Richard Haseltine said:

strezoiualexandru said:

Hey everyone, 
I've made the mistake to update Daz to 4.16 before checking here( on the forum ) and now, most of my hair has no transparency, glass shaders the same, etc... 
How could I go back to 4.15.30? 
I've tried looking into Daz Central, but it won't let me see any other versions, just the 4.16 one.

That's 4.16.0.2? If so the rendering shouldn't be any differnt as it has exactly the same version of Iray as 4.15.0.30. The Public Build, 4.16.1.08(?), does have a newer version of Iray, and that does have soem issues (which is why it isn't in the new general release).

So, my version is 4.16.0.3 and my Out of Touch hair's are broken. The skull mesh has no transparency 
So, there still is something wrong with the render in this version. 
I have ben able to fix ( relatively speacking ) it somehow, by applying a diferent hair material ( from a diferent product ) but still this is broken, as most of my hair props are like this now. 

strezoiualexandru said:

Hey everyone, 
I've made the mistake to update Daz to 4.16 before checking here( on the forum ) and now, most of my hair has no transparency, glass shaders the same, etc... 
How could I go back to 4.15.30? 
I've tried looking into Daz Central, but it won't let me see any other versions, just the 4.16 one. 
 

You can't, you need to back up the original install files because Daz does not allow for earlier betas to be downloaded...

Also, this version cannot load the same amount of objects as earlier versions without the viewport slowing down to 1fps; it's looking to become a crappy feature as no one else seems to have the same issue, that same bug has come back!

I'll be writing a bug report as well I just wanted to know if anyone else had this same issue...

Richard Haseltine said:

Don't forget that Daz Central can roll mutliple files into one entry, if it is failing as a high percentage like that it is probably installing the application correctly and having issues with one of the accompanying sets.

I'm not saying DC is a great app, but I've not seen it fail to install yet... the issues I've seen are akways connections related.

strezoiualexandru said:

Hey everyone, 
I've made the mistake to update Daz to 4.16 before checking here( on the forum ) and now, most of my hair has no transparency, glass shaders the same, etc... 
How could I go back to 4.15.30? 
I've tried looking into Daz Central, but it won't let me see any other versions, just the 4.16 one.

That's 4.16.0.2? If so the rendering shouldn't be any differnt as it has exactly the same version of Iray as 4.15.0.30. The Public Build, 4.16.1.08(?), does have a newer version of Iray, and that does have soem issues (which is why it isn't in the new general release).

Hey everyone, 
I've made the mistake to update Daz to 4.16 before checking here( on the forum ) and now, most of my hair has no transparency, glass shaders the same, etc... 
How could I go back to 4.15.30? 
I've tried looking into Daz Central, but it won't let me see any other versions, just the 4.16 one. 
 

I've been using DAZ for years. So, I recently tried to first update DAZ using DAZ Central  (I will never do that again, this is the second problem i've had with DC) this ended up with me getting the white screen issue upon opening the program (which is still 4.15 even after the "update" installs). I know for a fact that DAZ was not open during the update. I tried just about everything on the forum pages and nothing has worked. Finally I decided to do a complete uninstall and re-install. The problem is, I can not uninstall the program with either DAZCentral or DAZ Install Manager. As you can see, when I try to uninstall in DAZCentral it goes to Uninstalling 86% and completely stops dead every time I try. OK, when I try it in Install Manager it says it is uninstalling but gets completely stuck at 0%. Keep in mind with Install Manager everytime I go into DIM it gives me the list below that needs to be installed and I let it install them.(See PIC) Even right after it finishes installing if I say to uninstall it just sits at 0% forever. The same thing happens everytime I go into DC as well. It says I need to install DAZ as well, and even when I finish that, it still can't uniinstall. Here's the fun part,  if I try to go into my Control Panel and uninstall the Daz Studio program through Windows, it says that Daz Studio is not an installed program, even though I can still launch the exe and run the program (the old version with the white screen) whiile it is telling me that! I'm stumped. All I know is that I have a version of DAZ stuck on my computer that I can't use, I can't update, and I can't uninstall....

Any help would be appeciated, cause I have some DAZ things to do.LOL Thanks.

contedesfees said:

Try updating to 4.16 by using the Daz Install Manager.

It seams to have worked.

I started Daz Install Manager and even it there was no update to 4.16 listed in the ready to download section, there were a few things that I queued to install after download. Then after openning Daz Studio, it was the 4.16 version that oppened. I don't understand why it didn't do that with Daz Central yesterday.

But thanks for your answers... problem solved.

PerttiA said:

nonesuch00 said:

PerttiA said:

nonesuch00 said:

What agravates me is something like this situation:

2) Now, almost a year after purchase, the Genesis 8 Female Centaur shows up for no good reason this week as needing installed via DAZ Connect? Why? 

Because you are logging/signing in to DS, that is the trigger for DAZ Connect to go and check your purchases and notify you that you haven't installed them with DAZ Connect.

If you want your eye to stop hurting, stop poking it with your finger. 

No, I'm not poking it, poking here means to bag. It's DAZ 3D that's bagging those metadata and product files. The problem needs fixed by DAZ, not by me refusing to use DAZ Studio in way it was intended to be used.

The only reason to log in/sign in to DS, is to use DAZ Connect within DS to install content.
If you then notified that there is something you haven't installed with DAZ Connect, that is what it is supposed to do.

You need to choose your installation method and act accordingly, ie. if you use DAZ Central/DIM/Manual installation => Do not log in/Sign in to DS.

No, it updates some others things in CMS too, what I don't know. Anyway, that I have a conflict points to both install methods having problems with validating currently installed. They should never cause problems for each other and so DAZ 3D should fix those problems. Because, well, I have almost 7000 products in DIM but only about 25 of those over the past couple of years have not been recognized by DAZ Connect as being not installed when they were. That's a pretty good ratio for the DAZ 3D packagers, but still a mistake on their part, not on my part, by logging in. They will find out, clean it up, and then the problem goes away never time I do a clean install of my Content Library & DAZ Studio Pro.

Richard Haseltine said:

The version in Daz Central shoSuld be the updated version - Daz does not generally do patches, it's a full replacement.

Still, the version indicated in Daz Central is 4.15 not 4.16 

Leanna, you are a peach and a wunderkind! Very good of you to take the trouble. Frankly, I couldn't find the link. Someday, I'm going to buy you a virtual beer for being so sweet and helpful!

Michaelrdavis, you have nothing to be sorry for. DAZ Central is not a software triumph. Whoever wrote it should be sorry. I use manual installations whenever possible; failing that, I use Daz Install Manager.

My installations fail with both Daz Central and Install manager. Is it a general problem, as it happened recently, or is it just me? 

The version in Daz Central should be the updated version - Daz does not generally do patches, it's a full replacement.

Hi, I got an eMail saying that the new Daz Studio 4.16 was now available... but when I click the link to update, it brings me to the download page of Daz Central. Same version that I already have. And opening Daz Central only confirms that I have the Daz Studio 4.15.1 installed, there is nothing about the 4.16 version.
Did I miss Something?

How can I get the latest version?

By the way those, those offers are often not so clear, I made some purchases yesterday and got OK deals but not as advertized. Probably my bad, I am French and some times reading English is not so obvious to  me. But still, I believe that it could be made easyer for Daz buyers to get what is advertized with having to go through a bunch of hurdles. Or maybe someone could publish a "Reading Daz 3D publicity for dummies".
Just saying...

nonesuch00 said:

PerttiA said:

nonesuch00 said:

What agravates me is something like this situation:

2) Now, almost a year after purchase, the Genesis 8 Female Centaur shows up for no good reason this week as needing installed via DAZ Connect? Why? 

Because you are logging/signing in to DS, that is the trigger for DAZ Connect to go and check your purchases and notify you that you haven't installed them with DAZ Connect.

If you want your eye to stop hurting, stop poking it with your finger. 

No, I'm not poking it, poking here means to bag. It's DAZ 3D that's bagging those metadata and product files. The problem needs fixed by DAZ, not by me refusing to use DAZ Studio in way it was intended to be used.

The only reason to log in/sign in to DS, is to use DAZ Connect within DS to install content.
If you then notified that there is something you haven't installed with DAZ Connect, that is what it is supposed to do.

You need to choose your installation method and act accordingly, ie. if you use DAZ Central/DIM/Manual installation => Do not log in/Sign in to DS.

Don't forget that Daz Central can roll mutliple files into one entry, if it is failing as a high percentage like that it is probably installing the application correctly and having issues with one of the accompanying sets.

I get the same error when I try to upgrade DAZ Studio with DAZ Central. I installed the older Daz Install Manager and I find that works just fine.

Michaelrdavis said:

Yes, but I don't think those installers include upgrades, which I belive DAZCentral is supposed to do.

DAZ Studio is an amazing piece of software.

DAZCentral? Not so much.

Why do I have to seek wokarounds because DAZCentral feils to do what it exists for?

Which 'upgrades' are you talking about?

The manually downloadable files are always the latest ones released, DAZ Central doesn't install/update any newer versions.

Hi folks- after getting the same errors, I got it to work in Unreal v4.26.2 (cold re-install of Daz Central, Daz v16, and Unreal v4.26.2)- then installed plugin. Note, under settings in Daz Central, the path of the install for unreal may have to be switched). Using the install from Daz, not the download mentioned above. Windows 10 pro.

Tried same for other versions of Unreal- no dice. 

cheers!

I must be dyslexic. For far too long I had Daz Connect and Daz Central confused with each other, and thought that they were the same thing. I saw warnings against using Daz Connect and to stick with DIM, and thought that since I wasn't using Daz Central I was doing things right. Oops.

Now I need to uninstall all of that Daz Connect stuff. So many cloudy items! Is there a quick and easy way to do that?

Central is kind of DIM with training wheels; I kind of wish it didn't exist because people who are apt to use it need the flexibility of DIM.   I do want to mention that the metadata of Categories is one of the easiest things to back up so you don't ever have to loose your organization if you don't want to.