Windows 8 PC

The issue -

1. Daz crashes with fatal error if I try to work ONLINE - immediate crash

2. Trying to work offline.. it crashes with fatal error after a few seconds simply browsing my library. At most I have been able to load Victoria 4 with 1 character skin.

I ran the install manager today and installed the new update for Daz 4.9 and the problem is still happening. My video card is updated, but shouldn't be an issue because I don't even make it to the render phase.

I just came back to the program after a couple of years not using it. New PC, clean install. Disappointing not to be able to work on images. Does anyone have any ideas?

Please post screenshots of your DAZ Studio Content Directory Manager (Edit>Preferences>Content Library pane) showing the Poser Formats list, your Install Manager folders (click the gear cion at top-right to open preferences and go to the Installation tab) and an operating system window showing the folders with the Victoria 4.2 CR2 file and the NBM injection poses.

The Diffuse shader (with Multiply) is NOT needed in carrara,.

it's an incorrect translation from the Poser / Daz shaders,. which all use a Multiply function to multiply the diffuse texture map, over a colour value.

in Carrara,.  you only need the Photo/texture map (diffuse) ,. and nothing else.

If you load a base Victoria 4 figure,. and simply render what carrara loads in,. you'll see a Green tone to the skin,. which is obviously wrong,. but you don't see that same green tone in a Poser or DS render,. because they work differently. the render engines work differently,. the shaders work differently. and the shaders were built to work correctly within those programs.

Any Poser / Daz "content" you load into carrara,. is "translated" into carrara's shaders,. ..and that translation isn't perfect.

If you think about it,. a "photo based" texture map,. should not need any adjustments,. it's already an adjusted composited image

a Multiply function, multiplies the Colour value, with the colours of the photo/texture. to change the image.

Carrara ships with shaders pre-built for V4 / M4 ,. They're also a good example of "how to" build your own shaders.

with ALL "imported" (non carrara native) content, you should check the shaders and adjust them to work better in Carrara, or whatever other software / render engine you're using,

relying on carrara's Automatic shader conversions works to an extent,. Generally speaking you can load in a figure,. render,. and it looks OK.

but when you adjust the shaders to work correctly in Carrara,.  then it looks much better.

In many shaders,. you can see that not all of the maps are being imported,. and some channels have Multiply, or other incorrect values for Carrara.

the Bump map ,. Specular (highlight) maps may not be loaded,. and you'll need to load those manually, to build a better carrara shader.

For example: look at the relection channel (for the eyes) in any Poser/Daz figure,.  it's normally using an image map,. to create a "fake" reflection.

the reason for this is,. the standard render engine in Poser / Daz cannot calculate the real reflections in the scene.

Carrara can use real scene reflections and real transparency / refraction,. rather than relying on texture maps to provide a fake reflection ,. or an Alpha map for transparent areas.

On displacment,. Carrara doesn't work the same way that DS does,. so the displacement works differently,. you won;t get the same results in carrara,. you'd probably be better using a normal map in the bump channel.

hope it helps

I've added a figure in a swimsuit and hair, and it's taking about ten minutes. Will post the render here in a few minutes. Using the render settings given previously, if you use Y Dome Orientation set to 230, you'll get very nice default lighting positioning.

Not a fan of the default water up close though. (It does look fine from a distance.)  That isn't a swimsuit, it's Dance Gear, the leotard. Makes a great swimsuit. I used the Tropical Fabric Shaders and put tiling at 1 for the large print.  I love Taia's sheen, I think it's perfect out of the box.

At The Pool Poses    Taia     Tropical Fabric Shaders   Galene Hair

Hi,

I recently bought this NBM for V4, http://www.daz3d.com/nbm-for-v4

I at first installed it using DIM but after clicking V4 and injecting the morph, nothing seems to appear in the Parameters tab (even if I click the chest). I then clicked the chest to inject the morph there, but nothing happens too.

The readme says you gotta install it in the same folder as Victoria 4's runtime else it won't work so I got DIM to install it in 'My Library' where my Victoria 4.2 file is. (I got Victoria 4.2's location by right-clicking the V4.2 icon in the Content Library and then going to file location). But by doing this NBM's injection files don;t even show up in the Content Library.

Please help?!

Log out and check again. You already have the other 3, that's why they are not showing.
These are all the 5:
http://www.daz3d.com/genesis-3-female-expressions
http://www.daz3d.com/genesis-3-female-body-morphs
http://www.daz3d.com/genesis-3-female-head-morphs
http://www.daz3d.com/victoria-7-hd-add-on
http://www.daz3d.com/genesis-3-cross-figure-resource-kit

Ahh, should have thought of logging out.  I thought something was broken because I have all 5 too.

Folks,

I'm having some difficulty and I'm not sure why it's not working...  So I'm asking for some help.

I want to use Victoria's Carbon Fiber (By Darkworld), with Victoria 7.  Now with Victoria 4, it's easy, just double click, and it loads and instantly shows up...

With Victoria 7, nada.

I'm not sure, but what I gather is that V7 has quite a bit of difference from v4.  I've read about it, but I'm not sure what VCF is doing, so I'm not sure what I need to do to make it work with V7.  Assuming that it can even work with V7.

Has anyone been able to get any of Darkworld's "second skin" style content to work with V7?  And if so, do I need any add-on (ala Legacy UV's?), if so, what add-on?

Any help would be appreciated.  Using VCF would simplify this character build...

     - Ben

I decided to start a new thread for older generation figures, as the idea comes up now and then ...

If you are interested in getting these figures (apart from Victoria 2 and Michael 2 - those are vaulted by Daz): Knittingmommy has accumulated links to the store pages: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/1501496/#Comment_1501496 and there is GiGi_7's thread here: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/925540/#Comment_925540

Freebies for V2/M2: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/22725/links-victoria2-michael2-v2-m2-freebie-list/p1

Adventuress

Victoria 3 (in letters THREE - yes, really ...), rendered in DazStudio 3Delight.
I wouldn't call her old if I were you, she has a big sword and knows how to use it!

Credits:
Victoria 3 - Daz
Daniela - IllusionsDesigns
Subsurface Skin Shader - Tofusan (a bit modified)
Veronica Year Three - Uzilite
PD Dirty Pretty - Parrotdolphin
Adventure Hair - 3Dream
UberHair Shader Upgrade for UberSurface - Omnifreaker
The Ruins of Angkor Wat - Merlin Studios
Nature Shaders - JGreenlees (Water and Grass, a bit modified)
Songbird ReMix Jacanas - Ken Gilliland
Songbird ReMix Pet Shop - Ken Gilliland

Log out and check again. You already have the other 3, that's why they are not showing.
These are all the 5:
http://www.daz3d.com/genesis-3-female-expressions
http://www.daz3d.com/genesis-3-female-body-morphs
http://www.daz3d.com/genesis-3-female-head-morphs
http://www.daz3d.com/victoria-7-hd-add-on
http://www.daz3d.com/genesis-3-cross-figure-resource-kit

Nelsonsmith: That is Julie with some added morphs--- a mixture of Hannah, Kalea, Karen, Lexi, Rune, Sasha, Sophia, Victoria bodies, all muscle volumes, Tween Julie at 100%, and Julie's materials in SSS (not iray) format.

Kyoto Kid: It ran for around maybe an hour maybe 90mins max.  I don't have a real powerful laptop either.  I like r4 alot.  Have had some issues with it but nothing major. the updates to reality have been pretty good. but i do better with people with it than I do iray, but metals i do better with iray than r4.

...ahh sounds like you have a CPU that can take advantage of the speed boost, I don't. 

I really wish Lux didn't abandon their GPU development .  AMD GPUs cost a lot less than comparable Nvidia ones.  I could have bought a 16 GB Firepro a couple years ago which costs less than the forthcoming Nvidia Quadro P5000.

..apologies fr the slight derail.  Carry on.

Abandoned GPU development? I'm running R4 using GPU. No problems but memory anxiety.

Nelsonsmith: That is Julie with some added morphs--- a mixture of Hannah, Kalea, Karen, Lexi, Rune, Sasha, Sophia, Victoria bodies, all muscle volumes, Tween Julie at 100%, and Julie's materials in SSS (not iray) format.

Kyoto Kid: It ran for around maybe an hour maybe 90mins max.  I don't have a real powerful laptop either.  I like r4 alot.  Have had some issues with it but nothing major. the updates to reality have been pretty good. but i do better with people with it than I do iray, but metals i do better with iray than r4.

...ahh sounds like you have a CPU that can take advantage of the speed boost, I don't. 

I really wish Lux didn't abandon their GPU development .  AMD GPUs cost a lot less than comparable Nvidia ones.  I could have bought a 16 GB Firepro a couple years ago which costs less than the forthcoming Nvidia Quadro P5000.

..apologies fr the slight derail.  Carry on.

Nelsonsmith: That is Julie with some added morphs--- a mixture of Hannah, Kalea, Karen, Lexi, Rune, Sasha, Sophia, Victoria bodies, all muscle volumes, Tween Julie at 100%, and Julie's materials in SSS (not iray) format.

Kyoto Kid: It ran for around maybe an hour maybe 90mins max.  I don't have a real powerful laptop either.  I like r4 alot.  Have had some issues with it but nothing major. the updates to reality have been pretty good. but i do better with people with it than I do iray, but metals i do better with iray than r4.

Do the sheets ( http://www.daz3d.com/jepe-s-wondersheetz-for-victoria-7 , and actually the same question concerning Equine Dreams, http://www.daz3d.com/equine-dreams ) have to be fit to a character to use them, or can they be used as stand-alone items without any figure?

Is there a Genesis1 version of this product?

They are props, so they don't actually "fit to" anything - they load in a pre-defined location/shape to fit with the relevant figure when it is in one of the provided poses. They then have a series of morphs to adjust the shape. So you can use them on their own, yes. Below is one of the Equine Dreams set.

I don't believe there is a Genesis (1) version.

ETA: The above is a very quick and basic 3Delight render - the sheetz look much better than this with decent lighting!

Do the sheets ( http://www.daz3d.com/jepe-s-wondersheetz-for-victoria-7 , and actually the same question concerning Equine Dreams, http://www.daz3d.com/equine-dreams ) have to be fit to a character to use them, or can they be used as stand-alone items without any figure?

Is there a Genesis1 version of this product?

Quick question, can the Skin Overlays for Genesis 2 Female, Genesis, Victoria 5, Michael 5, Victoria 4, Michael 4 be used on the Growing Up Skins for G3 or will you be doing updates so they can be used?  I haven't loaded them up with a G3 skin, but from what I remember when I had loaded in GIMP for use on a G2 skin, they should work on other skins.  I'm not sure about whether the MR part covers G3, but the for average user they should be compatible, yes?

They presumably wouldn't line up, since the UVs are different.

From what I remember, the overlays for the aging spots and other goodies don't have UVs of their own so they should easily go over a different UV set.  But, like I said, it's been awhile since I've had them loaded up so my memory could be a little faulty which is why I asked.  I'll have to load everything up in GIMP this weekend after I've played with the morphs and see what I can manage to do with the skins.

Any texture has an implicit UV set, unless it's a tiling pattern. In at least some cases the Genesis 3 UVs are offset relative to the earlier sets, it's not just a slightly different relaxation, so even overlays thata voided critical areas like lips and eyes would probably look at least somewhat odd.

Quick question, can the Skin Overlays for Genesis 2 Female, Genesis, Victoria 5, Michael 5, Victoria 4, Michael 4 be used on the Growing Up Skins for G3 or will you be doing updates so they can be used?  I haven't loaded them up with a G3 skin, but from what I remember when I had loaded in GIMP for use on a G2 skin, they should work on other skins.  I'm not sure about whether the MR part covers G3, but the for average user they should be compatible, yes?

They presumably wouldn't line up, since the UVs are different.

From what I remember, the overlays for the aging spots and other goodies don't have UVs of their own so they should easily go over a different UV set.  But, like I said, it's been awhile since I've had them loaded up so my memory could be a little faulty which is why I asked.  I'll have to load everything up in GIMP this weekend after I've played with the morphs and see what I can manage to do with the skins.

Quick question, can the Skin Overlays for Genesis 2 Female, Genesis, Victoria 5, Michael 5, Victoria 4, Michael 4 be used on the Growing Up Skins for G3 or will you be doing updates so they can be used?  I haven't loaded them up with a G3 skin, but from what I remember when I had loaded in GIMP for use on a G2 skin, they should work on other skins.  I'm not sure about whether the MR part covers G3, but the for average user they should be compatible, yes?

They presumably wouldn't line up, since the UVs are different.

Well, I guess I'll be making more old folks this weekend!  Got em locked down and paid for, just need to get them downloaded and installed when I done with my current DS project.  Probably my last new purchase for awhile, but I had been saving for these so I had the money set aside.  Unfortunately, anything new coming down the pike might have me waiting until no longer new to get for a bit.  Sorry, Zev0, but kids are expensive and braces are going to curtail any more purchases from me until I fill up that change jar!  At least, I get to play with these morphs.  

Quick question, can the Skin Overlays for Genesis 2 Female, Genesis, Victoria 5, Michael 5, Victoria 4, Michael 4 be used on the Growing Up Skins for G3 or will you be doing updates so they can be used?  I haven't loaded them up with a G3 skin, but from what I remember when I had loaded in GIMP for use on a G2 skin, they should work on other skins.  I'm not sure about whether the MR part covers G3, but the for average user they should be compatible, yes?

I agree, I would love to see new North African/Arabian clothes, too!

http://www.daz3d.com/moroccan-dreams-for-victoria-4, http://www.daz3d.com/moroccan-dreams-for-michael-4 and their add-ons are old, but quite nice sets for V4 and M4 if you are looking for a bit of authenticy (no Western Fantasy-'Harem' clothes). The draping is - well, these are old models. They work well with AutoFit; if you own 'Wear Them All', it's even better. Fisty made a lovely Ghawazee set: http://www.daz3d.com/ghawazee-coat-for-genesis-2-female-s, but this is no everyday clothing.

EDIT: Today Luthbellina's 'Desert Pathfinder' is in Fast Grab; it contains a nice Arabian headcloth.

I checked the whole catalog for Victoria 4 and haven't found this set....

I get the feeling that this might not be in the DAZ store.

I have some spare time today, so I might look around if the set is for Genesis or higher, but I kinda doubt its here...