Good day,

Whenever I go to install something it will download fine, but then if I try to process it (install it) DIM freezes up.

I will admit I have a large runtime already, DIM is reporting 8427 items Installed. Is there a product limit?

I've tried uninstalling it, but can not find where the DIM Temp/User Settings are stored? Can someone point me to those? 

Do you, the collective, suggest a fresh install? If so, what are the current steps for that?

Oh, I did try DAZ central and it too froze up on me.

Thanks,

Tom

alainmerigot said:

https://www.renderosity.com/rr/mod/bcs/straitjacket-for-genesis-8-females/123785

I have that one and while it's a decent one, the restraints on the arms are a bit dubious with only the single central strap and nothing holding the hands in place.  I think Second Circle's version, also at Rendo, is a lot better in terms of design and comes with matching pants. There's also really nice free one for the Genesis 3 Female by the adult artist Noone102000 on Deviant Art that I won't link to because the main image isn't DAZ safe (though nothing super explicit, just below the waist nudity).  Beyond that, Sixus1 has a couple of older ones for V4 and M4 at both Renderosity and Renderhub that work fairly well if you just hide the arms and torso parts of your figure since they can't be seen anyway, and then... let's just say that Renderotica has quite a selection, though they're not always refered to as straight jackets. .     

kyoto kid said:

...been unusually colder here in the northwest as well, temperatures between 10° and 14° below normal almost on a daily basis.  There is actually a frost warning tonight for the western valleys where the normal overnight low is supposed to be near 50°.

Meanwhile, for the the central and eastern portion fo the nation, a record breaking heat wave is expected this week while we here will continue to be stuck in a pool of air more suited to early March than May. 

Keeping fingers crossed... The last time the temperature went below freezing, was last Wednesday. Still only about 10C (50F) in the afternoon, but at least the snow is gone.

...been unusually colder here in the northwest as well, temperatures between 10° and 14° below normal almost on a daily basis.  There is actually a frost warning tonight for the western valleys where the normal overnight low is supposed to be near 50°.

Meanwhile, for the the central and eastern portion fo the nation, a record breaking heat wave is expected this week while we here will continue to be stuck in a pool of air more suited to early March than May. 

...this was one of those rare bundles that caught my eye and I actually considered when it was on sale last month (I have a soft spot for the fey and they figure into my stories), until I noticed the central character is G8.1. 

The G8 to G3 character converter does not work on  G8.1 characters/figures. 

Hello. I tried to find a way to solve this problem but I can't.. 

I purchased the genesis 8 male body morphs.

and I installed that through the daz central. but when I try to use the body morphs file in daz studio, I can't use it! 

I found that file in 'content library' and i installed again. but I still can't use it. what's the problem? 

please help me! 

The same product was also installed with Connect inside DS.

2022-05-05 11:54:37.448 [INFO] :: D:/My DAZ Connect Data/data/cloud/1_62385/environments/architecture/ansiko/california summer/cs beach bag set.duf (1,1): Syntax error - expected '{' or '['

2022-05-05 11:54:37.448 [INFO] :: Error loading asset: D:/My DAZ Connect Data/data/cloud/1_62385/environments/architecture/ansiko/california summer/cs beach bag set.duf

Connect also updated the metadata for the product to look for it in the Connect Library, which is in a totally different location, with a totally different folder setup.Which why you are seeing the "can't find it" icons for everything in that product that uses the database driven view(Smart).

Connect doesn't play well with others.So you will need to decide which install method you want to use.

I suggest DIM and never login inside DS again to protect the metadata/database from this type of install salad. :)

edit:manual install/DIM/Central + never login inside DS again works for Daz Store content also.

Content downloaded/bought at a different store most likely won't have any metadata included with it, nor would the Daz store have any metatdata for it, so there wouldn't be any to mess up.

Richard Haseltine said:

I am told it is bnot broken, but I cannot get it to show the highlight line to dock below the Viewport at all - at the top of any pane group, yes, or at the bottom of the two side groups, but not at the bottom of the central group or all the way across. However, if I drop it in about the right place it does dock correctly.

Can you try to clarify what "the right place" is? Ah! If my cursor is in that little dead-space between the left group and the center group, and just below the actual panes when I release, it works! Btw, if your cursor is in the right-hand half of the central group, you should see the highlight line, at least for the center group. Krikey, it's like trying to pick up a kids' carnival toy in one of those claw machines!

I am told it is bnot broken, but I cannot get it to show the highlight line to dock below the Viewport at all - at the top of any pane group, yes, or at the bottom of the two side groups, but not at the bottom of the central group or all the way across. However, if I drop it in about the right place it does dock correctly.

PerttiA said:

Yes, DAZ Connect installs everything to a completely different location from the other installers.

Uninstallation of DAZ Connect installed products must be done within DS (in smart content), before the DIM/DAZ Central/manually installed versions start working properly 

Hmm, sorry if I'm seeming dense, but everything in the Smart Content tab under "Products", under all categories shows black&white icons which I assume to mean it is not installed. Everything I click has an "Install" option but no "Uninstall". The only Starter Essentials I see even listed there is "dForce Starter Essentials" which is not the content I keep getting the error message about. Under "Files" there are some icons in color that look like they might be installed, but even those don't show any uninstall or delete option in the right-click menu.

mikethe3dguy said:

PerttiA said:

Did you uninstall the Connect installed files? 

Are you saying that there's a separate content library pathway for Connect? That's weird. I assumed they all installed in the same place but that there was conflicting database info. Where do I even go to find and delete that? Or do I log back in and uninstall it somehow in the Smart Content tab? I'm completely ignorant of anything "Connect" related.

Yes, DAZ Connect installs everything to a completely different location from the other installers.

Uninstallation of DAZ Connect installed products must be done within DS (in smart content), before the DIM/DAZ Central/manually installed versions start working properly 

BlackTalonArts said:

Wee Dangerous John said:

Hope every thing works for you, oh remember to turn off local redraw.

I much prefer DIM to DAZ Central, I'm too old to learn new stuff 

Thanks! Unfortunately the Hexagon private build Beta is no longer available. :(

Hey just to be clear.

There were supposedly 3 builds (see screenshot).
Beta Public which i have and Beta Private (which you refer to and I never had).
Which one is it you can't get?

ramon73 said:

Well, I will just say what I encountered.

I have bought a model. I loaded the model and blended the face and body shape a bit with an other model and then saved it as a character. I have uninstalled the model using Daz Central and asked for a refund. I now loaded the saved character and all the face definitions of the character I refunded are still there in the face shape.

 

I haven't tried to save a model unedited and then refunding it, but that might save the face shape as well.

You may have had the model installed with an installer AND within DS, those installations are separate and need to be uninstalled separately as well. 

Well, I will just say what I encountered.

I have bought a model. I loaded the model and blended the face and body shape a bit with an other model and then saved it as a character. I have uninstalled the model using Daz Central and asked for a refund. I now loaded the saved character and all the face definitions of the character I refunded are still there in the face shape.

I haven't tried to save a model unedited and then refunding it, but that might save the face shape as well.

I have been working with Daz3d version 4.15 - all is/was well. I recently got a 3080 rig and version 4.20 was installed on it (i did not see any choice in the matter - was using  Daz Central). When i launched it, it was a mess. First off i got PostGRE SQL warning - (this has not been resolved). When i tried to load a scene, I found the the Environment section gone. Fine, it has been moved to a new tab. But i was not able to find where Draw Dome has gone! Furthermore, scenes that i know are fine on my old rig running version 4.15, cannot even preview on iray. All the excitement of running Daz3d on a 3080 has more or less fizzled out now. I really don't  have time to spend chasing down missing stuff. Does anyone else out there have this missing Draw Dome issue? It's not just Draw Dome mind, it is the whole list associated with Enviroment Mode, etc, Also, can anyone point me in the direction of the installation file for version 1.5? 

Ha, I can beat that!  I'm so old... (chorus: How old are you?) I'm so old that the phone in our house had just a four digit number under the central plastic, typed, and only numbers, no letters until I was 12 in 1960 when DDD (Direct Distance Dialing) was introduced and we got our area code & 7-digit number.  Our village only had a population of about 500 for it and the farms around us, so a 4-digit number was more than enough for the little 10x10 foot brick AT&T switching building in town.  Although, I can't remember how we called the nearest city,  perhaps an extra digit or two on the front?  Although, I do remember that you had to dial "0" to get the Operator if you wanted to talk to any place more than about 30 miles away.  But as a kid, I never made phone calls to outside of town, just dial 4-digits and talk to your friends.  Wheee...  And you knew the numbers in your head, and the phonebook YellowPages were your friend if you needed services or products.  "YellowPages":  The Google of the 20th century"

Now, if someone can delight us with stories of the wooden phone on the kitchen wall with a crank instead of a dial, I'll relinquish my phone story crown.

Do you mean Daz Central (separate installer, a simplifed version of Install Manager) or Daz Connect (installing through Daz Studfio itself)? It sounds like the latter, in which case when you go online it downloads your current product library details and palces the files in /data/cloud/meta/ in the Daz Connect Data Directory.

Does anyone know where [daz central] it gets data for assets to show? Is there a file which has list of products and their metadata images etc?

kyoto kid said:

...lower left corner.

 

Nope... Close though... it's actually the top right one... I told you it was a creepy doll...

The one on the bottom left is actually a North Atlantic Dollleg Fish (Dolllegus Plasticus) which are quite common throughout the Atlantic all the way up to central Nebraska.

In September they come ashore to mate and hop around on their shoe-like fins.. but mostly be eaten by giant walking tree clams, which is why they are an endangered species.

As I understand it, the problem isn't necessarily just with installing files more than one way so much as it's installing THE SAME files more than one way, and that is still a problem. It's best to stick to one method, and that method should probably not be installing them within DS (Connect) because some products can't install properly through Connect. DIM is advisable over Central, but if you're going to use Central, use only that.