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alanthompson9187
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Dos anyone still use older resions of daz, say as far back as daz 3 ?
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Yes. I have DS 3 installeed and use it occasionally for some things like fixing old models that shear in DS 4
I think there is at least one forum member (MJ007) who still uses DS 2
I keep a copy of DAZ Studio 3 installed on my file server, for those relatively rare times when compatibility issues arise - like opening an older DS scene in a deprecated format, or converting a content file that uses one of the older utilities for content sharing that no longer are supported in recent versions of Studio, etc..
CORRECTAMUNDO!!! I think MadManMike still uses DS2 as well, but i havent seen him around much lately. Lastly, i know a few others that are still usng DS3 as well.
-MJ
Well i nerver thought you could save older versions, i always updted it when new ones came out, why dosn't daz let us download older versions?, the main reason i ask this question is that Daz has products for sale that could only be used in the older versions, i also think they are way over priced for how old they are,
would you realy buy this as old as it is for this price ?... http://www.daz3d.com/mood-master-ds-z-depth-fx-layers , surley you would buy a newer product for that amount of money,
...I have Daz 3.1 64 bit installed on my workstation to use certain plugins that were never revised for 4.x and another system still has 2.3.
I have the installers for every version back to 1.7 archived.
If you purchased or registered them form DAZ, the older full versions (i.e. DS1, DS2, and DS3) are avaiklble in your product library and xan be downloaded from there.
I started in the early vesions of 4. something and just kept updating it, i statred before iray was introduced, wanted to step back in time to the version before iray, but the product libary dos not have it. Thanks away for trying to help, and to all.
...yeah in the days before the DIM you had to download the installers to your system first. As a creature of habit, I always made a backup of each installer for both the programme updates as well as (content just in case) as back then it all had to be manually downloaded from Daz (at the time I had no connectivity from home so I had to go to a hotspot to DL my purchases and updates on weekends, which required a high caffeine tolerance). I didn't have stable connectivity from home until 4.5 was released, hence about 2/3rds of my runtime/library is all manually installed and has no metadata.
Someday I might consider installing one of the really old versions just to see how far this programme has grown.
I'm mostly using Poser 11 and haven't touched DAZ Studio for a while, but I have versions 2.3, 3.1 Advanced and 4.8 installed on my computer, and I have installers archived from the early 2004 beta versions onward, and multiple builds of Studio 1 through 4. (I think version 0_8_13_3_NC from february 2004 is the oldest version I have archived. I still have a virtual windows 2000 running on my Windows 7 system, may re-install some of the older versions just for the heck of it.)
I just checked, and all download links for the older Studio versions are inactive by the way.
...wow that's even further back than what I have. in 2004 I was still doing drawings by hand though it was getting more and more difficult.
I still have an XP system which 2.8 is on.
I'm originally a professional traditional pencil animator, so I'm still drawing by hand, even if not professionally any more; I discovered Poser 4 around 2001 and thought it was a nice hobby; not long after that I discovered the Poser community, and also the DAZ website, and later on the flame war around Poser 5 that caused DAZ Studio in the first place. (Victoria 3 could not be used in the initial version of Poser 5, as I remember.) I only use Poser/Studio for still pictures; I have animated in Maya a bit, but found the process much more mechanical than traditional animation.
By the way, I also still have ancient versions of Poser running; 4, 5, 6, 7, 10 Debut and 11. I don't have a fancy graphics card with lots of cuda-cores so I went the Poser/Reality-way, and stuck with Vicky and Mike 4...
If you have them in your product library the older versions are marked "inactive" but all that means is that they are no longer in the store. However, they are still downloadable.
I have DS 2 and DS 3 in my product library and can down load them. I also have DS 1.8 that I got from CNET and registered with DAZ. At one time the serial number was in my account but now it is missing and the product is not in my product library. So, if I ever lose the old installer I won't be able to get it.
I'm still using DS 2.3... mainly for figure rigging and basic set-up, it works better for Poser (DAZ Legacy) rigging than the newer versions do (less glitchy and problematic). The old version of DS is also more directly Poser-compatible, which is nice as a tool for a content creator trying to maintain a basic standard of cross-compatability...
That being said I also use DS 4.7 to add ERC's to my figures, and to add morphs into conforming clothing and such (much easier to do that in the newer versions of DS... the ERC tools for the old versions were broken, and the old versions lacked any internal ability to add or transfer morphs directly). Somewhere on a back-up disk I also have copies of DS 1.2 and 1.5 along with an old copy of Poser 4... but I never use them any more... Lol
...due to advancing bone and joint issues it just got too difficult to hold a brush, pencil. or pen very steady or for long without incurring a lot of stiffness and pain. That is a major part of what pushed me into 3D.
...yeah, same reason here. I still am partial to old LDP which was never revised for 4.0 and later. The new LDP-R requires multi pass rendering and a programme like Photoshop or Gimp to do the same thing one could do just in Daz. with LDP/LDP2. Plugins like the PW ones and some of Nerd3D's effects still seem to work better in earlier versions as well.
What really bothers me is when an incremental update release breaks something that was made for Daz (like what occurred with the AoA effects cameras or flagging with the advanced lights in the 4.7 update). I can understand it happening between "whole number" releases (eg Daz 3.0 to Daz 4.0), but it is frustrating when it happens between the ".x" ones.
I looked at my library and the old versions were labelled "inactive" but the site did let me download them.
I downloaded verions 2.3.3.146 and 3.1.2.32 for old times sake. I might install version 3 since I can use pwSketch with this, I probably won't bother with version 2. I did have version 1 originally but I haven't got that in my library.