NorthOf45 said:

Those products are add-ons for House of Mog Ruith, and House of Mog Ruith - Interior, so a few more bucks to get started. Many of the old prerequisite links are broken or missing, which can be annoying as heck. Also, the software compatibility is not limited to Poser, it works just fine in Studio (there are native .duf files included).

Huh. Alright. Thanks for telling me that, it makes sense now. I'll put those into my wishlist.

NorthOf45 said:

As for the certain "Torso texture", you need to add the anatomical elements, which are available only with the Pro Bundles for all Genesis versions. You would need at least one from each generation.

This confused me a little. Akari by Lyoness ( https://www.daz3d.com/akari-hd-for-genesis-8-female ) was one that came with this texture, and it also came with some anatomical elements, but the only thing in there was eyebrows. If I wanted to unlock that texture, would I need the Akari Pro Bundle or the Genesis 8 Pro bundle? Maybe I didn't look hard enough, but I didn't see either of them in the shop.

NorthOf45 said:

The missing neck morphs are in the Genesis 3 Female Body Morph pack, a necessary product for many characters (and for making your own), along with Genesis 3 Female Head morphs and maybe the Expressions to round out the basic morphs. Of course, there are packs for all generations, and the Males, too.

Hmmm. I thought I had that one. I got a handful of free assets when I downloaded Daz Central, among them were Starter Essentials for Genesis, G2, G3, and G8. Would it be in there? I don't have this issue with any of my other G3F.

...LeatherGyphon, congratulations on your most recent trip around our central main sequence G-class stellar primary.  

 

ibisit said:

Same issue.. today 20.11.2021

It shows up in my Daz Central Dashboard Hexagon as an installed app v2.5.2.109.

When I attempt to launch Hexagon from my Dashboard it opens DS (Daz Studio) instead

 

I'm getting this too. I don't even know where it installed it to so I can open it up manually from it's exe. I type Hexagon into my search bar and it only comes up with unrelated internet searches. No program. Yet Daz Studio tells me it is installed.

frank0314 said:

To start with, how are you installing the products (Manual, DIM-Daz Install Manager, Daz Central) so we can tell you the proper way to do this?

I am installing using the Daz Central. I click on the little pen option on right at the install screen and it opens my foldrs up, I make selection, and then click install... But it just sits there and won't install. 

To start with, how are you installing the products (Manual, DIM-Daz Install Manager, Daz Central) so we can tell you the proper way to do this?

Same issue.. today 20.11.2021

It shows up in my Daz Central Dashboard Hexagon as an installed app v2.5.2.109.

When I attempt to launch Hexagon from my Dashboard it opens DS (Daz Studio) instead

howy2012 said:

howy2012 said:

Totte said:

howy2012 said:

Daz Central still will not complete the installtion of DAZ3D on my iMac running Big Sur.

I do recommend using DIM instead 

Sorry for my ignorance, but what is DIM?

Daz install manager? Tried to download it, but it says the page does not exist.

Try this link: https://www.daz3d.com/downloader/customer/files#prod_50875

I think the .zip I marked is what you need to get started - although I'm a Windows person myself, so it's only a guess. Note that it looks like the link at the very bottom marked "* Requires latest version of Install Manager" goes to the Windows version.

howy2012 said:

Totte said:

howy2012 said:

Daz Central still will not complete the installtion of DAZ3D on my iMac running Big Sur.

I do recommend using DIM instead 

Sorry for my ignorance, but what is DIM?

Daz install manager? Tried to download it, but it says the page does not exist.

Totte said:

howy2012 said:

Daz Central still will not complete the installtion of DAZ3D on my iMac running Big Sur.

I do recommend using DIM instead 

Sorry for my ignorance, but what is DIM?

howy2012 said:

Daz Central still will not complete the installtion of DAZ3D on my iMac running Big Sur.

I do recommend using DIM instead 

Daz Central still will not complete the installtion of DAZ3D on my iMac running Big Sur.

bingchilling43 said:

GafftheHorse said:

Oddest thing, just got round to running update and a reboot (first time in a couple of weeks running update and a reboot).

Noticed some status feedback I don't usually see (in the terminal) when launching Studio, to do with postgresql. Then when the UI launched I was presented with a login dialog, and it worked.

Well, Smart Content is now working (without the linux postgres backend setup). Just like it does on Pop-OS....

Wine 6.21-1 on Archlinux (and I launched Studio 4.12)

Never posted on here before but came here just to confirm, just installed Daz Studio on Manjaro KDE without any Postgresql setup and it just worked out of the box when it never used to. I'm using Daz Studio 4.15 installed through Daz Central with Wine-Staging 6.16. I'm not really an advanced Linux user so this is pretty nice.

 

Edit: Just moved to EndeavourOS, using Daz 4.15 installed with Daz Central as before, with Wine-Staging 6.21. CMS is just working out of the box now it seems. NIce.

Nice to have some confirmation that it's not just my system or Archlinux in general.

I've been using Linux since 1999, but even I found it a nice surprise. Still not exactly sure what changes have happened that it now works, I'd just assumed it was better Wine integration with the OS in Pop-OS.

Still don't use Smart Content much though, I'm too used to and know where everything is in the Content Library.

stem_athome said:

amysparkles said:

........I forgot to re-import the metadata in Daz Studio.

So, DS installation is now a prerequisite to downloading purchased content via DIM. It does explain why I was getting the same error after my last forced DIM update.

I use an old PC for internet stuff, so have my programs on another PC that is not networked. I had to use dim to download a plugin for DS, Daz do not allow downloading plugins manually. But all I got was the error you show above.

I did put in a ticket for the problem, but when my 30 days to return purchase was running out, I put in a ticket for refund. They gave me the refund, but then merged my 2 tickets and declared it resolved.

Reimporting metadata has nothing to do with installing through DS. If you lose the database for any reason then it is a way to recover the metadata that was initially added to the database by the Daz Central/Install Manager, and it's also a way to add the metadata for manual installations.

Hey there! 
I'm new to Daz, I just bought two items today: hair and a dress, but the hair it's not working because it says that some files are missing. I actually installed directly to the download option here in the website wich installs automatic, then I decided to do it own my on to see if the problem was that (manually). This is the error I receive for the hair: (the dress is working fine)

Then after it says the error this is how it looks like (It does have compabilitie to G3 too, but I clicked on the normal one):

 

I did read a couple of articles about how to install manually but unfortunetly I wasn't able to success :( I did open one of Daz content like a default hair for example and check where it was located and then added my bought hair to similar folder, but still not able to success.

 I've read the two content before buying and they're both for Genesis 8, you can check them here: Dress & Hair 

So I ended up uninstalling the whole program and also using a software that searches for files that the uninstall still leaves there, called Revo, and then I've installed all over again and still not working. I did install from DIM, I did try to install from Daz Central too.

frank0314 said:

We are in a town in NE Ohio. Once referred to as murder town USA because of the mob presence. Our current county prosecutor cleaned the town up in the early 80's and pretty much gave the boot to the mob. Granted, the mob put a hit on him and was nearly shot to death in his home but he recovered and came out in full force and either got them out of here or behind bars. Now the violence is contributed to gang violence and drugs, which there is a lot of.

...yep, I know where that is, but I've been done with "real winter" for years now so no leaving where i am anytime soon for mopre congenial rental climates.  Scary about the gang violence being so prevalent . We have that here but most of it is in the outer environs because it just got too expensive to live in the inner neighbourhoods after all eh gentrification and upscale development.

I'm only in the central area because I cleared a wait list for a low income studio on the edge of a new high rent neighbourhood that is built in an area of abandoned freight terminals and rail yards over the last two decades (my building is where a roundhouse used to be)..Yeah, "low income" which is only 200$ less per month than the 2 BR townhouse you mentioned about. 

As I'm on the edge that separates expensive condos, apartments, restaurants, and bistros from our town's "tenderloin district", it's not unusual to hear people drunk or strung out on who knows what walking outside my window (from five floors up) shouting, sometimes screaming, or having loud arguments with someone else.  I've heard gunshots over the last few months and recently there were two shooting incidents close by that were both gang related (fortunately no one was hurt but in one a number of parked carrs ended up with bullet holes in them).  Aside from that it is nice having a lot of places like shops, markets, cafes, and pubs within walking distance (I rarely even ride transit unless I need to go across town or need to make a big market trip.

Oh, and winter usually means just more rain and maybe an occasional "dusting" of snow for a day or so that sends the city into "snowmageddon" panic mode with day long non-stop coverage (OK, a "dusting" by Wisconsin standards which is a couple five inches)..

PerttiA said:

alex86fire said:

I have problems I think with all my genesis 8 characters, as I said, there were 500000 lines in the log, most of them similar to the ones I copied here.

I think somehow, DSz is looking in the wrong path for data/DAZ 3D/Genesis 8/Female/Morphs/DAZ 3D/Base Pose Head and the Male counterpart.

the path in my computer where these are is : M:\Daz 3D Library\Studio\My Daz Connect Library\data\cloud\1_42071\data\daz 3d\genesis 8\female\morphs\daz 3d\base pose head, I am unsure where DS is looking for them. Wish I could check.

Massive amounts of warnings and conflicts have a major effect on loading times, those can make your Genesis 8 Basic Female take 15minutes to an hour to load, where it would take less than 5 minutes without them.

Mixing DAZ Connect installations (the ones in Cloud folder) with DIM/DAZ Central/Manual Installations is not a good idea, because the DAZ Connect installations will always take priority over any other installation methods, even when the DAZ Connect installed ones were corrupted (not unusual), and there is no benefit using DAZ Connect over DIM, just potential for problems.

Don't use DAZ Connect, so sorry, cannot help in getting the load order fixed.

Ok, I thought that maybe the installation was corrupt so I reinstalled starter essentials.

Tested the Genesis 8 female, everything fine. Thought to myself problem solved.

Tested the Genesis 8.1 female (all my characters G8.1), the problem came back. 

I got all the warning I did before.

So apparently, this is a problem for trying to find the Genesis 8 controls for a Genesis 8.1 character. Is this a common issue, is there a fix for it?

alex86fire said:

I have problems I think with all my genesis 8 characters, as I said, there were 500000 lines in the log, most of them similar to the ones I copied here.

I think somehow, DSz is looking in the wrong path for data/DAZ 3D/Genesis 8/Female/Morphs/DAZ 3D/Base Pose Head and the Male counterpart.

the path in my computer where these are is : M:\Daz 3D Library\Studio\My Daz Connect Library\data\cloud\1_42071\data\daz 3d\genesis 8\female\morphs\daz 3d\base pose head, I am unsure where DS is looking for them. Wish I could check.

Massive amounts of warnings and conflicts have a major effect on loading times, those can make your Genesis 8 Basic Female take 15minutes to an hour to load, where it would take less than 5 minutes without them.

Mixing DAZ Connect installations (the ones in Cloud folder) with DIM/DAZ Central/Manual Installations is not a good idea, because the DAZ Connect installations will always take priority over any other installation methods, even when the DAZ Connect installed ones were corrupted (not unusual), and there is no benefit using DAZ Connect over DIM, just potential for problems.

Don't use DAZ Connect, so sorry, cannot help in getting the load order fixed.

PerttiA said:

How do you normally install your content, do you use DAZ Central or DIM, or have you only used DAZ Connect (within DS/'Smart' Content)?

I install about 90-95% of my stuff through Connect.

The rest usually with DIM.

Havos said:

alex86fire said:

Wow, very good suggestion, to check the log, don't know why I didn't think about it.

I have a lot of : 2021-11-18 14:56:33.175 WARNING: ..\..\..\..\..\src\sdksource\fileinput\dzassetdaz.cpp(6843): Could not find target property for formula: Genesis8Female:/data/DAZ%203D/Genesis%208/Female/Morphs/DAZ%203D/Base%20Pose%20Head/eCTRLLipsPart.dsf#eCTRLLipsPart?value in file : /data/DAZ%203D/Genesis%208/Female/Morphs/Crocodile/CO%20Ichigo/eJCMCO_IchigoLipsPart.dsf#eJCMCO_IchigoLipsPart

and Genesis8Male:/data/DAZ%203D/Genesis%208/Male/Morphs/DAZ%203D/Base%20Pose%20Head/eCTRLBrowOuterUp-DownL.dsf#eCTRLBrowOuterUp-DownL?value in file : /data/DAZ%203D/Genesis%208/Male/Morphs/DAZ%203D/Jonathan%208/pJCM_Jonathan8_BrowOuterDownL.dsf#pJCM_Jonathan8_BrowOuterDownL

somehow, along the way, the mapping to this got screwed.

They are present, in the cloud folder, installed through smart content.

I think that daz is looking for them somewhere else.

Any idea how to fix the mapping?

Do you own Jonathan 8? If not, there is your problem. Looks like you have installed a character that need Jonathan 8, yet he can not be found. Uninstall that character and the error should go away.

I should add that I have fixed issues highlighted in the log, and the speed up in load times was minimal, so I would be surprised if fixing this one issue will significanly improve your load times, but you have nothing to lose by trying.

Yes, I own Jonathan8. I looked at a few of the errors, and I have all those characters.

All of these errors are for the base morphs missing (which btw is also blocking me from properly using expressions, I noticed afterwards).

I also don't think all the load time problem is from there but... When I opened the log, it was something like 500.000 lines +. So I imagine that it does contribute to the problem. The more stuff I open, the bigger the log gets, and the longer it even takes to write to it. It even took me a couple of minutes just to open it.

That sounds as if the manifest files that tell it what it has installed have gone astray (Daz Central has been given another location to use, or the actual files or folder have been removed).

How do you normally install your content, do you use DAZ Central or DIM, or have you only used DAZ Connect (within DS/'Smart' Content)?