...when I call up a new figure. After I save that figure to a Scene file, they RE-appear, but I need them to stay available.
Here’s what I’m talking bout:
the catagory I came up with: Characters, has a U on it, defining it as a user defined catagory. The other two, Default, and Rawart (because I purchased the Drakon) stay visible all the time. How do I change my cats to the standard kind?
Hmm, I’m not entirely sure it means User, but if it is, you can probably get the same as commercial products by making metadata (smart content and all that). I have a Category for Cookie and it doesn’t have a U on its icon, but I remember I added metadata to it when DS4 came out and I tried metadata.
My question is: how do I edit it and where do I find it in the first place… I tried going through some of the posts about Metadata, but I got very confused very fast.
I’m not sure exactly what you want to do. Do you want to move a file from category A to category B or you want to copy it from category A to category B?
You can find all the categories a file is in by right-clicking it and selecting Categorize. The white highlighted categories show the path to every category it is assigned to. You can check / uncheck categories as you wish, but it must always be in at least 1 category.
You are right that the U means user-defined.
I suggest you don’t create additional root-level categories next to Default, because of the way Smart Content works. See the screenshot below.
And I’m very interested to see the RawArt root category. Did you create that, or was that created when you installed the product? If you created it then no problem (your choice) but in the latter case, it does not conform to the DAZ metadata standards and QA should have spotted that before the product was released. There is a reason there are metadata standards and you should report it as a metadata bug (bugs.daz3d.com). You can move it out of the RawArt category into the Default subcategories, and delete the RawArt root category.
...when I call up a new figure. After I save that figure to a Scene file, they RE-appear, but I need them to stay available.
Here’s what I’m talking bout:
the catagory I came up with: Characters, has a U on it, defining it as a user defined catagory. The other two, Default, and Rawart (because I purchased the Drakon) stay visible all the time. How do I change my cats to the standard kind?
It must be possible because PA’s keep adding new categories that I can’t get rid of. I’ve posted bug reports about the fact that there are categories that can’t be deleted they just keep returning. It’s one of my gripes with DS4….
When I noticed recently that the categories that I couldn’t delete were increasing the reply I got implied that it was the way the products were set up.
...when I call up a new figure. After I save that figure to a Scene file, they RE-appear, but I need them to stay available.
Here’s what I’m talking bout:
the catagory I came up with: Characters, has a U on it, defining it as a user defined catagory. The other two, Default, and Rawart (because I purchased the Drakon) stay visible all the time. How do I change my cats to the standard kind?
It must be possible because PA’s keep adding new categories that I can’t get rid of. I’ve posted bug reports about the fact that there are categories that can’t be deleted they just keep returning. It’s one of my gripes with DS4….
When I noticed recently that the categories that I couldn’t delete were increasing the reply I got implied that it was the way the products were set up.
I wasn’t happy about this needless to say! : (
You can create new categories in Studio. When you do that it adds a “U” to show its user-defined. When categories are created from installed content, they are considered “default” and do not get the “U”.
But you can delete categories (right-click and delete). However, default categories will be restored on startup. If you REALLY want to change the default categories, you need to edit RootCategories.txt in your Program Files\DAZ 3D\DAZStudio4\resources folder. Its a protected file, so you can’t edit it, but you can copy it to make the changes, then overwrite the original.
The default categories are there to enable sharing of metadata through a common structure, so if you change the default categories and install a new product, some of the default categories will show up again. You’ll just need to keep moving new content out of the default structure into your own category structure.
I suggest you don’t create additional root-level categories next to Default, because of the way Smart Content works. See the screenshot below.
And I’m very interested to see the RawArt root category. Did you create that, or was that created when you installed the product? If you created it then no problem (your choice) but in the latter case, it does not conform to the DAZ metadata standards and QA should have spotted that before the product was released. There is a reason there are metadata standards and you should report it as a metadata bug (bugs.daz3d.com). You can move it out of the RawArt category into the Default subcategories, and delete the RawArt root category.
Okay… RawArt has created a rootcatagory and is installed on my machine because of my purchase of the Drakon. I would either like to get rid of that category, or assign root status to the categories I have created.
I want my categories to be visible 100% of the time…
I cannot find any ref to RawArt in my RootCategories, nor can I delete it by right clicking… (i must be misunderstanding that part…)
The content of my RootCategories.TXT is as follows:
—DAZ Studio Root Categories —————————————————————————————-
Okay… RawArt has created a rootcatagory and is installed on my machine because of my purchase of the Drakon. I would either like to get rid of that category, or assign root status to the categories I have created.
I want my categories to be visible 100% of the time…
I cannot find any ref to RawArt in my RootCategories, nor can I delete it by right clicking… (i must be misunderstanding that part…)
The content of my RootCategories.TXT is as follows:
<snip>
In Content Library, right-click the category name and you should have a “delete” option - see screenshot. If you have something else please post a screenshot because then you might be looking in a different view. NOTE: make sure you re-categorize the items first (see step 1).
Default categories are the same for everybody (unless they changed their RootCategories.txt) and will not contain the RawArt root category. That has been added by the metadata installer. I’m going to send a note to Rawn and DAZ QA about this - we simply cannot have DAZ product metadata being put in the wrong place intentionally. Mistakes are ok (there are plenty of those) and can be rectified, but I feel sick in my stomach if I think what will start happening here. We’ll be back to the old Poser runtime nightmare.
By the way, I just deleted the RawArt category, it deleted and didn’t come back after I rebooted DS. Now all I Have to do is go in to that file, add my own categories, and there I have it. Perfect. You solved my problem
Now, if only I could figure out how to make my own pose dials
Well, this is interesting. I went into the RootCategories.TXT, added my own under Default/Characters/ and a few sub categories for that… then I had to delete the originals I made under Content to get the U to disappear off them.
Now they appear in Content, but not in the Smart Content tab… hmmmmm…
Well, this is interesting. I went into the RootCategories.TXT, added my own under Default/Characters/ and a few sub categories for that… then I had to delete the originals I made under Content to get the U to disappear off them.
Now they appear in Content, but not in the Smart Content tab… hmmmmm…
Well, this is interesting. I went into the RootCategories.TXT, added my own under Default/Characters/ and a few sub categories for that… then I had to delete the originals I made under Content to get the U to disappear off them.
Now they appear in Content, but not in the Smart Content tab… hmmmmm…
Restart Studio.
They needed something in them to show up. Apparently if they don’t have any content, they won’t show. That’s great Someone doing code was thinking on his feet that day.
