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About Installing "Daz to Blender"

hirohiro Posts: 6
edited June 2022 in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

I have installed "Daz to Blender", "Daz to Unity" and "Daz to Maya" with DAZ Install Manager.(photo1)

However, "Script" does not appear on the menu bar.(photo2)

It stays the same even after restarting DAZ Studio.

How can I get "Script" to appear properly on the menu bar?

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 96,825

    Exactly which version of Daz Studio is this - Help>About Daz Studio? There was a bug in 4.20.0.2 which caused it to fail to save the layout in some cases, and this could interfere with the bridge instalaltion.

  • Ryuu@AMcCFRyuu@AMcCF Posts: 619

    Richard Haseltine said:

    Exactly which version of Daz Studio is this - Help>About Daz Studio? There was a bug in 4.20.0.2 which caused it to fail to save the layout in some cases, and this could interfere with the bridge instalaltion.

    Hi Richard,

    I've got the same issue where the bridge fails to show up, yet my version is 4.20.0.17.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 96,825

    And that was the version you had when you installed? Was Daz Studio closed when you installed (usually this doesn't matter, but the Bridges need a run-once script to be run from the temp folder to add them to the menus).

  • hirohiro Posts: 6

    Richard Haseltine said:

    Exactly which version of Daz Studio is this - Help>About Daz Studio? There was a bug in 4.20.0.2 which caused it to fail to save the layout in some cases, and this could interfere with the bridge instalaltion.

     

    Thank you very much for your prompt reply.

    My version is probably 4.20.0.17.

    I first installed Daz3D a few days ago.


    >>And that was the version you had when you installed?
    Yes！

    >>Was Daz Studio closed when you installed

    I'm sorry, I don't remember this.

    Now, I reinstalled Daz Studio once, but the situation was the same.

     

    Does this mean we should wait for a new version of Daz to be released?

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 96,825

    hiro said:

    Richard Haseltine said:

    Exactly which version of Daz Studio is this - Help>About Daz Studio? There was a bug in 4.20.0.2 which caused it to fail to save the layout in some cases, and this could interfere with the bridge instalaltion.

     

    Thank you very much for your prompt reply.

    My version is probably 4.20.0.17.

    I first installed Daz3D a few days ago.


    >>And that was the version you had when you installed?
    Yes！

    >>Was Daz Studio closed when you installed

    I'm sorry, I don't remember this.

    Now, I reinstalled Daz Studio once, but the situation was the same.

    Make sure Daz Studio is closed, uninstall the Bridge, and reinstall.

     

    Does this mean we should wait for a new version of Daz to be released?

    No, 4.20.0.17 has the fix for the layout issue.

  • Ryuu@AMcCFRyuu@AMcCF Posts: 619
    edited June 2022

    I tried to uninstall & reinstall through DIM, but still didn't see the bridges showing up.

    I then checked my layout and found the problem. Somehow, my layout got changed from "City Limits" to "City Limits Light"--probably while I was reinstalling all my Database. DAZ got upgraded to .20 (I had been trying to keep it at .10 for that LAMH issue), and the default doesn't have the bridges visible.

    I reset it back to "City Limits" and had to customize the layout, but I've got the bridges back now. It's possible the bridges were there all along, but I just couldn't access them because of the layout.

    Hope that helps.

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  • hirohiro Posts: 6

    Richard Haseltine said:

    hiro said:

    Richard Haseltine said:

    Exactly which version of Daz Studio is this - Help>About Daz Studio? There was a bug in 4.20.0.2 which caused it to fail to save the layout in some cases, and this could interfere with the bridge instalaltion.

     

    Thank you very much for your prompt reply.

    My version is probably 4.20.0.17.

    I first installed Daz3D a few days ago.


    >>And that was the version you had when you installed?
    Yes！

    >>Was Daz Studio closed when you installed

    I'm sorry, I don't remember this.

    Now, I reinstalled Daz Studio once, but the situation was the same.

    Make sure Daz Studio is closed, uninstall the Bridge, and reinstall.

     

    Does this mean we should wait for a new version of Daz to be released?

    No, 4.20.0.17 has the fix for the layout issue

     

    I tried again what you said, but the situation remains the same.

Is there anything else I can do?
  • hirohiro Posts: 6

    Ryuu@AMcCF said:

    I tried to uninstall & reinstall through DIM, but still didn't see the bridges showing up.

    I then checked my layout and found the problem. Somehow, my layout got changed from "City Limits" to "City Limits Light"--probably while I was reinstalling all my Database. DAZ got upgraded to .20 (I had been trying to keep it at .10 for that LAMH issue), and the default doesn't have the bridges visible.

    I reset it back to "City Limits" and had to customize the layout, but I've got the bridges back now. It's possible the bridges were there all along, but I just couldn't access them because of the layout.

    Hope that helps.

     

    Like you, the layout was "City Limit Light" by default, so I changed it to "City Limit".

However, "Script" does not appear in the menu bar.
    

If you don't mind, can you tell me specifically how it was customized?

     

    I checked "Window> Workspace> Costomize".

But I didn't know how to display "Script". (Photo3)
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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 96,825

    City Limits Lite is the default, I think.

  • Ryuu@AMcCFRyuu@AMcCF Posts: 619
    edited June 2022

    hiro said:

    Ryuu@AMcCF said:

    I tried to uninstall & reinstall through DIM, but still didn't see the bridges showing up.

    I then checked my layout and found the problem. Somehow, my layout got changed from "City Limits" to "City Limits Light"--probably while I was reinstalling all my Database. DAZ got upgraded to .20 (I had been trying to keep it at .10 for that LAMH issue), and the default doesn't have the bridges visible.

    I reset it back to "City Limits" and had to customize the layout, but I've got the bridges back now. It's possible the bridges were there all along, but I just couldn't access them because of the layout.

    Hope that helps.

     

    Like you, the layout was "City Limit Light" by default, so I changed it to "City Limit".

However, "Script" does not appear in the menu bar.
    

If you don't mind, can you tell me specifically how it was customized?

     

    I checked "Window> Workspace> Costomize".

But I didn't know how to display "Script". (Photo3)

    Okay, you're already in the right neighborhood.

    When I did my customization, I opened the "Bridges" block in the left panel and moved the items (one at a time) to the relevant "Toolbar" option ("Input Output").

    image

     

    I see you're wanting to use the "Menu" tab, so you'll want to open up the "Main Menu Bar", then "&File", then "Send To". That's where my bridges are showing up right now.

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    Hope that works for you.

    (Sorry, but my posts of the pictures in the message are crap--please use the attachments below to see better views)

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  • hirohiro Posts: 6 
    In Customize, the screen did not look the same as you.（photo）


But in the menu bar "File> Send To", I found "Daz to Blender"!!!

I think this is an update that the Daz official should specify in the description...


As a further problem, it doesn't seem to support blender 3.x.
I will be working on this from now on.


Richard Haseltine, Ryuu @ AMcCF, thank you for the information
  • hirohiro Posts: 6
    edited June 2022

    I finally gave up using "Daz to Blender".

    Instead, I've successfully imported a DazFigure into Blender 3.1 with the "Deffeomorphic" plugin!!!

    This video was helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR7HXMhsRa8(DAZ Characters to Blender 3.0 | Diffeomorphic Plugin | LucidManStudio)

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  • Ryuu@AMcCFRyuu@AMcCF Posts: 619
    edited June 2022

    Sorry Hiro,

    I didn't try actually using it when I told you where to find and recover the bridge.

     

    Richard,

    I tried to export something just now. DAZ says it "successfully exported" and that I should now use Blender to play with what I sent out-- But I have no idea of where DAZ put the exported item.

    Does anyone know where DAZ is sending them and in what format??

     

    Thanks,

    Ryuu

    Okay, I found it, and confirmed the bridge does export to Blender 3.1, although the test I did with the "5 toadstool lane" model from DAZ resulted in some parts of the house ending up with some weird Y-axis position offsets--certainly something that would be annoying to any user, but it's not unfixable once opened in Blender. Haven't tried this with my 2.9 and 3.0 backup versions of Blender to see if that issue is persistent.

     

    The default location DAZ is sending them is "C:/Users/<current user>/Documents/DAZ 3D/Bridges/Daz To Blender/Exports/". The json file might allow us to edit the location, though.

     

     

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