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[Idontknowme]

Does anyone know how to get USM Blush and USM Skin Moisture Together? Couldn't get them to work on this one.



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[mastergobbo]

This happens to me sometimes I either close everything down and reboot the PC if that doesn't work try saving just the female model as a subset and loading it by it's self then try simulating sometimes the problem fixes it self.

Also make sure you have drivers updated.

Thanks for the reply @Atton563!
Drivers are up-to-date (both chipset and GPU), But I can't even load JUST a dForce prop and simulate it, no restart, not any other method changes this.
I am not willing to downgrade DAZ at this point, as I can simulate dForce on my main rig and just load it on the other. But It is annoying as heck.

 

[mastergobbo]

Firstly, check you have everything, such as OpenCL, & anything else that maybe missing....

Thanks for the reply @DitaVonTease
I tried looking for solutions with the help of Mr. Google, but nothing there was even remotly helpful. My GPU CAN do OpenCL 1.2, which was the most talked about point. Think I will have to wait for DAZ to update and be more willing to support the AMD GPU's.

 

[Night Hacker]

Two lovebirds riding out ...
Tell me, what you think of going through the hassle of smoothing (indentations in this case) with "helper-objects" for each and every render that would need it in the real-world.
One is with smoothing on, one with it off. I know, it sure looks more "real" with this kind of effect on, but could/can you tolerate that for the sake of simpler composing? It doesn't impact the render-time once its done, but beforehand it can be a lot of work.
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I prefer smoothing on. It's a subtle difference that most won't notice when you use it, but it takes away from the quality when there is none and I see clipping. It's relatively minor, but all these little touches usually add up to a scene people will praise you for. And how much time does it take? Click the couch then EDIT->OBJECT->GEOMETRY->ADD SMOOTHING MODIFIER. You don't even have to adjust the values, just point it to whomever is sitting on the couch. Later on, you'll want to have proper lighting, which again, by itself probably won't be a huge deal, but when you add it all up, proper lighting, smoothing so the couch deforms, add in a camera depth of field etc... and you'll end up with a great scene. The little things add up. It just depends on what you want. Is it a quick render just for fun, or do you want something that will wow people who view it?

 

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[Night Hacker]

I forgot to add focus to this one, but it took over an hour to render at 4k so it's remaining focus-less lol. Anyone have tips on conveying emotion through eyes? I tried here, but she looks more maniacal than anything else to me.
I have a couple more images from this set, let me know if anyone wants to see them.

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Well, when it comes to eyes, for a worried look, you want to raise the inner eyebrows, for a more frightened look, make her eyes larger. For evil intent, bring her inner eyebrows down, outer eyebrows higher, combine that perhaps with more eye showing (eyelids open more) and she'll have a maniacal look, close them slightly and you have a more sultry look. Partially closed eyes combined with high inner eyebrows = passion, ecstasy etc...

A good way to find natural expressions is go to a search engine, I like BING's image search. Then search for expressions there, like "female angry expression" and you'll be surprised at what you find. Use them as source material to pose your characters. I've done this for expressions as well as for full body poses, and I will save the source images for later reference.

 

[Night Hacker]

I ended up going with 5000 samples. I've attached screenshots. Not sure if you can tell on this internet forum, but in the originals I can see faint differences in the wall texture at 500 samples, 5000 samples, and 10000 samples, and I decided 5000 was a good balance. It's definitely not the same detail I get from rendering to 25000 samples, but even with my 3080ti those renders were taking over an hour due primarily to the darkness of the scene. At 5000 samples the renders are taking about 14 minutes, and since I've got over 200 renders just for this animation alone that was about as much time as I thought I could take for each render. Edit: That's at 1920x1080.

So basically your advice has saved me over 150 hours of rendering time just on this animation.

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Very nice! I would have been happy with the top one at 500 myself, but I see what you mean. Yeah, that's a huge time savings!

 

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[mastergobbo]

I prefer smoothing on. It's a subtle difference that most won't notice when you use it, but it takes away from the quality when there is none and I see clipping. It's relatively minor, but all these little touches usually add up to a scene people will praise you for. And how much time does it take? Click the couch then EDIT->OBJECT->GEOMETRY->ADD SMOOTHING MODIFIER. You don't even have to adjust the values, just point it to whomever is sitting on the couch. Later on, you'll want to have proper lighting, which again, by itself probably won't be a huge deal, but when you add it all up, proper lighting, smoothing so the couch deforms, add in a camera depth of field etc... and you'll end up with a great scene. The little things add up. It just depends on what you want. Is it a quick render just for fun, or do you want something that will wow people who view it?

thanks @Night Hacker
You are right, the little details make the difference. I know, to get the smoothing modifier to work ist not a big thing, but if you have two or more different objects to "impact", it is not just selecting which object to collide with. Thats where I was going at.
In this case, I have two figures, and both are impacting the couch, but you can only select one of them. So if you want them all to collide, you have to export both (or however many), preferably in base res (because of size) and use this OBJ as "helper-object".
Or you create a somewhat fitting primitive and use it for that (maybe with Blender for the more complex forms).
This is a very satisfactory way of dealing with that problem, but you have to do it for almost every pose on its own. That's what I was asking about.
But of course, you are right, it's the small details...

 

[Night Hacker]

Thanks for the reply @Atton563!
Drivers are up-to-date (both chipset and GPU), But I can't even load JUST a dForce prop and simulate it, no restart, not any other method changes this.
I am not willing to downgrade DAZ at this point, as I can simulate dForce on my main rig and just load it on the other. But It is annoying as heck.

I'm not sure if your card is effected, or if this has since been fixed but...

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[Night Hacker]

thanks @Night Hacker
You are right, the little details make the difference. I know, to get the smoothing modifier to work ist not a big thing, but if you have two or more different objects to "impact", it is not just selecting which object to collide with. Thats where I was going at.
In this case, I have two figures, and both are impacting the couch, but you can only select one of them. So if you want them all to collide, you have to export both (or however many), preferably in base res (because of size) and use this OBJ as "helper-object".
Or you create a somewhat fitting primitive and use it for that (maybe with Blender for the more complex forms).
This is a very satisfactory way of dealing with that problem, but you have to do it for almost every pose on its own. That's what I was asking about.
But of course, you are right, it's the small details...

Ah, I see what you mean now. I will generally choose which figure is more noticeable and just pick them as the one to use with the modifier, sometimes adjusting the camera angle and pose of the other so you don't notice it, or don't notice it as much. I've done that in my scenes where two people are in bed, I'll use it for the one on the bottom normally and try and minimize with the other and it works out. Exporting etc... is a solution, but for me, it's more work than it's worth. I already spend way too much time wrestling with Daz as it is.

 

[mastergobbo]

I'm not sure if your card is effected, or if this has since been fixed but...

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Thanks, this one is new to me, and it could explain some (if not all) things ...
Maybe it ist the new (for me) DAZ 4.20, maybe together with a new Win11 system...
I am almost certain, if I could recreate my former settings (W10 and DAZ 4.16) it wold work again (as it did then).
Thanks again for the link!

 

[mastergobbo]

Ah, I see what you mean now. I will generally chose which figure is more noticable and just pick them as the one to use with the modifier, sometimes adjusting the camera angle and pose of the other so you don't notice it, or don't notice it as much. I've done that in my scenes where two people are in bed, I'll use it for the one on the bottom normally and try and minimize with the other and it works out. Exporting etc... is a solution, but for me, it's more work than it's worth. I already spend way too much time wrestling with Daz as it is.

So this is basically the answer to my question , thanks!

 

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[Night Hacker]

So this is basically the answer to my question , thanks!

Glad I could help.

 

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[Night Hacker]

So this is basically the answer to my question , thanks!

Oh, a couple other things I learned which can help. If you put clothing on your character (why?! ) and set something like a couch to collide with the character, it may not look quite right due to the clothing as it is colliding with the character, not their clothing. What you can do is create a GeoShell for the character, size it up a little to cover the clothes, make it invisible and set the couch to collide with it so you don't get clothes clipping.

Another solution I found, similar to what you mentioned, except in reverse, rather than exporting two characters and then fiddling with them to make them into one, you can simply set the object, like a couch to collide with one of the characters, then export the couch instead after it has the deformation. Then re-import the couch with deformation and set a smoothing modifier on it again for the second character and voila. It's simpler. I just tried it again with a cube and two spheres and it works fine and is easier than exporting two characters and fiddling with them.