SimTenero Shape Reprojector [Commercial]

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  • HoMartHoMart Posts: 480

    I get a crash when I try to adjust the bounds multiplier quickly... does anyone else get this? 

     

    I am using 4.8.0.59 of DAZ Studio.

    Me too, under Version 4.9.2.70. As soon as I change the bounds multiplier it crashes DAZ

    same here.

    tried some different approaches -

    change the bounds multiplier via slider quickly -> crash

    change the bounds multiplier via slider slowly -> somtimes crash

    change the bounds multiplier via typing in a value - value change > 0.5 -> chrash

                                                                           - value change in 0.1 steps (and not so fast switching to next value) -> no crash

    Using W10 with lots of RAM - latest DAZ version

  • inquireinquire Posts: 2,204

    cmd-9

    You can also click the sphere icon to the left of the camera picker button to select preview mode from a menu.

    You know, when I do this, I get a spinning beach ball for quite a while before the change happens. If I use the keyboard shortcut, such as cmd-8 or cmd-9, the change is instantaneous. Why is that? I supect it has something to do with the way the program is written (the Mac version, again).

  • inquireinquire Posts: 2,204

    I have some concerns, after reading the read me about how successful the claw hold I described above would be. I'd want to be able to do the morphing when both figures were posed, to see exactly where the finger and hand marks should go. Once the figures were zeroed out, and before they were returned to the pose, I might not get the angles as I want them. Still, I'd like to see some examples of this or of a person grabbing another person's arm (but not as a zero postion, but in a pose), and see how this turned out.

  • spoffninjaspoffninja Posts: 17

    Fantastic product! I've been looking for something like this for quite sometime. Thanks you so much. The applications are endless!

  • HamEinarHamEinar Posts: 110

    Fantastic product! I've been looking for something like this for quite sometime. Thanks you so much. The applications are endless!

    Indeed, in theory.. Do you have any examples to show; a single render besides the promos won't make my itch go away - I really want this, but I've fallen for the potential, not convinced by tutorials and theories; my heart says YES, my eyes need more ????

  • nicsttnicstt Posts: 11,715

    Fantastic product! I've been looking for something like this for quite sometime. Thanks you so much. The applications are endless!

    Indeed, in theory.. Do you have any examples to show; a single render besides the promos won't make my itch go away - I really want this, but I've fallen for the potential, not convinced by tutorials and theories; my heart says YES, my eyes need more ????

    I hear ya.

    I got fed up of waiting and decided to try it out; I have credit and if I return it, it can go back on the credit I have.

    Not really tested it yet, just the once to find it and see if it worked.

  • HamEinarHamEinar Posts: 110

    Hmm hope this doesn't die here.. Still looking for user experiences / samples :-)

  • nicsttnicstt Posts: 11,715

    Hmm hope this doesn't die here.. Still looking for user experiences / samples :-)

    Likewise, I bought it to try it out; basically, will I be able to do what I currently do in blender, and in much less time (as it is costing me cash, I need something in return)?

  • KnittingmommyKnittingmommy Posts: 8,191

    I'm still experimenting, but got distracted by a couple of other projects.  It would be nice to see what others are doing with it, though.

  • JeremyDJeremyD Posts: 265

    I want this as well but I'm not sure if it will help with what I try to do in Daz -- kitbash outfits together. i.e: If I had an armor chest piece and I want to place an emblem design on top, so it appears that the design is embossed, could this help? I'm specifically interested if the design could confirm to the armor chest shape. I tried doing this in Blender using shrinkwrap but I found it too complicated. I attached an example.





     

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  • nicsttnicstt Posts: 11,715
    JeremyD said:

    I want this as well but I'm not sure if it will help with what I try to do in Daz -- kitbash outfits together. i.e: If I had an armor chest piece and I want to place an emblem design on top, so it appears that the design is embossed, could this help? I'm specifically interested if the design could confirm to the armor chest shape. I tried doing this in Blender using shrinkwrap but I found it too complicated. I attached an example.





     

    Something like that might work as a normal map; pretty straighforward to bake normals in blender, either with blender render or cycles.

  • JeremyDJeremyD Posts: 265




     

    nicstt said:
    JeremyD said:

    I want this as well but I'm not sure if it will help with what I try to do in Daz -- kitbash outfits together. i.e: If I had an armor chest piece and I want to place an emblem design on top, so it appears that the design is embossed, could this help? I'm specifically interested if the design could confirm to the armor chest shape. I tried doing this in Blender using shrinkwrap but I found it too complicated. I attached an example.





     

    Something like that might work as a normal map; pretty straighforward to bake normals in blender, either with blender render or cycles.

    That's true, I've had some luck with normal maps. But over the year I've amassed a collection of cool 3D shapes that I'd love to try to super impose on my outfits :-) 

  • ZombieLoveZombieLove Posts: 33
    HoMart said:

    I get a crash when I try to adjust the bounds multiplier quickly... does anyone else get this? 

     

    I am using 4.8.0.59 of DAZ Studio.

    Me too, under Version 4.9.2.70. As soon as I change the bounds multiplier it crashes DAZ

    same here.

    tried some different approaches -

    change the bounds multiplier via slider quickly -> crash

    change the bounds multiplier via slider slowly -> somtimes crash

    change the bounds multiplier via typing in a value - value change > 0.5 -> chrash

                                                                           - value change in 0.1 steps (and not so fast switching to next value) -> no crash

    Using W10 with lots of RAM - latest DAZ version

    Any idea when this will be fixed? The product is unusable for me at this time. 16GB of Ram, New CPU, 980 graphics card.... not a hardware issue.

  • nicsttnicstt Posts: 11,715
    JeremyD said:




     

    nicstt said:
    JeremyD said:

    I want this as well but I'm not sure if it will help with what I try to do in Daz -- kitbash outfits together. i.e: If I had an armor chest piece and I want to place an emblem design on top, so it appears that the design is embossed, could this help? I'm specifically interested if the design could confirm to the armor chest shape. I tried doing this in Blender using shrinkwrap but I found it too complicated. I attached an example.





     

    Something like that might work as a normal map; pretty straighforward to bake normals in blender, either with blender render or cycles.

    That's true, I've had some luck with normal maps. But over the year I've amassed a collection of cool 3D shapes that I'd love to try to super impose on my outfits :-) 

    Export them as an object, import into Blender - or wherever - and bake the normals. Start a seperate thread if needed then we don't hijack this one. :)

  • simtenerosimtenero Posts: 383
    HoMart said:

    I get a crash when I try to adjust the bounds multiplier quickly... does anyone else get this? 

     

    I am using 4.8.0.59 of DAZ Studio.

    Me too, under Version 4.9.2.70. As soon as I change the bounds multiplier it crashes DAZ

    same here.

    tried some different approaches -

    change the bounds multiplier via slider quickly -> crash

    change the bounds multiplier via slider slowly -> somtimes crash

    change the bounds multiplier via typing in a value - value change > 0.5 -> chrash

                                                                           - value change in 0.1 steps (and not so fast switching to next value) -> no crash

    Using W10 with lots of RAM - latest DAZ version

    Any idea when this will be fixed? The product is unusable for me at this time. 16GB of Ram, New CPU, 980 graphics card.... not a hardware issue.

    Hi ZombieLove!  Thank you so much for your patience!  While I haven't been able to recreate the exact issue, I think I have an idea now of what might be happening and am working on an update.  I'll be sure to keey everyone update as soon as that new version is submitted to the store.  In the meantime, could I trouble you for a favor?  Could you start up a fresh session in DS, run the script, get the wrror, and then PM me your log.txt file? (usually in :users\name\appdata\roaming\daz3d\studio4).  Just curious if I can spot any clues in there :-D

     

  • PetercatPetercat Posts: 2,321
    edited August 2016

    I get a crash when I try to adjust the bounds multiplier quickly... does anyone else get this? 

     

    I am using 4.8.0.59 of DAZ Studio.

    Yes, and I tried it in 4.9 with the same results.

    Fast, always. Slow, sometimes. Incremental, always.

    Post edited by Petercat on
  • simtenerosimtenero Posts: 383

    Hello All!

    I have a special request for folks experiencing crashes when adjusting the bounds multipliers.  I know this is a huge pain for you and I want very much to get it fixed.   I'm still having trouble narrowing down the cause, unfortunately I just haven't been able to reproduce the error on either of my test computers.  So I'm hoping someone who is experiencing the crash could do me the kindness of being a beta tester for a bit :-)

    This would mean me pestering you with some questions (mostly simple stuff like what's your OS, can you send me your log.txt, would you mind trying this or that new test build for me).  I know that is a VERY big request, so I totally understand if nobody has that kind of time free.  I just want to get this one nipped in the bud (is that the right expression? :-P ), and I'd rather have some beta testing before publicly releasing a new build without knowing for sure if it's fixed the problem.

    If you are interested, please feel free to PM me.  THANK YOU!!! :-)

  • simtenero said:

    Hello All!

    I have a special request for folks experiencing crashes when adjusting the bounds multipliers.  I know this is a huge pain for you and I want very much to get it fixed.   I'm still having trouble narrowing down the cause, unfortunately I just haven't been able to reproduce the error on either of my test computers.  So I'm hoping someone who is experiencing the crash could do me the kindness of being a beta tester for a bit :-)

    This would mean me pestering you with some questions (mostly simple stuff like what's your OS, can you send me your log.txt, would you mind trying this or that new test build for me).  I know that is a VERY big request, so I totally understand if nobody has that kind of time free.  I just want to get this one nipped in the bud (is that the right expression? :-P ), and I'd rather have some beta testing before publicly releasing a new build without knowing for sure if it's fixed the problem.

    If you are interested, please feel free to PM me.  THANK YOU!!! :-)

    Hey Sim, did you get my message? I sent you my log file as asked. I am also willing to help you in any way I can. I'm a big fan of your work but this product is not useable for me with 4.8.

  • XornflXornfl Posts: 102
    Uthgard said:

    I haven't gotten that error but what I am getting really annoyed about is that, while the sim is running, Daz's load on my processor is about 15%. I don't know if it's a limitation of the script or Studio's fault, but knowing that I could get the results in a sixth of the time is really grating on my nerves.

    Regarding a tutorial, here's the Readme http://docs.daz3d.com/lib/exe/fetch.php/public/read_me/index/33193/33193_shapereprojectorguide.pdf

    That said, I would love if people who have had success with the Reprojector would post their own tutorials. The Readme is barely intelligible to a non-techie like me and omits a few questions (what does the sim do if both "in" and "out" are checked? why can't I uncheck "incremental"?). As it is, I have been experimenting but I cannot get consistent results, so empiricism is out. I love the concept of this product and I am sure other users will get outstanding results, but so far it's been really confusing and not that useful. I hope to learn enough to change that.

     

    Has anyone else been getting the error "Wrapper CalculateOverlap Error: Error: cannot access member `getNumFacets' of deleted QObject"? Seems to happen when the target figure has a geo-graft in place.

     

    I got that problem too, but was unable to find my log to share it hehehe, my solution was to save the figure I was having conflicts, saved it as a character , loaded  into the scene, reproject on it save it out again as character and then load it right into the original character and to transfer the morphs i needed, i alreadi made 300 scenes, was my only solution hahahaha

  • simtenerosimtenero Posts: 383
    simtenero said:

    Hello All!

    I have a special request for folks experiencing crashes when adjusting the bounds multipliers.  I know this is a huge pain for you and I want very much to get it fixed.   I'm still having trouble narrowing down the cause, unfortunately I just haven't been able to reproduce the error on either of my test computers.  So I'm hoping someone who is experiencing the crash could do me the kindness of being a beta tester for a bit :-)

    This would mean me pestering you with some questions (mostly simple stuff like what's your OS, can you send me your log.txt, would you mind trying this or that new test build for me).  I know that is a VERY big request, so I totally understand if nobody has that kind of time free.  I just want to get this one nipped in the bud (is that the right expression? :-P ), and I'd rather have some beta testing before publicly releasing a new build without knowing for sure if it's fixed the problem.

    If you are interested, please feel free to PM me.  THANK YOU!!! :-)

    Hey Sim, did you get my message? I sent you my log file as asked. I am also willing to help you in any way I can. I'm a big fan of your work but this product is not useable for me with 4.8.

    Got the message!  PMing you back now :-)

  • simtenerosimtenero Posts: 383
    Magnusx said:
    Uthgard said:

    I haven't gotten that error but what I am getting really annoyed about is that, while the sim is running, Daz's load on my processor is about 15%. I don't know if it's a limitation of the script or Studio's fault, but knowing that I could get the results in a sixth of the time is really grating on my nerves.

    Regarding a tutorial, here's the Readme http://docs.daz3d.com/lib/exe/fetch.php/public/read_me/index/33193/33193_shapereprojectorguide.pdf

    That said, I would love if people who have had success with the Reprojector would post their own tutorials. The Readme is barely intelligible to a non-techie like me and omits a few questions (what does the sim do if both "in" and "out" are checked? why can't I uncheck "incremental"?). As it is, I have been experimenting but I cannot get consistent results, so empiricism is out. I love the concept of this product and I am sure other users will get outstanding results, but so far it's been really confusing and not that useful. I hope to learn enough to change that.

     

    Has anyone else been getting the error "Wrapper CalculateOverlap Error: Error: cannot access member `getNumFacets' of deleted QObject"? Seems to happen when the target figure has a geo-graft in place.

     

    I got that problem too, but was unable to find my log to share it hehehe, my solution was to save the figure I was having conflicts, saved it as a character , loaded  into the scene, reproject on it save it out again as character and then load it right into the original character and to transfer the morphs i needed, i alreadi made 300 scenes, was my only solution hahahaha

    Hi Magnusx!  Can I bug you with a couple of questions?

    What Windows/OSX version are you running?  Does it happen with any object, or just some objects?

    Thanks!!!

  • simtenero said:
    simtenero said:

    Hello All!

    I have a special request for folks experiencing crashes when adjusting the bounds multipliers.  I know this is a huge pain for you and I want very much to get it fixed.   I'm still having trouble narrowing down the cause, unfortunately I just haven't been able to reproduce the error on either of my test computers.  So I'm hoping someone who is experiencing the crash could do me the kindness of being a beta tester for a bit :-)

    This would mean me pestering you with some questions (mostly simple stuff like what's your OS, can you send me your log.txt, would you mind trying this or that new test build for me).  I know that is a VERY big request, so I totally understand if nobody has that kind of time free.  I just want to get this one nipped in the bud (is that the right expression? :-P ), and I'd rather have some beta testing before publicly releasing a new build without knowing for sure if it's fixed the problem.

    If you are interested, please feel free to PM me.  THANK YOU!!! :-)

    Hey Sim, did you get my message? I sent you my log file as asked. I am also willing to help you in any way I can. I'm a big fan of your work but this product is not useable for me with 4.8.

    Got the message!  PMing you back now :-)

    I sent you an email on my personal email. I am ready to test another version whenever you get a sec to look into it.

  • I upgraded my DAZ3D version to 4.9 to see if that fixes it and, while it makes it crash less quickly, it still crashes when I try to adjust the Y bounds restrictor. Any thoughts on this Sim?

  • Sorry for the long delay in updating this, I have been busy this past week. 

    After updating to 4.9 I was still getting crashes. I tried your suggestion about using simple objects (plane) divided a few times and then intersected with an object (in this case a ball). I had two more crashes but then suddenly... everything just works now. No crashes or anything (this is using the original script, not the beta you sent me that didn't work). So... apparently... if you are having issues in 4.8 upgrading to 4.9 seems to fix the issues.

    Hopefully that helps everyone!

  • Banshee2Banshee2 Posts: 6
    edited August 2016

    Thanks, I tried with latest studio and different objects and figures, but unfortunately it still crashes here with Studio 4.9.2.70. sad

    Is there anything I should try?

    Post edited by Banshee2 on
  • RGcincy said:

    Just started experimenting but happy with this result:

    If interested, the parameters I used are posted in a thread in Commons.

    Fabulous! That's exactly the kind of thing I wanted to do for years!

  • genarisgenaris Posts: 324

    Hello gang! SimTenero, I'm having trouble getting Shape Reprojector to work... can you or anyone help:  I'm using DA Palm Island in a scene. I'm Using Streetwear Sneakers (the LEFT one-- I chose these shoes because left and right are separate models!!) as SOURCE in Shape Reprojector.  For RECEIVER I'm using the beach, so i can leave a sneaker-footprint in beach object:  DA MAIN ISLAND.     I use HIT PROJECTION & INWARD and otherwise the defaults.  The sneaker is placed on the beach and arranged half way into the island object; the red boundary box is half above & half below the surface.   When i click PROJECT, it begins to work and then at 16% I get a "NO OVERLAP" warning. OK-ing that is possible but nothing happens except the timer keeps counting but H O U R S later still at 16% and nothing. (AS much as 6.5 hours later in one case)

    Posts here suggest a 1 poly or very low primitive will give this error/outcome so I checked; the DA MAIN ISLAND object in the set is 61,704 polys, it is not a simple flat plane but a modeled terrain.  I've tried selecting the various materials one at a time, all, and none, for the INCLUDED MATERIALS under the receiver (DA MAIN ISLAND) but this makes no difference. I've tried raising and lowering the placement of the SOURCE sneaker obj relative to the receiver (just above surface, just slightly intruding, halfway bisected, almost fully beneath, completely under surface etc) and result is same Nothingburger.

    I figured I was arranging things wrong or something so I found this forum and when I saw RGcincy's pillow/feet experiment saw I was doing basically the same thing and had done pretty the same as he'd done, excepting I'd used a scene object instead of a sphere primitive as receiver--- so I'm at a loss now as to what the trouble might be...

    Any insights appreciated......

    I love the idea and possibilities of this product, BTW!

  • Wow, how did I miss this? This could open up so many interesting possibilities with some creativity!

  • UthgardUthgard Posts: 863

    Although 61,704 polys sound like a big number, you need to realize that those polygons are spread through a rather big surface. Try to enable the wireframe view in the viewport and see if there really are any lines intersecting; as the Reprojector cannot work with subdivided meshes, if the terrain doesn't have enough resolution to capture the shape of the sneaker (quite likely) you will probably get better results using a d-former, or, if you are set on using the Reprojector, move the sneaker to a denser part of the ground (look for intersections). I hope that helps.

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,297

    I think I just got this.  What are the terms on usage of the output of this?

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