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Thank you felis. I didn't realize that long strip was a button.
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Click the "New Product" button on the Product tab page
Yes, Smart Content is separate from Content Library. You can assign a category that is not like the folder names
Yes. Always click Install Content before Install Smart Content. AFTER doing that, it is highly recommended to "Export ZIP Files" and "Save Configuration File..."
i got this and it does not work even when i uninstall and reinstall is there something i need to do different?
What does the Daz Log say?
When there is a file with Unicode characters in it the name Content Wizard still just ignores it (No user facing files found). I already complained about that before but it is driving me kind of crazy because Tri-X puts greek capital letter I into everything!
Buy TX Imani on Renderhub and try to install it with Content Wizard and you'll understand my pain.
Anyways. Turns out it is not just greek capital letter I. It is also lowercase "character" in the asset info:
When I have "character" Content Wizard refuses to acknowledge that that the file exists. Once I replace it with "Character" it works! (Don't forget you also need to replace greek capital letter I in Imani of course).
EDIT: Actually it is the words "man" (or "female") in the filename that trigger it, so "I man i.duf" fails, but "Ima ni.duf" works.
EDIT2: Well, still not sure if that is actually what is going on, other files with "man" in them seem to work even when type == "character", so no idea.
EDIT3: Ok, so ALL of the types are lowercase, changing it character to Character probably just breaks something else in a way that the file is accepted but not categorized correctly. But, this problem only seems to happen for Genesis 9 characters.
EDIT4: In the end I just replace character -> Character in the Genesis 9 character duf and then it worked. But there is obviously a bug. In fact it seems Content Wizard is not able to categorize any Genesis 9 character correctly now that I think about it. Probably the combination of "man" in the filename plus this being a character type triggered another bug that caused Content Wizard to think there are no user facing files for this product. But other Genesis 9 figures work, though they never end up in the Figures category.
Thank you for the information.
I bought Content Wizard yesterday. I'm very impressed to see so many people in this discussion.
I'm not exactly sure when I'll get to it.
It's "the Holidayts," and I'm pretty maxxed out. These days I mostly try to stay in touch with my neighbors in this senior citizen apartment building.
I started reorganzing my DAZ content originals. I want to easily find everything.
I've been concentrating on People. Generations 1-4 are in one collection. All generations of Genesis are in another collection.
So far I've been at this for two days. Maybe have another 2-3 days to go.
I plan to use Content Wizard to organize/install collections from scratch. I'll keep the other collections as well
Thanks for a great products. I'm sure we'll communicate in the future.
You're welcome! Any questions, just let me know.
It sounds like you might be interested in my Smart Collections product: https://www.daz3d.com/smart-collections It allows you to create "special, user-created Smart Content products that are collections of already existing smart content, whether individual assets or entire products, in your Daz library. Have you ever wanted to create a collection of assets for a particular theme (70s clothes, steampunk robots, anime, actor look-alikes, etc.), the best poses from a list of products, or your favorite environments?"
Thanks for your reply. I just realized I hadn't subscribed to the thread.
I want a simple installaton. I don't want Smart Content. I use the Content Librart exclusively.
I eliminate all "PA or Vanity" folders. When they are eliminated. For the most part, that leaves a folder with a proper name for the product.
My main two collections are "Gen4" (all characters before Genesis,) and Genesis.
I have gone back and forth with additional collections like "everything else," or Scenes, etc.
I have been trying to learn the Moonshine products. I'd like to have one collection just for that.
Are you willing to give me a general road map to achieve my goals? I confess I've been a real bumbling amateur for over 20 years!
Content Wizard won't help you. CW is for adding smart content to products that do not have it already.
That's a surprise. The product description spoke about being able to install products wherever you wanted.
It specifically stated you can work without Smart Content. But you know your product.
You might want to have a closer look at your product description.
I am quite disatisfied.
However, I commend you for taking the time to respond.
There is another product, which I need to test myself on the recent freebies from Rendo.
I have not used it yet, so I do not know how well it work, but from the description and screenshots
it looks promising. Below is the link to it:
https://www.daz3d.com/content-package-assist
Just found a proper thread:
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/210511/tutorial-how-to-use-content-package-assist
CW is able to break up an existing product and install the major directories (e.g., Animals or People) so that anything in the product you are trying to install that is under the People folder can go into the location you want. However, it seems to me that you want finer control than that, down to generations in the People folder, which it does not do.
Thanks for your responses.
I've decided not to try any other utlities or scripts.
OK, how about this scenario:
I've moved all the DAZ Genesis original files into their own folder.
Could CW use that folder to install the content? I'd like to do the install without any PA folders.
I originally started using Winzip to do a manual install. But the content got installed under a "Content" folder.
And some of the stuff just got installed in the same folder as the original item's own folder.
That makes a real mess.
CW uses the product zip files to install from. It cannot use a folder to start from.
If you don't care about breaking smart content, just move the user facing files (i.e., the files under People/Genesis 3 Female/Clothing/Rhiannon) wherever you want in your My Library. They usually do not have pathing requirements except for being under the top level folders that DS knows about. Just do NOT touch anything under the data directory. The user facing files look for their materials, etc in very specific paths in the data folder
Your Smart Content will be completely broken but you don't care about that. This also might not work with script files. You should test after each one you do to make sure nothing broke.
Perhaps I didn't explain properly.
I moved all the Genesis-related zip files into their own folder. They remained in "zipped" format.
That allows me, or CW to find the only zipped files I care about. No "Cherry Picking."
I think I understand. If you added all those zips to CW as one humongous product, CW could install them without the Content directory. It could even split the install up into multiple locations. However, it would not get rid of the vendor directory. CW would not do what you want.
OK. Thanks for taking the time to respond.
You're welcome! Good luck!
I'll be ok.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year (early)!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Ran across a bug where installing Smart Content fails if the Product Name contains certain characters, including ":" and "/". It creates a Product but fails before adding metadata to any of the contents. It's particularly frustrating because it leaves behind a glitched Product with no contents or categories, which prevents you from just fixing the name and trying again. If you do, it complains that there were errors during installation.
It is possible to get rid of the corrupted Product, but it's a hassle. In the Products tab of Smart Content, click on All Products and filter to find the Product (which will have no image). Right click on it and select "Show Product in Content Library". It will switch to the Content Library with that Product selected. Right click on that and select "Delete". You should now be able to go back and try to reinstall. There may be other ways to do it but this is what worked for me. AFAICT this doesn't have any side effects.
It looks like it may be sanitizing the string to remove forbidden characters, but not all of the time, so string comparisons fail and it gets confused. As I recall, when trying to reinstall with a corrected name without deleting the glitched Product first, the log will show a message like "Expected <corrected product name> but received <broken product name>" where <broken product name" is the original product name with colons and slashes removed. Unfortunately I didn't save the log so I can't show you an example right now. The next time it happens (it's probably inevitable that I'll get sloppy or miss something at some point) I'll attach a log.
One product that caught me with this recently is "Gia Halter Dress for G8/8.1 Females by: Rhiannon" on Renderosity. It actually got me twice: once because I accidentally included the "By: Rhiannon" part when I copied and pasted the product name, then again because I missed the forward slash.
Thank you for the bug report.