Thanks, folks.  Some good and some bad with Genesis 9.  I am making some progress, but am also seeing some significant challenges.  From time to time, the joints seem to go yucky.  By yucky, I mean the kinds of imperfections that I put up with in my silly claymation-style figures because I am not going for realism.  Scooped armpits. Distended elbows and knees.  The kinds of things that a premium figure's wieghtmapping and JCMs should be correcting by default.  Have not found a pattern yet.  At first, I thought  it might be because Carrara relies on blended weight so must lose something in the translation, right?  But I have noticed it in Daz Studio as well.  Have heard complaints in the Commons Forum which makes me believe it is not limited to Carrara.  If anyone notices a pattern or has insights, please share.   

Novica said:

The stupid forum isn't doing attachments, says no file data found. 

The attachment stays attached to the next post, if you delete  it there (as no longer wanted) when making cinsecutive posts then it is gone entirely. Refreshing the page between posts seems to avoid that.

The stupid forum isn't doing attachments, says no file data found. 

I find that it's often easier to kit bash a bit than search for the perfect hair.  I'll often apply two different hairs at the same time and hide the front of one hair and all but the front of another to get effects like that.  There's also a very useful package from Biscuits over at Rendo of just hair front pieces.  Those were made for V4, but they can be parented to any Genesis figure and then color matched in easily. 

Apologies in advance for not speaking your language as far as this stuff is concerned.  I'm totally new to anything like this.  (I'm not going to sound smart in this post.)

Anyway, I created a character, put some clothes and hair on her, shaped, etc.  Now my objective is to put her on the bed and have her looking out the window in an environment, figure out lighting eventually, and make a photo.  Starting out.  The problem I'm facing is that I must have turned on some setting, Iray or whatever, that makes my character look like it does when I do an image.  Everything is running excruciatingly slow now, and my machine is no slouch (5900x, RTX 3080, 32gb RAM).  With every rotation, change of perspective, learning to change the location of my character, I have to wait forever while I'm watching big fat pixels turn into the way my character will look like in a render.    How can I get back to crap mode, low resolution, bad lighting, so I'm not waiting all day while I put things in their proper place, get the pose right, and get the character in the right location in the environment?  How do I toggle 'looks good' on and off?   Does that make sense?  I want to put things in order before I preview the finished product, and I don't want to sit here and wait while things are pixelated af because I've rotated the view 5 degrees or moved the character three feet to the left. I'm looking at these tutorials and trying to put in the right search terms and looking up glossaries, but I can't find or understand any answers.  Yes, I understand that Youtube is a great resource and I wouldn't be on here if I found the answer.  So...crap mode:  Is there a way to get back there?     

Semicharm said:

Catherine3678ab said:

Semicharm said:

Catherine3678ab said:

Turbosquid has 2 pages free Christmas models too. We can't put links in here {because pages also have commercial items}.

They have wreaths, trees, socks for the fireplace, red hats, snowmen [and one that is very unfriendly looking with big black eyes and a stitched smile, and another one that looks like golf balls instead of snow], a Choco Santa Claus 6 {as in looks like a chocolate food item}, Gingerbread Cookies, a beautiful gold fashion cross pendant, etc.

Can you at least give a hint on how to find it? It's not listed anywhere on Turbosquid's front page and the first several pages on a google search only give links to marginally relevant "searches" for Christmas items on Turbosquid. I can find the item page for "Choco Santa Claus 6" but searching for other pages with a link to that page only gives one single "avent" page with only that one item on it.

Sign in first, then search for "Christmas" - then go to price and select 'free' ... 

Freebies that are available year round don't really qualify as limited "holiday giveaways"

I've never heard someone complain that freebies were available for too long!

Semicharm said:

Catherine3678ab said:

Semicharm said:

Catherine3678ab said:

Turbosquid has 2 pages free Christmas models too. We can't put links in here {because pages also have commercial items}.

They have wreaths, trees, socks for the fireplace, red hats, snowmen [and one that is very unfriendly looking with big black eyes and a stitched smile, and another one that looks like golf balls instead of snow], a Choco Santa Claus 6 {as in looks like a chocolate food item}, Gingerbread Cookies, a beautiful gold fashion cross pendant, etc.

Can you at least give a hint on how to find it? It's not listed anywhere on Turbosquid's front page and the first several pages on a google search only give links to marginally relevant "searches" for Christmas items on Turbosquid. I can find the item page for "Choco Santa Claus 6" but searching for other pages with a link to that page only gives one single "avent" page with only that one item on it.

Sign in first, then search for "Christmas" - then go to price and select 'free' ... 

Freebies that are available year round don't really qualify as limited "holiday giveaways"

My thread, nowhere in it did I say 'limited' ... the theme is for the holidays ;-) 

Catherine3678ab said:

Semicharm said:

Catherine3678ab said:

Turbosquid has 2 pages free Christmas models too. We can't put links in here {because pages also have commercial items}.

They have wreaths, trees, socks for the fireplace, red hats, snowmen [and one that is very unfriendly looking with big black eyes and a stitched smile, and another one that looks like golf balls instead of snow], a Choco Santa Claus 6 {as in looks like a chocolate food item}, Gingerbread Cookies, a beautiful gold fashion cross pendant, etc.

Can you at least give a hint on how to find it? It's not listed anywhere on Turbosquid's front page and the first several pages on a google search only give links to marginally relevant "searches" for Christmas items on Turbosquid. I can find the item page for "Choco Santa Claus 6" but searching for other pages with a link to that page only gives one single "avent" page with only that one item on it.

Sign in first, then search for "Christmas" - then go to price and select 'free' ... 

Freebies that are available year round don't really qualify as limited "holiday giveaways"

Semicharm said:

Catherine3678ab said:

Turbosquid has 2 pages free Christmas models too. We can't put links in here {because pages also have commercial items}.

They have wreaths, trees, socks for the fireplace, red hats, snowmen [and one that is very unfriendly looking with big black eyes and a stitched smile, and another one that looks like golf balls instead of snow], a Choco Santa Claus 6 {as in looks like a chocolate food item}, Gingerbread Cookies, a beautiful gold fashion cross pendant, etc.

Can you at least give a hint on how to find it? It's not listed anywhere on Turbosquid's front page and the first several pages on a google search only give links to marginally relevant "searches" for Christmas items on Turbosquid. I can find the item page for "Choco Santa Claus 6" but searching for other pages with a link to that page only gives one single "avent" page with only that one item on it.

Sign in first, then search for "Christmas" - then go to price and select 'free' ... 

Emrys' Sandra has an athletic build right out of the box, but in the full-length shots below, she has been in the gym for about six months, and displays her short-bellied biceps and peaked triceps in various poses. TD's skillfully created and generously provided flexion morphs are a critical driver, superimposed over several other muscle morph products. The only edits of these renders are for the purposes of modesty as required by forum rules. Thanks again, TD, for your creativity and generosity.

Catherine3678ab said:

Turbosquid has 2 pages free Christmas models too. We can't put links in here {because pages also have commercial items}.

They have wreaths, trees, socks for the fireplace, red hats, snowmen [and one that is very unfriendly looking with big black eyes and a stitched smile, and another one that looks like golf balls instead of snow], a Choco Santa Claus 6 {as in looks like a chocolate food item}, Gingerbread Cookies, a beautiful gold fashion cross pendant, etc.

Can you at least give a hint on how to find it? It's not listed anywhere on Turbosquid's front page and the first several pages on a google search only give links to marginally relevant "searches" for Christmas items on Turbosquid. I can find the item page for "Choco Santa Claus 6" but searching for other pages with a link to that page only gives one single "avent" page with only that one item on it.

barbult said:

The additional attached images are what sell the product best, I think. Unfortunately, a forum bug sometimes hides attachments in the first post of a thread. I couldn't see those images, so I also thought it was just Christmas lights. To workaround the forum bug, a user can click on the date (December 1) under the RiverSoftArt avatar in the first message and make the images show up. This is the image that sells it for me:

Thanks for the advice.  I put this image embedded in the first post.

IceCrMn said:

Nor have I seen any other posts about DS5 delays in any other forum.

I could have missed some though. I'm only one person and there are only so many hours in the day to scour the internet looking for info.

There is no other public space for info.  
As you probably know, Opague is more often DAZ's way.  
Once "development" is done it is released on DAZ's schedule.  May be odd accident reveal but usually just shortly before.

DAZ changelog is sanitized so could be surprises showing up as well (thank you again Richard for this info on these forums).
All the rest is speculation and wishes - which there never is a shortage of.

IMO considering all the moving parts in 3d and the scale of DAZ, think they do pretty darn good on average.

So yeah, +1 to your generalized comment that no one publically knows where DS5 development is at is the general rule.  Personally fine with that for many reasons.

That said we do know that the QT framework (scripting esp. plugins) is getting modernized.
Cos i use Visual Menus for calling up pretty much everything, and it's creator Bitwelder only JVs with Zevo rn, am likley more nervous than most what DS5 would cos for impact to my workflow.
Cos it is a script and not a plug-in there is some hope. But even one code diff can cos everything to halt. Shudder.

Like Imago, and other animators, hope animation gets at least some love in DS5.  Just a bit easier would be nice.
Depends in part how DAZ assesses its bridge attempts to other apps.  Would guess they have a years worth of data and will re-assess at some point soon'ish how much it improves sales & user adoption.

When i looked at DAZ main promo landing video and saw the animation, i saw the dress showing mesh view but the rest of figure rendered.
That doesn't look anything in current DS.  Show Mesh all or pick another render type.
So is that DS5? Or using other apps to show DAZ animation possibilties?  Know my guess.

Edit. See Richard added some good info as i was writing this. Thnks.

wsterdan said:

IceCrMn said:

vrba79 said:

I can't help but feel DS5 would be much closer to a reality, if Daz3D weren't chasing certain pipe dreams.

We the users really have no clue how far along DS5 is.

We can only guess and make assumptions.

Maybe it's finished and waiting release after Christmas.

Maybe they haven't typed the first line of code yet.

We just don't know.

Well, yes, we do, in fact, know that they've "typed the first line of code".

If you go back to the first page, first entry of this thread you'll see that in July, 2021 they had a pre-beta they were going to release to allow Macintosh users to run DAZ Studio on machines using Big Sur, and that they'd planned on releasing a more functional version around New Years a few months later. In the thread announcing that Apple had helped them get 4.x running on Macs so the pre-beta was off (https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/514751/daz-studio-5-preview-release-is-delayed-and-that-s-good-news/p1), they also informed us that the pre-beta already had Filament working on Macs.

I – like everyone else – would like an update, but I'm also confident that they have been working on it consistantly and they'll release when they're comfortable that it'll be fairly solid and useable.

The point I was trying to make is, we have no idea where DS5 is in development.

Obviously it's going to be somewhere between not started yet and finished. Hence the generalization.

Yes, I have read both threads concerning DS5.

There was no mention in either about other projects delaying the release of DS5 or the milestones achieved other than what was posted by DAZ_Rawb.

Nor have I seen any other posts about DS5 delays in any other forum.

I could have missed some though. I'm only one person and there are only so many hours in the day to scour the internet looking for info.

If you have more complete and up to date info lots of people would be interested in reading about it.

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In the  future I'll make note of the things I'm generalizing in my posts so it's clearer to the readers what I'm writing.

Richard Haseltine said:

Moved to Art Studio since it is a non-technical, workflow/product question.

I do not see how this topic fits into the Art Studio forum. 

As Richard has said it would be better if you switched to using DIM instead. However, if you are going to persist with Daz Central then you can try opening task manager and killing Daz3d (which does not make sense since if it is not installed how can it be running?) or repeatedly "Logout and Login everytime until it completes" as suggested here (reddit thread) or here.

A quick search also reveals this, this and this which probably explain why I have heard about this issue before. However, the only solutions in those three is also to stop using Daz Central and use DIM instead.

The additional attached images are what sell the product best, I think. Unfortunately, a forum bug sometimes hides attachments in the first post of a thread. I couldn't see those images, so I also thought it was just Christmas lights. To workaround the forum bug, a user can click on the date (December 1) under the RiverSoftArt avatar in the first message and make the images show up. This is the image that sells it for me:

which search terms do I use?

I do have nVidia, I knew that was important for daz so I made sure when purchasing to get one with nvidia

Can't help with the Daz Central issue as I exclusively use DIM to install all Daz stuff.  However, the previous rendering issue could be due to a number of factors - assuming you do indeeed have an nVidia card then it probably means that the scene you are rending is too much for your graphics card's memory so it is reverting to the CPU. If you hadn't uninstalled then you could have done some tests or checked your logs.

If you get everything setup again you can go into the advanced rendering settings and switch off the CPU fallback for rendering. Then, after a restart, if you try to render something your card cannot handle it will just quit and leave you with a black image.

If that is the reason for your GPU not doing the work then there are a whole bunch of ways to try and resolve or work around that.

However, going back to the Daz Central issue - that does kinda ring a bell so there may have been others posting to the forums with that issue so you can try and search for a solution. One of them may be temporarily disabling your antivirus.

WendyLuvsCatz said:

PhilW said:

Great work, Dart! Good to see you are still in the game. And I know, I haven't posted on a Carrara forum for AGES, but I still use our beloved program most days, mostly making stuff for DS.

including Linton one day? 

Who knows!  I did look at it a long time ago, but Daz didn't have instancing at that stage so it was going to be very difficult. But it has it now so who knows, when I want a change from hair!