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Can’t find purchased IRay shaders in Smart Content or store

WonderlandWonderland Posts: 7,133
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While searching for a 3Delight shader in both smart content and regular content (which I still can’t find) I stumbled upon a folder in the content directory titled AliBea. Inside are two IRay shaders that I can’t find in Smart Content or in the store: IRay Hardstone Shaders and IrayGlass (one word) shaders. I could not find PA AliBea, but found Bea Griff but those are different shaders. Does anyone know how to get those into smart content and why they’re not there?

Also I purchased in 2016 when I came back to Daz after a long break (before I understood the difference between IRay and 3Delight) a 3Delight huge bundle of African and other ethnic shaders but I don’t remember its name and can’t find it anywhere. Does anyone know what I’m talking about and what its name is?

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  • WonderlandWonderland Posts: 7,133

    OK I found the 3Delight shader by going through my entire product library and it’s called Totally Bazaar and no longer in the store. But I still can’t find the two IRay shaders listed above in the store or smart content...

  • FSMCDesignsFSMCDesigns Posts: 12,843

    I never use smart content, but when you use the content library shaders are usually under Studio - Shader Presets - Iray. You can always right click on a file in DS and browse to the file location and then move it to the folder you know.

  • nemesis10nemesis10 Posts: 3,790

    Perhapss this is a start: http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/read_me/index/31011/start  and http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/read_me/index/31011/file_list Can you search for one of the file strings to lead yourself to the product and roll your own metadata?

  • WilmapWilmap Posts: 2,917
    edited October 2018

    deleted sorry wrong info

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  • NorthOf45NorthOf45 Posts: 5,692

    aliwonder & Bea were bought out by Daz in September during the culling. The products disappeared for a couple of weeks but returned as DO's.

    This might be one of them: Iray Glass Shaders for DAZ Studio

    No doku entry, though.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 108,078

    Do the files in the Content Library folder have a content type flash at top-right of the thumbnail? If not that may mean they lack metadata, or the metadata was lost in some way (the latter could be fixed witha  reinstall of the content). If so, try right-click>Show Asset In>Smart Content Files

  • WonderlandWonderland Posts: 7,133
    NorthOf45 said:

    aliwonder & Bea were bought out by Daz in September during the culling. The products disappeared for a couple of weeks but returned as DO's.

    This might be one of them: Iray Glass Shaders for DAZ Studio

    No doku entry, though.

    Yes, that’s it, but it’s not in Smart Content. If it’s not in Smart Content, I forget it’s there. I’m surprised since it’s an IRay product, not something really old. 

    OK I was able to make a category for them in Smart Content. The Hardstone pack is now called “IRay Metalized Stone” so that was really confusing! I wonder why they changed the title? 

  • NorthOf45NorthOf45 Posts: 5,692

    Well, it was an RDNA import, most of them didn't get the treatment.

  • WonderlandWonderland Posts: 7,133

    Oh, I didn’t know that. I thought since it was IRay, it was always here. But still, it’s weird that it installs under one name but the product name in the store is different.

  • NorthOf45NorthOf45 Posts: 5,692

    Probably to avoid a conflict with another product with the same name or installation folder. Imagine the mess if two products shared a common folder in the library, and maybe had files with the same name, jumbled together and overwriting each other.

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