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Stryder87Stryder87 Posts: 899
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I reinstalled Daz fresh and reset all my content paths and got everything going pretty well (except for the fact that the lights in my current scene now don't work, but that's another issue).  One of the settings I had changed was stopping every surface the Universal tool hovers over from turning yellow.  I seemed to recall seeing someone post a topic about this recently, but I just went through the last 50 pages of The Commons and 30 pages of Technical and can't find it anywhere.  I also don't have a bookmark for the topic when (I think) I asked it before.

So, stupid question, but how do I stop this from happening?  It's driving me crazy!  cool

Yes, I will make a note of this in my little "Important Stuff" file for future reference!  laugh

Thanks.

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  • HavosHavos Posts: 5,610

    Open the Draw Settings Tab

    Select Texture Shaded (if this is mostly what you use in the viewport)

    Click on Node Highlighting and set the Draw Style to "Bounding Box Only".

    This gets rid of the nasty yellow highlight, and it is a mystery to me why that horrible look is the default.

  • Stryder87Stryder87 Posts: 899
    Havos said:

    Open the Draw Settings Tab

    Select Texture Shaded (if this is mostly what you use in the viewport)

    Click on Node Highlighting and set the Draw Style to "Bounding Box Only".

    This gets rid of the nasty yellow highlight, and it is a mystery to me why that horrible look is the default.

    Excellent.  I'll give this a try when I get home after work.

    Thanks.

     

  • FSMCDesignsFSMCDesigns Posts: 12,847

     

    Havos said:
     

    This gets rid of the nasty yellow highlight, and it is a mystery to me why that horrible look is the default.

    I actually prefer it

  • SpottedKittySpottedKitty Posts: 7,232
    Stryder87 said:

    (except for the fact that the lights in my current scene now don't work, but that's another issue).

    If you were reinstalling everything, did you remember to include the Default Resources installer? Things have been shuffled around and file names changed over the years, but I think that's where the content and settings for the basic lights are now. You must install this to use the default lights and shaders.

    Also don't forget all of the various Starter Essentials installers, these contain a lot more than just the Genesis figures.

  • Stryder87Stryder87 Posts: 899
    SpottedKitty said:
    Stryder87 said:

    (except for the fact that the lights in my current scene now don't work, but that's another issue).

    If you were reinstalling everything, did you remember to include the Default Resources installer? Things have been shuffled around and file names changed over the years, but I think that's where the content and settings for the basic lights are now. You must install this to use the default lights and shaders.

    Also don't forget all of the various Starter Essentials installers, these contain a lot more than just the Genesis figures.

    I didn't actually uninstall any content, that's on a different drive.  I only reinstalled the program and DIM and reindexed the database, plus updated everything in Connect so it`s all good.  The lights in question are AoA lights.  Out of the three spotlights and the Ambient one, only one spotlight was working.  No idea.

     

  • Stryder87Stryder87 Posts: 899

    So I tested my scene a bit more and none of the spotlights were loading properly.  The majority of settings were gone, so, taking Spotted's advice, I reinstalled all my ASoA light sets, plus a couple more basic light sets.  Worked fine.  Soooooo..... I guess I'll redownload my entire library (all 323Gb worth) and reinstall it all, since I also notice some hair wasn't looking quite right.

    Thank goodness I have unlimited internet at work.  If I had to download 323Gb at home it would be a nightmare!  haha

     

  • FSMCDesignsFSMCDesigns Posts: 12,847
    Stryder87 said:

    Thank goodness I have unlimited internet at work.  If I had to download 323Gb at home it would be a nightmare!  haha

     

    Must be nice! I work for a national company with our own network and if we use the internet for any personal use outside of it we are repremanded. I always laugh when i see posts about content being non friendly to view in the work place when I have never worked for a company that allowed that in the first place, LOL.

  • Stryder87Stryder87 Posts: 899
    FSMCDesigns said:
    Stryder87 said:

    Thank goodness I have unlimited internet at work.  If I had to download 323Gb at home it would be a nightmare!  haha

     

    Must be nice! I work for a national company with our own network and if we use the internet for any personal use outside of it we are repremanded. I always laugh when i see posts about content being non friendly to view in the work place when I have never worked for a company that allowed that in the first place, LOL.

    Agreed!  All I need to do is let it download overnight, bring a 500Gb hard drive from home and use one of our external hard drive bays to transfer the data.  There has to be some kind of benefit to working for the government!

     

  • HavosHavos Posts: 5,610

    The AoA lights add some stuff to the area where the program is stored, since these are actual new lights, not just presets of existing lights. Gen X and a number of other plug-ins also do this, and so need to be reinstalled on a new install of DS. However the vast majority of products only have data in the various runtime libraries, and thus do not need to be reinstalled (assuming you maintained these directories). Thus you do not need to reinstall all your products, just a very small handful of them (mostly plug-ins).

  • Stryder87Stryder87 Posts: 899
    Havos said:

    The AoA lights add some stuff to the area where the program is stored, since these are actual new lights, not just presets of existing lights. Gen X and a number of other plug-ins also do this, and so need to be reinstalled on a new install of DS. However the vast majority of products only have data in the various runtime libraries, and thus do not need to be reinstalled (assuming you maintained these directories). Thus you do not need to reinstall all your products, just a very small handful of them (mostly plug-ins).

    I was going through my serial number list and trying to reinstall, or at least download them to install manually, but was having an issue with the GenX one.  Since my install directories are the same, I know I shouldn't need to reinstall everthing, but since the collection is pretty old, I figure it's a good time to reinstall it all and get it all updated to the newest versions of everything.  I'm not sure what that will do with the Connect database if I reinstall everything through DIM, but I guess I'll find out.  smiley

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