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[JustNotFatal]

Yes this, how does the initial pose look, and is it a dforce dress, or did you add the dforce modifier yourself?
If the dress clips inside the cube, or whatever object, in the initial pose, then that might be the problem already.

If I can believe the title, it is a dforce dress. I can try raising it a bit more.

 

[JustNotFatal]

Yes this, how does the initial pose look, and is it a dforce dress, or did you add the dforce modifier yourself?
If the dress clips inside the cube, or whatever object, in the initial pose, then that might be the problem already.

This is what happens every single time.

 

[recreation]

This is what happens every single time.

Have a look in the surface settings, if it has several surfaces, look that every one of them is set to a different "Collision Layer".
Reducing the friction and deactivating self collision can also help.

 

[JustNotFatal]

Have a look in the surface settings, if it has several surfaces, look that every one of them is set to a different "Collision Layer".
Reducing the friction and deactivating self collision can also help.

Alright, I'll take a look
This has been the closest I've gotten. I guess she was high enough?

 

[recreation]

Alright, I'll take a look
This has been the closest I've gotten. I guess she was high enough?
View attachment 539723

The dress still clips through the cube, this should not happen if the dress is above the cube in the initial pose.

 

[Deleted member 1121028]

Alright, I'll take a look
This has been the closest I've gotten. I guess she was high enough?

You didn't choose the easiest dress
In your timeline set total frame to 16
Set your A-pose at frame 0, and your final sitting pose at frame ~15
White cube should not touching the dress at frame 0
Make the white cube start pushing the dress at frame ~5 and finish at 15
In simulation setting use Animated
(You can help to prevent explosion a little by setting Bend stiffness to 0.25 in the surface tab of the dress)

 

[recreation]

You didn't choose the easiest dress
In your timeline set total frame to 16
Set your A-pose at frame 0, and your final sitting pose at frame ~15
White cube should not touching the dress at frame 0
Make the white cube start pushing the dress at frame ~5 and finish at 15
In simulation setting use Animated
(You can help to prevent explosion a little by setting Bend stiffness to 0.25 in the surface tab of the dress)

View attachment 539727

Damn, I forgot the bend stiffness

Anyway ^ this and you can set "Start from memorized pose" to off when you do it this way^^

 

[JustNotFatal]

The dress still clips through the cube, this should not happen if the dress is above the cube in the initial pose.

Yeah even if you T-pose>Dress>Pose>then sim half the skirt just goes through the cube.

You didn't choose the easiest dress
In your timeline set total frame to 16
Set your A-pose at frame 0, and your final sitting pose at frame ~15
White cube should not touching the dress at frame 0
Make the white cube start pushing the dress at frame ~5 and finish at 15
In simulation setting use Animated
(You can help to prevent explosion a little by setting Bend stiffness to 0.25 in the surface tab of the dress)

View attachment 539727

Yeah I know that, was still hoping dforce was strong enough.
I will try those settings.

Thank you both

 

[Lewd4D]

Yeah even if you T-pose>Dress>Pose>then sim half the skirt just goes through the cube.


Yeah I know that, was still hoping dforce was strong enough.
I will try those settings.

Thank you both

You could also try and make an animation where the cube moves in from below and the model stays still.
Thats how i made this render.

 

[Xavster]

You could also try and make an animation where the cube moves in from below and the model stays still.
Thats how i made this render.

There is actually a slightly easier way of doing this. If you adjust your figure pose to create a translation on the hip node of say -100 Y Translate (1m down) and -100 Z Translate (1m back), you will get the figure to move during the Pose Transition Time. You still locate the figure normally using the Genesis 8 Figure node. This will also allow you to easily vary the Pose Transition Time (Simulation Settings), should the movement be too rapid for the dForce to keep up. This removes the requirement for animation and has the final pose in frame 0.

 

[Ariku]

Hey there,

I tried to search on the forum about it, but I just can't find it . I'm trying to export a gen 8 model with Golden Palace genitals in FBX in order to use it under unity (but that does not matter). What matters is that I can't find how to export Golden palace Morphs also. They don't even show up in the export TAB is there anyone with a good solution .

Thanks

EDIT , found the solution -_-, for those interested , Merge Fitted Figure(s) Geometry does the job

 

[Ankhesenamun]

Hello, and thank you for starting this thread. DAZ's giving me headaches.

Each render is taking me somewhere between 30 minutes to 1 hour, sometimes more, to be complete. Could this be due to a lack of CPU, or is it normal for it to take so long? I'm extremely green to this world, I've been figuring where to get character models and how to code Python (all in baby steps), but I fear I may have technical limitations when it comes to rendering.

Should I switch to another program?

Thank you for reading.

 

[dick bullcock]

Hello, and thank you for starting this thread. DAZ's giving me headaches.

Each render is taking me somewhere between 30 minutes to 1 hour, sometimes more, to be complete. Could this be due to a lack of CPU, or is it normal for it to take so long? I'm extremely green to this world, I've been figuring where to get character models and how to code Python (all in baby steps), but I fear I may have technical limitations when it comes to rendering.

Should I switch to another program?

Thank you for reading.

For me, wish I would have those times! For me, with a potato from 2010, takes around 8 hours. With a power killing machine, a render would take from 15 minutes to one hour.
It depends of all the factors: render mode, hairs, number of lights, reflexions or not, etc etc etc, etc etc etc

 

[Ankhesenamun]

For me, wish I would have those times! For me, with a potato from 2010, takes around 8 hours. With a power killing machine, a render would take from 15 minutes to one hour.
It depends of all the factors: render mode, hairs, number of lights, reflexions or not, etc etc etc, etc etc etc

I feel you, I'm on a 2013 laptop with 4GB ram - high use too, so of those 4, it should be down to like 3 and a half. I've only tried rendering the default DAZ content, I think it's going to take me months to render actual scenes...

 

[dick bullcock]

I feel you, I'm on a 2013 laptop with 4GB ram - high use too, so of those 4, it should be down to like 3 and a half. I've only tried rendering the default DAZ content, I think it's going to take me months to render actual scenes...

If it takes one hour, I think you must be more than happy. Render uses mostly the CPU. Wait to add elements and you will see how the times go growing up. BTW, take care that you don't burn the laptop, maybe 4 GB is in the limit.

 

[Ankhesenamun]

If it takes one hour, I think you must be more than happy. Render uses mostly the CPU. Wait to add elements and you will see how the times go growing up. BTW, take care that you don't burn the laptop, maybe 4 GB is in the limit.

Do you think it's feasible to render stuff separately? Imagine this order:
1 - Render the character
2 - Render the background
3 - Render objects individually
4 - Mash it all together in Photoshop

Could this work to save us time?

 

[dick bullcock]

Do you think it's feasible to render stuff separately? Imagine this order:
1 - Render the character
2 - Render the background
3 - Render objects individually
4 - Mash it all together in Photoshop

Could this work to save us time?

When I can, I do it always. With 4-5 figures sometimes my computer got stuck in 4 hours and only made the 2%.
You will see it by practice. For me, I do as you say. I try to render background, characters separately or in groups of 2-3, and objects. Sometimes objects go with the background render, just in function if they cover or not the other items. And I try to use as few lights as I can. Take care that I am never talking about quality: I know the potato I have and its limits. I will let the quality for when I get rich, or in my next life.

 

[hencuka]

Hey there!
I'm very beginner with DAZ... literally try to make my first character. So my problem is maybe trivial but I can't figured it out.
I try to use golden palace v2 with a G8 female modell and there is a few glitch I found.
- golden palace v2 comes with a few presets, but if I use any of that my model going to be a mess. See the picture:

- if I try to add a tattoo from the Eva 8 bundle, the colors (materials?) go wrong as above:


Is there a way to fix these? Or is there any good genitals to use instead of golden palace if that is the root of the problem?
Thank you in advance for your help!

 

[Xavster]

Do you think it's feasible to render stuff separately? Imagine this order:
1 - Render the character
2 - Render the background
3 - Render objects individually
4 - Mash it all together in Photoshop

Could this work to save us time?

Rendering portions of the scene separately only saves you time in the following cases:
- You are going to use the background or objects on multiple scenes.
- The scene VRAM requirements are above you GPU capability and it is falling back to CPU.
To be honest a laptop with 4GB RAM is not the hardware that should be employed to do ray tracing. You may be better off going down the route of 3Delight or using Honey Select.

 

[Notretsam]

Hello, and thank you for starting this thread. DAZ's giving me headaches.

Each render is taking me somewhere between 30 minutes to 1 hour, sometimes more, to be complete. Could this be due to a lack of CPU, or is it normal for it to take so long? I'm extremely green to this world, I've been figuring where to get character models and how to code Python (all in baby steps), but I fear I may have technical limitations when it comes to rendering.

Should I switch to another program?

Thank you for reading.

It's a loaded question as quite a bit to rendering but rendering time takes up to an hour per image for me as well.

You can certainly lower the rendering times but you lose some image quality in doing so, however they generally still pretty good quality, here are a few things I found sped things up but sure someone with more experience than me can help you more.

1) In Render Settings, go to Optimization > Instancing Optimization and change it from Auto to Speed.
2) In Render Settings, go to Environment > Environment Intensity and change from 1.00 to 0.50, what I do for outdoor scenes.
3) In Render Settings, go to Progressive Rendering > Lowering Max Samples and Max Time (secs) can help but remember lowers quality as well
4) I find in the same Progressive Rendering that changing Rendering Quality from 2.0 to 1.0 help's as well.

As I said, sure people with more experience can better help you and am still learning Daz studio myself, but just a few things I found. Maybe we both learn more tips from your question.


@Xavster has a tutorial here on Rendering that could help you as well