by using Content DB Maintenance and re-import the metadata of installed products.

However, the cons are: 1) that'll take much more time; 2) if the products with wrong Description data are re-imported, you'll still have to face the issue of slow uninstallation in DIM ~~  

Well, if I were you, I would firstly uninstall Norton applicaiton, retry using Navicat.... see if it'll work. Then re-install Norton application after fixing the issue or failing to fix... In this way, at least I can know if Norton is the culprit or not ~~

Still same error & unable to connect.