Template files for older products
Greycat
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While created a template library I’ve found that I have downloaded some Mac files by mistake. The product pages no longer have the template files for download like they use to. Does any one know where the template files for older products can be found?
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They should be in your Product Library.
Alternately, get a copy of "StuffIt Expander Windows" and unpack the Mac files.
http://my.smithmicro.com/stuffit-expander-windows.html
(Yeah, the same company that makes Poser. Go figure.)
Some newer products do include the templates, but older products do not, the templates use to be on the product page. The product page design has changed and the templates are no longer on them.
An unpack Mac file is still a Mac file and is of no use on a PC.
Most templates can be found on the product library now. If you use DIM you can get them easily
Most of the template files I've seen have been .jpg. That's cross-platform.
Frank, where do you find them within DIM? I was looking for templates for the MFD Expansion sets and a search brought nothing up.
Some newer products do include the templates, but older products do not, the templates use to be on the product page. The product page design has changed and the templates are no longer on them.
An unpack Mac file is still a Mac file and is of no use on a PC.
I'm assuming the Mac template downloads you have are the old-fashioned installers (contents looking something like the first pic)?
If so, then the "Wayback Machine" is your friend - find it at: http://archive.org/web/
I'll use an an example Stylin' for M4 - the current Product Library entry is in the second pic (look, no templates) but I knew they once existed. So I pasted the url for the current product page (i.e. http://www.daz3d.com/stylin-for-m4 ) into the Wayback Machine box and click on "Browse History" and it will try to find you an old archived copy of the product page. I use this as a matter of course for any new purchases of old products - picked up three sets of templates there only yesterday). Snag is I've never seen any page archived since 2013, so if the product is newer than that you're out of luck I think. If there's more than one archive copy available it will give you a calendar to choose (I generally pick the most recent) and there's the old product page (see pic 3 below) - if you then click on the .exe link it will download just llike it used to from the old store.
I read (in another thread a few weeks ago) a DAZ Employee posting that there is a plan to put all the old product templates into the Product Library, but it seems that progress is quite slow (I don't suppose it's a big priority for them). Some of my oldest purchases do have the templates in the Product Library, but a lot are still missing - it seems a bit random to me, but maybe there's some rationale behind it.