Re: Older RDNA Content Compatible With Studio or Not??

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• nonesuch00 Posts: 18,729

  July 2018

  Yes, all RTDNA products that I have bought and actually used have been usable in DS 4.9+ and 4.10.x. Haven't tried in 4.11.x yet. I like their plants and the rain & fog & thunder product (rain/fog/thunder product since pulled from the store I think or maybe it's a freebie in the DAZ Store now).
• SpottedKitty Posts: 7,232

  July 2018

  Note that a fair amount of the RDNA goodies are listed as "Poser only" because, when they were created, DAZ|Studio either didn't exist yet or was still in a fairly primitive state. The vast majority of Poser content of that vintage will load into D|S with few problems, but there are a few gotchas:

  • Materials — many Poser items use the Poser Material Room to create complicated material setups, using a system which is incompatible with D|S. Basic textures should be loaded in most cases, but you will need to learn how to reverse engineer Poser materials into the 3Delight or Iray materials used by D|S.
  • Poser dynamic cloth and hair — these will not work at all in D|S, since they use functions (the Cloth Room and Hair Room) that only exist in Poser. These items should all be clearly marked "Will Not Work In D|S" on the store page.
  • External Morph Files — some poser figures have their morph data stored as a separate file, instead of being incorporated in the .cr2 figure file. These files have a .pmd extension, and are stored in the same Library folder as the figure itself. D|S can't read this .pmd data, but there is a way to insert it manually into the .cr2 file. Unfortunately, I can't remember where this information is, it's been a while since I last came across it.

   
• borgtrekker Posts: 112

  July 2018 edited July 2018

  SpottedKitty said:

  Note that a fair amount of the RDNA goodies are listed as "Poser only" because, when they were created, DAZ|Studio either didn't exist yet or was still in a fairly primitive state. The vast majority of Poser content of that vintage will load into D|S with few problems, but there are a few gotchas:

  • Materials — many Poser items use the Poser Material Room to create complicated material setups, using a system which is incompatible with D|S. Basic textures should be loaded in most cases, but you will need to learn how to reverse engineer Poser materials into the 3Delight or Iray materials used by D|S.
  • Poser dynamic cloth and hair — these will not work at all in D|S, since they use functions (the Cloth Room and Hair Room) that only exist in Poser. These items should all be clearly marked "Will Not Work In D|S" on the store page.
  • External Morph Files — some poser figures have their morph data stored as a separate file, instead of being incorporated in the .cr2 figure file. These files have a .pmd extension, and are stored in the same Library folder as the figure itself. D|S can't read this .pmd data, but there is a way to insert it manually into the .cr2 file. Unfortunately, I can't remember where this information is, it's been a while since I last came across it.

   

  Thanks for the info but it doesn't answer my main question of in the matter of whether Poser Content uses MetaData or not as all of this content in question lists MetaData being there...  Therfore am I to assume it is DAZ Studio compatible or not???  Do i need to look at each contnet file to be sure or do I take the word of the RDNA content creator listing it as Poser only?? 

  Post edited by borgtrekker on July 2018
• vwrangler Posts: 4,972

  July 2018

  borgtrekker said:

  SpottedKitty said:

  Note that a fair amount of the RDNA goodies are listed as "Poser only" because, when they were created, DAZ|Studio either didn't exist yet or was still in a fairly primitive state. The vast majority of Poser content of that vintage will load into D|S with few problems, but there are a few gotchas:

  • Materials — many Poser items use the Poser Material Room to create complicated material setups, using a system which is incompatible with D|S. Basic textures should be loaded in most cases, but you will need to learn how to reverse engineer Poser materials into the 3Delight or Iray materials used by D|S.
  • Poser dynamic cloth and hair — these will not work at all in D|S, since they use functions (the Cloth Room and Hair Room) that only exist in Poser. These items should all be clearly marked "Will Not Work In D|S" on the store page.
  • External Morph Files — some poser figures have their morph data stored as a separate file, instead of being incorporated in the .cr2 figure file. These files have a .pmd extension, and are stored in the same Library folder as the figure itself. D|S can't read this .pmd data, but there is a way to insert it manually into the .cr2 file. Unfortunately, I can't remember where this information is, it's been a while since I last came across it.

   

  Thanks for the info but it doesn't answer my main question of in the matter of whether Poser Content uses MetaData or not as all of this content in question lists MetaData being there...  Therfore am I to assume it is DAZ Studio compatible or not???  Do i need to look at each contnet file to be sure or do I take the word of the RDNA content creator listing it as Poser only?? 

  Poser did not and does not use Studio-compatible metadata.

  THAT SAID: items from RDNA were supposed to have been repacked when the store was brought over, because they needed to be made compatible with DIM and the then-shiny-new Daz Connect.

  What you need to look for isn't so much just the "Poser only" note (which may still be true, depending on the shaders and morphs used) but the installation method. If all it says is "Manual installation", then there will almost certainly be no metadata for Smart Content. If the item shows Daz Connect, Manual Install, and Install Manager, then it should have metadata, because Daz Connect requires that metadata to function. It may be fairly minimal -- I don't use Smart Content or Connect, so I have no idea -- but it should be there if Daz Connect is the installation method.