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Hi Rashad,

Rashad Carter - 28 October 2012 04:09 AM

Kerya’s permissions issue is a new observation and could well be the root of her problem. But do notice how after she applied the fix it did enable the bridge to operate in both admin and guest user modes, so if anything it has improved the flexibility of her bridge.

There was a post on the old forum with problem of the Bridge on limited/guest account. I did post a reply showing reg entries to add. But it looks like that problem is solved.

Thanks for jumping in here, Steve. This stuff is waaaay out of my league so I dont want to mislead anyone. Thanks again.

Hi Rashad,

I just made a first install. On Win7_64 (nothing else installed/or been installed on this HD image):-

DAZStudio_4.5.1.6_Win64 then Bryce 7.1.0.109_win32

The Bridge, by default, is working in both directions.
I am going to check through the monitor log, which may take a while…....

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Bryce is finding DS via ~\user\name\Appdata\Roaming\DAZ 3D\dzInstall.ini
That file contains the location of both DS and Bryce. That file was not there when I checked previously (when on the other forum). Bryce still looks for the reg entry for DS3

On checking logs, both DS4.5 and Bryce write to file dzInstall.ini during installation.

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Hexagon is also writing its installation location to the dzInstall.ini file, and is accessing that to find DS4.5 (Hexagon also looks for DS3 reg entries)

So, the bridge is currently working both ways for DS4.5<>Bryce7 and DS4.5<>Hexagon2.5.1.79.

Steve athome - 23 November 2012 07:42 PM

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It looks like most problems are now solved, apart from the DS <> Hexagon bridge. Is that problem from a limited account / admin account or both? (and which OS?)
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How to get the Hexagon Bridge (got it in another thread, but copying here too):

ReDave - 31 October 2012 03:36 PM

@Kerya: can’t remember for sure, and it looks like I don’t have Hexagon on this computer, but it’s either in the dzInstall.ini file (Documents\<username>\Application Data\DAZ 3D) or in the registry.

Thank you!!!!!!
It’s the dzInstall.ini in appdata - I had one as admin, but not as user.
I just copied it over - and voilà! Working Bridge!

Wow. Thank you all. I’ve actually loaded up Bryce and used the Bridge. Haven’t done that since 5.5.

I do have Studio3-64 and 4.5 installed on this machine and the latest version of Bryce. First I opened Studio but it didn’t recognize my Bryce version. So I closed it and opened Bryce which ‘sent something’ (nothing selected) to Studio 3 which automagically loaded up Studio 4.5. After that Studio sent stuff to Bryce no problem and I was sending klipspringers to Bryce and back again one after another.

I didn’t have to go near the registry. But it’s been so long I couldn’t remember how to do much of anything in Bryce—you’d never know I used Bryce every day for about nine years. I’m not sure it’s like riding a bicycle.

Welcome back to Bryce then. Bryce is fun. Version 7.1 can do a lot more than 5.5. I still use 5.5 with Studio 2.3, 6.1 with Studio 3, and Bryce 7.1 with Studio 4.5.

Rashad Carter - 28 October 2012 02:38 AM

Yes, Horo. You wont have a problem with any of it because you already had DS3 installed before you installed Ds4. It is for users who have never installed DS3 that this problem arises.

@Rashad - This is good to know as I had DS 3A installed first, though I think I may have installed DS 4 Pro before Bryce 7.

@Horo - You mentioned that DS 4.5 would be launched.  Does that mean if I have DS 4.0 installed it won’t work, or is that just because you happen to have DS 4.5, rather DS 4.0, installed?

When I had Studio 4.0, it worked fine together with Bryce 7.1. Now I have Studio 4.5 and it works with Bryce 7.1 as well.

Ah, OK.  Thanks for the info Horo. 

Anyone know how to fix the Daz 4.5 to Hexagon bridge problem on a Mac?

I don’t know about Macs ... but is it possible to search the harddrive for the dzInstall.ini file?