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. :(

Is Daz Studio allowed to go online, or is this purely using Install Manager/Daz Central?

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 

Wee Dangerous John said:

I got myself a new PC last month and DIM worked for me. You can always go to your Product Library and download it again, remember you're after "2.5.2.137 (64 bit) Private Build +BETA+" 

Thanks for the info.  I don't have DIM installed.  I have Daz Central.  Will DC also show the Beta?  I can't seem to find it in there

I have read some of the problems with 4.20 and it is mind boggling! I am not a computer tech so I do not understand why all this is happening. I just want it to work like it is suppose to without having to reset everything every time I open Daz. I am affraid to make some of these listed changes out of fear of destroying something. My 4.15 worked just fine. I would like to go back to it. I have saved the file for it, but with my internet so slow here, it takes about 16 hours for the Daz central to load, so I can get the studio. I have the 4.20 central loaded now. Can I go back to 4.15? I hate this 4.20 version. Way too much troubles. Can you help me Richard? (I will not make any changes on my pooter. You guys need to fix this!)

Griffin Avid said:

Now, not so much. If I search "Figures" I only get...maybe 30 characters.

Just to be clear, you're entering "figures" into the search bar in Smart Content? If so, it's no wonder you're not getting many results, because it's only returning products that have "figures" in the name.   

Even if I use the Install Tab, I only see a partial list of my (recent) purchases.

The Install tab is for Daz Connect, i.e. installing products within DS. If you install manually or through DIM/Central, then the Install tab is meaningless. 

Hi , 
So I have this issue where Daz central refuses to install and stops at 57% without any error texts or notice. Seems like Genesis 8 male essentials fails to download and the whole process just stops. 
I did try to download through Daz Install Manager but it has a issue with CMS connectivity issues as well. It has been almost 6 hours of installing and uninstalling and  re-installing. I have given up right now. 
Any quick and possible solution is highly appreciated. THANKS ! 
Anik

Thats the Log file error I am getting.
2022-04-24 12:57:26.933 [INFO] :: Begin asset load (open): /Environments/Landscapes/UltraSceneryXT/Presets/USX Preset 02 Wildhorse.duf
2022-04-24 12:57:27.336 [INFO] :: *** Scene Cleared ***
2022-04-24 12:57:27.336 [INFO] :: Determining missing assets...
2022-04-24 12:57:27.341 [WARNING] :: Invalid node selection for "preset_properties" type.
2022-04-24 12:57:27.341 [INFO] :: Error loading asset: D:/Daz Central/Daz Assets/Applications/Data/DAZ 3D/My DAZ 3D Library/environments/landscapes/ultrasceneryxt/presets/usx preset 02 wildhorse.duf
2022-04-24 12:57:27.342 [INFO] ::     Operation failed
2022-04-24 12:57:27.398 [INFO] :: Unlocking viewport redraw...
2022-04-24 12:57:27.398 [INFO] :: Viewport redraw unlocked.
2022-04-24 13:01:12.120 [INFO] :: Prepare asset load (open): /Environments/Landscapes/UltraSceneryXT/Presets/USX Preset 06 Chilko.duf
2022-04-24 13:01:12.120 [INFO] :: Locking viewport redraw...
2022-04-24 13:01:12.120 [INFO] :: Viewport redraw locked.
2022-04-24 13:01:12.172 [INFO] :: Native format content directories: 4
2022-04-24 13:01:12.172 [INFO] :: Poser format content directories: 4
2022-04-24 13:01:12.173 [INFO] :: Other import format content directories: 0
2022-04-24 13:01:12.173 [INFO] :: Begin asset load (open): /Environments/Landscapes/UltraSceneryXT/Presets/USX Preset 06 Chilko.duf
2022-04-24 13:01:12.580 [INFO] :: *** Scene Cleared ***
2022-04-24 13:01:12.580 [INFO] :: Determining missing assets...
2022-04-24 13:01:12.586 [WARNING] :: Invalid node selection for "preset_properties" type.
2022-04-24 13:01:12.586 [INFO] :: Error loading asset: D:/Daz Central/Daz Assets/Applications/Data/DAZ 3D/My DAZ 3D Library/environments/landscapes/ultrasceneryxt/presets/usx preset 06 chilko.duf

kyoto kid said:

...so is there a reason that the last flash sale of the day now ends at 22:59 MDT instead of 23:59?  Even more inconvenient for those west of Utah (21:59 on the west coast is 23:59 [effectively midnight] in Tennessee [Central Time] which is where Rendo is located).

Well it was even less convenient in England!

But more seriously, I think they ran it 12 hours before as well which feels like a very fair way to do it, and I hope we see more of that in future.

At least I have emails with that banner at 1 AM and 1 PM...

I am in the middle of a project for a friend and am using Genesis 1 characters for simplicity.  I purchased the aging morphs add-on for G1 and G8 Males and Females.  When the products were installing, Daz Central automatically updated my DAZ 4.18 to 4.20.  Now I cannot locate the G1 facial morphs/poses.  Did 4.20 hide them in another place, eliminate them altogether, or did the aging morphs do something to them?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Yes, I've read all other posts on this subject, none have helped me so far. No matter what I do I can't install or open the Daz to Blender plugin.

I don't have the Scripts menu in DAZ Studio 4.20 Pro

I tried installing and opening Daz to Blender directly from DAZ Central too.

Nothing works, i've wasted so much time on this....

This happened to me last month too, and i gave up. Tried again and I failed again.....

Why isn't DAZ support doin anything about this?

piconewton said:

I was able to get Daz Central installed with lutris. There were some issues with lirary files that I had to reinstall and gamemod was confusing wine as to the arch and the Dazcentral installer complained about trying to install a 64-bit program on a 32-bit machine.

I got the point  where I could install Daz Studio and it seems to be stuck on building interface. the WIneserver is running at about 100% CPU. My guess is that there is some other issue.

Can anyone advise on how long the building interface phase should take?

Nah.. well, usually just takes a few seconds.

As pointed out earlier in this thread, i do not use Lutris, so i don't really know what "runner" is used and all that... cos that is somewhat important. The Lutris provided "custom" versions of wine have a few patches that might interfere with DAZ i might think. DAZCentral is also not overly smooth when running with Wine tbh. I have gotten a much better experience using DAZInstallManager https://www.daz3d.com/install-manager-info

The daz Central path should have been the root, not the content library - the installer takes care of the subfolders. If you want to keep using Daz Central it may be best to uninstall the new files, correct the path setings, and reinstall.

Hello from France DAZ people.

I have been using DAZ since many years, and my "historical" assets library is under this path G:/DAZ/Studio/My Library.

I recnetly had to change my hard drive and reinstall DAZ3D & DAZCentral.

As I understand, you are suppose to set the path under the DAZ central gear settings. DAZ Studio install location for the .exe file and Base path location for the library.

So I logically set my former path under the gear menu:  G:/DAZ/Studio/My Library

But instead of puting my assets under this path, DAZ central loads my new assets under a much more complicated path: G:\DAZ\Studio\My Library\Applications\Data\DAZ 3D\My DAZ 3D Library\ and I have 2 libraries. One under G:/DAZ/Studio/My Library and the other under G:\DAZ\Studio\My Library\Applications\Data\DAZ 3D\My DAZ 3D Library

Now what would be the cleanest way to merge those two libraries ? to force the path to my original library? Should I just rename my "My Library" directory to "My DAZ 3D Library" but leave it under DAZ/Studio or should I move my entire original library to a new directory called DAZ 3D/My DAZ 3D Library?

Thanks for the support.

...so is there a reason that the last flash sale of the day now ends at 22:59 MDT instead of 23:59?  Even more inconvenient for those west of Utah (21:59 on the west coast is 23:59 [effectively midnight] in Tennessee [Central Time] which is where Rendo is located).

NorthOf45 said:

Cheri Lasota said:

NorthOf45 said:

If I might jump in... You need to do the reset on each mapped folder (library) with G8F morphs, typically "data/DAZ3D/Genesis 8/", wherever they are. (Some users say it will find "everything", but I only use one content library folder, so I can't comment on that part). When they are all done, there should be no ".tlOff" files for G8F morphs (some will still exist for other figures, if you have processed them, like G8M). Now, you need to load a new G8F and scan it for morphs. The previous actions cleared the stored list, so you need to repopulate it. This should reload all G8F morphs into TL, then you can make your selections of which to enable or not, just don't clear the list.

To be clear about your "exclusive" use of DIM/Smart Content: Does that mean that you are installing from within DAZ Studio (aka Connect) when you say Smart Content? Connect and DIM are considered mutually exclusive, as in: don't install with both methods. DIM uses a traditional folder structure, Connect has a completely different one (which doubles the disk space used and takes precedence if also installed with DIM).

Thanks NorthOf45, thought I'm not quite sure I understand what you mean by "each mapped folder (library) with G8F morphs.

You mentioned that some of your content was on an external drive, so if some of the morphs are there, you need to reset those also. Studio will hunt for all morphs when it loads the figure, in all mapped folders (libraries). The reset does it by folder, since it does not know which, unless it can also search all libraries. Since the morphs are currently disabled, Studio won't find them, and a TL figure scan won't be able to track them back since they are not loaded.

I'm wondering if you mean I need to go into all of the subdirectory folders within data/DAZ3D/Genesis 8, such as Female Eyelashes, Babina 8 Eyebrows, Female | Morphs, etc.

You shouldn't have to go into each subfolder, the top one shold take care of it.

Or am I supposed to be doing a search for .tloff files anywhere on my external drive and my hard drive, navigating to those folders and resetting those as well?

Or am I completely misunderstanding you?

I don't exactly know how your system is set up, or how thorough the reset is, so, just to make sure, you can look for those .tlOff files. If there are none where they shouldn't be (i.e., no G8F morphs with .tlOff extension) then you should be clear. There might be some for G8M, but you will see that the folders are different. Worst that happens is that you miss some, and repeat the reset process on another folder.

Oh, to answer your question: I haven't ever used Daz Central or Daz Connect. I always use just the DIM to download/update assets.

 Okay. Many users interchange Connect and Smart Content, but they are not the same thing.

Thanks for the help @NorthOf45!

Cheri Lasota said:

NorthOf45 said:

If I might jump in... You need to do the reset on each mapped folder (library) with G8F morphs, typically "data/DAZ3D/Genesis 8/", wherever they are. (Some users say it will find "everything", but I only use one content library folder, so I can't comment on that part). When they are all done, there should be no ".tlOff" files for G8F morphs (some will still exist for other figures, if you have processed them, like G8M). Now, you need to load a new G8F and scan it for morphs. The previous actions cleared the stored list, so you need to repopulate it. This should reload all G8F morphs into TL, then you can make your selections of which to enable or not, just don't clear the list.

To be clear about your "exclusive" use of DIM/Smart Content: Does that mean that you are installing from within DAZ Studio (aka Connect) when you say Smart Content? Connect and DIM are considered mutually exclusive, as in: don't install with both methods. DIM uses a traditional folder structure, Connect has a completely different one (which doubles the disk space used and takes precedence if also installed with DIM).

Thanks NorthOf45, thought I'm not quite sure I understand what you mean by "each mapped folder (library) with G8F morphs.

You mentioned that some of your content was on an external drive, so if some of the morphs are there, you need to reset those also. Studio will hunt for all morphs when it loads the figure, in all mapped folders (libraries). The reset does it by folder, since it does not know which, unless it can also search all libraries. Since the morphs are currently disabled, Studio won't find them, and a TL figure scan won't be able to track them back since they are not loaded.

I'm wondering if you mean I need to go into all of the subdirectory folders within data/DAZ3D/Genesis 8, such as Female Eyelashes, Babina 8 Eyebrows, Female | Morphs, etc.

You shouldn't have to go into each subfolder, the top one shold take care of it.

Or am I supposed to be doing a search for .tloff files anywhere on my external drive and my hard drive, navigating to those folders and resetting those as well?

Or am I completely misunderstanding you?

I don't exactly know how your system is set up, or how thorough the reset is, so, just to make sure, you can look for those .tlOff files. If there are none where they shouldn't be (i.e., no G8F morphs with .tlOff extension) then you should be clear. There might be some for G8M, but you will see that the folders are different. Worst that happens is that you miss some, and repeat the reset process on another folder.

Oh, to answer your question: I haven't ever used Daz Central or Daz Connect. I always use just the DIM to download/update assets.

 Okay. Many users interchange Connect and Smart Content, but they are not the same thing.

NorthOf45 said:

If I might jump in... You need to do the reset on each mapped folder (library) with G8F morphs, typically "data/DAZ3D/Genesis 8/", wherever they are. (Some users say it will find "everything", but I only use one content library folder, so I can't comment on that part). When they are all done, there should be no ".tlOff" files for G8F morphs (some will still exist for other figures, if you have processed them, like G8M). Now, you need to load a new G8F and scan it for morphs. The previous actions cleared the stored list, so you need to repopulate it. This should reload all G8F morphs into TL, then you can make your selections of which to enable or not, just don't clear the list.

To be clear about your "exclusive" use of DIM/Smart Content: Does that mean that you are installing from within DAZ Studio (aka Connect) when you say Smart Content? Connect and DIM are considered mutually exclusive, as in: don't install with both methods. DIM uses a traditional folder structure, Connect has a completely different one (which doubles the disk space used and takes precedence if also installed with DIM).

Thanks NorthOf45, thought I'm not quite sure I understand what you mean by "each mapped folder (library) with G8F morphs.

I'm wondering if you mean I need to go into all of the subdirectory folders within data/DAZ3D/Genesis 8, such as Female Eyelashes, Babina 8 Eyebrows, Female | Morphs, etc.

Or am I supposed to be doing a search for .tloff files anywhere on my external drive and my hard drive, navigating to those folders and resetting those as well?

Or am I completely misunderstanding you?

Oh, to answer your question: I haven't ever used Daz Central or Daz Connect. I always use just the DIM to download/update assets.

How did you originally install the Player - DIM, Daz Central, Daz Connect or manually?

If you used DIM, just open up DIM/Installed Files and click uninstall - actually I would recommend you uninstall BOTH the Player and main LAMH then install just the main LAMH - I seem to recall this works better.

I've no idea about Daz Central (never used it).

I think you would follow similar process for Connect, right-clicking the product in Smart Content window and uninstall.

If you did it manually, you'd need to track down what (and where) you installed and remove them manually, Again I'd probably recommend removing both and reinstalling full LAMH.

I was able to get Daz Central installed with lutris. There were some issues with lirary files that I had to reinstall and gamemod was confusing wine as to the arch and the Dazcentral installer complained about trying to install a 64-bit program on a 32-bit machine.

I got the point  where I could install Daz Studio and it seems to be stuck on building interface. the WIneserver is running at about 100% CPU. My guess is that there is some other issue.

Can anyone advise on how long the building interface phase should take?