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...Win7 or WIn8?
Running Windows 8 64 bit.
Richard H: I'll try that when I get home tonight from work. As for the slowdown. Makes no sense to me that it should be slower. It wasn't with 4.5 later versions and that new CatMark default SubD wasn't an issue. Now it seems to be an issue. Hope your method fixes at least the icon issue. That's really disconcerting to save an image to the desktop and find ALL the images on the desktop to now have icon sized versions of the originals. YUK!
tried to download daz 4.6 for 40 times still cant . i gut all kind of stuff in the install manager but not daz 4.6 . i have daz 4.5 in my pc.
whats going on here !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
...well, got a corrupted download of the main 4.6 installer. Servers must have really been slammed and my connection probably was reset somewhere along the line for there was no error message until I tried to install this morning.
The actual application isn't in Install Manager yet, you need to download it from My Account > Product Library
Will material presets apply to the new surface groups? E.g., could DAZ now fix Genesis to have the left and right eyes be separate surfaces, as they always should have been, and then include per-defined surface groups under the old Pupil/Iris/etc names and if someone applies a legacy material preset for a character's eyes to Genesis, the surface group will take care of applying it to both the left and right surfaces? I've had to separate the eyes into separate left and right groups many times using the PGE, especially for SciFi/Cyborg type characters.
Also, Genesis doesn't appear to have been updated with edge weights for the new OpenSubDiv. I suppose maybe it doesn't really need it, since it worked OK with the old CC SubD. I figured things like the fingernails and ridges around the eyes might benefit from it, though.
the install went smoothly....
But I am having an issue with the cursor disappearing... only in Daz. slide it into another window and it is there.
I am using multiple monitors but that doesn't seem to bother photo shop and others.
well I got 4.6 installed great. and it fixed quiet a few of the issues i was having.. but now i have a new issue
It appears i can not render in Raytrace al all its crashes the system without so much a error message.
I also can not render using more than 3 deep shadow maps and it does the same.
it does not appear to matter what light set i use or if i use custom lights its still does it
some times it will do it with the spot render tool as well.
also I can not get more than 5 frames rendered in a 30 key key frame animation using just one deep shadow map light set. before the programs crashes again with out so much a error message. is anyone else having this trouble?
I was able to pull one frame clip off before it crashed,
I thought i try to do a Jack in the bean stalk animation using daz4.6 but if it keeps crashing on a simple render I won't be able too
I am a little disappointed this keep crashing on rendering after my other problems got resolved with this new version...lol any ideas on how i can fix this crash on render issue.?
I've had that issue off and on since 4.0, usually minimizing and bringing it back up works for me, otherwise save(ctrl+S, or ctrl+shft+s) what i'm working on and close it out.
Hasn't mattered what i'm doing or what system i'm on or O.S.
110 seconds for DAZ Studio to be fully up and running. Not quite fast enough for my taste. Seems that there are allot of folks with various issues going on. The Public Release Candidate worked better than this. Not sure what happened between that release and this one. Weird!
Weird again. Changing the info that Richard H. suggested to me for the Rendering issues got my renders and saves back up to speed with no delays or issues saving to the desktop. Cool beans for that! YAY!
So far so good, installation was easy.
I agree with all the other posters about the ugly creature on the splash screen.
What about something beautiful instead?
John
I'm not getting the hate over the splash screen, its only there for a second but are you guys not seeing the lovely lady there as well?
And that aside, why does it always have to be "beautiful" there are all kinds of art, and we almost always have some beautiful girl on the splash. Its a bit nice to see something different. And there is a bit of beauty, for the monster looking at the magical light. Were people complaining about the always girls splash? Maybe, I don't know. i just don't see it as worth complaining about, even if its not your favorite thing to stare at.
Now, the weird ugly skin effect I'm getting when I use the new SSS base with skin setting, that's a serious render-ruining issue!
HELP! :(
..got a clean download. Installed both 4.6 and the revised Genesis Essentials. The only "casualty" appears to be a Gen4 coat (Wanted Dead or Alive for M4) that I fitted to Genesis in one scene. For some reason, the arm fits were all messed up when I opened the scene. Deleted and reloaded it through Autofit, but once I posed the character, the arm fits came undone again (which didn't happen in the Beta when I posed him).
Otherwise, no issues so far.
I've had that issue off and on since 4.0, usually minimizing and bringing it back up works for me, otherwise save(ctrl+S, or ctrl+shft+s) what i'm working on and close it out.
Hasn't mattered what i'm doing or what system i'm on or O.S.
will try the minimizing trick, doing a render would bring it back occasionally.
Guess I've been lucky, it hasn't happened up till now.
The one other thing that has changed is I started used Infinto for terrains... will have to watch for a one to one comparison on that. It was installed a while back, but just started using it.
A lot better I must say! Loads faster, renders faster, respond faster, and no mem errors on this little machine I have. (Celeron)
I got that also on a character I was working on the other day. I thought it was something I did, but hadn't figured out what yet. I managed to fix it but it was through pushing, pulling, and twisting so many settings I'm not entirely sure which did it in the end yet. Sorry couldn't be more help but wanted to at least know you weren't alone in getting it.
I got that too belovedalia , but turned reflections off and it fixed it.
Yes I thought that might have been what it was for me in the end but for me it was so much by the time I got it off.... I didn't want to add to the confusion if I was wrong (hadn't replicated enough to be sure.) The thing is, I'm not sure why reflection was turned on when I applied the shader... was 10% iirc.
... that is, confusing way to say I'm not sure why reflection on at (10%?) is default when applying the shader.
The other thing (good) is that the shader seems to respond to reflection very quickly, more quickly then other shaders, but I have to do some more testing to confirm this... so much to try, so much to play with on this shader.. it's fun ;)
I modified a scene originally saved in 4.5 using 4.6, some dynamic cloth + V4 + some scene props, then saved in 4.6. It crashes 4.6 every time upon loading now. I added some smoothing and push modifiers to the dynamic cloth. Might that be the culprit? I do have 16 Gb RAM on my system (Mac OS 10.8.3).
Try it on a fresh scene, but I would expect dynamic cloth to play badly with or simply ignore anything that modifies the mesh. If you can reproduce it please bug report it as a crash is a bad response, even to wrong or unsupported user-actions.
Usually smoothing is added after the cloth sim is frozen. It helps clean up some of the really bad foldbacks that the dynamic cloth sim seems to generate, as well as helps with pokethrough in areas where the cloth sim's collision failed to adequately stay away from the underlying figure. When you freeze the sim, it turns the cloth into a static prop mesh and all the dynamics aspect is gone; it's a one-way activity with no undo.
I downloaded studio 6 directly from the store page. Will installing it replace the previous version or should I remove the old daz first?
It will uninstall the previous version first as part of the installation process.
It will uninstall the previous version first as part of the installation process.
Thanks,any thing else I should and/or need to install?
Not really, no. Obviously you need Genesis Starter Essentials, which may already be installed.
Yeah i got genesis install, just wanted to make sure I didn't need to update it or anything else that can with the bundle. Thanks again for the help.
Yeah i got genesis install, just wanted to make sure I didn't need to update it or anything else that can with the bundle. Thanks again for the help.
GSE has been updated, but there's nothing essential, the prior version will work fine.
I at first did not understand what was meant by Exporting User data, but I now do and thank you as I will certainly utilize this in the future.
However, there was no need to do so other than having a back-up of my personal categorization, because I can report that installing the new version over the old worked wonderfully. All of my hours spent cataloging my content, in which is only around 25% completed, was left intact and not disturbed as far as I can tell. There was no need to uninstall anything as that process was done by the installer with no hiccups.
I have as yet to try anything with the new version, but at least to this point all seems satisfactory.
I certainly wish I knew the Genesis Starter Essentials was not anything different than the previous version, as that was the only thing I had to clear out of the default folder.
At this point I will give thanks to DAZ for a smooth upgrade with an option to change my mind when I start using the program on a daily basis.
...performed a test render with Garibaldi Hair (eyebrows) and the render stalled at 99% Clicked "cancel" but even after the render window and dialogue pane cleared it was still running. Closed the application then went into Windows Task Manager and the application was still active (as well as growing in memory usage) in the processes tab.
The scene was a simple portrait, Genesis set up as a child, MPC with a photo paper backdrop, standard Daz Light set (non UE), and no shadows. A previous render using Lantios 2 cancelled with no issue (changed the lightset to save rendering time for the tests). The eyebrows had only 260 hairs. 3,000 verticies.
Looks similar to what occurred with the old memory leaks that plagued 2.0 - 3Advanced.