BJ Camera Manager (Commercial)

barbult · February 2024

bluejaunte said:

I will let them know... plugin publishing really seems borked. Release day was a mess as well

Maybe it would be better if Daz actually tested the package content and functionality before telling you it was fixed.
You can commiserate with PA Alvin Bemar. He has suffered many Daz plugin installation package problems. He makes great plugins, but you can almost always count on the installation package failing through no fault of his.

Kersey · February 2024

Don't know if I'm the reason for the new package, but it was empty when I tried to install it 2 days ago. I asked support to fix it and QA then uploaded with a new package, which is empty too. Now it seems to be broken (empty) for everyone who updated with the new package in DIM.

bluejaunte · February 2024

Try again guys? I can confirm that at least the manual download from my account now has all the files in it.

markusmatern · February 2024

I downloaded it just now using DIM and the plugin works!

It shows a package size of 915 kB

When installerd this expands to 2.3 MB

namffuak · February 2024

Looks good -

Kersey · February 2024

It works now. Lovely. Looking forward to work with it.

barbult · February 2024

@bluejaunte I have a request if you decide to do another update sometime. I would like the Hide Cameras button to be a toggle (Hide/Show). My reason is that I frequently use ManFriday's Render Queue 3 with the option to "render all visible cameras". When cameras are added by BJ Camera Manager, they are automatically hidden (not visible). That means that rendering all visible cameras results in nothing being rendered. If I could toggle my cameras back to visible with a single Camera Manager button, that would be nice.

bluejaunte · February 2024

Right. Sounds like a good idea. In the meantime you could probably find some script that shows/hides all camera.

barbult · February 2024

bluejaunte said:

Right. Sounds like a good idea. In the meantime you could probably find some script that shows/hides all camera.

Thanks for the suggestion. I was able to find a similar script that could easily modify to toggle the camera visibility, so I could turn them all back to visible On.

In doing that search, it also occurred to me that if BJ Camera Manager Hide Cameras set Visible in Viewport to Off instead of Visible to Off, that would probably also solve my initial problem. If I understand correctly, your goal was to prevent the camera wireframes from appearing in the viewport as scene clutter. Visible in Viewport would achieve that, while leaving the overall Visible "On" for Render Queue 3 to recognize for rendering the scene from the visible camera(s).

This is just something to consider if there is a future update. Either option, Hide Cameras toggle or using Visible in Viewport, would make me happy, but with the script I modified, I'm good for now. BJ Camera Manager is a helpful plugin.

bluejaunte · February 2024

Didn't even know that existed. How does the user set it back to visible though, after a script/plugin set it to invisible?

barbult · February 2024

bluejaunte said:

Didn't even know that existed. How does the user set it back to visible though, after a script/plugin set it to invisible?

Visible in Viewport is a standard setting in the Parameters pane Display section. It is not just for cameras, either. It can be toggled on or off by script, or a user can simply open the pane and toggle the control there.

bluejaunte · February 2024

Oh that thing... right, right.

barbult · October 3

There was an update the BJ Camera Manager in DIM today.The product readme was not updated to indicate what changed. I installed it. I guess Daz screwed up the DIM package. It created a new subfolder "DAZ Studio_4.5;4.x Public Build;4.x Publishing Build_(64-Bit)" IN MY CONTENT LIBRARY, instead of installing the plugin and docs in C:/Program Files subfolders.

namffuak · October 3

barbult said:

There was an update the BJ Camera Manager in DIM today.The product readme was not updated to indicate what changed. I installed it. I guess Daz screwed up the DIM package. It created a new subfolder "DAZ Studio_4.5;4.x Public Build;4.x Publishing Build_(64-Bit)" IN MY CONTENT LIBRARY, instead of installing the plugin and docs in C:/Program Files subfolders.

Yes, it's hosed. But it should be installed in the docs and plugins directories of the installed studio executables - mine exist on E:\bits64\.

The package is tagged 'General', not 'Plugin'.

bluejaunte · October 3

Hmm not good. Fixed tab orientation of pane group getting lost when toggling Aux pane.

barbult · October 3

Customer Service responded to my Help Request and said that they pushed through an update to fix the problem, but there is no update in Ready to Download in DIM for me. Does anyone see an update in DIM on 2025-10-03?

jjoyner · October 3

I don't see a new update but I did install one on October 1.

Update: The October 1 update installed into my Content Library as welll.

barbult · October 3

jjoyner said:

I don't see a new update but I did install one on October 1.

Update: The October 1 update installed into my Content Library as welll.

Thanks for the confirmation that today's update is not showing in DIM. Yesterday's update files don't belong in the Content Library, of course. A plugin and its documentation will not work from the Content Library. I hope Daz can get this properly straightened out.

namffuak · October 4

I just checked - there is a zip file in my product library which should not exist for a plugin

The Supplement.dsx file in the zip:

The Manifest.dsx in the zip:

The working plugin zip, from my backup -

Supplement.dsx:

and Manifest.dsx:

The product library files are all dated October 3 - so still hosed.

bluejaunte · October 4

I was told it was fixed. So sorry guys, I doubt it's gonna be fixed before Monday now.

barbult · October 4

bluejaunte said:

I was told it was fixed. So sorry guys, I doubt it's gonna be fixed before Monday now.

It is not your fault. Somebody at Daz is not packaging or tagging it correctly.

bluejaunte · October 4

True, I'm still sorry for my stuff not working either way

namffuak · October 7

I got an "update" in DIM tonight - files in the zip are dated 10-06.

At this point I have to question the reading and comprehension skills of the person doing the packaging, as the product is plainly labeled BJ Camera Manager Plugin but the install information is still for Content, not Plugin.

barbult · October 7

namffuak said:

I got an "update" in DIM tonight - files in the zip are dated 10-06.

At this point I have to question the reading and comprehension skills of the person doing the packaging, as the product is plainly labeled BJ Camera Manager Plugin but the install information is still for Content, not Plugin.

Hmm. I thought the update was installing correctly with DIM now. Is that wrong?

Edit: Oh, no, they fooled me! You are right. DIM still put the plugin in the content library. What is wrong with these people? The plugin directory still has my old dll that I restored from backup last time.

Edit 2: I'm just copying the dll from the zip file and putting it where it belongs. Anything else seems hopeless.

barbult · October 7

When Josh Darling left months ago, Daz lost the person who knew how to package plugins for DIM. Then they eventually figured it out again. Now it looks like they've lost the magic formula again.

jjoyner · October 7

barbult said:

namffuak said:

I got an "update" in DIM tonight - files in the zip are dated 10-06.

At this point I have to question the reading and comprehension skills of the person doing the packaging, as the product is plainly labeled BJ Camera Manager Plugin but the install information is still for Content, not Plugin.

Hmm. I thought the update was installing correctly with DIM now. Is that wrong?

Edit: Oh, no, they fooled me! You are right. DIM still put the plugin in the content library. What is wrong with these people? The plugin directory still has my old dll that I restored from backup last time.

Edit 2: I'm just copying the dll from the zip file and putting it where it belongs. Anything else seems hopeless.

I saw the DIM update for the plugin yesterday as well but once I downloaded the zip file and explored it, I saw that the files would be installed in the same wrong places. I decided to hold off on the DIM installation until I saw more discussion in this thread. If I see no new DIM update with the files to be installed where they should be, I’ll follow your lead to manually place them.

Thanks!.

namffuak · October 7

barbult said:

When Josh Darling left months ago, Daz lost the person who knew how to package plugins for DIM. Then they eventually figured it out again. Now it looks like they've lost the magic formula again.

I get the distinct impression that there are staffing, training, and documentation issues rearing their ugly heads. This is one example. A second example is the sheer number of new items showing up without readme files - and the fact that manually searching for higher-numbered readme files doesn't work.

And yesterday's flurry of issues with the forum didn't help either.

bluejaunte · October 7

Try again guys, is it fixed?

Omniflux · October 7

Appears to be fixed with package 2025-10-07T10:25:16Z (Plugin version is 1.0.2.2)

They renamed the plugin documentation folder though, and the online file list no longer contains the correct paths.

namffuak · October 7

Yep - installed to the correct location.

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