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Is there a Studio release other than 2025 which is compatible with Premier?

crashworshipcrashworship Posts: 235
edited January 3 in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

I've got both 4.24 and 6 installed. Both say Premier enabled. Both have the Premier associated plug-ins installed and enabled. 4.24, even though it indicates it's Premier compatible, has none of the Premier plug-ins available in the interface with the exception of Auto-Save. Character transfer, pose transfer, mesh sculpting... none, in any way that I can find, are available in the 4.24 release. 

The problem with Studio 2025 is that the interface is so tiny as to be almost unreadable. The type is tiny as are the icons. I can find no way to enlarge the interface. It seems to be tied to my iMac's 5k resolution and even upping the screen resolution to maximum has no effect. I can use 2025 but navigating the menus and scene controls is a pain. 

Am I missing something. Are their overrides available to me so that I can access Premier only plug-in features in 4.24 or is there some setting which will enlarge the interface of 2025 so it's accessible and readable? 

I've scoured the preference settings for both versions and can find nothing which would address these issues. 

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 109,209

    Are you sure the plug-ins are installed for the General relase version of DS 4?

  • crashworshipcrashworship Posts: 235
    edited January 3

    Richard Haseltine said:

    Are you sure the plug-ins are installed for the General relase version of DS 4?

    Yes. The plugins are installed and enabled. I've made sure to check that. I've checked this each time I've opened Studio 4, which is the most current and updated version. I'm able to use AutoSave, but the character conversion, pose conversion, mesh sculpting... they remain unavailable. I have no way of determining if this is because I use the Mac version of Studio.

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 109,209

    Have you checked the Tools menu (for Geometry Sculptor)? If you have custimised your toolbars DS may not succeed in adding the button. You may need to run Update and Merge menu, from the Window>Workspace sub mnu, to see the others - but make sure that you back up your own workspace before doing so.

    The  scaling issue is a lesser-evil workaround for now, see http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/6/change_log#6_25_2025_34208

  • crashworshipcrashworship Posts: 235

    Richard Haseltine said:

    Have you checked the Tools menu (for Geometry Sculptor)? If you have custimised your toolbars DS may not succeed in adding the button. You may need to run Update and Merge menu, from the Window>Workspace sub mnu, to see the others - but make sure that you back up your own workspace before doing so.

    The  scaling issue is a lesser-evil workaround for now, see http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/6/change_log#6_25_2025_34208

    Yes, the geometry sculptor is there. Not as big an issue for me because I've got Mesh Grabber installed, use that often and am familiar with and comfortable using it. The shape transfer feature is the thing I'm most interested in because of the extensive number of G3/8/8.1 characters I have and using the Riversoft character converter or the intrinsic morph loader head split method often give less than desirable results. The shape transfer remains persistently unavailable to me in 4.24.

    Regarding the scaling issue for 2025, this problem would become moot were I able to get full Premier feature compatibility in 4.24.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 109,209

    Did you try the Update and Merge Menus command? If that fails, are the entries in Window>Workspace>Customise? Shape Transfer is in its own group on the left: yoiu can drag its entry to a menu or toolbar of your choice on the right of the dialogue to make it available in that place in the UI.

  • crashworshipcrashworship Posts: 235
    edited January 4

    So, upon reading the log file upon opening Studio 4.24 and looking for loaded plugins, I could find no indication that the Shape Transfer plugin, /Applications/DAZ 3D/DAZStudio4 64-bit/plugins/libdzshapetransfer.dylib was loaded. I read every line. No mention at all. All other Premier plugins were loaded. There was a warning message that 14 items failed to load, some of them referencing products that are in my library and I can use, so I'm not sure what the failure was. The other warning messages referenced items which were described in code that I'm unable to decipher. I scoured this pretty closely and could find no mention of "plugins/libdzshapetransfer.dylib".

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  • crashworshipcrashworship Posts: 235

    Richard Haseltine said:

    Did you try the Update and Merge Menus command? If that fails, are the entries in Window>Workspace>Customise? Shape Transfer is in its own group on the left: yoiu can drag its entry to a menu or toolbar of your choice on the right of the dialogue to make it available in that place in the UI.

    Ah, there ya go. Good, good. Shape Transfer is now available. Thanks greatly for the help. I think that solves every Premier issue I've been having in 4.24. Thumbs up with gusto.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 109,209

    Is the file actually there on disc? Does DIM show a seensibnle size for the installation?

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