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! 

Diomede 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.

Cheers, PhilW!  Hope all is going well. Have been rewatching your animation tutorial.  So much more than a Carrara tutorial.  Great stuff.  Thanks.  On products, how about some balding but not bald hair products for older gentlemen?

Thanks for the suggestion. There are some products that do that already (at least for G8 men) but it wouldn't be too difficult to do, I don't think. 

BluesDragon said:
P.S. Neferset and I are still together!

 Yay :)

The only ones I'm still in touch with are the ones who hang around here still. I used to be on another forum with some of the others but that sadly faded away.

Love the gremlin sculpt

KevinH said:

If you search the internet, you can find instructions to disable Windows Updates in 11, but they involve editing the group policy and the registry. So it sounds like it's possible. But I've never tried it.

As for Windows updates, I've never had the PC just install the updates and then reboot.automatically. They put a little icon on the task bar that says updates are ready to install and to choose a time. I think it has a default time sometime during the night, so I suppose if you leave your PC on all night, then it might reboot in the middle of a render. But I've never had to leave it on all night.

As for the BIOS updates, I'm not sure if different manufacturers handle it differently, because I have seen reports of people saying their PC is suddenly installing a BIOS update. But that's not how it happens on my Dell PC. The BIOS update is in two parts. There's the standard BIOS update that you download from Dell and you have to installed from the executable or let the SupportAssistant do it. Windows does not install that part. You have to do it. Then there is the FIRMWARE part and windows can and will install that. 

I can install a BIOS update...say it is version 2.9. When the PC boots up, I can go into the Device Manager and check the FIRMWARE and it will still be at 2.8. Seems like it takes a couple weeks for windows to get the FIRMWARE update. At that point you can install it, or windows will. I alwasy seem to have boot problems when they do it, so I always try to do it before they can.

If I don't check for BIOS updates and there is one...say version 2.10, windows will install the FIRMWARE 2.10 update when it is available  even though I haven't updated the BIOS part. That causes boot issues as well.

The boot issue: The PC will start to boot and then stop at a blank screen and I have to force a reboot or it will start up and then shut down and then restart again, and then it will come up normally. Then I can go and install the FIRMWARE update and that has always fixed it so far. If I don't install the FIRMWARE update, it will keep doing that behavior. That's how I found out windows was doing FIREWARE updates. I think maybe windows is trying to install the FIRMARE update during the boot and can't. (Maybe winodws is suppose to install the entire BIOS but that isn't what happens with my PC.)

Windows was doing BIOS updates on Version 10 too. if you had the feature update. I think that's how it works.

...I never had a BIOS update on W7 from MS so it sounds like something introduced with 10.  Again I don't care for MS (or anyone) meddling with and making changes to my system without my permission particularly when it comes to the BIOS which should only be the responsibility of the MB maker.

xyer0 said:

Daz can Web3, VR, & Metaverse all they want. But they can't organise/categorise their own products in their own store?

wouldn\'t it be great to have a workable store? With all the new people working on Web3 and all that, they surely can figure out how to get the sales working, create a working search in the forums and store, and cayegorize the store offerings so when I want a hair for g8 i can find it right now. 

But are they triangular? Maybe I'm using the wrong search terms. That primitive product may work.

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.

Cheers, PhilW!  Hope all is going well. Have been rewatching your animation tutorial.  So much more than a Carrara tutorial.  Great stuff.  Thanks.  On products, how about some balding but not bald hair products for older gentlemen?

Wow!

Watched it right away.  Another great video.  Had no idea you could use a different versions of the mesh for weightmapping.  Or if I did, I forgot long ago.  Brilliant.  And this video has a nice potential solution for Barbult's earlier questions about seams.  Fantastic.

Thanks again.

In my Art Studio Forum thread here at Daz, I have been posting screenshot series documenting my workflows for various tasks.  Easier for me to go back and find something than searching a video.  One example was using Mada's method for a DForce dynamic add-on for thickness for DForce objects.  Another is the steps in trying to implement videos by Jay Versluis and Mada for using the transfer utility for a character shape instead of base shape.  Another was using Carrara's 3D paint to create opacity maps for geoshells.  I hope you wouldn't mind if I post a similar series based on my attempts to implement some of the insights from your videos.  I would combine it with what I have learned from sources such as MD's videos and a video by Jay and Fugazi in the Daz+ area and....  

Hey guys :)
Could anyone point me in the direction of some G8F/G3F clothing or accessories that feature a jumper/sweater worn on the character's waist with sleeves tied on the front? Like the one here: https://www.daz3d.com/t-shirt-dress-outfit-for-genesis-8-female-s
I just can't figure out what to write in the search field for this :(

If you search the internet, you can find instructions to disable Windows Updates in 11, but they involve editing the group policy and the registry. So it sounds like it's possible. But I've never tried it.

As for Windows updates, I've never had the PC just install the updates and then reboot.automatically. They put a little icon on the task bar that says updates are ready to install and to choose a time. I think it has a default time sometime during the night, so I suppose if you leave your PC on all night, then it might reboot in the middle of a render. But I've never had to leave it on all night.

As for the BIOS updates, I'm not sure if different manufacturers handle it differently, because I have seen reports of people saying their PC is suddenly installing a BIOS update. But that's not how it happens on my Dell PC. The BIOS update is in two parts. There's the standard BIOS update that you download from Dell and you have to installed from the executable or let the SupportAssistant do it. Windows does not install that part. You have to do it. Then there is the FIRMWARE part and windows can and will install that. 

I can install a BIOS update...say it is version 2.9. When the PC boots up, I can go into the Device Manager and check the FIRMWARE and it will still be at 2.8. Seems like it takes a couple weeks for windows to get the FIRMWARE update. At that point you can install it, or windows will. I alwasy seem to have boot problems when they do it, so I always try to do it before they can.

If I don't check for BIOS updates and there is one...say version 2.10, windows will install the FIRMWARE 2.10 update when it is available  even though I haven't updated the BIOS part. That causes boot issues as well.

The boot issue: The PC will start to boot and then stop at a blank screen and I have to force a reboot or it will start up and then shut down and then restart again, and then it will come up normally. Then I can go and install the FIRMWARE update and that has always fixed it so far. If I don't install the FIRMWARE update, it will keep doing that behavior. That's how I found out windows was doing FIREWARE updates. I think maybe windows is trying to install the FIRMARE update during the boot and can't. (Maybe winodws is suppose to install the entire BIOS but that isn't what happens with my PC.)

Windows was doing BIOS updates on Version 10 too. if you had the feature update. I think that's how it works.

Richard Haseltine said:

In Daz Studio or in content folders? The latter isn't a Daz Studio topic.

The products have now a subfolder called * Daz Originals * in the Content Folders.

Feel free to move this topic to a forum that is appropriate, I seem to always get it wrong 

Silent Winter said:

Hey BD, Great to see you :)

I fondly remember the Frazetta contest for sure. I also remember the redecorating of the 'clubhouse' ... something about pink vs no-pink? My avatar went to sleep in the corner and woke up to a reshaded world, lol.

Been busy PA-ing and not much rendering time between that and the day job. Holiday coming up though :)

Hey, good to see you again!
I retired about a year and a half ago so I've been trying to learn guitar and back at modeling again, but this time with 3D sculpting.  Been playing with ZbrushCore Mini, ZbrushCore, Blender, 3D Coat, and Nomad. So far, I like ZbrushCore (can't really justify the cost of full on Zbrush) on the PC and Nomad on my iPad. It's finally forcing me to learn anatomy. It's slow going but I think a get a little better each week. Maybe someday I'll be a merchant here again.
My forum avatar here (I call it Gremlin) is one of my completely original sculpts.
If you are in touch with some of the PA's and Forumites from 'back in the day', send them here so we can catch up on things if they want.
P.S. Neferset and I are still together!

DoctorJellybean said:

DAZ_Steve said:

In fact, I'll put a bount out: Whoever comes up with the most frustrating search that likely affects the most people gets $100 in store credit.  Other rewards will be given out as well.

If I enter DAZ Steve I get some weird results

https://www.daz3d.com/catalogsearch/result/?mature=false&q=daz+steve

Does that count

At least some have the word "Steve", but Shark Poses????? What does that tell us about Daz Steve?

DAZ_Steve said:

In fact, I'll put a bount out: Whoever comes up with the most frustrating search that likely affects the most people gets $100 in store credit.  Other rewards will be given out as well.

If I enter DAZ Steve I get some weird results

https://www.daz3d.com/catalogsearch/result/?mature=false&q=daz+steve

Does that count

KevinH said:

I found a setting in Windows 11 professional where you can delay updates for up to 5 weeks.

Not sure if this is true for all PCs, but Dell has a setting in the BIOS called UEFI Capsule Firmware Updates, If you disable this, that is suppose to stop automatic BIOS updates. But people on the Dell forum say that it doesn't always work. They say their PCs still updated even with the setting turned off.

...as I understand, originally one of the points made was that updates for W11 Pro Edition were supposed to be on a 12 instead of 6 month schedule  and could be deferred  for up to two years which at least minimised the risk of interrupting and killing a large render job because of an auto reboot.  I would think BIOS updates would require a reboot, so every 5 weeks would be extremely inconvenient.  Hopefully there is a way of disabling that.  

Just like with device drivers, i go directly to the manufacturer's site for updates instead of trusting MS to do it (that was an issue with 10 in the early days as they kept auto replacing current Nvidia drivers with buggy ones resulting in BSODs and other issues). 

MS doesn't make the motherboards so they shouldn't be the ones issuing somethign as important as a BIOS update.  Unless I actually need to update the BIOS for some reason (like maybe if an RTX L6000 with 64GB of VRAM is released) I prefer not having to mess with it as long as what I have supports the other hardware just fine.

I chiselled stone for more than thirty years. I also like to paint, sketch and create digital art. Each of these forms require different tools.

I could try and sketch with my stone tools and I can sketch on stone. Taking my chisels to my computer would be a disaster!

That said I'd like to try and explain that, although I did spend a good amount of time lately learning Daz Studio, I'm never 'jumping ship' from Carrara, like some folks might have thought. Just expanding the tool range. Why? 

There's a thread in this forum regarding the use of Genesis 9 in Carrara, and it's a good one. I think it's really cool that we can get Genesis 2 through 9 to work in one way or another in Carrara. 

I bought Misty's Genesis 3 presets for Carrara and also have the ones she made for Genesis 8. They do allow me to bring Genesis 3 and 8 figures into Carrara, and I've done so on many, Many occasions.

Now, when I load Genesis 3 through 9 into Daz Studio, I can literally give them a pose and render them in Iray, and not only do they work, they really look good!

So I took the time to learn how to animate in Daz Studio along with getting (at least a little) familiar with Iray and OctaneRender within. Compared to Carrara, Daz Studio is a cludgy, headachy disappointment when it comes to animating. It's like it tries hard to diminish my attempts to do so.

Before this whole endeavor I used Daz Studio for other things like adding Triax rigging to older Poser-style rigging, adding new morph target posibilities to the figure so that I could more easily add full-body morphs while working in Carrara, without having to unloack the figure, creating custon aniBlocks and so forth. It was, as Haedwax 

calls it: my Carrara Plugin.

Using what I've learned over the years on working in Daz Studio in this limited way, I was able to create my own custom tools to help me animate directly within Daz Studio in a much more efficient, less headachy fashion. For how I work, this was a lot easier and faster for me than trying to get any one of those figures to do in Carrara what I need them to do - and the end results are a lot better, in my honest opinion.

Genesis 3 introduced a whole new figure architecture that plays more and more toward what professional filmmakers are expecting to see in a commercial figure. Big difference that the average user might not notice much aside from the fact that it's a new, different figure setup. Genesis 8 took that many steps further and then came Genesis 8.1 and now 9. This not only helps Daz 3d get these figure more widespread into cinema and professional use, but it also adds a whole set of newly improved system to the software that's meant to make it shine - Daz Studio.

So that's why the 

analogy at the into of this message. I could paint with my chisels and get it to work - and maybe I will from time to time. 

Carrara is still my Powerhouse when it comes to everything that doesn't include working with Genesis 2 - 9. So I'm grateful that I have it. 

Daz Studio renders to alpha by default. Bonus! Didn't need to learn that!

In my early tests with this process, I would take my resulting animated renders from Daz Studio, apply them as an animated texture map to a plane in Carrara, and have my actor directly in the Carrara scene as I work and ultimately render. I can still do that and in fact I plan to be doing a Lot of that. But when it comes to my main heroes, it's really nice to keep them as separate 'layers' to be used in my movie composites. Since they're not being baked into the final render, I get a Lot more flexibility on how the end result turns out.

Genesis 3 came out at a time when Iray was introduced to the world and was incorporated into Daz Studio, so it's the 

generation that started getting these amazing Iray shaders thqat came with the character products we buy from Daz 3d. Genesis 2 can work in Carrara, but the auto-fit mechanism in Carrara sees it as "Genesis" and doesn't know that Genesis 1 items should be changed to fit. For me this poses a Huge problem working with that generation in Carrara. I will use Genesis 2 in Carrara, but only if I'm okay with using Genesis 2 (only) conforming items with it. 

In Daz Studio, auto-fit can literally work with any figure - period. It is what contains the toolset to make it so - and it works brilliantly. 

Diomede and I attended a webinar that shows how to create a character convertor that takes Genesis 8 character shapes to the new Genesis 9 as a new morph. The process for making Auto-fit Clones is incredibly similar to that same process. 

Once made, Daz Studio will know what to do from there.

I'm using very similar techniques to be able to make my own animation tools that reside directly on the base figure as morph dials, even though they aren't morphs at all. This took a bit of hit and miss attempts and a lot of head-scratching. But it 

was So worth it.

So when it comes to making figure compsatible with Carrara, the best solution for me is to simply use the best tool for the job at hand. I use "Animation" as my reason, but these same techniques work very well for the still artist. Most professional illustrators using these tools will take their renders into an image editor like Affinity Photo along with other elements, sometimes (always for me) with other renders and combine them using layers, crafting them into their final result. VFX artists do the same thing for films. The tools are different because they're working with many frames instead of one, but they're So Incredibly Similar in how they work and how we use them.

Blade Runner was released in 1982. If you watch the Behind the Scenes of that, you'll notice right away that somebody made that look a Lot more interesting than what came from the original camera footage. "Colorists" use software like DaVinci Resolve to color grade films to make sure that the colors from one shot match the colors from those that have to be cut into it. It's a lot of work and they love it. Color is what they do. Color matching is only the first step, however. They follow that with giving the film what's called a "Look", which is to enhance the contrast, alter the color - sometimes only for part of the image, like the irises of the eyes of one person, for example. Sometimes there's a whole lot of this that ultimately make the movie look the way it does.

...and since the very beginning, nobody has Ever expected the camera operator to get this final look using nothing more than the camera.

So while I did stray from Only using Carrara for my work, I only did so to make my Carrara results even better.

Cheers all, and I hope you enjoy my little explanation that I truly did Not "Jump Ship"! :)

Yes, mine appeared - not sure when as it was buried in the middle of the list, though I had mostly been doing an in-page search as a guard against that.

DAZ_Steve said:

nonesuch00 said:

DAZ_Steve said:

jjmainor said:

Not sure if this quilifies, but items I own are showing up "Hide Items I Own" is checked.

Agreed. I'm seeing that the Hide items I own as well as the MAture cotnent flags don't seem to be consistently doing what they say they are on the search results. 

Is your avatar from a coming Genesis 9 toon product?

No, currently I'm using Luthbel's Dwarf for Gen 8.  One of my favs :)

OK, thanks.