Figures not loading in DAZ Studio
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Yesterday I was able to work in DAZ Studio with no issues. Characters, figures, clothing all loaded fine. Today I open it and try to load a Genesis 8 Male and all I get are boxes. Tried to open a blank scene and load a different figure, Genesis 8 Female, same issue. Tried it with the Genesis 3 figures, same thing. Tried it with vendor clothing, same thing. I upgraded to 4.12 from 4.11 (for Mac 64-bit by the way). Thinking that something may have gotten corrupted. Same issue, box figure, but can anyone tell me what's happened? I've checked the data folders and all the necessary files are there, so I don't understand why it's not loading the items.
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I would suggest looking at the log file to see what specific errors are reported. That will give a lot more idea of where to start hunting this problem down.
I tried but the log is a mystery to me. I tried to post the log here but the forum wouldn't let me. I tried to make it an attachment and the forum wouldn't let me do that either.
G8 takes 10 minutes to upload for me & forever trying to merge to a scene.
Oh G8 loads but I get boxes instead of the figure, like the OBJ/DSF file is missing but it's not.
I recently installed 4.12 on a new PC. Plan A was to have the latest version of DIM install the latest versions of everything and hope for the best results.The first thing I noticed is DIM ignored preset paths for content (download and install paths) and made its own directory structure. That, combined with the fact it took forever to load G8, lead me to restoring my PC to prior to Daz install, For me it will have to be plan B. Install an older Daz version and install the 4.12 as a beta. However, in the past, during the multiple updates of DIM and Daz, I noticed Daz often lost sight of where my content lived and until I went into content management and reset the paths to my external drives, Daz loaded all my characters as a pile of gray blocks. Gray blocks, in my mind means that Daz or Dim is pointed to at the wrong path and can't locate the proper drive/path for your installed content.
Check you paths to the content libraries in the Content Library tab
I tried that too. I removed my directory from the Content Manager for DAZ formats and then added it back and still had the same issues. Maybe I should remove it, close Studio, then re-open and add it back in. I'm at a loss. Or maybe I need to remove the directories from CM that I don't use?
This is not meant to be insulting but Is your viewport on texture shaded? If it is then you may need to restore your PC to an earlier date when Daz worked well for you. Maybe if you didn't, your PC may have created an auto restore point for yesterday or prior to this problem occurring. Good luck to you.
Okay, this might sound silly of me, but did you by chance accidentally set your viewport to Solid Bounding Box instead of Texture Shaded, Smooth, Wire, or whatever you normally use? I did that one time and couldn't figure out what was going on. I must have hit it with my cursor and the next time I loaded a scene, everything was boxes.
Ah, ArtAngel already suggested it. How the hell did I miss that? lol
GlenWebb, that hadn't occurred to me, I'll have to check that. The systemRestore thing is a mote point for me as I'm on a Mac. I'll have to look into the Time Machine thing and see if there's a point I can go back to. The only other thing I can think of is that I recently updated Illustrator in-between times I opened Studio. Maybe there's a conflict somewhere that I'm not aware of.
I feel so stupid, I did have the solid bounding box checked. But then considering my state of mind yesterday morning I can see why I overlooked it. Several fires had to be put out at work and in a short amount of time. My brain just checked out I guess. Sorry to have bothered everyone.
pure lemon juice always clears the brain
DIM uses the path set in DIM - it doesn't read pths from DS (though there is a DS script to set DIM to use the current DS paths http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/referenceguide/scripting/api_reference/samples/file_io/install_manager_config/start )
With external drives, make sure that the drive letter assigned is not changing.
the boxes thing happened to me recently.
was pruning my content folder and had accidentally moved the data folder.
Oops. I had it happen once when a morph script decided to clean out some of the data folders. Left the folders intact, but eliminated the DSF files. Texture files and library icons were all that remained. Luckily I had the data folder on another computer.
scripts are tempting.
wish could magically prune,
On my PC#1, Daz decided to install on my main drive. I spent a ton of time downloading everything for new PC BUT it installedsomewhere on the c: drive. I copied the downloaded 9,800 files to a new external drive, renamed every daz related folder to xxxwhatever and then installed manually a super old version of DIM, a 4.11 Daz and a 4.12 Beta. For me it worked well. A better non-jimmy rigged way would be for Daz (like photoshop) allow you to install older non-conflicting versions) which for my PC#1 should not be conflicting.
DIM uses the paths it is told to - I believe that on a clean install it will now prompt, though that isn't something I can yet check. If it was isntalling content or applications to C: then either it hadn't been told to do otherwise or something (disc error, over-zealous security software) had damaged or removed the configuration file.
It was a clean install without promps. Because you are the Eintein of Daz I share this: I am really nervous about messing things up again, and have hesitated to re- install some plug-ins and components on PC1. I decided to forego downloading any of the newest betas & upgrades (not knowing what caused the issues) . Are any of these in the attached screenshots okay to forego or am I missing something crucial for Daz content to work well? (I think my problems occurred after using connect until then things were great). On PC2 I am using current DIM, never used connect and everything is good no problems. Any thoughts?
None of those are essential for the WIndows 64 bit General Reelase version of DS. You can use the options in the Download Filters dialogue (launched from the button at the top of the ready To Download tab) to not show the Mac, or if desired the Windows 32, software - that will make the list more manageable.