So another issue just pops up

Vially

Strand hair, may be a thread just for this, but after a bit of search they have all turned into promo threads...

So, my issue is that for whatever reason, when I add a strand base hair to anything, I get a black screen. there is no geometry available to paint or to work with. as in the image attached.

this is happening in 4.10, and 4.12 public beta. there is simply nothing to work with. I have a skulcap, i load it, I select it, i add the strand based hair and this is what I get? so what happened,, what got turned off, or needs to be turned on for this to work again?

Richard Haseltine

4.10.x.x doesn't have the strand-based hair. What GPU do you have, and how recent are the drivers?

Vially

Nvidia - Game Ready Drivers version: 445.75 Released 3/23/2020.

But again, this happens in DS 4.12 public beta as well, soooo.....

Vially

Okay, so after some playing around I find that this black screen is actually just that - a black screen, the geometry IS in fact there and it "could" be selected if I could see it.

I went to the paint tab and just painted around the black area (on a base primative sphere, to see if ANYTHING was happening.) Lo and behold my sphere grew guide hairs, telling me that there is in fact a functioning hair tool there I just cannot use it because I cannot SEE anything...

So what happened here and how do I fix it?

Oh and my standard version is DS 4.12 Pro, sorry they didn't update the desktop icon information, so hover showed 4.10.

Richard Haseltine

Your GPU drivers look reasonable - assuming DS is suing that device for the interface, and not an Intel GPU n the CPU. I'm not sure what the issue might be.

Vially

It appears to be an issue within the editor itself, it is NOT showing the geometry that I am attempting to use, just the black screen. The functionality is still there, it will grow style and change the hairs based on what I am (or think I am) doing, but all I can see is the black screen.

Thing is this used to work, SOMETHING changed and I'm not sure what or how to fix it... Case in point is the strand hair that I created when this first started, I've attached an image... I know it's rough and not very good, but I was just looking at strand hair to see what might be done with it.

The blunt cuts in it are something that I JUST did, by going to the style tab, selecting the scissors and moving it around in the tool... had no idea what or if I was cutting anything, but there you go, the functionality is there, just not the image or rendision of what is happening. Black Screen.

Vially

And another issue that pops up resolved...

Somewhere in between the first time I played with the hair, and this time, DAZ changed the minimum graphics capabilities for the Hair tool Preview...

So now under the "Graphic Settings" (bottom left of the tool window... I MUST select the low option, that allows me to see what is within the editor window...

 

Bummer.