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Subject: Daz3d 4.10 Bug, User Error, or ???


moranged ( ) posted Fri, 03 May 2019 at 4:50 PM · edited Sun, 03 March 2024 at 6:06 AM

The Short:

On the Surfacing/Rendering view, surfaces won’t show in the Surfaces/Presets tab (when using the Self Serve workplace). Some surfaces, like Michael 4 or Genesis 8, will show in the Surfaces/Editor tab but will be greyed out, and still will not be available in the Surfaces/Presets tab. Is this a bug or something else?

The Long:

This is not the first issue I’ve had with Daz3D. I’ve been using Poser and found that the renderings with Daz3d have a very pleasing quality especially with Iray so downloaded the free software. For a time it seemed to work and as I became more familiar with Daz3d I attempted to use more of its capabilities such as emissive objects. That’s when I found that things weren’t working as expected.

I didn’t realize when, but the Photorealism option stopped working. I’d let a render sit for hours and nothing would show. And when I attempted to create emissive objects they weren’t ‘emissiving.’ I searched the web, Daz3d FAQ’s/forums and Renderosity but haven’t found anyone with quite the same issues. I put in a ticket with the Daz3d tech team and there was some effort and back and forth. I sent a sample file which I had loaded with primitive cones that came with the Poser library, and the Daz3d tech person was seeing cubes.

I did a reset of Interface (under Preferences), and that seemed to restore the Photorealism capability, but now the surfaces issue has cropped up. I'm not sure if there is more still not working correctly and just haven't discovered it yet.

Any brilliant ideas? Or just plain ideas?

My set up is an iMac, 3.2GHz, with 24GB Ram, and a NVIDIA GeForce GT 755M 1GB graphics card.

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jestmart ( ) posted Fri, 03 May 2019 at 9:50 PM

Click the little triangle by the figure/object name(s) to see the actual surfaces


moranged ( ) posted Fri, 03 May 2019 at 11:55 PM

Thanks for the effort. As noted, the surfaces are greyed out and not selectable. Expanding does not change that so will not show up in the presets.


RHaseltine ( ) posted Sat, 04 May 2019 at 8:45 AM

Do you have anything entered in the filter field in the Editor tab?


moranged ( ) posted Sat, 04 May 2019 at 9:44 AM

Thanks! But no filter.


RHaseltine ( ) posted Sat, 04 May 2019 at 2:35 PM

Is the selected item an instance?


moranged ( ) posted Sat, 04 May 2019 at 4:02 PM

Yes. If you mean selected in the Posing or Loading views.


RHaseltine ( ) posted Sat, 04 May 2019 at 4:12 PM

Instances can't have their surface proprties edited - they are exact clones, aside from the object level transforms (placement and scale) of the original, but they don't serve as proxies for editing the originals.


moranged ( ) posted Sat, 04 May 2019 at 6:13 PM

Not sure what an instance means. So if I don't know, then it can't be an instance. I was assuming you meant if it was selected prior to moving to the render tab.


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