No, just found the old version in my Daz account, installed. It uninstalled 4.5, everything is fine.

I went back to 4.0.3.47, all problems solved, everything showing up where it belongs.

Quote - A lot of what was on the Shaping tab previously, is now on the Parameters tab.

 

It's not there. Checked every tab, uninstalled and reinstalled the Genesis starter and Evolution to make sure it was all in the right place, still nothing.

I am really hating 4.5 right now.  Nothing new I'm going to use and broke what I had and used all the time. And my computer isn't showing the restore point from before I updated, just a random one from yesterday. 

Anyone have issues with their Genesis content after updating to 4.5?  I didn't install the Genesis starters essentials because I was worried that it would mess with my previous Genesis stuff.  Then I went to make a character and Genesis wasn't there at all. So then I installed it and now all of my Genesis Evolution stuff is gone. So I found the file for Genesis Evoltion: Head Morphs and reinstalled, but nothing shows in my shaping tab.  Same thing with my Evolution body morphs.  As far as I can tell all of the expressions arethere under the posing tab.   

Having a wierd issue I've never had before.  I have my image in Lux exactly how I want it with film response, exposure, lighting, gamma, etc.  It's a dark scene with lots of shadows and took a while to get it right.

I used file-->save and exit in lux, opened the png in photoshop to make it a forum friendly size and the image is much brighter and the lighting and shadow look nothing like they do in the lux window. 

Edit: Just tried opening it with Windows photo viewer and it looks fine, but I can't edit with that.  

So why did I just upgrade to 4.5?  It runs at about half the speed of the last version and I don't see any new features that mean anything to me.  Think someone else said it before, lags like crazy when I browse my content. 

I read about the geometry shell and that sounded intersting but so far I have no idea how to use it. 

Quote - > Quote - > Quote - btw.. congrats to Charley and Brad for getting D|S Staff Picks of the Week.

Thanks, I saw late last night.  I don't seem to get a lot of feedback most of the places I post my work, so it's very motivating to have an image picked here.  Now what do I work on next?

More mahem LOL

I know how you feel. I have TONS of renders on D/A & Filckr with no comments then I gain 5 watchers lose 5 watchers... Lately i have a few regularly commenting.

 

I think I'm going to start tagging everything I post on dA with "nude naked breasts" even if it doesn't have any and see if that increases my views. 

Quote - btw.. congrats to Charley and Brad for getting D|S Staff Picks of the Week.

Thanks, I saw late last night.  I don't seem to get a lot of feedback most of the places I post my work, so it's very motivating to have an image picked here.  Now what do I work on next?

Here's a new one with my geeky zombie hunter girl.  I think this captures the feel of her better than the last one. 

This is the image that was giving me problems a few days ago.  I removed displacement maps from the chest harness and the render started right away, but with them in it froze lux and never started. 

 

I posted the close up of my zombie hunter a few days ago, but the scene gave me a few problems.  And now that it's done I really don't even like it much. But here it is.  I'm working on a new image with this character that should be more intersting. 

Quote - > Quote - Memory conservative is checked and also collect textures at full size.  It seems to be related to that one specific object. I removed it from the scene and it starts right away. Of course it's an essential part of the outfit so I can't just leave it out and need to find out what's wrong.

Have you tried removing the displacement map from it?

Removing the displacment maps (the object has 10 materials and about 5 had the maps) fixed it.  What exactly am I losing from my image by not having the displacement maps?

Memory conservative is checked and also collect textures at full size.  It seems to be related to that one specific object. I removed it from the scene and it starts right away. Of course it's an essential part of the outfit so I can't just leave it out and need to find out what's wrong.

> Quote - > Quote - I have a scene that keeps getting stuck in the same spot with this in the log:  [2012-08-14 16:34:34 Info: 0] Shape #85 (plymesh): Applying 1 levels of loop subdivision to 14960 triangles > > > > [2012-08-14 16:34:34 Info: 0] Shape #85 (plymesh): Subdivision complete, got 59840 triangles > > > > [2012-08-14 16:34:34 Info: 0] Shape #85 (plymesh): Applying displacement map to 31479 vertices > > > > [2012-08-14 16:34:34 Warning: 43] Shape #85 (plymesh): Inconsistent shading normals in 175 triangles > > > > Any idea what this is?  I narrowed down the object from this line "Shape #85 (plymesh): Loading PLY mesh file: 'reality_scene-Resources/objects/001-Harness_001-Harness_HChestStrap_130.ply'..." so I assume it's the chest haress causing problems but I don't know what.  I thought it was smoothing so I turned that off, and there's no subdivision.  Any ideas on how to trouble shoot this further? > > > >   > > > >   > >   > > None of those are fatal errors, the mesh seems to have loaded/compiled fine. Is anything else going wrong? > >   > > (actually, the shading normals thing is a debug message as of yesterday, because it so seldom tells you about actual problems).

The problem is that the scene never starts rendering.  It stays exactly like in this image until I end lux in task manager. That message about shape #85 is always the last thing in the log.

I have a scene that keeps getting stuck in the same spot with this in the log: 

[2012-08-14 16:34:34 Info: 0] Shape #85 (plymesh): Applying 1 levels of loop subdivision to 14960 triangles

[2012-08-14 16:34:34 Info: 0] Shape #85 (plymesh): Subdivision complete, got 59840 triangles

[2012-08-14 16:34:34 Info: 0] Shape #85 (plymesh): Applying displacement map to 31479 vertices

[2012-08-14 16:34:34 Warning: 43] Shape #85 (plymesh): Inconsistent shading normals in 175 triangles

Any idea what this is?  I narrowed down the object from this line "Shape #85 (plymesh): Loading PLY mesh file: 'reality_scene-Resources/objects/001-Harness_001-Harness_HChestStrap_130.ply'..." so I assume it's the chest haress causing problems but I don't know what.  I thought it was smoothing so I turned that off, and there's no subdivision.  Any ideas on how to trouble shoot this further?