Installing Products Manually
mwokee
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There is a product I want at Renderosity that's not offered here which means installing manually. Being a perpetual newbie with Daz, is there a tutorial somewhere to describe how to do this? Thanks
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I am not aware of any such.
But usually it comes as a zip file with the right folder structure, i.e. as the one under 'My DAZ 3D Library', so after the initial opening of the zip file you can dump the content onto your library folder.
I would although recommend you create and add a new library folder (Edit > Preferences > Content > Content Directory Manager > Daz Studio Formats) as to not mix the Daz installed with your manually installed content.
OK... this is not so simple for idiots like me... I got to where you said but I'm not sure the proper way to create new content. I ended up resetting the current library and lost everything. Was able to set it back so it seems I require assistance in pushing the right buttons for creating a secondary content library. Do I select OTHER IMPORT FORMATS and create a directory for that? Then toss my purchase in a folder under that? Thanks
Just create a folder anywhere you want and then unzip your rendo zips into it. 90% of them use the same file path. Then go to the place in your image and add that folder to the DAZ formats directory. While you are unzipping, dwell down into the file path so you can see where your files are supposed to go so you can trouble shoot better
I installed everything manually for years, only using DIM in the last few months because of a new PC and starting fresh. Right now I have my DAZ directoty, my other than DAZ store directory and my poser files from before i started using DS directory and DS finds them all easily.
You might want to check out this video. About halfway through he talks about manual installs that apply to Rendo assets.
OK... I think I will be ble to install... so I went to Renderosity to purchase and on the web page its says: REQUIREMENTS - Poser 7 or Greater. Does this mean I need Poser and not Daz Studio? I do not have Poser and do not want to spend the time learning it, too many other projects I'm trying to get to.
what is the product?
That means it was made for Poser, not DS. Depending on what the product is it may work in DS with some adjustments (poser weight mapped figures, materials, dynamic items or pmd morphs won’t work, for example).
The product you linked to should work in DS, but you’ll need to adjust materials as it doesn’t have DS materials, and the included light set and cameras will need adjustments too.
It's a PZ3 which Studio can't /won't open ,and the Materials are all set up for Poser only ,so you might be able to load the props if they are in there seperately,from the runtime props folder ,but you might have to load the texures for each prop manually in the surface tab and adjust setting till you like them . Then personally I'd save them as a scene subset in DS and stick'em in the Props folder ,so you wouldn't have to go through all of the rigamarole again.
In general DS can import PZ3 files.
When loading an item with poser later DS will load only basic maps like diffuse, transparency, bump and reflection, but not displacement or specular maps, for example (those rely on material room nodes that DS can’t use), you’ll need to apply those manually. And settings like min/max values for bump will usually require manual adjustment in surface tab.