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  • Singular3DSingular3D Posts: 626
    edited October 2025

    I install everything manually and adjust files as required. I once wrote a converter from Daz to Cinema 4D (when G3 came out), so I looked into the structure of the DUF files.

    All content that I bought is sorted in word and excel files including references. Only a small portion of the content is installed and I sometimes remove some stuff from Daz, if I do not need it for a current project.
    As I render a lot in Blender, I convert buildings and objects and remove them from Daz afterwards. Keeping everything in order is vital for me to keep the overview.

    Call me Monk :)

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  • whispers65whispers65 Posts: 1,034

    Singular3D said:

    I install everything manually and adjust files as required. I once wrote a converter from Daz to Cinema 4D (when G3 came out), so I looked into the structure of the DUF files.

    All content that I bought is sorted in word and excel files including references. Only a small portion of the content is installed and I sometimes remove some stuff from Daz, if I do not need it for a current project.
    As I render a lot in Blender, I convert buildings and objects and remove them from Daz afterwards. Keeping everything in order is vital for me to keep the overview.

    Call me Monk :)

    Well third party I pretty much have no option other than to install manually.  I did buy a program at one time ago, a long time ago that installed everything.  but I don't remember what it is called and it's no longer on this computer.  it's good for me to learn how to install everything manually anyway so there's that.  I want to get more into blender.  I did try some modeling a long time back, but didn't get to far.   

  • memcneil70memcneil70 Posts: 5,505

    Content Wizard?

  • chris-2599934chris-2599934 Posts: 1,913

    Ron Knights said:

    I still struggle with the way DAZ organizes their content. DIM would be fine if DAZ adopted a more sensible approach to organizing content.

    But instead we have a mass of "PA" folders, and even every single item in a folder has the PA's initials before the name of the items.

    Props and scenes are scattered about with incosistentcy.

    All too often I decided not to buy products for those reasons.

    I actually feel let down by DAZ because of the need to search for my products.

    Sometimes even individual PAs can't be consistent. Suppose I'm looking for a particular set of Zeddicuss poses for G8F, I've got a lot of those. It could be in...

    • People/Genesis 8/Poses
    • People/Genesis 8/Poses/Zeddicuss
    • People/Genesis 8 Female/Poses
    • People/Genesis 8 Female/Poses/Zeddicuss
    • People/Genesis 8 Female/Zeddicuss/Poses
  • IceDragonArtIceDragonArt Posts: 12,911

    chris-2599934 said:

    Ron Knights said:

    I still struggle with the way DAZ organizes their content. DIM would be fine if DAZ adopted a more sensible approach to organizing content.

    But instead we have a mass of "PA" folders, and even every single item in a folder has the PA's initials before the name of the items.

    Props and scenes are scattered about with incosistentcy.

    All too often I decided not to buy products for those reasons.

    I actually feel let down by DAZ because of the need to search for my products.

    Sometimes even individual PAs can't be consistent. Suppose I'm looking for a particular set of Zeddicuss poses for G8F, I've got a lot of those. It could be in...

    • People/Genesis 8/Poses
    • People/Genesis 8/Poses/Zeddicuss
    • People/Genesis 8 Female/Poses
    • People/Genesis 8 Female/Poses/Zeddicuss
    • People/Genesis 8 Female/Zeddicuss/Poses

    This is what drove me to do my own categories.  i was spending way more time looking for stuff than anything else

     

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