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Why is my cursor disappearing in active pose?

BrycescaperBrycescaper Posts: 148
edited December 1969 in Daz Studio Discussion

Sometimes, after a pose my cursor disappears and I have to save the scene, shut down and re-boot the scene. I have to use Alt+F the arrow down to save, close Daz, then re-open the application, go to recent files and choose the file I was working.. This has been happening since 4.0, and it seems to have increased in frequency in 4.7. It has been mildly annoying in previous versions as it happened infrequently but I'm getting interrupted up to several times an hour, and it stops the creative process I was going to translate into the scene cold and I can only hope I regain my train of thought again to continue as I origanally envisioned. It seems to happen while I am in active pose, should I avoid AP and try another control? I like to drag and tweak the limbs of my characters and using the slider dials just seems so time-wasting. BTW I've used DAZ}Studio on three separate computers and the same thing happens, irregardless of processor speed or onboard memory.
Any solution or any others have experienced this?

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  • StratDragonStratDragon Posts: 3,251
    edited March 2015

    could be a number of things but it's been reported and witnessed for a long time; generally it's caused by users on Wacom tablets but it's also been reported across MacOS and Windows by users who do not own such hardware.

    you could submit a bug, I'm sure others have but we no longer can see all the reported issues for duplicates.

    In the mean time I would suggest updating your graphic card drivers if an update is available from the manufacturer.

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  • millighostmillighost Posts: 261
    edited December 1969

    brycescaper said:
    Sometimes, after a pose my cursor disappears and I have to save the scene, shut down and re-boot the scene. I have to use Alt+F the arrow down to save, close Daz, then re-open the application, go to recent files and choose the file I was working..

    What works for me: Whenever the cursor disappears, i navigate the (invisible) cursor to the menu in top right of the viewport (the one where i can select the different views), click on it, choose a different view. After that the cursor is usually visible again. The difficulty is clicking on the menu without seeing the cursor, of course. Not perfect, but at least better than restarting the application, in my opinion.
  • KeryaKerya Posts: 10,943
    edited December 1969

    You don't even have to change the view ... just moving the cursor to that icon until it lights up and left click on the icon works for me.

  • skydatskydat Posts: 25
    edited December 1969

    It happened to me for the first time yesterday. It was the first time I tried to use the Wacom Tablet, so thanks for confirming that StratDragon. I will try Kerya's workaround, hope it work for you.

  • KeryaKerya Posts: 10,943
    edited December 1969

    By the way: depending on your tablet (I have an Intuos 3) you can change the settings in your Preferences just for DazStudio to make it more reliable:
    http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/32252/P75/#487476

  • ScavengerScavenger Posts: 2,674
    edited December 1969

    I've read here that it's a "quicktime bug". The only way i've ever fixed it is to save and restart, though I'll try the options mentioned here.

  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001
    edited December 1969

    Another thing...make sure your drivers are up to date.

  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,601
    edited December 1969

    Scavenger said:
    I've read here that it's a "quicktime bug". The only way i've ever fixed it is to save and restart, though I'll try the options mentioned here.

    Not Quicktime, QT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_(framework)

  • AllegraAllegra Posts: 405

    First time it's happened to me, managed to save the scene but it's a really strange feeling;)

  • StratDragonStratDragon Posts: 3,251

    On scenes that were eating RAM I found this result far more common than on scenes that didn't.

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