dForce White wedding outfit for Genesis 8 Females materials not loading

Pitmatic

Hi

I bought the dForce White wedding outfit for Genesis 8 Females set a while ago and only today got around to trying it only to find its got a materials problem.

I can load the veil materials fine but the dress its self throws an error when trying to select a material.

The log says

2021-12-12 10:20:57.865 Begin asset load (merge): /People/Genesis 8 Female/Clothing/PGWD/White Wedding/Materials/Iray/White Wedding 02 Gown.duf

2021-12-12 10:20:58.014 Determining missing assets...

2021-12-12 10:20:58.257 Invalid hierarchy for selected node(s) and "preset_hierarchical_material" type; no root(s) found.

2021-12-12 10:20:58.257 Error loading asset: F:/My DAZ 3D Library/people/genesis 8 female/clothing/pgwd/white wedding/materials/iray/white wedding 02 gown.duf

2021-12-12 10:20:58.257 Operation failed

The file is there in that path and I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling in DIM, Connect and Daz Central any suggestions? 

 

 

 

Pitmatic

Ok I have fixed it the dress on loading is not being parented to the figure if I change the dresses parent it works.

Richard Haseltine

I think the dress has a lot of buttons as Rigid Follow nodes, to avoid the user's having to select the buttons for their materials the presets are Hierarchical material Presets, but that does mean the dress needs to be partented to the expected ffigure (Genesis 8 Female, or 8.1 should work).

Pitmatic

Thanks Richard that seems to be the issue the dress is loaded fitted to the figure but its not being parented by default once parented all is fine.

Richard Haseltine

Check you setings in the fit to dialogue - there should be a check box to parent items (right-click>Fit .. to to get the dialogue).