Nevermind. I figured out the issue. I forgot to re-import the metadata in Daz Studio.

Before that, I even tried Daz Central for the first time, but i have to admit, an update crashed halfway through installing, and I could not see all my installed content as I can in DIM.

DIM is currently downloading all the new content I purchased. :)

danielbui78 said:

kirascurro said:

thank you for your help and all the info, Daniel. sorry i missed the unity package on github. the first thing i tackled was seeing if the Bridge is installed properly. it doesn't seem to be as it isn't listed under help>installed plugins. i didn't install anythng myself. i let Daz Central install it. but i have already placed the .dll from github into the proper folder. how else can i get a proper installation of the DTU?

If you installed DazToUnity using Daz Central, then that was probably the Official Daz To Unity Bridge and not my Unofficial version.  However, since you have also placed the "unofficialdaztounitybridge.dll" in the proper plugins folder (usually it is something like "Daz 3D\Applications\64-bit\DAZ 3D\DAZStudio4\plugins\"), then you have already performed the manual installation for the unofficial DTU bridge.  That should be enough for the "Unofficial DTU Bridge" to show up in the "Help->About Installed Plugins..." window.

I will try to look into the potential issues and get back to you.  For now, please let me know the following:

• What version of Windows are you running? 
• Are you using any anti-virus program? 
• Did you encounter any error messages when you copied the DLL or started Daz Studio?

 

In the future, I will look into publishing the unofficial bridge in the Daz Store so that it can be downloaded from Daz Install Manager or Daz Central.  Hopefully, installing the unofficial bridge will be much easier then.

ok, thank you again, Daniel. i hadn't put it in the plugins folder. i think you may have left that off your path in github, and since there's a lot of .dll files in the DazStudio 4 folder, i thought that was the place. so i now have the Send to Unity in the menu. i have just one other question: i'm using the VR core version of Unity. the Unity Hub doesn't even offer HDRP anymore, only 3d Core and VR core. will these versons of Unity work, too, as long as they're 2019 or after?

kirascurro said:

thank you for your help and all the info, Daniel. sorry i missed the unity package on github. the first thing i tackled was seeing if the Bridge is installed properly. it doesn't seem to be as it isn't listed under help>installed plugins. i didn't install anythng myself. i let Daz Central install it. but i have already placed the .dll from github into the proper folder. how else can i get a proper installation of the DTU?

If you installed DazToUnity using Daz Central, then that was probably the Official Daz To Unity Bridge and not my Unofficial version.  However, since you have also placed the "unofficialdaztounitybridge.dll" in the proper plugins folder (usually it is something like "Daz 3D\Applications\64-bit\DAZ 3D\DAZStudio4\plugins\"), then you have already performed the manual installation for the unofficial DTU bridge.  That should be enough for the "Unofficial DTU Bridge" to show up in the "Help->About Installed Plugins..." window.

I will try to look into the potential issues and get back to you.  For now, please let me know the following:

• What version of Windows are you running? 
• Are you using any anti-virus program? 
• Did you encounter any error messages when you copied the DLL or started Daz Studio?

In the future, I will look into publishing the unofficial bridge in the Daz Store so that it can be downloaded from Daz Install Manager or Daz Central.  Hopefully, installing the unofficial bridge will be much easier then.

danielbui78 said:

kirascurro said:

where can i find this package? Unofficial_Daz3D_Bridge_v1_1.unitypackage. it was referred to in the Unofficial post, but it was never referred to in the Daz to Unity tutorial. i would have asked on the unofficial post but for some reason it's been closed. it was not included in the zip file for the Unofficial .dll, so where is it?
Oh, and i just checked, even with the new Unofficial .dll i don't have a send to Unity, only send to Bryce & Hexagon. Thanx!

1. There is a new release thread for unofficial DTU version 1.2: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/529086/released-unofficial-dtu-bridge-v1-2-2021-10-31
2. The unofficial unitypackage was only offered as an alternative for people who did not want to use the unofficial plugin.  The files from the unitypackage are actually built into the Daz plugin and are installed through the "Install Unity Files" check box. 
   • Unfortunately, the separate unofficial unitypackage option was removed with unofficial DTU version 1.2 because I am not currently able to provide proper packaging, QA testing, documentation and support for a separate unitypackage, in addition to also maintaining Mac and Windows versions of the Daz plugin and support Unity versions 2019, 2020, 2021 and HDRP, URP and Built-in Render Pipelines in all three Unity versions.  Hopefully in the future, I can automate more of the packaging and testing steps, but for right now, everything is still done manually.
3. The download link for "Unofficial_Daz3D_Bridge_v1_1.unitypackage" is immediately below the download link for the "unofficialdzunitybridge_v1_1.7z" file.  I recommend that you use version 1.2, but if you need version 1.1 for some reason, the download links for both are available on the github release page for version 1.1: https://github.com/danielbui78/DazToRuntime/releases/tag/v1.1-unofficial-unity
4. The menu option for Send To Unofficial Daz To Unity (version 1.1) or Send To Unofficial DTU (version 1.2) is usually available here: File -> Send To -> Unofficial Daz To Unity (or Unofficial DTU in version 1.2).  However, Daz Studio uses a fully customizable menu bar, so it may be missing due to user customizations.  Before you start looking into resetting your menu bar customizations, make sure that the Unofficial DTU Bridge is properly installed:  Check under: Help -> About Installed plugins...  This should pop up a window with a list of the installed and active plugins.  Scroll down to the bottom and you should see "Unofficial DTU Bridge" (at least in version 1.2).  If you don't see it, then it may be installed incorrectly.

Hopefully, this answers all of your questions and clears up any confusion.  If you have any further issues, I recommend that you post in the "[Released] Unofficial DTU version 1.2" thread to be sure that I don't miss your posts.  Thanks!

thank you for your help and all the info, Daniel. the first thing i tackled was seeing if the Bridge is installed properly. it doesn't seem to be as it isn't listed under help>installed plugins. i didn't install anything myself. i let Daz Central install it. but i have already placed the .dll from github into the proper folder. how else can i get a proper installation of the DTU? is there an Official DTU plugin i need to install first and then the .dll, or is the Unofficial DTU .dll the plugin? as you can see i am a perfect noob to Daz, Unity and gihub. 
i think i know the most about Unity. after we get this installation figured out, i'm wondering if my Unity version has to be the HDRP. i'm doing a project where i have to use the VR core. there isn't even a choice for HDRP in the Hub anymore. will the VR core work ok with the DTU?

This happened to me. Just close the window and the installation will continue. sometimes can stop unespectedlly but just click install again and it might continue installing. if not, just log out, close Daz central and then open it agan and logg in again and click install again, it will start downloading from the point it stoped. I repeated this anoying process many times until it finally got installed. 

While the UK was part of the EU, I did want to sell tiny items (home-made pen parts) direct to buyers in the EU, and ran into problems with trying to do things 100% in accordance with the rules, to the extent I stopped selling within the EU. My big problem was that I needed to pay VAT/Sales tax to each individual country. In the UK there is a turnover threshold for VAT, and it doesn't need to be charged or paid in the UK or to a number of other EU states. However in a number of southern European states, and in the EU enabling regulations, there is no minimum threshold at which you are required to charge and pay VAT. There appears to be no central register of VAT rates, or who to send the money to. That meant I had to find every government finance department, every tax office in every EU country I sold to (and I sold parts to 90 different countries) and send tiny sums to them. The fees for paying the tax were often more then the amount I sold the pen part for. My parts cost £2.50, and I sold £200 a year.. That was the source of my main problem, it simply wasn't worth the effort needed to export to within the common 'free trade' area, so I regretfully had to decline EU customers, explicitly because of the 'Free Trade' rules. OK, no more about my attempts to sell within the EU.

First off, as DAZ is the vendor & not you, you don't have to worry about VAT/sales tax. It's part of DAZ's fee that covers the handling of that, and they should charge any EU customer at the appropriate rate. I don't think they do, but that is their problem, not yours.

Second problem is German taxes on your income gained through DAZ, and I am afraid I cannot comment on those. In the UK I'd have to declare it on my annual tax return, something that is relatively simple to do.

I've been trying to install a number of items I purchased lately, but hadn't installed yet, and today Daz Central keeps popping up the message that it has too many connections to the site, and either requires me to manually log in again, or simply crashes, sometimes asking me to submit a bug report (but the report button actually remains greyed out, but that's a different issue, and not the reason for my post!)

It worked fine a few days ago, but this started happenening today

Does anyone have this as well? Any suggestions? Or is this a Daz backend problem?

richardandtracy said:

charles said:

richardandtracy said:

A few. But I use one more than any other. The image below was created when trying to test out hair colour and skin shading - and comparing them to see all in one image.

Regards,

Richard

 

Are those based on Madarocsi's skins? 

 

 

No, they aren't. Darkened versions of CB Guilia with a couple of hue tweaks too. Also the central one has an emissivity of -1500 cd/m^2 to  emphasise skin-skin AO.

Biggest problem with these is CB Guilia's buttock-leg crease is baked into the texture and doesn't align with the bottom of this character's buttock. Means she needs to be modestly clothed at all times, which, in practice, is no great hardship. I really like the slightly reddened patches on the knees, just where people get them.

Regards,

Richard.

 

The other skin artist does that thing with the legs and knees is why I thought it might be. I think I know what you mean about that bottom rear thing and have some tricks I've had to use taking it out of other characters, similar to removing painted on eyebrows.

Richard Haseltine said:

 

If you still have the zips, once you have told DIM which locations to use you just need to select everything in the Installed tab, right-click, and use the option to reinstall all seelcted using current paths. This is purely for Install Manager, though, it isn't actually needed for Daz Studio

 

One the old machine open the Content Library pane option menu (the lined/hamburger button in the top corner, or right-click the tab)?Content DB Maintenance, then check Export User Data. That gets writeen you the first Daz Studio content directory, which you are going to move to the new machine. Once on the new machine and with the paths set up go to the Content DB Maintenance dialogue and this time choose the Reimport Metadata option - you will then be able to select the user data (all your settings) and any vendor data you want (this is one way to repopulate Smart Content and so on if you choose not to reinstall through DIM).

 

All of these should, as far as I know, work as long as you have copied the files across and set the directory lists up correctly

 

Layout files live in, assuming this is a Windows system,

%AppData%/DAZ 3D/Studio4/user layouts/

(or the Studio 4 Public Build folder for the beta), and it should be OK to copy them across to the matching location on the new system.

Thank you for replying. I received a notification today telling me my new rendering computer has been dispatched and should be with me tomorrow.

By what I understand from your reply, I do not actually need to uninstall and reinstall everything via DIM? If I just install Daz Studio and then copy over all my content directories from the old computer to the new, all I have to do is Reimport Metadata. I assume this creates a file somewhere that I can transfer over for the new Daz installation to read? Then everything will function correctly.

Or should I still uninstall and reinstall everything via DIM? Daz Install Manager is my preferred method for downloading and installing new content. I do not use Connect or Daz Central. I keep Daz Studio 'offline'. Actually, my new rendering computer will not always be connected to the internet anyway. I purchased it solely for Daz Studio and Blender.

That being said, my steps will be:

Install DIM on my new computer.

Either install Daz Studio using the executable I can download from my account - products, or open DIM and install Studio from there.

Copy all of the following from my old computer to my new:

•  Everything in 'My Documents.'
•  Everything in 'My Public Documents'
• Any Poser content dirctories I may have (which are mostly in My Documents anyway)
• Any other content directories (for instance, content on secondary drives) In this situation, I will ensure the drive names match. So if my second drive is 'E' then I will make sure the second drive on the new computer is also named 'E'.
• Everything in Users/*My User Name*/AppData/Roaming/Daz3D/

Once I have done all that, I open Daz Studio and right click on the Smart Content Pane and select, Content DB Maintenance -> Reimport Metadata.

Then everything will be as it was on the old computer.

After that, I can then open DIM and download and install all the content I purchased in recent sales.

*Thinking about it, should I also install 'PostgreSQL' immediately after installing Daz Studio and before transferring my content? 

charles said:

richardandtracy said:

A few. But I use one more than any other. The image below was created when trying to test out hair colour and skin shading - and comparing them to see all in one image.

Regards,

Richard

 

Are those based on Madarocsi's skins? 

 

 

No, they aren't. Darkened versions of CB Guilia with a couple of hue tweaks too. Also the central one has an emissivity of -1500 cd/m^2 to  emphasise skin-skin AO.

Biggest problem with these is CB Guilia's buttock-leg crease is baked into the texture and doesn't align with the bottom of this character's buttock. Means she needs to be modestly clothed at all times, which, in practice, is no great hardship. I really like the slightly reddened patches on the knees, just where people get them.

Regards,

Richard.

I presume you are trying to update Studio? You cannot install the update while Studio is running, so then you cannot use Connect to install it. Any other method will do, DIM, Central, or the Standalone exe installer (available from the Product Library, filter on DAZ Studio 4.x Pro)

Sphinx Magoo said:

princeofgames06 said:

Richard Haseltine said:

princeofgames06 said:

Totte said:

princeofgames06 said:

Richard Haseltine said:

The CPU is the central processor, an Intel chip of some kind on older Macs or possibly one of the new M1 chips on a new Mac.

The GPU is the graphics card - unless your machine is very old or customised probably an AMD device  Help>Troubleshooting>About your Video card should have the details.

2.5 GHz Duel-Core Intel Core i5

Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536 MB

What are your settings for performance, pixelbuffer etc? 

Unsure. Where should I go to find out? 

Assuming you can get there, Daz Studio>Preferences, in the Interface tab.

Found it. Now what?

Just curious: I'm having a problem where I can't even open DS. Is there a way to see what my settings are if I can't open DS to see the Preferences settings? I'm trying to do my own detective work while I wait to hear back from DAZ Tech Support.

The file / settings are stored on disk. on macOS it's on  ~/Library/Application Support/DAZ 3D/Studio/ (there are a few settings files to look at) On Windows somewhere similiar

princeofgames06 said:

Richard Haseltine said:

princeofgames06 said:

Totte said:

princeofgames06 said:

Richard Haseltine said:

The CPU is the central processor, an Intel chip of some kind on older Macs or possibly one of the new M1 chips on a new Mac.

The GPU is the graphics card - unless your machine is very old or customised probably an AMD device  Help>Troubleshooting>About your Video card should have the details.

2.5 GHz Duel-Core Intel Core i5

Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536 MB

What are your settings for performance, pixelbuffer etc? 

Unsure. Where should I go to find out? 

Assuming you can get there, Daz Studio>Preferences, in the Interface tab.

Found it. Now what?

Just curious: I'm having a problem where I can't even open DS. Is there a way to see what my settings are if I can't open DS to see the Preferences settings? I'm trying to do my own detective work while I wait to hear back from DAZ Tech Support.

Richard Haseltine said:

You should have files for loading Genesis 8.1 Female/Male Base - if you use DIM or Daz Central to isntall the Starter essentials package is usually split in two by sex.

You should have files for loading Genesis 8.1 Female/Male Base - if you use DIM or Daz Central to isntall the Starter essentials package is usually split in two by sex.

john_9bea886c said:

Richard Haseltine said:

john_9bea886c said:

Richard Haseltine said:

This is not a direct consequence of an application update, it should retain settings and for most users does. Are you using a third-party uninstaller tor emove the old version of the application? Are you sure the folders are still in the correct place, with the original name and drive letter?

I can assure you, I'm using nothing but Daz and Daz Central to manage content. No 3rd party installers or otherwise. I have some non-Daz content which I access through the Content Library tab and it's unaffected. All the Daz original content is gone.The files are all still there on the E drive, I just cannot get either Daz or Daz Central to look at them and realise they are downloaded.

I honestly did nothing else than click "update" when Daz Central suggested it, then when I opened Daz... nothing. When this happened before it didn't take me too long to sort, but this time I can see no option but a reinstall on the basis that when I set up the new install it will ask me to set the content directories afresh and should see the existing files. Do you think that won't work?

Is the third party content installed to the same location as the Daz content?

No, as per recommended, it's in a separate directory.

I can't believe I have wasted an entire evening trying to get Daz to recognise content it recognised just a few clicks ago. Judging by the number of people who are reporting the same problem (there's been plenty since the last update) this is not an isolated problem. I've uninstalled everything and calling it a night. My content is still safe on the separate drive so maybe after a fresh reinstall I'll have some success. I also note that I was completely unable to delete on of the Daz directories - I had to run a chkdsk and the repair the drive before it would complete the uninstall. This is one very grabby, and very untidy application.

Which directory? One in the application folder? Are you sure DS had finished closing?

Richard Haseltine said:

john_9bea886c said:

Richard Haseltine said:

This is not a direct consequence of an application update, it should retain settings and for most users does. Are you using a third-party uninstaller tor emove the old version of the application? Are you sure the folders are still in the correct place, with the original name and drive letter?

I can assure you, I'm using nothing but Daz and Daz Central to manage content. No 3rd party installers or otherwise. I have some non-Daz content which I access through the Content Library tab and it's unaffected. All the Daz original content is gone.The files are all still there on the E drive, I just cannot get either Daz or Daz Central to look at them and realise they are downloaded.

I honestly did nothing else than click "update" when Daz Central suggested it, then when I opened Daz... nothing. When this happened before it didn't take me too long to sort, but this time I can see no option but a reinstall on the basis that when I set up the new install it will ask me to set the content directories afresh and should see the existing files. Do you think that won't work?

Is the third party content installed to the same location as the Daz content?

No, as per recommended, it's in a separate directory.

I can't believe I have wasted an entire evening trying to get Daz to recognise content it recognised just a few clicks ago. Judging by the number of people who are reporting the same problem (there's been plenty since the last update) this is not an isolated problem. I've uninstalled everything and calling it a night. My content is still safe on the separate drive so maybe after a fresh reinstall I'll have some success. I also note that I was completely unable to delete on of the Daz directories - I had to run a chkdsk and the repair the drive before it would complete the uninstall. This is one very grabby, and very untidy application.

john_9bea886c said:

Richard Haseltine said:

This is not a direct consequence of an application update, it should retain settings and for most users does. Are you using a third-party uninstaller tor emove the old version of the application? Are you sure the folders are still in the correct place, with the original name and drive letter?

I can assure you, I'm using nothing but Daz and Daz Central to manage content. No 3rd party installers or otherwise. I have some non-Daz content which I access through the Content Library tab and it's unaffected. All the Daz original content is gone.The files are all still there on the E drive, I just cannot get either Daz or Daz Central to look at them and realise they are downloaded.

I honestly did nothing else than click "update" when Daz Central suggested it, then when I opened Daz... nothing. When this happened before it didn't take me too long to sort, but this time I can see no option but a reinstall on the basis that when I set up the new install it will ask me to set the content directories afresh and should see the existing files. Do you think that won't work?

Is the third party content installed to the same location as the Daz content?

Richard Haseltine said:

This is not a direct consequence of an application update, it should retain settings and for most users does. Are you using a third-party uninstaller tor emove the old version of the application? Are you sure the folders are still in the correct place, with the original name and drive letter?

I can assure you, I'm using nothing but Daz and Daz Central to manage content. No 3rd party installers or otherwise. I have some non-Daz content which I access through the Content Library tab and it's unaffected. All the Daz original content is gone.The files are all still there on the E drive, I just cannot get either Daz or Daz Central to look at them and realise they are downloaded.

I honestly did nothing else than click "update" when Daz Central suggested it, then when I opened Daz... nothing. When this happened before it didn't take me too long to sort, but this time I can see no option but a reinstall on the basis that when I set up the new install it will ask me to set the content directories afresh and should see the existing files. Do you think that won't work?

Urgent heads up- note the expiration time on one of the main promos is in 20 minutes. It did a weird morning time, aka 7am Central time. You can pick up some items for 72 percent off without having to buy ten things. I always assume new promos are daz midnight and don't know when this one came up, I don't hit the store everyday when it changes over, like I used to. But I got a popup saying my cart was expiring in 20 minutes, and sure enough checked the promo.

Daz site is throwing server errors all over the place, took eight minutes to post this. The cart kept telling me to verify my address using Paypal, nothing wrong with my address and no way to do that on the cart page. So now promo ends in TWELVE MINUTES. Hurry if you want some items 72 percent off. I like the Ergou hair products. Some on sale.