More problems and questions!

Wonderland

Still having so many problems.... Thanks in advance for help!

1.Sometimes content shows up in the smart content pane, sometimes I just get a triangle with an exclamation mark. The products I can't access changes every time I log on, I'm using DAZ Connect.

2. The content pane on the right only has the ability to search for content, there is no hierachical tree to pick content from.

3. When I click on the lights/camera pane the scene disappears and is blank.

4. When I saved a scene and reopened it, the floor and shader on the floor were missing, said it couldn't find those files.

5. I deleted all lights and wanted the only lights to be from the emmisive shader on the floor, but there is still some light source I can't get rid of. It's impossible to create a pitch black scene and then add in lights. (see render)

6. When I select a surface and want to use a shader, it only randomly works. Sometimes it will work, other times there is a quick blippy thing on the top but nothing actually happens...

7. A lot more problems and questions, but this is enough for one post!

I appreciate your help! I spent a lot of money during MM, but now I'm thinking of returning anything that I can't use in Poser.... This is just getting too frustrating! I'm on a Mac, OS 10.5. Thanks.

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fixmypcmike

1. Where is your content located?

2. You have a collapsede sub-pane, click where the red arrow is pointing

4. what is the exact error message on the missing files?

5. make sure you turn off the camera headlamp

6. what are the lines at the bottom of the log after you try to apply a shader.

Is this OS 10.5 or 10.10.5?

Wonderland

I moved my content to a separate hard drive but DS created another folder with the same name right where I had deleted it from on my main hard drive plus it found some content from a time I tried DS a long time ago on a different hard drive. So now I have two "My DAZ 3D" Libraries which is confusing, I only want the one on the external hard drive... Plus a "DS" library it found on another external hard drive.

OK, thanks, I found the content, but only the Poser content makes sense because I organized that myself, the DS stuff is random, not in any logical order, so maybe that's why search is necessary...

Below is the screenshot about the missing files.

Just found camera headlamp and turned it off, but it is still rendering bright... Adding screenshot of setting

Why is the screen blank when I go to the camera or lights pane? (See previous screenshot)

"what are the lines at the bottom of the log after you try to apply a shader." Sorry, don't understand the question....

Mac OS 10.10.5

Also, I accidentally closed a render to save it like in Poser and lost it... Is there a way of getting back a recent recent render?

Thanks :)

Totte

(1) Did you configure DIM and DAZ Studio to tell it WHERE your content is? It's vital to have DIM and DS setup to use the same lcoations. 

(2) Did you reset the Content Library Database and Reimport Metadata after you changed directory location of the content (The warning triangle says "Hey, The content isn't whre I think it is".

(3) The drive, is that an internal or external drive? External drives over USB has a tendency to loose connections /thunderbolt is much safer), and then they come back, if you look in /Volumes, you will see "MyDrive", "MyDrive-1", "MyDrive-2", where finder tricks you that you are looking at "MyDrive" but actually it is "MyDrive-2", and if you have configured DIM/DS to look at "MyDrive/Content", it will be emprty as it is now "MyDrive-2/Content"

 

scorpio

When applying a shader you need to have the item and the surface you want to apply the shader to selected in the surface tab. Using the surface selection tool to select surfaces makes this easier.

scorpio

If you are trying to only the scene by the Emissive surface check that you have Scen only selected in the render tab

Richard Haseltine

The Lights and cameras activity has no viewport - presumably you closed it at soem point. Window>Panes(Tabs)>Viewport, then drag the frame at the top until you get a bar in the highlightcolour across the top of the blank area and drop it (or reload you layout from Window>Workspace>Select Layout).

Wonderland

I configured the My DAZ 3D Library to be on an external hard drive. For some reason DS created another MY DAZ 3D Library on my main computer under shared/users, I believe, after I moved and deleted the first one. It also found old content on its own on another external hard drive. Right now it's looking at three drives for content and I refreshed metadata but it's still not finding some things, new things that are DAZ originals! I also think that many of the shaders are not showing up and everything is organized so weirdly, some things under "Lost and found," and I can't tell which pack things came from or who the artist is...

Thanks Richard, I found the viewport in camera/lights!

Next question, is there a way to get a decent render without it taking several hours? I could render in minutes with Poser, but of course not getting the lray realism.... But it just takes so long...

Richard Haseltine

Adding more light will geenrally help iray to converge more quickly, as of course will using an nVidia GPU if you have one (and your scene will fit its memory).