Well my Tonal Mapping was already turned on & I set the settings as suggested but no luck. I also set the F-Stop directly on the camera to 5.6 but I could find no where on the 'camera 1' settings to set the ISO to 400 which I found a bit wierd.  I think maybe because the light preset I use gets stuck outside the Victorian Shoppes and not inside. So I need to zoom out I suppose, knowing my luck with DAZ, way, way, way out and then click & drag, click & drag, click & drag until I get the lights inside the Victoria Shoppe that I actually am using.

Now when I turned the Tonal Settings off then I began to get a very dark render that had the more reflective surfaces showing, mainly the native iRay surfaces on the characters. In this case no ISO to set on 'camera 1'. The surfaces on the Victorian Shoppes were mostly black. No big surprise the light preset was outside the room. I am going through with DAZ3D's and MecD's PBR presets and converting the shoppes to real PBR which should help make the 'camera' work more like a camera I guess. DAZ Studio can be a lot of work.

OK, 2nd attempt. All I really have left that I want to try to improve is silk for the dress, metalicise the green on the building, make the wood in the windows look better, amd maybe improve the glass in the windows to look better.

I wonder if putting a bit of furniture in the room with him would help move him more toward the background of the scene.  The girl's space would be uncluttered and might draw the eye more toward her. 

That would then leave a mystery as to her shocked reaction but I agree as a still it is not working. To convey those old Victoria sensibilities to those that weren't raised strictly (lol, there are some) or as an historical curiosity needs a short animation which is out of the scope of this contest. I will finish the picture and save if so animation a scene later but not enter it into the contest. Instead I will try a couple of more portrait like rendering into a picture in a couple of other ways and see if those work.

Thanks. I am learning.

here are some other forum usable suggestions I'm making up while I'm on hold with Apple Computer...

IDTAMLVCOODIMIB "If daz takes all my legacy Victoria content out of DIM I'm boned"

IIANOSADBAMCWWSOO3HD" I Installed a new OS and didn't backup all my content which was spread was over 3 hard drives"

ISCRTIOA5KLCD,CYFTAD? "I still cant read the interface on a 5K LCD, can you fix this already Daz?"

ITTDGOATBAA? HJLBMAABP "Is that the Daz Gorilla on all those bowling alley animations? He just lost a boxing match against a bowling pin."

ICTV7OOMRBSSN/WITNCS? "I cant take Victoria 7 out of my runtime because she's still naked/When is the next clothing sale?"

FCSFV7!TN*CFM! "Forget clothing sales for Victoria 7! Theres no *!@$% clothing for men!"

SNUIDFP. IYBTCNYAAI "Still no useable iray drivers for Pascal. If you buy the card now you are an idiot."

all apple advisors are busy but I managed on my own. money will spent!

tag:luci45 #9
Original Lyrics:
Do you come from a land down under?
Where women glow and men plunder?
Misheard Lyrics:
Do you come from a land down under?
Where women glow and men blunder?
Down Under - Men at Work

Used:
Komodo Dragon (Content Paradise)
Hover Platform
West Park Treatment Room Specimen
Victoria 5 
Pure Hair: Bubblegum for Genesis (LB)
Ra's Palace for DAZ Studio (LB)
Shades of Life - Urban Construct (LB)
Mec4d PBS Shaders vol.1 for Iray (LB)

Also Used:
Sundress Summer Dress?
PH Crazy Hair
M Fisher dress
PD Shaders 2
George Ivan & Leo morphs
DAZ Firearms
Basic Wear G3M
Ancient Combat Hair
Just Josh shorts
Dark Whisper vest & choker Sidereal texture
LoRez Crows
Skies of iRadiance
Rons War Elements

it takes my computer 15 minutes just to load my scene with girl 7, genesis 3 male, suitable clothing, and victoria shoppes...

Though it is possible to use Victoria 4 maps on Genesis 2 Female https://www.daz3d.com/victoria-4-for-genesis-2-female (but only if the base materials used are also on the Victoria 4 UV set).

I think I'll just not buy it and wait for a similar makeup thing for Genesis 2.

Hard drive crash, Windows and Poser re-installed. 10 instead of 9.

Here’s how it is. Victoria 4.2 and morphs are in the old Poser 6 library.

(Poser 6 was untouched after the crash. Everything in Program files (x86) was nuked)

Newer things like Creature Creator and Stephanie 4 are in My DAZ 3D Library, or new Poser 10.

I remember being told once that Victoria needs to be in the same place as the morphs to work.

3 years ago I asked DAZ for help with Creature Creator, but nothing worked.

6 months later, an idea came to me, and I fixed it, but now I don’t remember what I did.

I’ve been told that multiple runtimes are bad.

The morphs that are in the same Poser 6 Runtime with Victoria 4.2 work. Like Morphs ++.

The new ones outside of Poser 6 don’t.

In other ways, importing the old Poser 6 library was a huge help, because many things were saved.

Nothing was saved that was in Poser 9. Individual files (purchases) were backed up on an external drive.

Many have been restored, but DAZ morphs? Forget it.

I remember having the Stephanie 4 morphs working before the crash. They won’t now.

I'm not blaming anyone but me, and sometimes I fix things eventually with some help.

Though it is possible to use Victoria 4 maps on Genesis 2 Female https://www.daz3d.com/victoria-4-for-genesis-2-female (but only if the base materials used are also on the Victoria 4 UV set).

It says its for Victoria 4 and Genesis. Does that mean its compatible with Genesis 2? I'd like to know before buying it.

https://www.daz3d.com/artmakeover-merchant-resource-for-v4-and-genesis

I've searched this forum and can't find anything about this. I'm wondering if David will ever be brought up to date along with all the other standard DAZ characters (i.e. Michael, Victoria, Stephanie, etc.). He's been left behind at David 5. Even Stephanie has a version 6. Has he been abandoned? I'd love to see him brought up to 6 or 7.

This isn't so much a product suggestion as it is a plugin, formatting or support suggestion I and I am sure there are more people would like some support when it comes to different engines like unity unreal and my current headache the Bethesda creation kit for fallout 4. I would like to see some plugins or support with Daz studio that would allow you to use genesis figures in some of the different game and animation suites the 3DS max is ok but it leaves alot to be disered some of the rigging doesn't work this is a step I would like to see  though being able to use the different characters in some of the different popular I know well you can tell that all the morph 3D characters are is victoria 6 and Michael 6 rerigged for unity it would be nice to be able to just cut out the middle man and use the genesis figures that are for Daz just something I would like to see

AHHHH, okay, thank you! I wouldn't have guessed that on my own. I thought it was for characters that are split off from characters that are split off from a base.

So, like, Genesis 3, for example -> Victoria 7 -> FWSA characters lol

For V4:

http://www.sharecg.com/v/81110/browse/11/Poser/Updated%21-Yukata-for-V4

http://www.sharecg.com/v/39890/favorite/11/Poser/Conforming-Kimono-for-V4

http://www.sharecg.com/v/26014/gallery/21/daz-studio/yukata-mats-for-daz-mfd-kimono-expansion (Requires DAZ MFD http://www.daz3d.com/v4-morphing-fantasy-dress and Kimono expansion http://www.daz3d.com/kimono-expansion-pack-for-victoria-3-mfd)

https://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/v4-kimonos/95264

For M4:

https://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/japanese-yukata-for-m4/81952

I often add a Null to a scene, and name it "Victoria Gaze" (or whatever), and point Victoria's eyes to that.  It could be parented to the camera with some distance offset as needed.

Sometimes after reposing or re-expressioning a character, the eyes fail to update; I have never figured out why.  Jiggling the null will do the job, though.

Looks like Victoria 7, fourth image is Olympia 7

As I promised this is a render showing Snowflake skin applied to Teen Josie 7 and another showing the skin applied to Victoria 7

...\Scripts\V4 to Genesis 2 Female Pose Converter

...\Scripts\V4 to Genesis 2 Female Pose Converter\Resources

This script doesn't even use V4, the pose is applied to G2F and then adjustments are made, and saved as a pose preset.

The Resources folder has .duf and scripts that the V4 to Genesis 2 Female Pose Converter script calls. My guess is the error you got is one of those files. But I can't be sure. Best might be to clear out the log file. Then run the script. After you get the error then check the log file to find out what file can't be found.

To view the log file Help-Troubleshooting->View Log File

Sorry - I don't understand - from the product page it states " These scripts will, frame by frame, take the current pose from V4.2, make adjustments, and then apply it to Genesis or Genesis 2."

This seems to contradict what you said above..

I have tried importing the bvh to Genesis [ hip] which animates but incorrectly as I would expect. Clicking the Animation Converter still brings up the error 'file does not exist' though before that it asks me "do I want to save" [ before proceeding ?] I say no. Is that likely to be a problem?

I also cleared the log as you suggested before trying again.  I'm afraid the log means little to me though it appeared to stop at trying to load a file from hhard drive ??

Log File attached

 

I'm sorry, I thought you were talking about the pose converter, not the animation converter.

For install, either let DIM install it for you, or open the zip file from DAZ and move the Scripts folder (found in the Content folder) to your Daz library.

load V4.2, be sure the name in the scene is Victoria 4.2, apply the animation to V4.2... (if the animation is from an Aniblock, then be sure to bake the animation to the Daz timeline). Then load Genesis(be sure the name in the scene is Genesis) or Genesis 2 Female(be sure the name in the scene is Genesis 2 Female). And then start the script. Once the script has finished, you can save the converted animation on Genesis/Genesis 2 to what ever format Daz is able to save animations.

 I think with genesis 3 characters we gradually scratch at the capacity of Bryce.

The Genesis 3 range is actually lower poly count than G1 and G2; and Victoria 4 had a higher count than all of them. At zero subdivision, the G3 figures would look worse in Bryce than V4! The "Vega Davin" character is "HD", so subdivision is turned up by default. Strictly speaking, it is the capabilities of Studio that are scratching at the capacity of Bryce.

This one is a challenge.  Can anyone identify the little bikini in the Avery promo, the lingerie in the Finley promo and the halter top in the Jade promo.  Thanks

Avery http://www.daz3d.com/avery-for-genesis-3-female-s

Finley http://www.daz3d.com/fwsa-finley-hd-for-victoria-7-and-her-jewelry

Jade http://www.daz3d.com/fwsa-jade-hd-for-teen-josie-7

I think you are right, the 2gb - 32 bit limit is begining to sound like the problem.

Carrara is pretty old and it doesn't seem likely to be updated in the near future. I do like using it and would struggle to find another 3D system that gives me flexibility of using Victoria/Genesis and Poser stuff.

I can get around the problem by building up the scene each time from the saved blocks but it's not ideal.

Thanks for the help