I finally got a new pc and see many people suggest that DazCentral is still buggy. I used to use DazConnect(I think this is the one with the cloud folder) and it didnt seem to bad. I cannot find DazConnect in my product library and when I click on Download studio it just goes to the DazConnect page.

I 've been using Daz since the beginning off and on, I still know how to add my existing libraries(poser/other stores products), is it still the same in the new version?

Also, what is the latest ver of DazStudio that is signed, I am not sure why they are putting out release build without signing them.

barbult said:

alexhcowley said:

Anarkia333 said:

Scenery in DAZ was still a bad experience for me.... xD

Still slow, no quality render...

Soo my think was "DAZ is not make for exterior".... I use VUE for that, but price....

ANd, I try UltraScenery, and, WOW!!!!

Man you have make a very nice plugin, not possible I thinked, where all fall, you do it! xD

Speed, nice render, this plugin has all we needed for make with philosophy DAZ: Make render quickly.

Just the Plugin Accelerator no works for me, I try install manually and with DazCentral time render is same... Can you put a manually file pls? 

You need to install the accellerator using DIM.  Manual install doesn't work and DAZ Central should never, ever, ever be allowed any where near Ultrascenery. 

Cheers,

Alex. 

You are confusing Daz Central and Daz Connect.

I use Manually install everytime :)

Auto install has many bug everywhere....

Auto install put all everywhere with about more 1000items impossible to find after all... xD 

ARf Australia Botanica - Bundle no works too with manualy install :(

alexhcowley said:

Anarkia333 said:

Scenery in DAZ was still a bad experience for me.... xD

Still slow, no quality render...

Soo my think was "DAZ is not make for exterior".... I use VUE for that, but price....

ANd, I try UltraScenery, and, WOW!!!!

Man you have make a very nice plugin, not possible I thinked, where all fall, you do it! xD

Speed, nice render, this plugin has all we needed for make with philosophy DAZ: Make render quickly.

Just the Plugin Accelerator no works for me, I try install manually and with DazCentral time render is same... Can you put a manually file pls? 

You need to install the accellerator using DIM.  Manual install doesn't work and DAZ Central should never, ever, ever be allowed any where near Ultrascenery. 

Cheers,

Alex. 

You are confusing Daz Central and Daz Connect.

alexhcowley said:

Anarkia333 said:

Scenery in DAZ was still a bad experience for me.... xD

Still slow, no quality render...

Soo my think was "DAZ is not make for exterior".... I use VUE for that, but price....

ANd, I try UltraScenery, and, WOW!!!!

Man you have make a very nice plugin, not possible I thinked, where all fall, you do it! xD

Speed, nice render, this plugin has all we needed for make with philosophy DAZ: Make render quickly.

Just the Plugin Accelerator no works for me, I try install manually and with DazCentral time render is same... Can you put a manually file pls? 

You need to install the accellerator using DIM.  Manual install doesn't work and DAZ Central should never, ever, ever be allowed any where near Ultrascenery. 

Cheers,

Alex. 

Now it is works I don't know why with DazCentral.... xD

The file seem to be : libUltraSceneryAccelerator.dll

Put in Daz folder and Plugins. 

Anarkia333 said:

Scenery in DAZ was still a bad experience for me.... xD

Still slow, no quality render...

Soo my think was "DAZ is not make for exterior".... I use VUE for that, but price....

ANd, I try UltraScenery, and, WOW!!!!

Man you have make a very nice plugin, not possible I thinked, where all fall, you do it! xD

Speed, nice render, this plugin has all we needed for make with philosophy DAZ: Make render quickly.

Just the Plugin Accelerator no works for me, I try install manually and with DazCentral time render is same... Can you put a manually file pls? 

You need to install the accellerator using DIM.  Manual install doesn't work and DAZ Central should never, ever, ever be allowed any where near Ultrascenery. 

Cheers,

Alex. 

Catherine3678ab said:

In the same folder:

Product.duf

Product.duf.png [small icon]

Product.tip.png [popup]

 

Those are for individual asset tip thumbnails, the OP is looking for the Product preview images, which are from the metadata (or missing from it, in this case). All should be in Runtime/Support, with all the other metadata files. The graphic MUST be named the same as the .dsx file (either a .jpg or .png) for the Product in question, usually DAZ_3D_#####_yada_yada_yada.dsx. (Assumes DIM or DAZ Central installation).

Diomede said:

I used (past tense) Daz Central just long enough to waste a bunch of time.  Grrr...

Talk about a giant step backwards!

I ended up deleting everything I had installed with Daz Central and starting over with DIM.  Grrr.... 

.

I am usually a happy person.  Usually.

Hope your PITA moments come to an end and are followed by happy days !!!

I used (past tense) Daz Central just long enough to waste a bunch of time.  Grrr...

Talk about a giant step backwards!

I ended up deleting everything I had installed with Daz Central and starting over with DIM.  Grrr.... 

.

I am usually a happy person.  Usually.

Dio, you are using DAZ Central? Storage reasons?   Silene

you might need to load the Multiplane Cylorama first then and apply the paper shader to it, it's obviously not finding it on it's own, this could depend on how you install stuff, using things like Connect or DAZ central can do some stange stuff.

Grrrrr.  

Well, if you have been following my problems with the new laptop, you are aware that, well..., I got problems.  

I decided to just ditch that laptop (will be selling it when all the issues finally get resolved) and buy a new one.  Cut my losses, so to speak. 

Ouch, not in my budget.  My replacement laptop is not as fancy as the one it is replacing (except, actually working counts as fancy, grrrrr....).

Setting financial and fanciness pain aside, there is another source of annoyance.  I was trying to load some of my Daz3D company assets on the replacement.  Argh.  Daz Central just lists Hexagon and Studio as programs, not either Carrara or Bryce.  I had to uninstall what I had started installing through Daz Central, then uninstall Daz Central, then look up a product in my product library that requires DIM, then download and install DIM, then install Carrara.  

Grrrr... 

Content and applications installed through Daz Central or Daz Install Manager do not appear in the main Control Panel, they are handled by the Daz installer and should usually appear in the list of things that it has installed (the Installed tab in Install Manager, on the right of the group of tabs in the main window).

barbult said:

TheSolitaryMystic said:

Greetings all,

I was using UltraScenery perfectly fine for a while. However, I recently uninstalled and reinstalled Daz studio along with all my content and now US freezes or lags to the point of being unuseable. I am wondering if this is related to reinstalling all my content, or to the recent Daz updates?

I have a RTX 3090, and am already aware of the following suggested workarounds: setting optimization settings to "memory" and making sure Iray is not on in the preview viewport. Before I reinstalled everything, setting optimization to "memory" solved my issue, however that is no longer the case.

Also: I have checked all my hardware and all my drivers are up to date.

Is anyone aware of what might be causing the freezing issues? Thanks in advance!

The very first posting in this thread has some trouble shooting tips. Please check and see if any of those suggestions apply to your situation - e.g. having Octane Render installed has been reported as a source of problems.

Thanks for the tip. I should have mentioned that I did take a look at the first post in the thread and that unfortunately the method of install as well as removing octane also do not resolve the issue. The first time that I used US I installed through Daz Central and it worked perfectly fine after setting optimization to memory, but unfortunately I am not having any such luck this go around. I am a huge fan of this product and would love to know if anyone else is having these same issues over the past few weeks or if this is just an anomaly on my end?

PerttiA said:

malcolmkarpeta_40f9af0b00 said:

PerttiA said:

malcolmkarpeta_40f9af0b00 said:

frank0314 said:

What method or methods are you using to install the products?

I unzip the package and install content folders to My Daz Library, as I have alwats done. However, 1 package asked "You have a newer folder that already exists, do you want to replace it?" Normally I say No but I think I may have mistakemly said yes on one. Tried to stop it but maybe the damage was already done. Don't really know if this caused the issue...

Do you log in to DS, or have you enabled "automatically login using the saved credentials"?

I've enabled automatically log in

That is at least one problem with your setup.

When you are installing content manually or with DIM or DAZ Central, there is no need to log in to DS. 
You only need to Log in to DS, if you intend to install the content with DAZ Connect within DS

I see, OK I'll try logging out install again

Many thanks

malcolmkarpeta_40f9af0b00 said:

PerttiA said:

malcolmkarpeta_40f9af0b00 said:

frank0314 said:

What method or methods are you using to install the products?

I unzip the package and install content folders to My Daz Library, as I have alwats done. However, 1 package asked "You have a newer folder that already exists, do you want to replace it?" Normally I say No but I think I may have mistakemly said yes on one. Tried to stop it but maybe the damage was already done. Don't really know if this caused the issue...

Do you log in to DS, or have you enabled "automatically login using the saved credentials"?

I've enabled automatically log in

That is at least one problem with your setup.

When you are installing content manually or with DIM or DAZ Central, there is no need to log in to DS. 
You only need to Log in to DS, if you intend to install the content with DAZ Connect within DS

Gordig said:

I can't help you with the actual problem, but Monterey is MacOS, not iOS.

yes sorry it's MacOS it's like the first page section of daz central has some bad code, if you click quickly you can get to daz studio to open

but if you do anything like look at other sections it all just freezes, anyhow i have got back most now but not the smoothest of processes :) 

PS i have just re done my imac so its a fresh IOS on SSD 

also why doesn't the content install manager app know i have more than 5 items on my account ??

it should show everything under my account and it doesn't

if i try to click from daz central to install it's impossible as it just keeps freezing up

Each time i open daz central i just get the spinning wheel and i cannot do anything except force it to close

is anyone else having this on the latest daz and monterey IOS ??

Install Manager seems to have been superseded by Daz Central, which is what got installed when I started using this machine. I can find no way in that to opt in to betas and it reckoned that Hexagon was already up to date. I did get a new version of Daz, which looks no different...

If anyone knows how to do betas with that, I'll give it a shot.

Now to attempt bridging with Daz closed.
Edit: the bridge file locations were actually among the first things I looked up when it started going wrong. Confirmed they're correct.

shedofjoy_a0bca15db4 said:

barbult said:

shedofjoy_a0bca15db4 said:

barbult said:

shedofjoy_a0bca15db4 said:

I have tried to get the trees (biome) to show up, and i understand that it doesnt show up in the preview, but im getting nothing in the render either, even when i change the restrict to camera, and ive changed the optimization to memory then auto and speed, but still nothing, checked the visiblity in the parameters, checked the shaders, still can't find anything to make the plant life show up, can get the water though, so the landscapes look a bit rubbish without life.and i did save the terrain to a folder as well, what am i missing?

Ryzen 7 3700x, 32gb ram, rtx3090 oc, daz studio 4.20

How did you install the product? (DIM, manual install, Daz Central, Daz Connect inside Daz Studio)

Does the log file have any info? (Help>Troubleshooting>View Log File then scroll to the end for the most recent info)

Which biome did you select?

When you selected the biome, did you see a window pop us saying it was loading files, like in the attached screenshot?

 I installed via DIM, And i tired several biomes and the window did pop up saying it was loading files, the log file had this and a lot more below it :-

2022-03-20 17:33:30.674 Iray [INFO] - MATCNV:RENDER ::   1.0   MATCNV rend info : Material instance 'DS_UltraSceneryXT water node__Default_1969_9494' uses MDL JIT compilation.

...

Did you specify a Save Location folder in the Terrain Maps section? If not, do that and see if that fixes the problem.

 Yes, i made a folder in my daz library specifically for it.