Strange Grey Blocks upon loading saved scene?!?

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• evilgidget_2000_394cf150da Posts: 83

  July 2012 edited December 1969

  Are you using DS 4.5? This sounds strangely like what Vue does (for those without either the importer or a high end version) ie the software loads a dummy placeholder instead of the content. Depending on the content you may have either found a bug or it may be intended behavior ( copy protection) to stop someone from loading a product without current metadata.
• fixmypcmike Posts: 19,565

  July 2012 edited December 1969

  Window > Tabs > Tool Settings. Under "Draw Style", set Manipulation to Off. Each tool has it's own setting, so it may be set differently for Node Selection, Universal, etc.
• Richard Haseltine Posts: 96,863

  July 2012 edited December 1969

  As evilgidget says, 4.5 uses place-holders sized for an item's bounding box if iot can't find the actual content. Of course if you are opening scenes on the machine they were created on there shouldn't be missing content, unless you've changed the directory set up. If you are losing scene eleemnts when you shouldn't be, what OS are you running and what are your content directories?
• Wakakanada Posts: 207

  July 2012 edited December 1969

  Richard Haseltine said:

  As evilgidget says, 4.5 uses place-holders sized for an item's bounding box if iot can't find the actual content. Of course if you are opening scenes on the machine they were created on there shouldn't be missing content, unless you've changed the directory set up. If you are losing scene eleemnts when you shouldn't be, what OS are you running and what are your content directories?

  Thanks all for the comments.
  I think it usually occurs when I open a scene I created on the same machine using DS3A and opening in DS4.5.
• fixmypcmike Posts: 19,565

  August 2012 edited December 1969

  Is the first DAZ Studio Format content folder fro DS3 listed in DS4 as well? That's where the Data files get saved.