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Is there a way to filter the catalog by content?

davesodaveso Posts: 7,942
edited February 2020 in The Commons

I would like to filter the store by what is in the package. For instance, I do not want to purchase textures for clothes. Is there a way to hide all those texture products? 
Or I only want to see light packages, or shaders. and then to refine, only for DAZ 4.12 or similar. or just for IRAY.

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  • Matt_CastleMatt_Castle Posts: 3,097

    It is possible to select products only for Daz Studio 4.12 in the existing filters.

    Other than that though, the store's product filtering is very poor; the relatively limited choices from the categories bar at the top are sometimes useful, but irritatingly not an option on "select products" sales.

     

  • LeanaLeana Posts: 12,987

    The blue bar at the top of the store allows some of that, but it's limited. Also it can't be used to filter a sales category for example.

  • davesodaveso Posts: 7,942

    yeah..i think there needs to be subcategories or something ... it seems it should be easy to filter by LIGHTS, Shaders, Materials, Props ..and then to iray, 3dlight, etc etc ... 
    it would make shopping so much easier and quicker. I'm getting to the point, having been here since DAY1 ... that going over this catalog for the 100,000 time or more, is getting mighty boring and tedious to the point I often now just glance at 1st page and stop. 

    I know its possible to do a search, and that sometimes works, but it often doesn;t include everything.

  • CybersoxCybersox Posts: 9,582
    daveso said:

    yeah..i think there needs to be subcategories or something ... it seems it should be easy to filter by LIGHTS, Shaders, Materials, Props ..and then to iray, 3dlight, etc etc ... 

    Well... you CAN filter by Lights and Shaders.  They're listed as sub-categories under Resources and Add ons. However, the big catch is that the store seems to be avoid putitng one product under two different categories, so a lot of things may not be listed under a category that they should be included in, or even in a place that makes little sense until you try to bend your brain around it  A great example is KindredArts - his first Ghost lights sets.The original set https://www.daz3d.com/iray-ghost-light-kit is listed under lights, but then the second set

    https://www.daz3d.com/iray-ghost-light-kit-2 is listed under as a 3d Models-Places-Props-Furniture @-@  But at least there's a sort of logic there as it includeds a few lamp props. Even werder is the fact that his HDRI Toolkit https://www.daz3d.com/iray-hdri-toolkit ; is listed as under 3D models-places-props...which I can only hazard a guess is because it can use shadowcatchers to put a shadow on a chair or bed.  That one just hurts my brain.>-<  

    Meanwhile, there are dozens of products that come with shaders that you can use on anything that aren't listed under shaders, props and sets that are listed under Pose, poses listed under Sets, and HDRIs seem to bounce between lights and Environments..

    In the end, for any kind of advanced search system to work, they'd have to first go back and recode a huge portion of the store, which, considering that I still come across items with promotional notices from years ago and there are a couple of RDNA bundles that actually include themselves, seem unlikely to happen.  tt's just a really badly set up store,   

     

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