That is mostly speculation built on speculation, but to address one more substantial point:

> ... speaking of which: the 3Delight engine itself has been in continuous development, latest release is from last year. But Daz3d couldn't be bothered to keep up it seems.

Any update beyond the version of 3Delight in DS would have stopped supporting RSL shaders, meaning every material would need updating and every sahder set would need rewriting. The change would have been as great as the change to Iray For usability purposes there wasn't an update for 3Delight and that is why Daz didn't add new versions.

I also have to point out that Daz did in fact release several new versions of both Bryce and Carrara, and has of course added many new features to Daz Studio (without needing to update the version number each time, one of the benefits of a free application).

Yep, Daz support doesn't exist. My latest ticket took 1 year to get an answer. So just have that in mind when using Daz.

I got a premier membership just so I could use the Geometry Sculptor (Mesh grabber 4). Turns out it doesn't work. And Daz announce their Premier Daz software as robust software :) Even now they promote their Premier software with Geometry Sculptor even though they know it doesn't work. In some countries this would be considered a scam.

You may need to ask the creator then - though I wonder if there might be an ssue handling the newer PBRSkin shader rather than the older Iray Uber shader - you could trt comparing two characters who each use one of those (in the  Surfaces pane's Editor tab select a skin surface and look at the shader listed at top-left).

I'm sorry, I don't have any useful information on Daz Studio to Bryce issues.

GeoGraft, rather than geoGraph (it grafts two bits of geometry together).

I thought Golden Palace came wiith a script for matching the materials across.

Animations in the content panes (and possibly others) when scrolling, if you turn it off it just jumps to the enxt block instead of scrolling.

Display optimisation refers to the OpenGL styles, not rendering.

in module "...." just means that the error was in that particular part of the application. You could leave out "module" without greatly changing the message - what matters is the code object named in the quoted text after the word module. As I said at Daz, this is Iray. 

@RHaseltine- What is the Valentina version used?

@RHaseltine- What is the Valentina version used?

Is there a version of PostgreSQL installed (not the Valentina to postgreSQL converter)? If you start DS do you see instances of postgresql in Task manager (as background processess, so you will need to click the Show More button and then scroll down past the applications that show on the Task Bar)? What security software are you using?

The only actual differences between 8 and 8.1 are the divisions into surface groups and the different expression controls (driving the same bones) - the latter is pretty trivial to reverse.

I don't imagine store credit discounted at 30% or more will help the bottom line of any PA, either. It does, of course, benefit Daz store as they take the money on account. It multiplies purchase power for the customer, but necessarily discounts money paid to eligible recipients.

Skins (textures) not if they use the Gensis 8.1 UVs, morphs yes since the emsh is the same. But why would you want to? You are doing a lot of manual work to mimic what is automatic with 8.1 (the differences are the surface groups and the extra UV set, plus the different expression set-up but you can quite easily make the Genesis 8 expression available to 8.1).

gohanf22 posted at 9:35 AM Mon, 5 May 2025 - #4495710

EDIT: And reason why Pirating exists, it isn't cause people do it cause they wish to, it is cause they want to stick it to companies that are GREEDY.  DAZ being one of them.  DAZ is a greedy company and that is why DAZ assets are on Pirating sites.  I do support PAs on Renderhub cause Renderhub gives them 100% of the revenue, unlike DAZ does.  If people want to sell somewhere and get all of the revenue, you should start selling on Renderhub.

How exactly would you expect a site that didn't take a percentage to pay its operating costs, not to mention the costs of developing the applicastion in the case of daz and daz Studio 9and the license fees for things like Iray)? People pirate from greed, including the uploaders (who gt income from advertising on the file hosts, or from pushing premium subscriptions to the hosts with an affiliate scheme) - trying to dress it up as some kind of principled stance is absurd.

Just to note, there is only one version of Daz Studio - Premier is additional features and plug-ins, nothing has been removed from the free base application and new stuff has been added since the start of Premier.