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Do you mean here? The place that says "Cluster Directory"? (That drops down on my DS4.6.3.52 desktop too though says "None" at present)
If I change the setting will it automatically (a) move the database there, (b) be "known" by DIM?
Oh, and does this mean I should install DS4.7 BEFORE PostgreSQL, go into DS, set the location THEN run the PostgreSQL installer, if I don't want it to write anything to the Appdata area from the off?
Is there a way to go back to 4.6 version if 4.7 does interfere with a 3rd party plugin, Octane, Alembic, Dynamic Cloth, etc. Would hate to lose these. I hold my breath every time I install one of these upgrades.
You can download older versions of DAZ Studio from your product library
Yay, the GoZ seems to make morphs for pre-Genesis figures again! Lovely.
On unrelated note, I liked black-and-orange icon better than black-ang-blue ones.
I very much like the new City Limits Lite workspace
Ughm. I just mistakenly undocked viewport window. How can I put it back in the middle of the screen?
Drag and drop it on the area I dotted red in the image :)
That will ad an extra tab.
If you want it in the middle, like it originally was, drag it to the upper edge (again where I drew the red dots)
Hope it helped ^^
I know I can have it as a guide, that's not the problem. I cannot render the scene with background and get my alpha channel. So I have to do as you say: Use as guide, hide bg during render, go into photoshop, hunt for bg, double-check my render size, re-size loaded bg, place render, whether I need to do further 'work' or not.
There IS a simple solution. Give us back the halo-ed alpha channel when we render with background visible. Confusion? Possibly but there's a simple answer. If you want no halo, hide the background when you render. Your choice.
What happened to my render settings? I can't change size, or pixels, or anything.
Looks like this is classified info, Araneldon! =D But if you aren't adverse to bypassing the whole backdrop thing (setting up your own controls in the render script instead), there is a way out, I believe.
I invite both of you to discuss the "scripted renderer" thing in the "laboratory" thread here: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/21611/
Click the "editor" tab next to where you have "advanced" highlighted, that'll show the other options
Click the "editor" tab next to where you have "advanced" highlighted, that'll show the other options
Thanks. I was about to panic, lol.
No problem, I went through a similar moment at first :)
I know I can have it as a guide, that's not the problem. I cannot render the scene with background and get my alpha channel. So I have to do as you say: Use as guide, hide bg during render, go into photoshop, hunt for bg, double-check my render size, re-size loaded bg, place render, whether I need to do further 'work' or not.
There IS a simple solution. Give us back the halo-ed alpha channel when we render with background visible. Confusion? Possibly but there's a simple answer. If you want no halo, hide the background when you render. Your choice.
That's not what I meant - if you look in the Environment pane, with a backdrop set up, there's a Visible in Render button. It works like the Visible in Render setting for objects - when set to off you can see the thing in the viewport but it won't render. You don't have to go in and turn the guide backdrop off to render, then back on after rendering.
Yes, it will move - and yes, it's a configuration setting that will affect DIM too.
No, as you won't get the tab until PostgreSQL is installed.
No, as you won't get the tab until PostgreSQL is installed.
Thank you very much, Richard - you're a superhero!
I've succesfully got the database where I want it on the laptop, so I think I'm good to go with installing on my "real" DS PC.
Must say I like the look of what I've seen on DS4.7 so far - that IPR rendering stuff is really neat (had a lot of fun moving lights around while it was going) and I hope and pray that the PostgreSQL dbs will hold up for a lot longer than the Valentina ones did for me.
What's the aux viewport for?
Greetings,
Quick, lighting and shader accurate renders, that updates as you change stuff in your scene. You add the aux viewport, and then (this is how I do it) add the IPR toolbar by clicking the context menu (four lines with an arrow) and selecting 'Show IPR Toolbar'. Then click the 'Play' button to start it doing a progressive render of your scene. You can continue to futz with the scene while it's doing it and it'll adjust. If you're going to do a lot of changes, and don't want it eating CPU trying to recalculate, hit the STOP button until you're ready. If you have multiple monitors, it's even better, as you can detach and move it around.It's really, REALLY useful for getting lighting just right, noting breakthrough that doesn't show up in preview, and more. It's a big thing, and I'm kind of blown away by it.
-- Morgan
The Default Daz Studio Shader? I can´t see those options on that one.
It's really, REALLY useful for getting lighting just right, noting breakthrough that doesn't show up in preview, and more. It's a big thing, and I'm kind of blown away by it.
-- Morgan
Awesome, sounding. Does it also see shadows (like when using pwCatch) and other shaders?
The Default Daz Studio Shader? I can´t see those options on that one.
Set the Lighting model parameter to Skin.
I'm having difficulty determining which viewport will be rendered when I click the Render button. It ofter renders the Aux viewport camera view instead of the main viewport camera view. I was surprised that the Aux viewport camera was ever rendered as the final render. I thought it was for IPR and just viewing another view of the scene. How can I look at my screen and tell which viewport will be rendered when I click the render button?
I use the product library and categories exclusively to locate content . What I do is go to the "L's" For example and quickly type the first two letters of the content item to have them pull up.
What I'm finding though, is doing this when I type t certain letters it is triggering the viewport to zoom out which I don't want. It seems there are some hotkeys activated that weren't activated in the previous version of the software which control the camera. Can I disable this?
Anyway when I accidentally hit whatever key is triggering the zoom out in the main view, I cannot undo it by control Z. I'd like to be able to continue to search for content if I can without this feature being enabled.
Can I do anything about it?
There's no visual cue, so that's probably worth a bug report - the Aux Viewport is a viewport, so if it's active it will be used for rendering.
By default shift-k will disable the keyboard view control - if that itself becomes an issue you can change or remove the keyboard shortcut in the Window>Workspace>Customise dialogue (in the View Controls group on the left, right-click on the command to get a menu).
There's no visual cue, so that's probably worth a bug report - the Aux Viewport is a viewport, so if it's active it will be used for rendering.Thanks, Richard, I'll submit a report.
Set the Lighting model parameter to Skin.
Interesting — does this mean a few more of the "under the hood" parameters are now uncovered, so we can fiddle a bit if necessary? I'm hoping to get round to updating to 4.7 sometime next week, it looks like I'll have lots of new stuff to play with.
Nearly forgot the most important thing — is there documentation of these new features anywhere?
Oops, another bug. I just submitted this report:
When I try to edit text I've typed into the Image Name field of the Render Settings, the text cursor jumps to the end of the text string each time I insert or delete a character. For example, suppose I've entered 1236789 as my image name. Then I realize I left out 45 between 3 and 6. I position my text editing cursor between the 3 and 6 and type 45. I get 123467895, because as soon as I type the 4, the cursor jumps to the end, and the 5 is entered at the end.