Renderotica

Thank you very much for the feedback and encouragement :-)

You're welcome : )

 

My guess on it not showing up in the store, if there is a sizable update or fix coming, the store will sometimes hide the page for the product, largely so that people aren't buying it while fix is being created and tested, getting pissed X feature isn't working and requesting refunds or canceling charges with their credit card. So they hide it while being fixed and then tested, and it will pop up once it passes testing again. (They did this when Advanced Pussy was reworked and retested early on)

 

The second part is likely 3feetwolf has sold his products to CGbytes, whether this means he's retiring we can only guess, sometimes sales of items (Buyouts) are done so Vendor can get funds upfront, rather than waiting for sales to come in. (Basically Vendor and Store Management come up with a price, Vendor gets the money upfront, store gets ownership of the products and what would have been Vendor's cut of sales going forward) and whether Vendor will still supply support and improvements is up to the contract between Vendor and Store. (Making 3feetwolf's products now similar to Daz Originals)

 

The New Gens seem to have "suddenly" stopped working for me... I say "suddenly" as I've not added/tried added to a new character until this evening, and ran into problems. I went through most of the troubleshooting steps I've done before, on to removing, re-downloading, and re-installing, but running into the same problems. Which is, when selecting Step 1, it comes back very quickly with "Could Not Start The Process." After clicking OK on this error, it comes back again a few times as the Percent Done bar moves along.

System is a Mac, and the DAZ logs all indicate everything launched and without errors, and I am not finding errors in the System Log, and the permissions on the .app in the Resources directory allows read for everyone (everything looks like it does on old backups from when this worked, though I've not tried restoring those, as there have been a couple updates since then... and this likely came along with one of those).

I had re-downloaded and reinstalled yesterday, but did so again, with the same results.Though, I was able to make progress by copying the preprocessing app from one of my backups (from Feb this year)... and, that does work. However, trying on a few different texture sets, the results don't match up. While I cannot find any difference in the Body and Legs shader valuies (and indeed, even if I manually copy and paste them), the New Gens come out lighter... sort like the gamma is off or something similar?

Has there been any changes to the preprocessing app? While there is something still obviously wrong since one of these updates for me, I would love to be able to forget about this piece and move on to other stuff? And have you seen anything like this in rendering results?

Much thanks for the help!

 

Thanks - this is what I thought was probably the case... and I did CHMOD everything and add executable, but it was still the older .app package that I was able to get work.  At present I am using all the files from the most recent download, with the exception of the .app package, which is from an earlier package.  But as I noted, while everything seems to run now, and the textures are being created, the render results are off.  I have tried with just all old files, and the current mix, and a few things in between, and the results all render as wrong, though there is no difference in the shader values.  However, saved characters where I did this earlier still render correctly.

Thanks to 3feetwolf's great support, I have things working again! Just to fill in some details here, in case anyone else winds up with similar issues:

I am 99% sure the preposessing.app isses are likely related to permissions - I wound up solving by restoring the earlier version. I would've likely been able to identify the exact changes needed, but given the lack of changes in the app, this is the obvious culprit.

The rendering issue is still a bit more perplexing, though I do have a workaround at the momen. While the Character shaders are PBR, the copied shaders on the New Gens are just the regular Uber... and while there are supposedly checks for this, for whatever reason, mine is only giving Uber now! Even when choosing the 04 - Update Gen Material. I am still not sure on the fix here, or why this is happening, though the fact that others are not reporting this does make me think it is something specific to me... in any case, I have worked around this by applying a PBR texture to the New Gens, and then doing the update... when applied over the PBR shaders, everything comes out as would be expected!

Thanks again to 3feetwolfd for the product and the support!

Hi, 
These three morphs are suitable for different occasions.

The first morph can be used to show the change in shape of the genitals when they are penetrated by a small object, the second morph can be used to show the change in shape of the genitals when they are penetrated by a large object, and the third morph can be helpful if you want to show that the gens are not closed tightly.

Of course we can also combine them and give each morph a suitable value to get a satisfactory shape. However, since morphs work by simply moving the vertices of the model, these morphs can't work well together, so you may see some "punctures". This is normal and can be avoided by adjusting the values of the morphs, or by adjusting the camera angle or using props to avoid it in the final rendering. 

 

I just tried it with MGAB's Daria. with no errors, so its not a morph problem.

try making the character again.

 

daz up to date, vid card drivers up to date ?

Edited by user Thursday, November 30, 2023 12:13:59 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

I am on 4.22 yes