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Thanks so much Rob.  Definitely missed my Script IDE.

Thanks Rob, your work on the docs and support in the forum here has been pretty heroic.

Greetings,
Hmm!  Now I’m going to have to download 4.5; I’ve been itching to script DAZ for a while, but it wasn’t clear how…

Unfortunately w/o Reality, I can’t really use it for day-to-day renderings, but I’ll definitely check it out for the scripting.

Thanks!

— Morgan

thanks again. Now the development continues.

Hi

I see that most of the links for the scripting reference are broken,  do you guys have a link to the documentation
for the previous version of the script?  I would like to see the scene hierarchy structure and what methods are available for each object

Thank you!

The links aren’t broken, the object references simply haven’t yet been added. The old DS3 docs are here http://www.daz3d.com/shop/daz-studio-3-script-development-kit - note that because it also installs a plugin, the editor pane, you wil need to have a path to DAZ Studio 3 in your dzinstall.ini file - either by editing or by having installed DS3.

Thanks Richard!

Weeks ago I tried to install it but could not because it requested the DS3 installation which I dont have!  but I will try editing the file manually

Do you know what percentage is the old Scripting API the same as the one of 4.5 ?

By the way,  is the API the same for the SDK and the scripting?

Another question,  is DS3 available for download?

Thanks!

I’m not sure as a percentage - a lot of the functions are stil there, though some objects have been split to allow for weight-mapping (in DS3, DzSkeleton is the figure type, except for dynamic clothing, but in DS 4 it is a container class with legacy figures being DzPoserFigure and TriAx figure DzFigure as I recall) so you should be more careful to use inherits( objectName ) instead of isA( objectName ), for example.

The SDK is different from the scripting kit - some classes are the same as script objects, but others are different or even missing (scripts have several abstractions for things that seem to need building from scratch in C++) while other things are available to the SDK but not to scripts.

DS3 was available through a forum post on the old forum, but I don’t believe that works any more following the switch.

Thanks for the info, appreciated!

I m really impressed of how many projects DAZ is handling at the same time,
also the engineering level behind the software is quite good!,

Richard Haseltine - 20 June 2012 04:30 PM

... you wil need to have a path to DAZ Studio 3 in your dzinstall.ini file - either by editing or by having installed DS3.

This was very helpful, with a bit of flailing I’ve been able to install and access the old docs.  And it’s like you just turned on the lights in a dark room!

It was not easy to install, though.  The d/l links for DS3 - all the ones that I could find - are broken.  I had an old 32-bit DS3, so I installed that.  The DS3 SDK still refused - “install path not found”.  After a number of trials, I found that what I needed was an entry like this:

dzStudio3InstallDir-64=C:\Program Files (x86)\DAZ 3D\DAZStudio3

in the copy of dzinstall.ini in my C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\DAZ directory; the -64 was essential, even though actually being 64-bit software was not; and so was finding the right one of three copies of dzInstall.ini found in three different locations.

To find out how restrictive this is, I tried again on a different machine without installing DS3.  When I created a dummy directory, C:\Dummy\DAZStudio3 and added a dummy file DAZStudio.exe, and edited the copy of dzInstall.ini in the same location as noted above, it was enough to complete the install of the old SDK. 

So 4.5 is officially out now. Congrats.
What’s the status with the scripting. I have many old ones to update.

My original post is as true today as the day I posted it.  I have made some ground on producing content for the Object Index portion of the API Reference, but I haven’‘t posted the pages because they don’t include descriptions yet.  With all of the work involved in getting 4.5 released, I’ve had no time in the last few weeks to work on it - I’m hoping to find some this weekend.

-Rob

It was decided a while back that we would phase out our DAZ Studio 3 offerings in the store - i.e. DS3 hasn’t been in the store for quite a while, the DS3 SDK hasn’t been available for a few weeks now and the DS3 Script Development Kit is about to follow any day. I still haven’t had the time I’ve wanted/needed to get the DS4 script API documentation in a state that it makes sense to post (I’m still working on it, on my own time, but it simply isn’t ready), so I’ve posted the documentation and samples from the DS3 Script Development Kit on the DAZ Studio 3 page of the Documentation Center - since a significant portion of it is still applicable, if not very much the same. A DAZ Script API link on the page points to a simple zip archive with the appropriate folder/file structure to be dropped into the installed application path (e.g. there is no installer - OSX users should be careful to merge and not replace).

-Rob

Thanks Rob.

Just for the record—I’ve been a technical writer and a software tester at various times in my life—