Digital Art Zone

Just updated last night. Is there any way to save a preset material as the old format?  If I understand correctly the new .duf extension will not open in order DAZ software. 

Thank you
Kimberly

File>Save as>Deprecated>Materials preset (or wahtever you wish to use). Make sure you choose .dsa as the format - the others are tagged with th version they were saved from and won’t work in older versions.

Richard Haseltine - 05 August 2012 01:05 PM

File>Save as>Deprecated>Materials preset (or wahtever you wish to use). Make sure you choose .dsa as the format - the others are tagged with th version they were saved from and won’t work in older versions.

Thank you so very much.

Richard Haseltine - 05 August 2012 01:05 PM

File>Save as>Deprecated>Materials preset (or wahtever you wish to use). Make sure you choose .dsa as the format - the others are tagged with th version they were saved from and won’t work in older versions.

When I make a texture to share, can I save as both the .duf and .dsa in the same folder so people get both file types or would that not be a good idea?

Thank you

You could do that, though I’m not sure you’d need both - if you did, it might make things easier for users if they were in separate subfolders since each user would presumably want to skip over one set of files.

It would also confuse anyone with “show file extensions” switched off — they’d probably see two of everything, apparently exactly the same, and might think everything had just gone horribly worng. Collecting the different file types in different folders, or specifying in the file name which is which, would IMHO be better.

All of my new content files, such as genesis.duf, show up in Categories with a yellow triangle containing an exclamation mark on the thumbs.

Also, almost every old file (DAZ and other) throws a Duplicate ID error.  Is this possibly due to the capitalization?

Excerpt from log:  Sorry, can’t attach by text file or by cut and paste into this.

Duplicate IDs are a flaw in old content showing up in DS4.5 - I have a script to fix DSF files (see list of free scripts in sig), and most store content that suffers the issue has been updated. It has nothing to do with the directory structure.

The yellow warning triangle usually means file not found - do the items show their thumbnails, or just a generic DAZ icon?

Richard, I understand that I have to update my purchases or use the scripts.  But for the content that came with RC3?

Did you install the content to a different location this time? The database may still point to the old location, from which the files were uninstalled when installing the new version (though I thought the system had been fixed to use relative paths now).

I’ve only installed 4.5 RC 3 once.  I uninstalled 4.0X before installing 4.5.  It installed under Studio and I moved it under My Library.

That’s your problem then - moving content (outside of DS) breaks the smart content. If you reinstall DS, making sure you select teh right location for the content, that should fix it. You could also try reimporting metadata from Content Library option menu>Content DB Maintenance.

I seldom use Smart Content.  I love my categories more.  Surprise, surprise!  I ran “scan known directories” from the Content Library tab and all the 4.5 thumbnails are fine now and it’s all working.  I’ll try your suggestion for the Smart Content though.

In DS4 the categories work from the CMS, as well Smart Content.

For me, the smart content shows up in the 32bit Daz Studio, but only the stuff that came with Daz shows up in the 64bit version.