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Hello everyone,
I am a professional fiction writer; but I like playing around with graphic programs. I have a question I just downloaded this program but when I opened it. It shows the title of the program an it says updating CMS but its been doing that for about an hour now. Is it supposed to be doing that?
your work is amazing. beautiful rendered sceneries. do u also sculp them yourself or just render and mix it all together?
I have 8 published books (some fiction some not) and have an extensive background in both graphics and programming. Often we writers have systems not suitable to 3D software. Downloading DAZ 3d should be the easiest part of your journey. Downloading props, models and environements is not that much harder, but rendering those suckers is another beastly animal. By this I mean if I wanted to do a render with a huge audience composed of multiple characters, engaging with a live band in a large environment, I need a different system than the one I might need to render two characters lying on a beach blanket. Depending on the scene and the system, I might be able to engage in a two day fast and hit McDonalds on day 3 before rendering finished. At one point , on one machine I thought WTF I could have built a house by now. The same reinstall of 1500-2000 products took overnight while on a different second system, the same reinstall took two days (a red flag) but the program itself downloaded in a heartbeat. Meta data was awol for some products.
It helps to know that Daz 3D comes in two versions, 32bit and 64 bit and after identifying the one you need, you have to install DIM first and then install the appropriate DAZ version. After DAZ installs, you'll want to buy some products (and scrape a few free ones) BUT when and if you download those, via DIM, ensure DAZ 3d is closed while DIM does it's magic.
To be certain you have downloaded the correct version of DAZ check your system specs. You may know this, but in case someone else can benefit from this, here is how to check system stats. Just right click on my computer and it will show most details such as Ram, Processor and OS (32 or 64) but won't always disclose the GPU (graphics card) details which will come in handy on render day. If you look in the top left panel you will see at top left sidebar and a list that will include "device managers". Click it. Go to "display adapters" and click it. This will tell you what graphics card you have. The reason I mention this is that is once you use recent DAZ versions you will find AMD vs Nvidia makes a difference. Two graphic cards are useless if the GB differs as the lower is used and if insufficient, CPU is utilized. 3Delight appears to be CPU intensive. Most graphic programs are CPU orientated while Octane and Iray seems to prefer GPU. It seems Daz 3d 4.9 etc reverts to CPU if GPU memory is insufficient. If like me you want to continue utilizing other programs while rendering, RAM is extremely important. SSD is a time save vs mechanical hard drives and Windows Pro 10 updates need to be monitored to avoid graphic breaks and of course it sucks and siphons on your pc resources. If you have low resources check for programs running in the background and kill them. So depending on your system and the resources your system is utilizing (updates, background scans) updating CMS can take longer however if you let it run it's course it should get the job done.
Hi all,
My name is Randal (Randy if you aren't offended). At the beginning of the year I was forced into retirement due to health reasons and my former company's underhanded failure to circumvent the law. (Discremination on a cancer patient is a big no-no.) I don't mind the retirement though as I've moved in with my daughter and her family and they are taking good care of me allowing me to do this. It is a lot of fun and it's relaxing.
I've started working on a comic book around January 6th designing the characters, the script, the scenes and so-on and today have decided that I have all the pieces in place to begin. As soon as I get the cover redesigned I'll post it.
A little bit about me: Was a guitarist / musician (chemo destroyed parts of my hearing so I hung it up); am a retired computer programmer; the captain of the TSN Gallifrey (a space LAN game me and five others play when we get together as a bridge crew); a professional linguist in that I actually got paid to create alien languages for the afore mentioned game otherwise a rank amateur there as well, I've been invited to speak at a conference about them but won't make it this time around; and I guess that's it.
I'll be asking questions a lot, especially if I can't find the answers readily so stay tuned to this channel for more details.
And now for the break!
Hi Randy,
I feel for you and wish you well . My mother, her brother, and my sister (non-smoker) died of throat cancer which progressed to her lungs. My brother survived advanced colon cancer (kemo and surgeries a decade ago - they gave him a 10% chance) while my father and other brother survived prostate cancer after undergoing kemo. I too underwent a surgery through a cancer specialist in 1985. My husband, like you was forced into early retirement. He worked with a fortune 500 company but after getting injured at work he underwent a botched surgery which made him permanently disabled. He, like you, was also a lead guitarist in a band. The world isn't always fair but it sounds like you're keeping your chin up and venting through art. I hope your comic books are a huge success.
Welcome, everyone! Glad to see some new faces. It looks like we have some more writers here as well. What fun! There are several writers using with DS to do covers or extras for their fans or website creation so settle in, look around and ask questions. When you're ready, ask about using DS as a writer and you may get more responses than you think. There are published authors here and those of us just starting out and currently working on writing projects. You are definitely not alone here. :)
hello everybody i am about as creative as a rock but i am hopeing some one will take pitty on me and help me out here
Hello Dazcateers. I am Robert and would like to learn, with your help please. Apart from a little untutored dabbling I have very little experience with DAZ. I would like to learn to use the 'Little Soldiers' product from 3DUniverse to produce 2D still figures. I have been told that I need the basic toon generations pack first as a basis for further experimentation. Would someone please care to suggest what basic pack is most suitable.
I would also like to know how to post an avatar as my ID.
Thanks for reading this, I will look forward to receiving some help and guidance...............Always have a happy tomorrow.
Here's a link to your profile. Just select edit my thumbnail http://www.daz3d.com/forums/profile/edit
Dazcateers! Good one! Welcome to the forums, Robert.
I believe you need Toon Generations Base to use Little Soldiers. But Little Soldiers is made by 3djoji, not 3DUniverse, so I'm not sure if this is the product you are talking about.
Hi Dazcateers. Just wanted to say thank you to Barbult and Frank 0314 for replying to my post.
Thank you both.
Hola Juan. Yo no hablo español bien. Puede agregar una imagen en blanco y negro al canal "Opacity" o "Cutout Opacity" en el panel "Surfaces" para que la ropa se vea arrancada o rasgada. También, mire este producto. Es viejo, y no sé si funciona en DS 4.9.
Greetings,
I'm still new to Daz3D and the world of 3D graphics. I'm an aspiring 2D artist and illustrator who started out painting traditionally with acrylics but have since gone on to use Photoshop and Painter to realize my characters and creatures. I've looked into 3D programs but found them either too complicated, frustrating, or expensive to deal with. I later discovered Daz3D and was impressed by the sheer selection of characters, creatures, scenes,and other things. I was also impressed by the fact that the "starter set" was free. I admit that I've become heavily invested in Genesis 1 and have purchased many characters compatible with it. The characters I've purchased include : Abominable, Mr.Hyde, Brute X, Infernal Behemoth, Skullcrusher Ogre, Mindof Evil, and other characters, costumes, and props. I'm still just having fun just playing with and posing the characters, basically just treating them as virtual action figures. What I ultimately want to accomplish is to use Daz3D characters as templates for my own characters and illustrations. I have no illusions about being an animator or 3D artist, but I do appreciate 3D graphics as an art form.
hello everyone my name is Tony,
I started from very little time to learn about this fabulous program and unfortunately am not expert like most of you, so I need technical support to figure out how I did to change the complex settings in the program and to render 3DL much like iray but my pC does not allow me to use the iray so because slow so now I want to understand what I have changed but I do not remember.
Use the DAZ Studio version 4.9 (64-bit)
obey my rendering seem to come out directly from the skin!
I did other tests with other models, but only this that I saved out the rendering so, the other models with textures loaded and rendered in the same way do not come out so, why? Who understands us is good.
I do not understand anything :(
I did a screen image that was to render, the next very similar to preview the rendered image, as I did? I do not remember precisely, help me please.
I'm Ziggy. I just started playing with the features. I would love to get more skilled and maybe earn some money doing this. I am also planning on trying to do my own game once I become more proficiant ate this. Anyone interested in being my Jedi Master I would not object to help. (If you happened to be cute, young, single and female I would not object either lol)
Hi my name is margatho33. I love robots. And I found Wonderfull things like Technophilia Retro Gynoids V1, V2 and V3. I want to use then in Daz Studio 4.9.
Welcome, @margatho33. There are several robot and cyborg type products in the Daz store. The product pages for the Technophilia Retro Gynoids you mentioned list compatible software as "Poser". I don't know if they will work in Daz Studio 4.9. Some Poser products work OK in Daz Studio, but some do not. You have a some choices:
Thank you very much barbult for your response and for your wise advice.
But, I fell in love with the product and wish to use it in Daz Studio 4.9. I did a search and found two people who used Iray to recolor the textures and thus get a silver visual of the props that form the helmet of Volume 1 and Volume 3. I intend to do as soon as possible and if everything goes well I will post in the gallery.
Best regards
Margatho33
barbult II did it. With help of course. But here's a preview. The last and the first.
Well, congratulations! Good work. Are you ready to tackle another challenge! Why not join us in the New User Challenge? There is a new one each month with a new topic to learn. This month it is posing.
Hi everyone -- I'm another new person here, looking to see if I can tap into any artistic talent which may (I hope) be lurking somewhere in my brain...my RL name is Jackie. Hoping I can create something cool-looking for my granddaughter, and hopefully learn enough about this software to create something that I won't be embarrassed to share here, lol.
Music: Santana, almost anything classical, widely-varied songs picked here and there, Classic Rock...
Books: Mystery/thriller/suspense
Gaming: Morrowind/Skyrim, Eternal Lands, and I still play Runescape occasionally (!) -- Ocarina of Time is one of my eternal favorites :) I love gaming -- it lets me do things that I can't do in real life, lol!
Right now I'm pumped to start learning this!! Feel free to hit me up!
Hi, My Name is Paul and I am a software developer. I like to challenge myself so I am always looking for problems that can be solved using software.
I have been playing with DAZ3D for a while now however; I noticed that there is no easy way to install multiple add-ons to DAZ automatically.
There are several reasons for this the main reason is that over the years there have been quite a few different installer types so therefore there is no standard method for automating the install.
Another issue I came across was that some content was in compressed archives i.e. rar,zip,7zip. These file could contain other installers or just the folders and files required’ these need to be extracted in the correct places so that DAZ can find them.
In order to solve this I have created The DAZ auto installer. To use it all I do is put all my installers, Zip files, Rar files in one directory and set it going.
Primarily I developed this for my own use however I am considering making it available to the DAZ community for a small price.
I would just like some feedback as to whether this would be a useful tool for you all out there and any questions about the tool are welcome.
Look forward to hearing from you all.
Regards, Paul.
All content now comes in zip format and can be isntalled with the Daz Install Manager.
That's Great however my program was designed to auto install old content.
Even old content is now zipped. If you still have .exe isntallers or the like they are (very) old and quite possibly lack updates that the zipped versions have.
Ok Thanks for the update
Been away for a while....good to know they are all zipped now :-)
Hiya! I am not really new but I have been away long enough that 4.9 is shiny newness to me.
It has been a long time. Back around 08 I enjoyed making textures (still getting feedback on textures I made years ago, lol), playing with shaders, and creating a wide variety of scenes. I love fantasy and sci-fi but never let that passion stop me from exploring other avenues. I was a PC for awhile and the challenges they would post there helped keep me expanding my horizons. I went through a series of computers that did not render well but finally picked up a nice laptop to crunch the scenes. Plus, time. I geek out on the compu-tron for the day job, not graphics related, and it is in a field with high demand and long hours.
Back to Daz! I enjoyed a chunk of the V4 character line - Victoria, Aiko, and Michael for the most part. Still love Aiko 3. Still trying to get everything to load in Daz 4.9, the Aiko base stuff just refuses to become one with the current software. I am really looking forward to learning about 4.9 and am excited to think about what I will be working on.
Anyway, just wanted to wave hello to new folks and anyone who might remember me from before.