You lost my shoes?

[raspberryrain]

So, in yesterday's strip, when I said I loved 3D art? I am such a liar.

DAZ Studio is so infuriating.

No, scratch that. 3D in general is difficult, a giant memory hog in every way, and frustrating. But my first version of DS was pretty cool. It was "Standard," so it lacked some of the features of "Pro," but what it could do, it did well.

Sometime in 2014 I switched to a "Pro" version that would give me more features. But it is insanely dysfunctional in random ways, which the other version wasn't. And it will sometimes totally bork parts of scene files saved in the old version.

Oh, and switching back is...possible, but the scene files aren't at all backwards compatible, probably because DAZ3D (the company) is insane. I probably should, but I haven't. (And there are functions I want to have sometimes.)

And then later this year my hard drive died, and I didn't have a proper backup, so I desperately salvaged most of my hard drive in a crude way--and ended up failing to copy parts of my runtime in the process.

So I'll open up an old file, and things will just be...missing. Like the custom materials for Sandrine's high heels. Which I found were missing Sunday night or Monday morning.

This shot here could have been Monday's daily render. It almost was. But no, I decided to try to find those materials on what was supposed to be my backup drive, failed, tried replacing my main hard drive with that hard drive, failed, put the current drive back in--and then I just quit.

Today I decided, finally, to render this concept, loaded up some Sandrine scenes, and found that three of the most recent scenes of her I have saved--done since re-installing DS on this drive, and I really think done with this version of DS--were corrupted somehow. So now DS Pro won't read its own stuff?

"I found my medium"? Ha! I wasted my time and money, more like.

(updated image with some new postwork, noon December 7.)