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[Hamfist]

I just scooped up urban sprawl 2 big city (man there's a lot of stuff on sale right now) but when I try to render the full set with camera and lights loaded in IRAY its a completely black screen. with basic gl its grainey but lit (and I get the warning that obscuring the viewport may reduce quality), open gl it's clearer but very dark (same warning about obscuring viewport).... can some one explain to my ignorant brain wtf I'm doing wrong. (rendering in 3delight right now and it seems to look the best and true, but I want to be able to use this with IRAY if possible. Are the lights not compatible with Iray?

 

[SexiestManAlive]

The more you install, the slower Daz will get. Especially a big amount of morphs will make Daz characters load for ages.
Also a lot of assets wont make finding assets in your library easier, especially if you use the content library instead of the smart content tab, since many content creator have weird and different folder structures it will become really annoying and tiring to find the right asset in the library.

Was having this problem too. My G8 took 5 min to load cause of having too many morphs, but I kinda found a way around it. Just create another base directory and put all char's data folder with morphs in it. When youre done making char can remove directory from content library and transfer missing morphs to directory with textures. Whenever I wanna make a char I just add that data directory again.

I also have almost 1TB of daz content and have no trouble finding assets in content library because of organizing everything through multiple base directories. Can even rearrange folders as long it isnt data or runtime. That takes awhile though but worth it in the end.

 

[Hamfist]

The more you install, the slower Daz will get. Especially a big amount of morphs will make Daz characters load for ages.
Also a lot of assets wont make finding assets in your library easier, especially if you use the content library instead of the smart content tab, since many content creator have weird and different folder structures it will become really annoying and tiring to find the right asset in the library.

I bow to your experience on this topic, I have only downloaded stuff with open license or purchased legit stuff so I'm not in any danger of having too much yet ( so I don't have piles of pirated stuff, actually I don't have any, tempting as it is), I also haven't installed most of it in daz yet since I want to make sure I can put it in in an organized manner (literally 30 assets made a huge mess in one secondary library) so maybe I should have phrased it differently. I have piles of folders sitting on my desktop sorted by where they came from etc.

 

[SexiestManAlive]

I have mine organized like this. Makes it easy sorting through my many assets.

 

[Hamfist]

I just scooped up urban sprawl 2 big city (man there's a lot of stuff on sale right now) but when I try to render the full set with camera and lights loaded in IRAY its a completely black screen. with basic gl its grainey but lit (and I get the warning that obscuring the viewport may reduce quality), open gl it's clearer but very dark (same warning about obscuring viewport).... can some one explain to my ignorant brain wtf I'm doing wrong. (rendering in 3delight right now and it seems to look the best and true, but I want to be able to use this with IRAY if possible. Are the lights not compatible with Iray?

turns out its something to do with the sky dome overall cutting out all the light, if I load the complete scene delete the skydome then throw any hdri into the scene it renders fine. I'm still not 100% sure why but at this point I dont care I can use any hdri for base lighting and get a sky into the city

 

[ddeadbeat]

What is the easiest/best way to add moles to the character's skin? I tried using Skin Builder, it serves that purpose as well, but it has like 2 presets, so the result won't be unique.

 

[recreation]

What is the easiest/best way to add moles to the character's skin? I tried using Skin Builder, it serves that purpose as well, but it has like 2 presets, so the result won't be unique.

load the skin texture in photoshop or a similar image editors and add dot's.

 

[ddeadbeat]

load the skin texture in photoshop or a similar image editors and add dot's.

Thanks! I just used https://f95zone.to/threads/how-to-create-scars-for-daz-characters.35285/ this tutorial, kind of the same, but with layers.
I was just worried about overly complex (for me) structure of skin, like surfaces, MATs, all those parameters and thought it can't be that easy to just add dots in PS lol.

 

[ddeadbeat]

Aaand I'm wondering about another thing. Is there a way to make a really precise morphs to figure's body? For example, the character is wearing stockings with garters and I want to deform her skin a little bit in places where stockings and garters might create some pressure on skin. I was trying to do it with my beloved mesh grabber, but the polygons that he grabs are too big. Same thing for edges and vertexes. I googled this question a bit and it seems that the simple answer for my question "there is no way, because the mesh of the figure is too low-poly". Am I right?

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[Deleted member 1121028]

I googled this question a bit and it seems that the simple answer for my question "there is no way, because the mesh of the figure is too low-poly". Am I right?

Hmm Zbrush, but I wonder if a displacement map could do the trick
Like for socks, create a 4096x4096 mid-grey tiff image, put legs texture in another layer (just to see where to draw don't modify it), and paint darker/black line where you want micro pressure then put the picture in the displacement layer. Never tested tho.

edit: tested really quickly on a disp map (to know where to paint) and it kinda works, green is straight color, red is PS burn tool - shadow. Not really academic but I guess it's somewhat possible.

 

[AbsolutDegenerate]

tl;dr: Looking for help automating rendering for other people's files using DAZ Studio 4.12

I recently installed DAZ Studio 4.12, and I had 2 technical questions.
I don't plan to use DAZ for rendering my own stuff (yet), but I'd like to make my PC available (when idle) to render other people's scenes/animations/etc. It looks like there's something you can setup called an

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, but the license is $300/year per machine. So:

1. Is there a free alternative to Iray Server available?
2. Alternatively, does DAZ support CLI rendering?

I currently have a setup where someone can upload a .blend file to a shared cloud drive, it syncs locally, is rendered using a batch script, then the finished render is uploaded to the shared drive on completion. The whole process is automated.
If DAZ supports CLI, I just need to tweak the script, but the only CLI I found was

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.

2.5 If I have to open the DAZ GUI to perform rendering, can I pass files with a script for batch rendering? Or do I have to queue files manually?

Worst Case Hon. Mention: Is there a Blender plugin that will allow DAZ files to be rendered in Blender? IIRC, there's an issue with Blender and RIB-compliance

PS: For a carrot; help me solve this problem, I'll give you first slot for rendering.

 

[MrLazyTann]

Hello,
I have a little problem with NGFV8

I used to be able to change the shape, but not anymore. I already tried to reinstall it but it didn't solve the problem and i don't know what cause that.

Edit: Okay so it seem that the new versions of daz was the problem

 

[hencuka]

I've got the culprit. It was the tattoo.
The base model:
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The base model with materials, gen mats, makeup and golden palace:
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And finally, with tattoo:
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If I play with the geoshell visibility I can remove most of the stains, but there are some on the chest area where are no left and right side.. so I should try to find another tattoo, or forget it.
Thanks for your help, I owe you one!

Another question: where the heck can I edit the materials?

no__name , Xavster
After a long and bumpy road I can finally tell that I won against the stains.
Thank you both for your help. I made a custom skin with that geoshell tattoo as Xavster mentioned it, so the stains on the skin disappeared. However not from the genitalia. There was an offset problem. The GP shell offset was 0.01 cm, and all that staints disappeared when I set that to 0.027. Thanks no__name for that tip.
There was a bunch of visibility settings too, I can't count at the end. Not to mention that my fixing method was pretty slow (try one settings, adjust, render, check, repeat)
But finally, here is the result:



Oh, and not to leave without question: how can I remove that wet like gleam from the skin?

 

[Xavster]

Oh, and not to leave without question: how can I remove that wet like gleam from the skin?

The wet skin look typically comes from having low surface roughness. Skins are done via different methods, so you will likely need to tweak the roughness that relates to the skin you have created (dual lobe / glossy etc). You can also lower the glossy weight as well. If this doesn't work, you should try turning off the geoshell as you can get some weird refraction / reflection interactions some times.

 

[Deleted member 936848]

hey guys, I'm trying to use DAZ for the first ever time, and I can't seem to figure out how to fix these eyelashes, they're really weird and blocky right now. If someone could tell me either how to fix the eyelashes or replace them too. this is the error I keep getting:
resources/dthdr-ruinsb-500.hdr

 

[Xavster]

hey guys, I'm trying to use DAZ for the first ever time, and I can't seem to figure out how to fix these eyelashes, they're really weird and blocky right now. If someone could tell me either how to fix the eyelashes or replace them too. this is the error I keep getting:
resources/dthdr-ruinsb-500.hdr


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The eyelashes look the way they do because they do not have a shader applied to them. To fix this problem you need to do the following:
- Select the eyelashes within the scene tab (should be under the character).
- Select the 'Eyelashes' within the surfaces tab.
- Go to your content library and select 'Base MAT Eyelashes' from \Genesis 8 Female\Materials\Iray.
This will have placed the standard G8F eyelash surface against the eyelashes. You can also use any other eyelash shaders that may come with a character pack.

The error you are getting is resulting from the HDR not being present in the linked folder. The HDR is associated with the environment lighting. You can fix this under the Render Settings\Environment, by either changing the lighting mode to dome only or by replacing the Environment Map.

 

[ddeadbeat]

New day - new problem. I was done playing with single character and decided to create, dress(!) and render them both at the same time(!!) in an environment(!!!). Those unreasonable ambitions led to Daz crashing, hard. First time I tried to render the scene Daz didn't crash but refused to render the scene due to some kind of unknown error (I didn't save the log). Next time the renderer worked for about 1-2 minutes and then Daz crashed with the first error. Then I tried removing the environment and ended up with the second error. To sum up, when I'm trying to render 2 clothed figures without an environment, my PC lags like hell, sometime Chrome crashes as well and after 2-3 minutes Daz crashes as well. When I try to render one figure, each one is rendering easily in 1 minute with 95% conv.
I have GTX 1070, Ryzen 5 2600, 8GB RAM.
In those 2-3 minutes of rendering before crash GPU was loaded for 99%, VRAM ~5GB (of 8), RAM - gradually increased from 3GB to 8 and then after it reached 8GB in a few seconds crash occurs.
Have anybody had any similar issues?

 

[tk99]

Have anybody had any similar issues?

Looks like daz ran out of memory, 8GB is a little bit small.
You could try to set a windows swap file (if not done already) but this will only help for a certain amount.

 

[ddeadbeat]

Looks like daz ran out of memory, 8GB is a little bit small.
You could try to set a windows swap file (if not done already) but this will only help for a certain amount.

The strange thing is a couple of weeks ago I wanted to see how my PC will handle several characted, so I loaded about 5 figures, some of them were dressed in a bathroom with glass and reflective surfaces and Daz didn't crash.
I have 20GB swap file.
I guess I'll have to add some RAM soon.

 

[Xavster]

New day - new problem. I was done playing with single character and decided to create, dress(!) and render them both at the same time(!!) in an environment(!!!). Those unreasonable ambitions led to Daz crashing, hard. First time I tried to render the scene Daz didn't crash but refused to render the scene due to some kind of unknown error (I didn't save the log). Next time the renderer worked for about 1-2 minutes and then Daz crashed with the first error. Then I tried removing the environment and ended up with the second error. To sum up, when I'm trying to render 2 clothed figures without an environment, my PC lags like hell, sometime Chrome crashes as well and after 2-3 minutes Daz crashes as well. When I try to render one figure, each one is rendering easily in 1 minute with 95% conv.
I have GTX 1070, Ryzen 5 2600, 8GB RAM.
In those 2-3 minutes of rendering before crash GPU was loaded for 99%, VRAM ~5GB (of 8), RAM - gradually increased from 3GB to 8 and then after it reached 8GB in a few seconds crash occurs.
Have anybody had any similar issues?
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You will need to utilise Scene Optimizer in order to reduce the size of your texture maps. This will allow Daz to run within your PC RAM. It's a pain, however necessary on all but the most powerful setup. If your serious about using Daz then 32GB of system RAM would be advisable. The GTX1070 is a reasonable card (8GB vRAM I think), however you will also need the texture simplification to prevent fallback to CPU rendering, thereby using the power of your GPU.

Note that you can also simplify the scene geometry by playing around with mesh density, however it has less impact on VRAM requirements.