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I've got a problem I can't solve. I opened the nodes pane in Octane Render 1.2 and it's got stuck to the top of my screen. I've switched off SNAP in Win 8.1 but I still can't detach the pane from the top of the screen. My mouse can't access the top of the pane Now every time I open DAZ Studio this pane is stuck to the top of my screen. I've tried using "move" in the Win 8.1 toolbar but this doesn't work. How do I get rid of this pane?

Ok I've managed to get rid of this pane by removing the octane render 1.2 plugin from the DS installation folder, opening and closing DS and then replacing the plugin.

Now the problem is that when I open the node pane, there is no node information and when I click on the node pane to try to find the nodes it crashes DS every time. Any idea how to fix this?

After dealing with all the other fricking problems with this half-baked plugin now this! I keep asking myself why I paid nearly £300 for all this hassle.

Spectralis wrote:Ok I've managed to get rid of this pane by removing the octane render 1.2 plugin from the DS installation folder, opening and closing DS and then replacing the plugin.

Now the problem is that when I open the node pane, there is no node information and when I click on the node pane to try to find the nodes it crashes DS every time. Any idea how to fix this?

After dealing with all the other fricking problems with this half-baked plugin now this! I keep asking myself why I paid nearly £300 for all this hassle.

I've never seen that problem at all, so that seems new.
Maybe try a clean reinstall of Daz? After backing up the content database, of course.

To be clear, the Nodes tab in Octane plugin was outside the Daz Studio window?

leblancd wrote:

Spectralis wrote:Ok I've managed to get rid of this pane by removing the octane render 1.2 plugin from the DS installation folder, opening and closing DS and then replacing the plugin.

Now the problem is that when I open the node pane, there is no node information and when I click on the node pane to try to find the nodes it crashes DS every time. Any idea how to fix this?

After dealing with all the other fricking problems with this half-baked plugin now this! I keep asking myself why I paid nearly £300 for all this hassle.

I've never seen that problem at all, so that seems new.
Maybe try a clean reinstall of Daz? After backing up the content database, of course.

To be clear, the Nodes tab in Octane plugin was outside the Daz Studio window?

Yes, the nodes tab was floating so it was outside DS. I think the problem is with the plugin not DAZ Studio because everything is working fine with DS. I can use the Octane Render plugin but I just can't open the Nodes tab. When I click on the nodes button to open the tab it opens but there's nothing in it and when I run my mouse over the opened tab to try to find the nodes then DS crashes. This becomes a problem when I want to add emissions to a material.

As far as the floating windows (I use them) that was and is a Daz Studio issue. The easiest fix is to load a workspace layout. To prevent it becoming an inconvenience again, set everything up again from that layout to what you want and then save that workspace layout. Easy, three-click fix in the future. Unsure on the node graph issue, but that seemed to be a particular weak point for a lot of people in 1.2. I may have never run into the issue because I frequently reinstalled for other reasons, so I don't feel qualified to offer advice on it.

I read a similar topic somewhere.

On windows 8+
- Move mouse to lower right corner
- select Devices
- select Project
- try "Extend" or "Duplicate"
- revert back to "PC screen only"
The idea of this workflow seems to be to force the menu position to be reset to a default state by windows.

- - -

May or may not help in this case. But maybe worth a try.

Happens to me all the time (when you drag a floating screen like the nge, to close to the top edge off the screen) and is a DAZ studio issue i believe (also happens with default daz studio windows).

sikotik13 advice (load a default lay-out) solves this and also for the NGE. Window -> workspace -> select layout.

The only annoying thing, you will lose a custom lay-out (i use the default so do not mind)

hamer66 wrote:Happens to me all the time (when you drag a floating screen like the nge, to close to the top edge off the screen) and is a DAZ studio issue i believe (also happens with default daz studio windows).

sikotik13 advice (load a default lay-out) solves this and also for the NGE. Window -> workspace -> select layout.

The only annoying thing, you will lose a custom lay-out (i use the default so do not mind)

Ok thanks, I'll try this. Is it possible to save a DAZ custom layout as a preset?

Set up everything exactly as you want it on whatever monitor(s) you have available. When you save, it saves all of those locations. For example, this is my default layout (across three monitors), and saved under a custom name, which is also handy if I accidentally close a pane group (which occasionally happens if I'm not paying enough attention): You go to Window->Workspace->Save Layout As... (shortcut F4) to save the layout. To load a loayout [Same path]->Select Layout (no shortcut).

If I understand your problem correctly, I tend to do that once a week. The only way I've been able to fix it is to go to my monitor settings by right clicking anywhere on the desktop and select "screen resolution". Then set the resolution to a low number like 800x600 which then forces all the application window to resize. Once that happens I then set the monitor size back the way it was and "viola!". The screens are all accessible once again.

My apologies if I misunderstood and gave you a useless response.