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What happened to all the animals? Dinosaurs and such?

JENR8JENR8 Posts: 100
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Has Daz gotten rid of everything that was Dinosaur or animal related? 

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  • AlmightyQUESTAlmightyQUEST Posts: 2,006
    Did you have something specific in mind? The store search is just terrible now, maybe that's the issue? You can try using Google to search for "Daz3d" + whatever you were looking for.
  • ShelLuserShelLuser Posts: 749

    I don't see any problems here, when I search for dinosaurs I quickly find this: https://www.daz3d.com/dinosaur-bundle

    See also this search link: https://www.daz3d.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=dinosaur

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,830

    All the old animals, dinosaurs, fish, and so on are still in the store.

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604

    https://www.daz3d.com/animals-and-creatures

  • GoggerGogger Posts: 2,509

    Of Note, though, Dinoraul recently passed away so some of his models might (or might not) be pulled depending on his estate and the status of ownership of his models.  He had a HUGE library at Rendo, and a good handful here at DAZ.  His models were awesome, but thank God we have the AMAZING Herschel Hoffelmeyer now for beauties like these:

    Triceratops

    Tyrannosaurus 3

    Spinosaurus

    Alamaosaurus, and more!

  • AlmightyQUESTAlmightyQUEST Posts: 2,006
    edited February 2021
    ShelLuser said:

    I don't see any problems here, when I search for dinosaurs I quickly find this: https://www.daz3d.com/dinosaur-bundle

    See also this search link: https://www.daz3d.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=dinosaur

    As an example though, searching "dinosaur" results in a small amount of products with dinosaur in the title, most of the dinosaurs - which have the word in their product description rather than the title - don't show up. That's why I was thinking the original question was because they weren't seeing as much as they expected when searching.
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  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,830

    Here is another one. It typically goes on sale for a deep discount at least once a year.

    Predator vs. Prey Dinosaur Bundle | 3D Models and 3D Software by Daz 3D

    I already own quite a few dinosaurs, but have been collecting fish & whales lately so that bundle above is in my cart.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    i searched the store for giraffe.  only hit i got for my trouble is 

    At The Zoo Bundle

    i search periodically to see if a new giraffe slipped by me.  i still using the old silverkey giraffe.

  • DripDrip Posts: 1,259

    It's kinda sorta the problem with the daz store: there doesn't seem to be a system for tags, and if there is (hidden under the hood), not all vendors make optimal use of it, or it's fairly limited.

    I actually have a hunch that some vendors circumvent the problem by making a clever description containing keywords in their flavor text.. A vendor selling pre-historic creatures, could, for example throw the line "back in the age of dinosaurs" into the description, and a bit further, "this pre-historic creature comes with..". That's two things people would search for, cleverly hidden in the description, making it actually appear in search.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    Bob La Brea smiley

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,830
    edited February 2021

    I have the silverkey giraffe and the product page is still in the store too:

    SilverKey 3d Giraffe | 3D Models and 3D Software by Daz 3D

    Lots and lots of products in the store don't show up in search using the most obvious search term for the products. 

    That's part of the reason SmartContent to find product you've bought to make a scene on one's local computer is incomplete and a mess.

    I know 50K or so is a lot of product to categorize and metatag for CMS and SmartContent but ultimately have someone at DAZ 3D do that will enable them to script much of their packaging, installation, upgrades, and deinstallation much easier with fewer mistakes. They'll be able to better QA both the DAZ Store and the products in the DAZ Store and create more types of sales themes.

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  • CybersoxCybersox Posts: 9,578
    edited February 2021
    Lots and lots of products in the store don't show up in search using the most obvious search term for the products. 

    That's part of the reason SmartContent to find product you've bought to make a scene on one's local computer is incomplete and a mess.

    I know 50K or so is a lot of product to categorize and metatag for CMS and SmartContent but ultimately have someone at DAZ 3D do that will enable them to script much of their packaging, installation, upgrades, and deinstallation much easier with fewer mistakes. They'll be able to better QA both the DAZ Store and the products in the DAZ Store and create more types of sales themes.

    The pathetic excuse for store search has been here for years, people have complained about it constantly, and DAZ has done nothing... unless you count making it worse by doing things like introducing Iray but not retroactively labeling 3DL-only  items accordingly, listing "required products" on items that actually don't require them, listing products that fit into many different categories under only one, and, of course, deleting all the read me and store prouct page info for items that are no longer in the store.   

    Yes, it would be a big task for someone to sit down, correct the errata, and properly itemize and organize all of the information in the DAZ store, but hardly something on the same level as repeatedly trying to introduce things that no one wants or needs like DAZ Central.  I'm not going to hold my breath until it happens, though, as blue is a very unflattering color on my face.  

    Ultimately, if you want to search for a kind of product in the DAZ, it's really far more efficent to leave the store and use Google.  Of course, that often turns up the product that you want at a competing store but that's DAZ's problem, not mine. :) 

    Post edited by Cybersox on
  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    its what interns are for smiley

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