SofaCitizen said:

When rendering with Studio, my system drive fills up. I've both Studio and my content libraries stored on non-system drives, so it must be something to do with temp files too. I've not been doing any heavy rendering recently - single characters and a couple of light boards - but as an example, last night, Studio ate up 17GB of system drive space after 4 renders. I find that a staggering amount.

Are you shutting down your computer straight after closing Daz Studio? If you check out the Task Manager after closing Daz Studio you will notice that it hangs around for a while after looking like it's closed. I believe part of what it's doing here is doing a little housekeeping, so cleaning up the temp folder is probably part of that. 17GB does indeed seem pretty extreme, but perhaps if you try closing Daz Studio and then leaving your computer alone for a while it will go through and clean up some of that space?

If not, see if you can find where exactly that 17GB is coming from.

 

I guess I'm wondering whether this is normal behaviour or whether there's an error in Studio that means it's only releasing resources when on exit and not at the end of each render. It's very frustrating and renders actually get slower the longer I keep Studio open.

This part is definitely true and frequently mentioned. Any rendering and iray preview will seemingly leave little traces behind and so if you find your renders are dropping to CPU when you think they shouldn't then restarting Daz Studio might fix that.

 

I may go the nuclear option soon and delete everything Daz related and build up my library again - the structure imposed by Connect is a mess anyway, so I was already planning to move to manual installs for my own sanity. I've so many doubles in my library, as well as products installed across a few different root folders in smart content.

If you are using Daz Connect (logged into Daz within Daz Studio) in addition to using DIM or Daz Central then you will absolutely have duplicate products installed. If you do consciously want to use Daz Connect to install your content then you should not use either DIM or Daz Central - or probably install Daz Store stuff manually since Connect will probably override that.  If you do not want to use Daz Connect then you should logout of your account in Daz Studio, uninstall everything that Daz Connect has installed and reinstall it with DIM or Central (or manually if you prefer).

Thanks for the pointers! I've been using Connect and Central, and possibly DIM on occasion too. Really need to get myself more organised and disciplined on that. Think I'll go the manual route because none of the offered install managers organise things to my liking, plus it'd be nice to stop things like 3Delight materials ended up installed at all. My shaders folder is particularly messy - things installed all over the place but then also some categories that are big dumps of 100's of files that are difficult to browse if you don't know what you're looking for.

Shutting Studio down definitely frees the system hard drive files almost instantly, so I guess I should focus on what those files are like you suggested. There may be something odd in my setup that's causing that.

I don't suppose you know where the PostgreSQL DB is stored? Wondering whether that adheres to the library drive or it's on the system drive (hopefullly with an option to store it elsewhere? Although that shouldn't have anything to do with the 17GB or even be anywhere near that size). I wonder if there's any way I can load that up in a viewer to get a look at the DB structure. More for my own curiosity and, if I'm starting from scratch, to ensure whatever I end up doing plays nicely with it.

When rendering with Studio, my system drive fills up. I've both Studio and my content libraries stored on non-system drives, so it must be something to do with temp files too. I've not been doing any heavy rendering recently - single characters and a couple of light boards - but as an example, last night, Studio ate up 17GB of system drive space after 4 renders. I find that a staggering amount.

Are you shutting down your computer straight after closing Daz Studio? If you check out the Task Manager after closing Daz Studio you will notice that it hangs around for a while after looking like it's closed. I believe part of what it's doing here is doing a little housekeeping, so cleaning up the temp folder is probably part of that. 17GB does indeed seem pretty extreme, but perhaps if you try closing Daz Studio and then leaving your computer alone for a while it will go through and clean up some of that space?

If not, see if you can find where exactly that 17GB is coming from.

I guess I'm wondering whether this is normal behaviour or whether there's an error in Studio that means it's only releasing resources when on exit and not at the end of each render. It's very frustrating and renders actually get slower the longer I keep Studio open.

This part is definitely true and frequently mentioned. Any rendering and iray preview will seemingly leave little traces behind and so if you find your renders are dropping to CPU when you think they shouldn't then restarting Daz Studio might fix that.

I may go the nuclear option soon and delete everything Daz related and build up my library again - the structure imposed by Connect is a mess anyway, so I was already planning to move to manual installs for my own sanity. I've so many doubles in my library, as well as products installed across a few different root folders in smart content.

If you are using Daz Connect (logged into Daz within Daz Studio) in addition to using DIM or Daz Central then you will absolutely have duplicate products installed. If you do consciously want to use Daz Connect to install your content then you should not use either DIM or Daz Central - or probably install Daz Store stuff manually since Connect will probably override that.  If you do not want to use Daz Connect then you should logout of your account in Daz Studio, uninstall everything that Daz Connect has installed and reinstall it with DIM or Central (or manually if you prefer).

Bit of an old thread, but the closest to something I'm experiencing too.

When rendering with Studio, my system drive fills up. I've both Studio and my content libraries stored on non-system drives, so it must be something to do with temp files too. I've not been doing any heavy rendering recently - single characters and a couple of light boards - but as an example, last night, Studio ate up 17GB of system drive space after 4 renders. I find that a staggering amount. I run a small, SSD system drive, which means my system all but shuts down when Studio is utilising that much space.

There are two ways I can sort it - do a drive clean-up of temp files with Studio running or restart Studio. The used space returns in those scenarios. I would've thought that Studio would release any system resources it used when a render completes and/or I start a new one. Like Marcelle, I don't think it has anything to do with the temp folder set in Studio itself.

I thought it may be something to do with system memory caching, but then again I've 32GB RAM and the renders I've been doing are relatively light. If I leave my hard drive to fill up, I'll eventually get the 'renderer is already in use' message and Studio will need a restart.

I guess I'm wondering whether this is normal behaviour or whether there's an error in Studio that means it's only releasing resources when on exit and not at the end of each render. It's very frustrating and renders actually get slower the longer I keep Studio open. Renders are happening on the GPU too. IIRC, modern GPU drivers on Windows create a memory pool on the hard drive as well as on the GPU, so I wonder if there's an issue freeing those after renders. I've a RTX 3060ti 12GB.

Anyway, I'll continue troubleshooting, but I thought I'd post here too in case anyone has pointers on things to try. I may go the nuclear option soon and delete everything Daz related and build up my library again - the structure imposed by Connect is a mess anyway, so I was already planning to move to manual installs for my own sanity. I've so many doubles in my library, as well as products installed across a few different root folders in smart content. Plus it's incredibly difficult to compare, for example, skins when they're packaged under individual characters and not in one central place. But that's a different issue.

Greyscale thumbnails mean not installed. Try downloading this script and dragging it into the Daz Studio Viewport, that should add the current DIM/Daz Central paths (which are the same) to DS, though you may then have nested content directories http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/referenceguide/scripting/api_reference/samples/file_io/install_manager_config_import/start

Once you have done that, if the thumbnails are in colour and you can load the content withouyt going online, open Edit>Preferences>Content tab, click Content Directory manager, and expand the Daz Studio and Poser options to show the paths currently beeing used, take a screenshot, and post it here.

No the older version wasn't INTENTIONALLY installed. In all cases, I tried to install DS 4.21 directly from DIM (and then later, DAZ Central). It seems to be picking up 4.8 all on its own.

I don't have a 4.8 installer on this computer at all. The only ones I have are:

DAZStudio_4.21.0.5_Win64.exe
DazCentral_1.5.0.20_Win64.exe
DAZ3DIM_1.4.1.22_Win64.exe

No dice. Both DIM and DAZ Central (which I just tried as well) appear to be installing version 4.8 when you try to install 4.21.  

Other things of note: No start menu item is created, and no taskbar icon either. So something is definitely amiss with the installers.

I suspect that Richard. However I let DIM install it all (well except studio, for some reason it wont install it so I have to use Daz Central) Once it says all installed then the program is all over the place and the content is no where to be found. Although the folder where it normally installs is there. Leana, when I say phone home it won't let me work offline. I guess as Richard says the content is missing. So it connects to Daz (rather I want to or not) pop up keeps telling me log in as soons as I try to click on the content..oddly I do notice it is all in black and white where in the past they were in color. Sooo then at the bottom is claims it is installing what ever one I had clicked on, but when done there is nothing in the view window.. I might try to find someone with an older version I guess. As it seemed to always work fine in past releases. For the record I am using Windows 10 home..is that it maybe? If it is I can move up to pro easily. I have decent hardware.. Nvidia Geforce RTX 3060 ti, 8 gb.. 64 gb onboard ram. cpu is ryzen 7 5700g 8 core..it's pretty much a new computer..I just upgraded ram and moved it back to win10 since it arrived with win11

future_boy_f2de9c36c5 said:

Richard Haseltine said:

Daz central is essentailly a skin for Install Manager, certainly as far as the content installation is concerned. It is possible that there are pathing issues here, but the fix for that (as long as you don't have one content directory isntalled inside another) would eb to correct the paths rather than slog trhough a round or unisntalling and reinstalling (especially as Daz Central does not retain the zips for reinstalaltion, which Install Manager may depending on settings). Where exactly are the problem files on disc, and whata your content directorys ettings (in the Installation tab of Install Manager's setting, recehed by the gear icon, and the Daz Studio Content Directory Manager, reached by the button in the Content tab of edit Preferences (Windows)/Daz Studio>Preferences (Mac))?

On my External Hard Drive, which is an SSD.  I am using an External SSD for storage reasons. 

Doesn't help. We need to see how are the folders set in DIM and Daz Studio, take a snapshot and attach them to your post with "Attach a file" above the "Post Comment" button.

I don't use DIM, but attached you can find how to get to Content Directory Manager in DS and what we want to see in there - Expand all the paths like in the sample.

Richard Haseltine said:

Daz central is essentailly a skin for Install Manager, certainly as far as the content installation is concerned. It is possible that there are pathing issues here, but the fix for that (as long as you don't have one content directory isntalled inside another) would eb to correct the paths rather than slog trhough a round or unisntalling and reinstalling (especially as Daz Central does not retain the zips for reinstalaltion, which Install Manager may depending on settings). Where exactly are the problem files on disc, and whata your content directorys ettings (in the Installation tab of Install Manager's setting, recehed by the gear icon, and the Daz Studio Content Directory Manager, reached by the button in the Content tab of edit Preferences (Windows)/Daz Studio>Preferences (Mac))?

On my External Hard Drive, which is an SSD.  I am using an External SSD for storage reasons. 

You mean .dsf files? Those will generally be in the /data folder and will not be seen in Daz Studio - they contain the bulk of the native content data (the basic models, the way they wrap images around themselves, additional shapes, joints for figures) that is then called by the scene and preset files that you do see in the content panes. They are not directly used by you at all, as long as they are correctly installed (most easily using Install Manager or Daz Central, or installing directly through Daz Studio itself).

Daz central is essentailly a skin for Install Manager, certainly as far as the content installation is concerned. It is possible that there are pathing issues here, but the fix for that (as long as you don't have one content directory isntalled inside another) would eb to correct the paths rather than slog trhough a round or unisntalling and reinstalling (especially as Daz Central does not retain the zips for reinstalaltion, which Install Manager may depending on settings). Where exactly are the problem files on disc, and whata your content directorys ettings (in the Installation tab of Install Manager's setting, recehed by the gear icon, and the Daz Studio Content Directory Manager, reached by the button in the Content tab of edit Preferences (Windows)/Daz Studio>Preferences (Mac))?

Richard Haseltine said:

future_boy_f2de9c36c5 said:

felis said:

How are you installing your content?

Through DazConnect and DIM.

Which? Doing both is a waste of space. Daz Connect instalaltions can fail to decrypt, which might well produce the "missing" thumbnails if there are .png files theer but they cannot be read 9and then the actual content files too might be unreadable - the log would then complain about expecting { or [ - Help>Troubleshooting>View Log File). If there are Connect files then any DIM install will be ignored, so bad files will block the good from DIM.

(Sorry for the double post)

I meant Daz Central.  I deleted Daz Central to see if it solves my problem, apparently it didn't solve everything.  Should I uninstall everything and start over?

I installed DAZ Studio with the administrator user, but when I go to the standard user DAZ folder is not shown on the Start menu (Windows 10 fresh install). The folder and all the voices are present in the Admin user. The program is installed in the right folder under C:\Program Files. Installed using DIM and Daz Central. Why aren't the Menu voices present for the normal user? Has something gone wrong with the installation process?

1)Do you need DAZ Central for it?
(If this would be the only possible way to get it to work, then we're done here. 
I won't use DAZ Central)
2)I installed it with DIM. 
I only have it in Menue>File>Send To> DAZ To Blender.
Nothing at all in Menue>Scripts like it has been said.
3)How to install the opposite side of the Bridge in Blender?
When I open Blender 3.5.1, there is no dialog refering to the DAZ To Blender Bridge.

My DazStudio 4 application folder is located on D: drive.
My Studio>MyLibrary folder is also located on D: drive
Blender 3.5.1. is located on E: drive

depending on which installer you used it works or it doesnt...check and see..If it doesnt work post here which installer you used DIM or central...for me central works for dim it doesnt..

myotherworld said:

"futur part"

hello I like the sound of that, are you saying theres more to come?

 

ah ah yes. i have the project to completely fill the station.

i started working add-on3, with the hall next the central room of add-on2 .for the moment there is a self-service refectory for visitor and crew member with kitchen,cold room and all the stuff for coocking. i think there will be also a bar, a room with cultural stuff and a store for vending parts for spaceship maintenance or something like that. there is also the paths to make the junction to the 2 corridors "SRS 17 Corridor Alpha"

and for the futur add-on 4,5, and more:

-the garden (you can see his place in space road stop, at the top of the station, behind a big moveable part)

-the room with evacuation module (behind the big yellow door in addon2,you can see the overture for ejection pod on the outside bottom of the station ),

-a fully automatic room where all the box are tidy coming from the small elevator you can see on space road stop level 0,

-reactor room who provide electricity, water treatment room ,may be small dark corridor for aeration like in alien1.

-crew dormitory, computer room and infirmary will take place under the antenna zone.

-a room for the maintenance of the circular droïd who carry spaceship in level 0

-and many maintenance rooms to make junction between all the sector.

Your dogs are pretty.

Here is Sammy Duke. I just call him Sam. I don't know his original name. I was driving down a rural road, and as usual I was driving slow, enough so that Sam decided he would stand out in the middle of the road to get me to stop. It worked. When I did stop he came up to my car window and I pat him on the head. I was about to leave, and he was grudingly about to walk away, when I noticed he was a rack of bones. I thought uh-oh, he's starving, but he was so pretty I thought he must be someone's pet. I decided I would "steal" him because if he was someone's pet they have abandoned him. So I "stole" him. 

I think he is a foxhound, but in central Appalachia they call foxhounds, coonhounds. When I first "stole" him almost everytime a vehicle would come by or I would leave he'd climb into the vehicle and ride shotgun. i think because it was taught him when he was used for hunting. I got him a transport cage and he actually likes to go in of his own accord to sleep or relax. I also think that was trained behaviour when they crated him up to go hunting. However, he hates going into the chainlink kennel in the backyard.

 He is very old, but I'm not sure how old. I think the original owners were hunters that dumped him near some stranger's house assuming that house would adopt him (they didn't or never noticed him) when he got too old to hunt as he has mobility problems with his hips. He is a gentle as can be with people but I think probably the foxes and coons of the world have a different opinion of him.

PerttiA said:

ecks201 said:

High School Toilet | Daz 3D

The toilets at my school were nowhere near this posh. Looks more like a hotel.

In the beginning of the seventies, ours was still an outhouse where we sat side by side with no dividers or screens between us. 

At the senior school I went to it was a bit backward. There were two rows of toilets facing each other on either side of a central corridor. The doors started at neck level and went down to knee level when you were sitting on the trap, and you could hold a conversation and make eye contact with up to three people on the other side of the corridor. The corridor between the traps was roofed over for the first time the August before the September I went to the school. The school was 98 years old at that point. Until then, each row of traps only had a corrugated iron roof over them. The urinal at the end of the central corridor was fixed to a wall and had never been covered against the weather until that roof was built. That was 1979. Oh, did I mention it was a boarding school, so you couldn't hang on until you got home?

Regards,

Richard.

reserv888 said:

felis said:

reserv888 said:

The weird thing is that it doesn't matter how large i make the suit. There are still poke throughs.

What do you mean with "how large"?

You could add a push modifier to the suit and set it at 0.1-0.2 would probably fix it. 

I scale the suit (with scale slider, under Parameters tab) to to make it larger.
I will test the push modifier.
Thanks for the tip.

Scaling moves everything away from a central point, which means that a surface that is nearer to the central point than the adjacent area of the base figure will get closer or even peentrate it. A Push Modifier moves the surface of the mesh outward, as defined by the local normal (iamginary line pointing up from the polygon) - in most cases that is what is needed to add a bit of extra space (obviously not always - a pipe or tube would just get thicker).

I have no idea what you mean by  gatekeeper. I have Daz central installed and am able to download studio but when I hit the download link everything just grinds to a halt. Is this due to my data connection,  if so perhaps just leaving it might be the answer