Trying to understand daz4.9
muller252
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Hi, I'm really getting frustrated with daz 4.9 I'm having difficulty locating genesis 3 products. I have genesis 2 product whistle didn't load into the gen 2 folders like all the others. I HATE this smart content tab. Why did they break what wasn't broken? Is there any way I can get all my products into MyDaz 3D Library? My head is wrecked. Be gentle with me as I have a bad dose of sciatica!
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If you hate it don't use it, the Content Library pane is still in the program, just don't use Products or Categories as they are linked to the database like Smart Content.
The only things that aren't in the library are encrypted items, everything else should be there somewhere. Most of the stuff that Daz sells is organised fairly well in the library. If you can't find something you can try looking at the product readme file. You can find this on the website in the documentation centre, or if you are using Install Manager click on the ? on the item's entry.
**edit** sorry, its an i in a circle, not a question mark in Install Manager. I should have checked before posting.
I can't make sense of the smart content either. I use categorties to organise my content. I find the item in the library and create a category for it. You can organise categories any way you like.
Probably helps if you list what you try to locate ( best with a link to the product). Sometimes the program needs some thinking time before stuff ends up in the right place.
In the last few versions of DS 4.9 all items installed via Connect, including Encrypted content, appear in DAZ Studio Formats>Daz Connect as if in a single content directory.
Smart Content and Categories are two faces of the same thing so I'm not sure what you mean here - the categories appear down the elft-and side of Smart Content as well as under Categories in the Content Library pane. Smart Content just allows more filtering options for finding content, including the ability to show only items that are compatible with the current selection in the scene (Filter by Context check box).
It might help if you could let everyone know which version of DS you were using before (it sounds like possibly DS 3.x?), and if you are a Poser user. I have found with DS the simplest thing, and what will ensure everything work properly, is to use DIM (DAZ Install Manager) to install things, and put all Genesis content in the default location where DIM wants to install it. Like others have mentioned, I seldom use the "Smart Content" tab to find anything, and use the "Content Library" tab to find what I want. If you have installed things to different folders than the default locations (which it sounds like you have), you will need to add those folders to the "Content Directory Manager" for DS to know where they are.
Oh ..... another helpful thing would be to know how you installed the content. Did you use DIM, Connect, or manual install. If you did a manual install, then the database that tells DS whare the content is, may not know where to look.
OK this sound complicated, try to help us help you here.
I guess DustRider has thie right thought? You upgraded from an older version and it seems you renamed ell the folders to create your own cathegories? Tell us what you did, where you come from (programwise) how you load your content.
Jesmarts comment was not meant to annoy you but to point out a different way to find your content. I use the content library tab a lot as well and if you reorganized your folders that tab should reflect your folder structure, look within the "My DAZ Library" folder or for older formats in the Poser Formats Folder.
Content Library under Daz Studio Formats and poser Formats is exactly like the Content pane in DS 3, if that is what you had before - the only diffrence is putting the different formats under their own headings. If your content isn't showing there then it's an issue with the content diectory settings.
I am a cranky old fart and my early post was meant as a virtual slap upside the head. As others have asked you are going to have to give use some specifics if we are to help you.
You might review this thread; you far from alone in having content issues with 4.9
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/2128076/#Comment_2128076
I strongly suspect he db is just not stable, and hopefully gets patched soon.
I'm not sure if poser content can be seen by smart content pretty sure you need a plug in. As i use like 80% poser I just work off the catagories db. I prmarily work around scenes and actors. So my club z set will have all poses props and mats branching off. Wardrobe has 3main closets for v4, g2 and g3.
The beauty of the catagories db to my mind is that you can set it up just how you want it its not one size fits all users.just save your user data often
I had problems when I first tred it but I've had another look at it. It does make sense but I don't find it very useful. It is showing me what seem to be the catergories I created. If I select a figure in the scene, "People" in the smart content tab and click filter by context it seems to be showing everything that can be used on that figure, clothes, characters, poses, expresions etc. If I select one of the sub-categories I have created it restricts it to those items, but since I categorise items firstly by what characters they apply to the smartness isn't really helping me. I might as well just use my categories.
I think this should be useful to people starting with Studio, but once you build up a large amount of content it becomes less helpful. Seeing all of the clothes in my library that will fit Genesis 2 Female in one go is a bit much. I use categories to divide them into things like casual clothes, office clothes, fantasy & SF etc so I can go to the category that suits the picture I am trying to create.
The example you just gave is actually in the correct place, as it is primarily a Poser product that happens to work in DAZ Studio. Newer products designed specifically for DAZ Studio will be under DAZ Studio Formats.
This is the way Poser normally works, figures and clothes in the figures library, textures in either the poses or the materials library. My solution to this is to use categories. I select the clothes and create a category for them, then select the textures and make their category a sub-category of the clothes.
Current versions of Poser are actually a lot more tolerant about where content goes. If you are willing to move files around in your runtime you can take the directory containing the texture poses or material settings and move it to be a sub-directory of the one under figures that has the clothes in it. This will work in recent versions of Poser and Daz Studio, but if there are any updates Install Manager will put them back in their original places so you will have to move them again.
Where are you looking? They all should be under DAZ Studio Fomrats>content directory>People, if you are looking under Poser Formats you are seeing the Poser Companion Files for use with the DSON Importer for Poser - since Genesis 3 is not Poser-compatible it has no PoserCFs and so won't appear in that location.
If you are talking about Daz Studio Formats in the library it probably just means that you haven't got any Genesis 3 items that are not specific to Male or Female. The folders only get created when there is something to put in them. I do have a Genesis 3 folder but all that is in it are some sets of poses which include poses for the Male and Female figures. Everything else is in either Genesis 3 Female or Genesis 3 Male. I also have a "Genesis 2 Famale" folder and a "Genesis2 Female" folder which just means that some content creators were a bit clumsy with their typing.
Are you certain you are looking for your G3 content under Daz Studio Formats?
Here is a screen shot of where you need to look
With Daz Studio 4.9, you can create shortcuts from the Smart Content Tab to the Daz Studio Format content library. This includes any Poser Format products that appears in the Smart Content tab. Note that if the products don't have metadata, look for those products in the Lost and Found category.
See the attached visual.
For checking the "Genesis 3 Folder" problem, please look at in DIM if you installed using it. You can see where your stuff are and check if the directory is included in the DS directories list.
I made the example with a non-genesis product because I install genesis 3 with Connect, but the example works for checking what happen with your Genesis 3 Folders. Your only need highlight with the mouse in DIM your Genesis 3 products instead.
Warning: all my folders for install are custom, then obviously my paths will be different to the default paths.
In point 4, isn't older word. It must been folder...but I'm lazy to change it.
I disagree; for me, having everything in one long column (like Poser and earlier versions of DAZ Studio did) is more likely to hamper workflow, especially for those people that have thousands of items installed.